Most of the wireless routers today comes with some security feature such as security encryption (WEP/WPA) MAC address filtering lowering transmission power disabling DHCP & use static IP and hiding of SSID to
keep your wireless network safe from intruders. Each wireless security mechanism helps to increase the difficulty of unauthorized users from hacking in to your wireless networks but surely does not prevent the determined ones.
In this article we will be focusing on one of the option Broadcast SSID found in most wireless routers.

The hidden wireless network is shown in the first line with an empty SSID but the rest of the information about the network is
displayed the most popular free and open source Wi-Fi scanning tool available today for that is Our application Hidden Wifi Display.
It is easy to use and understand without all the confusing configuration. After installation
running Hidden Wifi Display will automatically select your wireless adapter to start scanning for available access points.
Then the results will be shown in a sortable table in the program displaying information such as SSID channel security RSSI MAC Address maximum rate vendor and network type.