Security experts got a scare recently after a hole was found in an encryption code, allowing hackers to easily snatch transmissions passing through wireless networks. The vulnerabilities were ...

The organization that certifies wireless LAN products under the WiFi name unveiled new specifications Thursday for how vendors should make their products more secure. The guidelines call for new ...

Michael Murphy, director of information systems support services at Minneapolis-based Carlson Hotels Worldwide, parent company to more than 300 hotels in North America, would like to use stronger ...

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 ...

Vendors have been leaving the encryption software in wireless lan (wlan) modules switched off by default because it slows down the connection. As a result, some users may think they are transmitting ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

WLANs (Wireless LANs) are still in the experimental phase at most companies. Why? Because wireless security standards remain in flux. But a more obvious obstacle to wholehearted adoption is the lack ...

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 ...