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 ...

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 ...

We've always been warned to be vigilant about what information we provide when online. Between phishing, malware, and DNS spoofing it's difficult to blindly trust any online entity these days. But if ...

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 ...

The first wireless security network to mark its appearance was WEP or Wired Equivalent Privacy. It started off with 64-bit encryption (weak) and eventually went all ...

The FBI today is urging local wireless network owners to secure their networks in light of a new hacking vulnerability. Network owners who use Wireless Encryption Protocol, or WEP, could have their ...

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 ...

Two new encryption efforts have emerged from the firestorm of complaints over the easily compromised short and static keys used in 802.11’s original security ...

The encryption key of your D-Link router is the only thing that separates your wireless network from would-be hackers, data thieves or bandwidth leeches. Although important for home users as well, it ...