One lesson that we can all take from this still-unfolding scandal: Keep your Wi-Fi network password protected.
Friends can connect to your gear without having to ask you for your Wi-Fi network's password.
Automatic WiFi Security: The integrated router comes with wireless security turned on out-of-the-box, complete with a pre-configured network name and password, protecting home WiFi networks by default.
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When the Deluxe Digital Promotion website launches in December, participants can see the points they've earned and receive codes for Nintendo eShop credit by signing in with their Nintendo Network ID and password.
In addition, you should consider avoiding plaintext-password network services: The POP3, FTP, and Telnet daemons pose a special risk because their passwords pass unencrypted across the open network, sniffable by any nearby machine along the way.
Usually, when connecting to any encrypted network, you have to enter the password for it in your wireless network settings, in which case your software may identify if a network is encrypted by WEP, WPA or WPA2 encryption.
The hackers installed malware which enabled them to access any computer using the New York Times network, steal the password of every employee, and access 53 personal computers, mostly outside the Times offices.
That has worked well enough to halt visiting laptops unaware of the password to the network.
These days, I only link my phone up to my password-protected wireless network at home.
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Orion's competitive edge stems from certain innovative business processes that are available to a network of independent agents via a password-protected extranet, according to Buffington.
On the other hand, affected users should be sure to change the password of any other online accounts that share a password with their Playstation Network account.
Furthermore, someone can gain access to an e-mail or social network account using sniffing methods, without needing that person's password.
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The second study, commissioned by Cisco Systems (nasdaq: CSCO - news - people ) and the National Cyber Security Alliance, also shows that more than 60% of employees sometimes use mobile devices without encrypted or password-protected data to connect to their work's network, and more than a third sometimes work by piggybacking on strangers' wireless Internet connections.
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