Do you want to have a

convenient and direct access

in your transactions?

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Introducing…

Wireless Lan

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What’s inside

What is wireless LAN?

History of wireless LAN
Three transmission techniques
Advantages in using wireless LAN
What is war driving?
Tips in protecting WLAN from war driving

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What is wireless LAN?

Wireless LAN is a
type of local area
network that uses
high frequency radio
rather than wires to
communicate
between nodes.

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History of wireless LAN
The first radio
network technology
was developed at
University of
Hawaii in a research
project call
ALOHANET. The
ALOHANET system
allows computer
with 7 sites, which
spread out in four
islands without
using any wired
four islands
transmission links.

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History of wireless LAN

In 1980 the
hobbyists (ham)
in Canada and
US had
developed the
equipment call
TNCs (terminal
node controller). Terminal node controller

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Three transmission techniques
Spread spectrum

Is currently the most

widely used
transmission
technique for
WLAN. It was
initially developed
by the military to
avoid jamming and
eavesdropping of the Spread spectrum

signals.

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Narrowband microwave

Microwave
technology is not
really a LAN
technology. It’s main
use is to interconnect
LAN between two
building.

Narrowband microwave

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Infrared

Used infrared signals

to transmit data. This
is the same technology
used in products like
remote controls for
television and VCR’s.

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Advantages in using wireless LAN

Mobility

Installation speed and simplicity

Installation flexibility

Reduced cost-of-ownership

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What is war driving?

War driving is driving

around a city searching for
the existence of (WLAN).

It’s locating and logging

wireless access points while
in motion.

This task is automated using

dedicated war driving
software and GPS unit.

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Tips in protecting WLAN

Change the default password on your Access

point.

Use a proxy with access control for outgoing

requests (web proxy and others).

Regularly tests the security of your wireless

network, using the latest war driving tools.

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Tips in protecting WLAN
Enable strict LOGGING on all devices and
check your wireless log files regularly to see
if your security policy is still adequate.

Don’t give passwords, account nos. or credit

card details if you’re not confident that the
website is real or genuine.

Turn off or remove your wireless card when

not accessing a hot spot to deny hackers any
opportunity to get into your computer.

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summary

Using wireless LAN brought a lot of

advantages in our daily transactions.
But let us not try to forget that
there are hackers who try to
invade our computer destroying
everything. Don’t wait until
complete stranger are abusing
your computer.
Be wise…

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 It’s better to be careful
rather than regretting
things at the end.

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Back up

Wireless LAN card hackers War driving tools

Access point
GPS unit motherboard

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