Wi-Fi, wireless routers: Cabinet division sounds alarm over possible data leak

ISLAMABAD: The Cabinet Division has issued an advisory to federal ministries, divisions and departments against leakage and theft of sensitive data and information through Wi-Fi and wireless networks declaring wireless routers as less safer devices.

The advisory says that there can be easy disruption or interference through Wi-Fi in network traffic while traffic can be diverted to unsafe networks through router updates. It says that directors and files can be easily shared through Wi-Fi network. It has been suggested to keep passwords of Wi-Fi as complicated and keep both IDs and passwords as secret.

It has also been advised to shut guest network to avoid leakage of sensitive data and information.