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How To Protect your Wi-Fi network from unauthorized access

by Mahesh Kukreja on December 11, 2010

Wi-fiWireless security is of major concern at this time. Terrorists might use your unprotected Wireless network for sending e-mails and/or Cyber Terrorists can use it for hacking into Government websites/networks. Your IP address will be traced by the Cyber Police and you’ll be in unnecessary trouble. Very less people actually use Wireless security to protect their networks.

Even your neighbors can use your unprotected wireless network and access your bandwidth.

The owners either ignore the wireless security completely or they don’t know how to work around to set up wireless password.

Here’s  a basic tutorial to set wireless security on Netgear WGR614v9 wireless router. For other routers like Linksys, the procedure is almost same with certain navigation changes.

Step 1: Open up your favorite web browser and access the router (http://192.168.1.1 or the Default Gateway address if the router’s default IP was changed).

Step 2: Log in the router (User Name = admin and Password = password, unless you changed it. The username can be different on different routers).

Netgear Index Page

Step 3: Navigate to Wireless Settings on the left side.

Netgear Wireless Settings

Under Security Options, select WPA2-PSK [AES] (Want to know what is WPA2 PSK? Head up here). WPA2-PSK is better than WEP (WEP can be hacked easily under 5 mins).

After that, type your password in the Passphrase text box, and then click on Apply. This is the password you’ll be using to connect your Laptop/Wi-fi device to the network.

That’s it! Was it that difficult?

Step 4: (Follow these steps if you haven’t yet changed the default login password for the router)

Netgear Admin Password

Click on Set Password under Maintenance. Enter your old password (default: password), and your new password. And click on Apply.

You’re done! If you have any questions, feel free to ask in the Comments section below.

Also, you’d like to check out my guest post at ShoutMeLoud [How do Hackers Hack your Passwords?]

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Google Finally Enables Offline Access for Gmail

by Mahesh Kukreja on January 29, 2009

Google’s long-awaited offline access for Gmail is here, bringing a sigh of relief to users of Google’s messaging and collaboration software. Google Apps Standard Edition users will be able to access it immediately with a few steps, while consumers will see a more gradual rollout. The move should put Google on a more level playing field in cloud computing versus Microsoft, Yahoo Zimbra, Zoho and others with e-mail clients that already provide offline access.

Google on Jan. 27 reached a milestone in its competition against Microsoft with the introduction of offline access for Gmail, a long-awaited feature the company is rolling out to consumers and Google Apps users in the United States and United Kingdom.

In Web application parlance, offline access is when users can access application data even when they’re not connected to the Web. Google will soon follow Gmail offline access with offline access to Google Calendar. This will initially be available to Google Apps users only.

Created in Google’s Gmail Labs, offline access will enable Gmail to load in a Web browser without a Web connection. Users will be able to read, archive or write messages. Users can hit send on composed messages, which will remain in the Gmail outbox.

When the user’s computer reconnects online, Gmail will push the messages from its queue toward their recipients, Rajen Sheth, senior product manager for Google Apps, told eWEEK before the launch Jan. 27. Google provides a video demo of offline Gmail access here.

Built with the Google Gears browser technology used to let Google Reader, Google Docs and Zoho Mail render data offline, offline access for Gmail is immediately available for Google Apps Standard Edition users and consumers beginning the evening of Jan. 27. Users must download Google Gears to access it.

“We wanted to, with Gears, make it a seamless experience so that users don’t have to download a specialized client or go through a different experience than what they’re used to with the Web browser,” Sheth explained.

Offline access for Gmail consumer and business users is a major step for Google, which is trying to compete with Microsoft, Yahoo’s Zimbra and other e-mail providers by making Gmail as robust as possible for its tens of millions of users.

This is particularly important for users who are trying to access their application data in areas with spotty Internet connections, or with no Web connections at all. Air travel, for example, tends to be the biggest stumbling block for applications that don’t let their users access data offline.

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