Businesses can secure their wireless networks using Wi-Fi protected access and WPA2, which are wireless security protocols that encrypt data sent through your router. TKIP and AES encrypt and decrypt ...

Given the range of possibilities it affords, AirSnitch gives attackers capabilities that haven’t been possible with other Wi-Fi attacks, including KRACK from 2017 and 2019 and more recent Wi-Fi ...

Mike Chapple is associate teaching professor of IT, analytics and operations at the University of Notre Dame. Securing a wireless network isn’t rocket science, yet organizations continue to make ...

The new encrypted network, W-M_Wireless_Encrypted, provides an additional layer of protection. All traffic between your laptop and the wireless access point is scrambled, to protect against someone ...

A hardware-based cryptographic technology developed by VIA Technologies could allow distributed wireless networks to transmit encrypted data much faster than before. The VIA PadLock ACE (Advanced ...

What do I do about wireless security? You can take three really simple steps to dramatically increase the security of your wireless network. It is not foolproof wireless security, but it will keep you ...

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 ...

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 ...

Wi-Fi has evolved over the years, and so have the techniques for securing your wireless network. An Internet search could unearth information that’s outdated and no longer secure or relevant, or ...

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 ...

Bad guys don’t target just big, corporate networks. If you have a Wi-Fi network at home or in a small office, intruders may be after you, such as casual “war drivers” who troll city streets, looking ...

Mike Chapple is associate teaching professor of IT, analytics and operations at the University of Notre Dame. With cyberthreats becoming more prevalent, agencies need to ensure that the security ...