What is the best security option for mobile hotspot?

How do I make my Android hotspot private?

I want to use my Galaxy S3 as a personal hotspot.

The phone has the built in Wi-Fi/hotspot network that you can connect to any other device you want.

I've made several calls via Skype, but I don't feel comfortable when friends call me because the number is not blocked by the mobile operator. When I get a call, it's as if my phone was off-limits because of the prepaid minutes.

Theoretically, the phone is a private one, with only one number that I'm allowed to use to contact other people. Is there any way to make the phone number private without buying any specific app? How do I set it up so that I'm in control of how people use my phone? Well, you can use WiFi Direct to do this, and make sure to check "Allow others to use my phone" when in the WiFi Settings and you will be able to share your mobile data with all the devices you connect to you, just like with Hotspot. As far as making the number private goes, you could have any number that does not show the operator's service, even the cell number itself. This means that no one would know your SIM provider or operator unless you told them so. Just make sure that the SIM card is unlocked (so that you can change the number when you want) and then use the right frequencies for your area (and preferably have a wifi router that allows you to set the SSID / Network Name).

This blog post describes a really cool tool called Mobile Privacy Guard, which allows you to create a completely anonymous SIM and then use a WiFi direct connection to use it. But of course, what is the point of having a number private if you keep the SIM unlocked and just use a private number at home? You are still using your mobile connection, so it might as well have been that your number is private at home!

Can anyone connect to my hotspot?

Is there a way to share my broadband connection with other computers?

I am using my wireless modem / router (cisco aironet 340G router) I have my main PC connected through Ethernet and can see the modem, but I cant seem to get the second PC to connect to the modem. I've been having the same problem. And it's just annoying as I need to buy a router so I can't be having to use other PCs. I'm running Vista and trying to use a Linksys PCMCIA Adapter USB (WUSB-1001) and I cannot get it to work, it appears that it's never receiving power and therefore the USB device never starts, although some USB devices appear to work fine.

You have a laptop with Intel's wireless card/proccessor working fine and you want to connect to your WLAN at home? Is that it? I believe your laptop's wireless card is PCI-E. And a PCI-E card won't work unless you hook up to the back of the laptop. Your laptop has a DSP in the card, I believe that's a Motorola 68600 or similar chipset (could be wrong, I never got into reading too much of that stuff) and if the laptop's card is not functioning properly, it won't allow you to hook up to your WLAN.

I just looked at my laptop and the wireless card in it is not PCI-E either, in fact the PCMCIA is a USB one. There isn't much more I can tell you about the adapter other than it used to work with Windows 98 and then stopped working as I upgraded. The device lights don't work either now which means the card isn't getting power.

I had that same prob with the linksys card - the light is always on, there's never anything on the card. I tried to install the card through the laptop slot but the device manager doesn't even list it. Do you have any luck with your device?

Do a search for the chipset and that card and you might find someone who had the same problem and got a solution. No, it wasn't because I was using it with another computer before it broke and didn't have the problem. I didn't know that and I am guessing that it means that my WiFi card is broken. I've tried swapping them out but none of them work.

What is the best security option for mobile hotspot?

It's simple.

Just use the OS security settings in Android. The options are called Security, Data protection, Backup & Reset, and Lock screen/Device encryption. In most cases it will be a combination of two of those settings.

For example, let's say your device can be set to wipe data when the device is locked. Now let's say you use the Lock screen/Device encryption setting and also use a PIN or password to unlock the screen. Your device will prompt you that it needs to make a backup of the data so that if your device is lost, or stolen, or in some other event that renders your device useless, you have a backup that restores everything including your contacts, call log, messaging, etc. That in itself will protect you much more than any other solution, even with strong encryption.

The next option would be to enable remote wiping. If you're using a Windows machine for Android you might want to check out Google's Remote Wipe tool to help you make this decision. There is also a Mac app as well.

The last option I can think of is the best. Use all the above options. Enable both a Pin (or Password) and a Lock screen password. Then encrypt your device with a strong password, and then also have some software on your computer that keeps an encrypted file or two on a USB key attached to your device. When you set the device to wipe the data remotely if it falls into the wrong hands, or if you die, the last thing they'll see is a message with instructions to erase the data in the device and then the instructions that they have the USB key so they can wipe the data on their computer and retrieve it.

Or you could use a custom password that is not easy to guess. I have many devices. Some of them have only one PIN but also an AES encryption password and they all keep a file on a USB key encrypted. They are all different though because some devices have a hard locked screen, some require me to tap a few buttons to turn it on, others just put up the phone screen and let me type a custom password. If I can't remember it, well they've got enough stored on there to allow me to create a new device with a new password. But in some instances I set it up so that it's only accessible after I enter a new PIN on the next reboot of the device.

Can you make a mobile hotspot secure?

Security is a huge concern for anyone using their mobile device in an enterprise setting.

We hear about it all the time in stories about phishing, spam, and malware.

There are a number of wireless technologies and ways to configure the router, but you don't have control over everything once the user logs into the device. But can you really protect yourself from what someone can do on their own device? Can you defend your company from data theft or even malicious insider activity? No company is safe.7M per incident. How about insider threats? An additional 13% of companies were attacked by a co-worker.15M per incident.

These are not small figures, and the problem is even bigger than you think. Data has different implications depending on how it's being used. A mobile hotspot can be used to tether mobile devices outside of the corporate network. However, many use the hotspot as an extension of the internal network, allowing them to use devices for email and calendar synching. In this scenario, it's important to consider how sensitive the data and the devices are and if data could become exposed and possibly stolen or lost.

Hackers have access to thousands of open sources to get what they need. They can create apps that scan networks and collect all sorts of sensitive data such as your IMEI, GPS location, MAC address, and more.

The bad news is it doesn't matter how you configure your Wi-Fi router, hackers can get in anyway. The good news is you can lock down your WiFi-based hotspot in a way that helps prevent unauthorized access. You may have heard about WPA2/WPA2 Enterprise security, but what is it, and is it worth using?

WPA/WPA2 (Pre-shared Key). For the uninitiated, you need to know about pre-shared key (PSK). Your routers might support WPA2/WPA2 Enterprise, but that doesn't mean you can be certain of its security.

This security is based on a password that is shared between client and server.