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 ...
In a recent column, I suggested that a consumer worried about Internet banking over a home Wi-Fi network could use a wired Internet connection that would be safer. But several readers asked whether ...
This week, the Wi-Fi Alliance announced the long-awaited release of WPA3, which is the latest version of Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) protocol -- the user authentication technology needed for WiFi ...
A Russian password recovery outfit has announced a patent pending technology that dramatically accelerates the brute-force cracking of WiFi security encryption when a compatible Nvidia graphics card ...
Millions of households still run routers loaded with factory-set usernames, default passwords, and outdated encryption, giving attackers a clear path into home networks. The Federal Trade Commission ...
In a recent column, I suggested that a consumer worried about Internet banking over a home Wi-Fi network could use a wired Internet connection that would be safer. But several readers asked whether ...
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I'll admit that a few years ago I just gave up on WiFi (or ethernet VLANs even) providing more then token security. Instead I switched to having everything important either being hard isolated or ...
A couple of weeks ago, my home office ground to a standstill because my trusty Wi-Fi router of nearly six years decided to irrevocably quit on me. Not surprisingly, years of service and the internal ...
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 ...
Attack works on older WPA systems that use the TKIP algorithm and gives hackers a way to read encrypted traffic sent between computers and certain wireless routers Computer scientists in Japan say ...