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Wifi main role is to provide the connectivity amongst various types of communities. It is one of the good, cheapest and consistent tools of communication in the USA. There are many wifi service providers are in operation in USA. Selection of Wifi depends on the services and your configuration.

1. The first priority of the using the wifi is the connectivity and the transfer and clarity of the data and voice systems. The Wifi technology is different from the conventional communication system. It is connected through Internet broadband connection and special types of hardware like antenna, adaptor are used to run the system. The clarity varies depends on your Hardware and hotspot locations. The wireless Internet consists of Antenna, laptop of palm top and window CE equipment. The wireless Internet refers as wireless fidelity (WiFi), especially in name wifi in hotspot.

2. The second criteria for the selection of Wifi system are prices. It varies from company to company and from plan to plan in each company. You must have to see from your angle which plans are better and most suitable to you.

3. The third most important considerations while selecting the Wifi services is it must be secured. You need to take adequate safety measures to get your system and access system secured from the hackers.

4. Please make it confirm that your office, home or other access points using the Wireless Equivalent Privacy (WEP), which encrypt your wifi traffic. The encryption, which cover your data to fight to enter a crawling and the undecipherable code.

5. It is essential to get in touch with the customer care departments if you find any additional amount in your bill.

Selection of right kind of Wifi services through which you can get easily connected at any distance.

by Christy Myers

A black hat hacker is someone who subverts computer security without authorization or who uses technology (usually a computer or the Internet) for terrorism, vandalism (malicious destruction), credit card fraud, identity theft, intellectual property theft, or many other types of crime. This can mean taking control of a remote computer through a network, or software cracking.

In a security context, a hacker is someone involved in computer security/insecurity, specializing in the discovery of exploits in systems (for exploitation or prevention), or in obtaining or preventing unauthorized access to systems through skills, tactics and detailed knowledge. In the most common general form of this usage, "hacker" refers to a black-hat hacker (a malicious or criminal hacker). There are also ethical hackers (more commonly referred to as white hats), and those more ethically ambiguous (grey hats). To disambiguate the term hacker, often cracker is used instead, referring either to computer security hacker culture as a whole to demarcate it from the academic hacker culture (such as by Eric S. Raymond[1]) or specifically to make a distinction within the computer security context between black-hat hackers and the more ethically positive hackers (commonly known as the white-hat hackers). The context of computer security hacking forms a subculture which is often referred to as the network hacker subculture or simply the computer underground. According to its adherents, cultural values center around the idea of creative and extraordinary computer usage. Proponents claim to be motivated by artistic and political ends, but are often unconcerned about the use of criminal means to achieve them.

Wireless security is the prevention of unauthorized access or damage to computers using wireless networks.
Wireless networks are very common, both for organizations and individuals. Many laptop computers have wireless cards pre-installed. The ability to enter a network while mobile has great benefits. However, wireless networking has many security issues.[1] Crackers have found wireless networks relatively easy to break into, and even use wireless technology to crack into wired networks.
The risks to users of wireless technology have increased as the service has become more popular. There were relatively few dangers when wireless technology was first introduced. Crackers had not yet had time to latch on to the new technology and wireless was not commonly found in the work place. However, there are a great number of security risks associated with the current wireless protocols and encryption methods, and in the carelessness and ignorance that exists at the user and corporate IT level.[2] Cracking methods have become much more sophisticated and innovative with wireless. Cracking has also become much easier and more accessible with easy-to-use Windows-based and Linux-based tools being made available on the web at no charge.
Some organizations that have no wireless access points installed do not feel that they need to address wireless security concerns. In-Stat MDR and META Group have estimated that 95% of all corporate laptop computers that were planned to be purchased in 2005 were equipped with wireless. Issues can arise in a supposedly non-wireless organization when a wireless laptop is plugged into the corporate network. A cracker could sit out in the parking lot and break in through the wireless card on a laptop and gain access to the wired network.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Do you rely on the master password in Firefox to protect all your login information? That could be a very costly mistake if your computer is ever stolen. Anyone with a password cracker of which there are several on the web, could using a brute force attack obtain your master password from your machine. They would then have access to all your login information for any and all accounts stored. I’m not going to list any of them here, you can find them using “firefox password crack” or “firefox password recovery”

Then there is the ongoing saga of security vulnerabilities, such as the cross-site Reverse Cross-Site Request (RCSR), highlighted some time ago, many of which are as yet to be completely resolved.

So, what is the answer?

Well, you could opt for a system like Passpack, which now comes as a standalone downloadable system and was reviewed here previously, or you could try Clipperz, which apparently has some unique features that make it better in some ways and not so good in others. It’s a difficult call.

If you are worried about the RCSR issue, you could use Opera instead of Firefox. Opera has a built-in password manager that is similar to that of Firefox but with one important difference, the Opera Wand login does not prefill login form fields by default so that an automated attack cannot get to your prefilled login fields, because they are empty! Of course, you may be happy with Firefox for all sorts of other reasons, and now you can get the Opera login functionality within your favorite browser with a Firefox Extension.

According to CIS, in 1999, two documents were published by Internet standards organizations that described Web password protocols as “unacceptable for any application,” and “not considered to be a secure method of user authentication.” These protocols are still being used today by all websites.

There is no simple answer, just as there is no single answer to home security. You could easily lose a key be compromised. If someone wants to get in to your property they will. Maybe someone should invent a security alarm for web browsers, at least that might deter the casual hacker.

by David Bradley

Software cracking is the modification of software to remove protection methods: copy prevention, trial/demo version, serial number, hardware key, CD check or software annoyances like nag screens and adware.
The distribution and use of cracked copies is illegal in almost every developed country. There have been many lawsuits over cracking software, but most have been to do with the distribution of the duplicated product rather than the process of defeating the protection, due to the difficulty of constructing legally sound proof of individual guilt in the latter instance. In the United States, the passing of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) legislation made software cracking, as well as the distribution of information which enables software cracking, illegal. However, the law has hardly been tested in the U.S. judiciary in cases of reverse engineering for personal use only. The European Union passed the European Union Copyright Directive in May 2001, making software copyright infringement illegal in member states once national legislation has been enacted pursuant to the directive.