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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

With the rise in frequency and sophistication of cyberattacks, you don’t even have to leave your home to be the victim of crime. If unscrupulous individuals gain access to your home network, every ...

Last time, Paul Anderson, CEO of IT services firm Novacoast, commented on the incredibly lax security of many of his clients’ wireless networks. Security implementations are so bad now some pundits ...

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 ...

Wireless protocols and technology are constantly changing -- increasingly affecting how we communicate. Wireless deployments are currently just one of many parts of an enterprise's network. As the ...

The purpose of properly securing a wireless access point is to close off the network from outsiders who do not have authorization to use your services. This is often easier said than done. A wireless ...

Why is this so easy? Several reasons. First, corporations haven't paid much attention to securing their wireless networks, either because users outside the IT department have installed them or because ...

U.S. Army soldiers use SecNet 11 to send link-encrypted communications. Modular Internet protocol-based encryption technology enables wireless transmission of Top Secret information. Sending Top ...