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 ...

Here it is. A paper by Erik Tews, Ralf-Philipp Weinmann, and Andrei Pyshkin of the Darmstadt University of Technology demonstrates how to break 104 bit WEP in less than 60 seconds (PDF link). We ...

Many networks still rely on WEP for security: 59 percent of the 15,000 Wi-Fi networks surveyed in a large German city in September 2006 used it, with only 18 percent using the newer Wi-Fi Protected ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Shutthiphong Chandaeng / Getty Images Using WPA on your phone. Wi-Fi Protected Access is a Wi-Fi ...

The result was IEEE standard 802.1x, Port-Based Network Access Control. The 802.1x protocol augments the standard WEP transaction in two ways. First, it improves the initial authentication by ...

As Black Friday bargains start to arrive, you may want to shop for a new wireless router, depending on old your current one is and whether it supports WPA2 (or later) encryption. Otherwise, you may ...

The Kindle supports a number of wireless connection encryption methods. Both Wired Equivalent Privacy and Wi-Fi Protected Access are usable with the Kindle. WEP and ...

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 ...