Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dimitri Otis/Getty When your wireless router broadcasts its wireless network name, known formally as a Service Set Identifier ...

Okay, there is one scenario where hiding your SSID can make your wireless network less secure. If a cracker detects that you’ve disabled SSID broadcasting, he might think you’ve done it because you’ve ...

Your Wi-Fi name leaks more about you than your IP address ever could.

Here are Part I and Part II. Here is an overview of the steps you'll go through in this section: As previously mentioned, routers from the same manufacturers all come with the same password. Although ...

A Wi-Fi signal is a broadcast-based communication. This is what makes it so easy to use — instead of dealing with the limitations of physically connecting with a network cable, you can simultaneously ...

How do "e-intruders" or hackers go to areas where there is alot of Wifi traffic and send out an SSID to get people to login to a "fake network". For example, they might have a network called "Free ...

Since Windows 11/10 does not provide a way to hide the hotspot SSID and make it private, we will need to do it through our phones, where we enable the hotspot. To do so, follow the steps mentioned ...