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 ...

Unlike previous Wi-Fi attacks, AirSnitch exploits core features in Layers 1 and 2 and the failure to bind and synchronize a ...

For developers and engineers, one of the first and most important questions when creating a new IoT application is the choice of wireless protocol. With a broad range of options to choose from, ...

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 ...

Michael Murphy, director of information systems support services at Minneapolis-based Carlson Hotels Worldwide, parent company to more than 300 hotels in North America, would like to use stronger ...

Security researchers on Monday revealed a major flaw in the widely used wireless network protocol WPA2. The Belgian researcher who discovered the weakness, Mathy Vanhoef of KU Leuven, dubbed the new ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Depending on which version is present on the wireless device it also has the advantage of using strong encryption based on either the temporal key integrity protocol (TKIP) or the more secure counter ...

While Wi-Fi security is more than an encryption choice, choosing the wrong protocol can leave you vulnerable to attack. Wi-Fi technology evolves with time, and WPA2 has been considered the most secure ...

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 ...