Trying to keep your WiFi safe can feel confusing. There are a bunch of letters like WEP, WPA, WPA2, and WPA3 that show up when you look at your router settings. You might wonder what they all mean or ...

Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) is a security standard designed to provide wireless networks with comparable security to that of wired networks. Shared Key ...

WPA, or Wi-Fi Protected Access, is an encryption standard used on newer wireless routers to secure wireless data transmission. It was designed to replace the older, less-secure WEP standard and comes ...

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Next week at the PacSec Conference in Tokyo, security researcher Erik Tews is expected to put on quite a show. Tews will be showcasing what he describes as the first practical attack on the widely ...

What’s the best way to deal with embedded devices that only support WEP with respect to WPA/WPA2 networks and keeping them secure? Unfortunately, some embedded devices are not upgradeable to WPA/WPA2.

Just a quick question guys.<BR> <BR>I recently helped a friend of mine setup a WAP at his place of business. This was done so that the managers could access the net via their laptops without haveing ...

New wireless security standard could drive hot spot, academic installations. The wireless LAN industry’s first crack at security – 802.11 Wired Equivalent Privacy ...

Howdy folks!<br><br>As you have read from my subject title, I'm new to WiFi... have been using my trusty CAT5 and Linksys hubs/routers since the mid-90s and now that WiFi is taking off, I thot i might ...

Security researchers say they’ve developed a way to partially crack the Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) encryption standard used to protect data on many wireless networks. The attack, described as the ...