Just like the importance of wireless security in the corporations it's equally important for home too. There may be definitely so many things that should be kept private. Anyone near you can watch you online and the offline activities if your network is not secure. Someone with a good knowledge in computer network could even have total access to your computer if you hard drives are not secured well. Not only your competitor or you enemies, even your neighbors could steal your broadband internet connection, which may obviously slow your Internet speed or bandwidth that you've paid for. And for more if they conducted something illegal via Internet, It could harm you. That could be traced which reflects your network that means you will be blamed for their work.

So what the odds for these all? You may be thinking about that. It's quite straight. You can exploit other very easily. You may have exploited you for normal purpose guess what if you have access to your friend's bank account? Yes, that can even be discovered on other computer if you got the full access to other computer once.

So many people are still unaware of wireless network security. You may try that for just a knowledge purpose. Your neighbors may have not secured their wireless networks. I know so many friends of mine using wireless network. When I asked them whether they've cared about their network security or not, they said they've no idea on it and none of their networks are secure. I could get access to their network if I wanted. You can find several tools for that purpose. They are not a person who does business via their network or stores important accounts or documents into the internet. They only use their computer for games. Therefore, that could not harm them anything big even if somebody gets into their network. But what if they've stored their bank account details, credit card details into their computer? Anyone who has little knowledge and band intention could get them using some thing like Wi-Fi devices or antenna. Not only my friends, there are majority of people in my neighborhood who do not have secured wireless network. I have researched a lot about the wireless network security and I've read once that as of the end of 2004 about 70% of wireless network was not found to be using any kind of encryption method. Wireless network is extremely popular and is very important. So, everybody is using wireless network but ignoring the security of their network of which harm they may not be aware of.

Unsecured networks are the big advantage for the hackers. They generally try regular practice using some devices and tools which are easy to perform in such wireless networks. Such practices are named as war walking. It is generally a trip to try to find wireless networks. That may not be a big case at first if a hacker knows about your wireless network us. So many people have wireless networks these days. You could even look out of your window to see who other is cheating on you if you suspect that if there is anyone in your network. But hackers are the most intelligent people in the world. They can even setup an antenna, which may able to receive you networks signal from far away. For advanced there are a lot of Wi-Fi devices that can catch Wi-Fi signals from miles of distances. Hackers do not need to rent apartment near your house to hack your wireless network. So be aware about your wireless network security.