Using WPA on your phone. Wi-Fi Protected Access is a Wi-Fi security technology developed in response to the weaknesses of Wired Equivalent Privacy standards. It ...

If the challenge of securing a wireless LAN wasn't already confusing enough, things have just gotten worse. The confusion started last month when the Wi-Fi Alliance changed the WPA and WPA2 standards ...

This short primer will provide a few guidelines to consider when choosing an Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) method, one element of the authentication component of your Wi-Fi security plan.

In a thread elsewhere about wireless connection problems with a particular adapter, someone recommended looking at certain Services settings, and one of them was the one in the thread title. That ...

What is the best EAP type to use when setting up an enterprise WLAN? Selecting the appropriate Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) method for your wireless network is a pivotal security decision ...

Protected Extensible Authentication Protocol, better known as PEAP is a protocol that adds an extra layer of security to wireless LANs and point-to-point connections with PEAP passwords. The protocol ...

Anyone developing wireless LAN (WLAN) systems knows the security problem created by the wired equivalency protocol (WEP). The bigger issue designers must wrestle with is how to solve the problems ...

Joshua Wright, the systems engineer who created a tool that targets wireless LANs protected by Cisco Systems Inc.’s Lightweight Extensible Authentication Protocol (LEAP), said he did so to demonstrate ...

Apple’s iOS 8 addresses a serious weakness that could allow attackers to hijack the wireless network authentication of Apple devices and gain access to enterprise networks. “An attacker could have ...

META Trend: The campus/LAN will become increasingly application aware (2003/04), as products incorporate expanded services such as quality of service, security, and user-based policy. By YE02, 75% of ...