Wired Equivalent Privacy is one of the first encryption methods developed to secure wireless networks distributed by routers. The wireless antenna in your Dell laptop ...

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I recently bought a Proxim RangeLAN-DS 802.11b access point. It does not appear to support shared key authentication, although it does support 40-bit and 128-bit WEP for data encryption. So, whether ...

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 ...

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 ...

The television show 60 Minutes recently aired a story on the theft of customer data from TJX Companies, the parent company of such well-known stores as TJMaxx, Marshalls and HomeGoods. That company ...

Security experts got a scare recently after a hole was found in an encryption code, allowing hackers to easily snatch transmissions passing through wireless networks. The vulnerabilities were ...

Providing security for wireless LANs (WLANs) presents particular challenges. In a wired network it is possible to maintain physical control over the access points (APs)-an intruder must have access to ...

I’ve noticed that some of my friends and family are using WEP encryption on their wireless networks. I’d heard that WEP isn’t as safe as WPA and stopped using it a while ago — is there any reason to ...

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 ...

Hi, this may seem like a dumb question, but i don't know the answer so I will ask. I set up 128 WEP encryption on a Linksys WRT54G, I got a desk top hard wired, and a desk top on a usb wireless NIC ...