In the past I have encouraged people to almost NEVER put up WiFi access with no security (airport, coffee shop can be an exception but COMPLETELY detached from YOUR network), and to at least use WEP encryption which is better than nothing (keeps the neighbors out).
WPA (Wi-Fi Protected Access) was secure for quite some time, but has now been hacked (see details here). This is actually for WPA – TKIP (Temporal Key Integrity Protocol).
The hack apparently works every time and within 1 minute.
WPA – AES is still secure for now, the better WPA2 is now the minimum for security if your devices are new enough to support it.
Unfortunately you cannot just go out and buy a new WiFi router, each and every device using the WiFi access point must support the more secure standard.
Check your devices and see what security you can move up to. And do it soon, the hackers will be at this within a couple of weeks from now.
