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 ...

Seven months after researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, discovered flaws in the encryption algorithm designed to protect wireless LANs, a different group of experts has uncovered a ...

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 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 ...

Seven months after researchers at the University of California at Berkeley discovered flaws in the encryption algorithm designed to protect wireless LANs, a different group of experts has uncovered ...

How insecure is Wired Equivalent Privacy? The short answer is that Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) is badly broken and only fit for a few low-security uses. Wireless ...