Cisco Systems Inc. has developed a new wireless LAN security protocol designed to defeat brute force dictionary attacks that capture a user’s passwords, and it submitted a draft of the protocol to the ...

Cisco announced the availability of a protocol that’s designed to defeat brute-force dictionary attacks that capture users’ passwords in its wireless LAN products. The company urged end users and ...

Protected Extensible Authentication Protocol, better known as PEAP is a protocol that adds an extra layer of security to wireless LANs and point-to-point connections with PEAP passwords. The protocol ...

Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP): An encryption technique built into 802.11 wireless LANs using 40-bit keys. 802.1X: An authentication standard for LANs and WLANs, used ...

"Microsoft is aware of a public report that describes a known weakness in the Wi-Fi authentication protocol known as PEAP-MS-CHAPv2 (Protected Extensible Authentication Protocol with Microsoft ...

Security tops the wireless LAN priority list for many network administrators, but the standards for encryption and authentication are still in a state of flux. Rapid developments in this area are ...

One day after it disclosed a security vulnerability in a wireless networking product, Cisco Systems must contend with a new threat – the long-promised release of a hacking tool that targets wireless ...

It appears that iPhones cannot (we haven't yet found a method, anyway) connect to certain types of Wi-Fi networks. Specifically: 802.1x/PEAP: used by some networks to provide port-based ...

Apple’s iOS 8 addresses a serious weakness that could allow attackers to hijack the wireless network authentication of Apple devices and gain access to enterprise networks. “An attacker could have ...

Microsoft is warning users that their Windows Phone 8 and Windows Phone 7.8 devices could be easily tricked into revealing login credentials for corporate Wi-Fi access points secured with WPA2 ...