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I recently bought a Proxim RangeLAN-DS 802.11b access point. It does not appear to support shared key authentication, although it does support 40-bit and 128-bit WEP for data encryption. So, whether ...

Wired Equivalent Privacy is one of the first encryption methods developed to secure wireless networks distributed by routers. The wireless antenna in your Dell laptop ...

A new standard will be ready early next year that makes it much harder to eavesdrop or fake a user ID on wireless networks. When researchers first reported serious security problems with Wi-Fi ...

The television show 60 Minutes recently aired a story on the theft of customer data from TJX Companies, the parent company of such well-known stores as TJMaxx, Marshalls and HomeGoods. That company ...

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 ...

I’ve noticed that some of my friends and family are using WEP encryption on their wireless networks. I’d heard that WEP isn’t as safe as WPA and stopped using it a while ago — is there any reason to ...

Providing security for wireless LANs (WLANs) presents particular challenges. In a wired network it is possible to maintain physical control over the access points (APs)-an intruder must have access to ...

Hi, this may seem like a dumb question, but i don't know the answer so I will ask. I set up 128 WEP encryption on a Linksys WRT54G, I got a desk top hard wired, and a desk top on a usb wireless NIC ...

The 2Wire Gateway Hub connects an office network to the Internet via an Internet Service Provider's (ISP) broadband connection. While these devices are typically deployed in residential settings, they ...