Book Detail:

Caution! Wireless Networking
By Jack McCullogh
Published by Wiley
268 Pages

This book focuses mainly on the security issues arise with wireless networking, ranging from viruses to e-eavesdropping. Some of the threats, such as worms and hoaxes, are familiar from wired networks and are fairly easy to guard against. Others, such as drive-by downloads and sniffers, are linked to natured of wireless communications and are considerably tougher to fight.

The book offers a spectrum of defensive measures, but the main problem is that they are mainly designed for the American environment. Still, there are useful principles dicussed here, althought Asian users will have to check for system compatibility.

The haphazard development of a home networking system can be as chaotic as a poorly planned road system. It is often the result of adding on new components to your home PCs without looking at the bigger picture.

If you have more than one PC at home sharing a common printer, or other peripherals, you are already at the beginning of Phrase 3 of Home Networking, according to author, Dr Larry Long.

Phase 1 and 2 involve introducing the first, then the second (or third) PC to your home, he says. By Phase 3, you start to share files, storage, printer and Internet resources and at Phase 4, you are on your way to creating an electronic home. Here is when you integrate the digital home entertainment with the home office and a cyberworld for the gamers in the family.
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