If you are like most people, your home or small office wireless router probably is running without any encryption whatsoever, and you are a sitting duck for someone to easily view your network traffic ...

Figure 1. A screen capture of an exchange between a desktop computer and a DHCP server. Click here to see an enlarged diagram. Frequently, all that is required to establish a connection to the ...

A follow up to our previous guide (Quick and dirty Wireshark tutorial), this advanced Wireshark tutorial will help you delve into Wireshark’s more advanced features. While the first section of this ...

Your home network’s security is only as good as the configuration of your router or gateway. Leave it open or vulnerable, and you might end up with freeloaders that hog your bandwidth, at best. At ...

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Unsure who's accessing your home Wi-Fi aside from you? It's time to find out and lock it down. Securing your connection is going to take some effort, though. It's more than a password change and ...