Oh, you mean the protected was supposed to mean protected? When the next-generation Wi-Fi Protected protocol released 15 months ago, it was heralded as a being resistant to most types of ...

Just when I thought that WiFi (802.11b/g) networks were getting safer, I get an email from a friend indicating that Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) has been cracked. InformIt.com has posted the details: ...

Wi-Fi network is one of the most valuable technologies that have been developed. It provides convenience and opportunities to different applications accompanied by security protocol. This security ...

Sometime ago I wrote about how your WiFi might be hacked due to a technical SNAFU in something that is a standard feature of WiFi access points (APs) called "WiFi Protected Setup" or WPS. WPS allows a ...

Researchers have come a step closer to breaking open a common WiFi encryption scheme. An attacker can now read and falsify short packets in the common TKIP version of WiFi Protected Access (WPA) ...

Some very bad news for anyone who uses Wi-Fi: Security researchers have found severe flaws in the Wi-Fi Protected Access II protocol (WPA2), the security protocol most commonly used to secure your ...

On December 27, the Department of Homeland Security’s Computer Emergency Readiness Team issued a warning about a vulnerability in wireless routers that use WiFi Protected Setup (WPS) to allow new ...

A new standard will be ready early next year that makes it much harder to eavesdrop or fake a user ID on wireless networks. When researchers first reported serious security problems with Wi-Fi ...

Computers, cell phones, tablets and other devices exchange files, stream media and share Internet connections over Wi-Fi networks. Most networks utilize a security protocol to prevent unauthorized ...

An enhancement to certified Wi-Fi products that makes it easy to add new devices to a secure Wi-Fi network. Introduced by the Wi-Fi Alliance in 2007 and initially called "Wi-Fi Simple Config," Wi-Fi ...