In wireless security, passwords are only half the battle. Choosing the proper level of encryption is just as vital, and the right choice determines whether your wireless LAN is a house of straw or a ...

The continued usage of WEP in wireless networks is staggering. In fact, I’m not sure why it’s allowed as an option at all. You have two main security decisions to make when setting up a wireless ...

The Wi-Fi security protocol WEP should not be relied on to protect sensitive material, according to three German security researchers who have discovered a faster way to crack it. They plan to ...

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 ...

Back when the first consumer WLAN hardware hit the streets more than six years ago, they came with a technology called WEP, or Wired Equivalent Privacy. WEP was ...

For many businesses, wired Ethernet is no longer supreme. Instead, IEEE 802.11 Wi-Fi has become the go-to network access technology for users and endpoints. Wireless LANs offer many advantages over ...

I've been looking at picking up a Nintendo DS and Mario Kart DS (evidently the best Kart game ever), especially to play the WiFi edition. The DS only offers WEP style security. My home network is WPA.

I just got a Tivo series2 and I am connecting it to my home network with a v2.6 Linksys WUSB111 wireless USB adapter. It seems that the only way I can get the Tivo to connect to my network ...

Bob Russo and Troy Leach of the PCI Security Standards Council explain why ending WEP is key to bolstering wireless security The security savvy know WEP is full of holes and shouldn’t be used. That’s ...

If you use a secure wireless network, hackers may be able to steal data from your computer in the time it takes to have a cup of coffee. At the Toorcon hacking conference in San Diego this coming ...