It was only a matter of time. Sure, we can all expect that some hacker with enough time and processing power would eventually crack a WPA-protected wireless network to decrypt someone's precious data.

Rob McMillan at IDG has the scoop on new research that shows it's possible to partially crack the WPA (Wi-Fi Protected Access) encryption standard. Full details of the theoretical attack is not yet ...

Wireless networks are easily hacked, and public networks are the least secure. I won’t take any chances; I’ll always encrypt my wireless connection. Assuming that you own the wireless base station you ...

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 ...

Security researchers say they've developed a way to partially crack the Wi-Fi Protected Access encryption standard used to protect data on many wireless networks. The attack could also be used to send ...

Wireless routers have two sets of passwords: one that allows users to join it when it is using a wireless encryption method such as WPA-PSK, and another for accessing its administrative control panel.

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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 ...

Problem description:<br>My wife's laptop had a harddisk crash and had to be reinstalled from a Ghost image. The image installed Windows XP Professional SP1. I connect the laptop with an Ethernet cable ...

I have a linksys 802.11g wireless DSL router succesfully running a mixed mode wireless network using WPA encryption. I've turned off MAC address filtering while I test this.<BR><BR>I got my ipaq 3835 ...

Security researchers say they’ve developed a way to partially crack the Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) encryption standard used to protect data on many wireless networks. The attack, described as the ...

Security researchers say they’ve developed a way to partially crack the Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) encryption standard used to protect data on many wireless networks. The attack, described as the ...