Find out how WPA and WPA2 improve upon WEP's encryption methods for better wireless security. The previous tip in this series on wireless encryption methods explained how WEP works. By 2001, hacker ...

With the rise in frequency and sophistication of cyberattacks, you don’t even have to leave your home to be the victim of crime. If unscrupulous individuals gain access to your home network, every ...

Last time, Paul Anderson, CEO of IT services firm Novacoast, commented on the incredibly lax security of many of his clients’ wireless networks. Security implementations are so bad now some pundits ...

Wireless protocols and technology are constantly changing -- increasingly affecting how we communicate. Wireless deployments are currently just one of many parts of an enterprise's network. As the ...

The Kindle supports a number of wireless connection encryption methods. Both Wired Equivalent Privacy and Wi-Fi Protected Access are usable with the Kindle. WEP and ...

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U.S. Army soldiers use SecNet 11 to send link-encrypted communications. Modular Internet protocol-based encryption technology enables wireless transmission of Top Secret information. Sending Top ...

Why is this so easy? Several reasons. First, corporations haven't paid much attention to securing their wireless networks, either because users outside the IT department have installed them or because ...

The organization that certifies wireless LAN products under the WiFi name unveiled new specifications Thursday for how vendors should make their products more secure. The guidelines call for new ...

Wireless networking continues to make inroads in metropolitan and rural areas across the U.S. as the development of 802.1x technologies and associated standards forges ahead. Wireless broadband and ...

MANHASSET, N.Y. — A 20-year-old undergraduate student from Rice University, Adam Stubblefield, has earned the distinction of being the first to implement a devastating new attack on the wired ...