Cisco announced the availability of a protocol that’s designed to defeat brute-force dictionary attacks that capture users’ passwords in its wireless LAN products. The company urged end users and ...

WPA brings several security improvements to the airwaves. WPA uses Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP), which replaces WEP's 40-bit static key with a 128-bit dynamically assigned key. That ...

Emerging standards and products aim to remedy the problem. Rachel Metz opened her Apple iBook in June to take some notes at a middle school she was visiting in Palo Alto, the heart of Silicon Valley.

That's good news for corporations and home users that want to work untethered, but it also brings up security issues that solution providers must help their customers face. "There's a great need for ...

The face of computing is being changed by innovations in wireless technology. For example, users are no longer bound to the traditional "wires" that made up their computing environment. Thanks to ...