If you are like most people, your home or small office wireless router probably is running without any encryption whatsoever, and you are a sitting duck for someone to easily view your network traffic ...

If you need to add a new computer or device to your home wireless network, your Mac's System Preferences menu is one of the fastest ways to retrieve the WPA2 encryption key that you need to enter on ...

While Wi-Fi security is more than an encryption choice, choosing the wrong protocol can leave you vulnerable to attack. Wi-Fi technology evolves with time, and WPA2 has been considered the most secure ...

The bad news: most people don’t give a second thought to their routers. This lack of know-how puts a lot of households in a dangerous position. The United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team ...

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 ...

On numerous occasions, and in our wireless troubleshooting tutorial, we've noted that turning off wireless security (encryption) or switching security protocols (from WPA2 to WEP or vice versa, etc.) ...

The internet’s never been completely safe, but now it’s your Wi-Fi’s fault. Security researchers have discovered a flaw in Wi-Fi’s WPA2 encryption: the protocol that protects data sent over your Wi-Fi ...

Russian security firm ElcomSoft has released software that leverages NVIDIA GPUs to speed up the brute-force cracking of WPA and WPA2 pre-shared WiFi keys. ElcomSoft Co. Ltd. accelerates the recovery ...

I always only relied on Mac Address filtering for home network security based on my theory that anyone that could spoof a Mac address could also sit outside for a few hours and packet sniff and crack ...