Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP), as defined by the IEEE 802.11i specification, addresses the encryption part of the wireless security equation. (A different part of 802.11i addresses the ...

This week, Michael Ossmann of SecurityFocus released an alarming article on the recent advancements in wireless LAN encryption cracking that put manyWLAN networks once thought to be secure at risk.

Academic researchers have found an exploitable hole in a popular form of wireless networking encryption. The hole is in a part of 802.11i that forms the basis of WiFi Protected Access (WPA), so it ...

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 ...

Setting up encryption on your wireless router is one of the most important things you can do for your network security, but your router probably offers various different options—WPA2-PSK (TKIP), ...

Our company is currently configuring a wireless setup at one of our sites. We're pretty much a MS only shop and have the PKI infrastrucure setup so the wireless settings are configured via GPO and ...

The Wi-Fi Alliance is getting ready to put an end to WEP and TKIP on access points and WiFi devices. As early as January 2011 the Wi-Fi Alliance plans to disallow TKIP on access points, with the ...

The headlines on many tech sites trumpet, “WPA Encryption Broken!” Hardly. A very small area of the Wi-Fi encryption method that’s part of WPA and WPA2 is exploitable under very particular ...

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 ...

Computer scientists in Japan say they’ve developed a way to break the WPA encryption system used in wireless routers in about one minute. The attack gives hackers a way to read encrypted traffic sent ...

As I mentioned at the beginning of this month, I've given up trying to wirelessly connect my TRENDnet TV-IP400W network camera to my Cisco-now-Belkin Linksys E4200 v2 router, relying instead on a ...

Wi-Fi Protected Access is a Wi-Fi security technology developed in response to the weaknesses of Wired Equivalent Privacy standards. It improves upon WEP's ...