Computers, cell phones, tablets and other devices exchange files, stream media and share Internet connections over Wi-Fi networks. Most networks utilize a security protocol to prevent unauthorized ...

If you are like most people, your home or small office wireless router probably is running without any encryption whatsoever, and you are a sitting duck for someone to easily view your network traffic ...

Ars Technica's original Wireless Security Blackpaper was first published back in 2002, and in the intervening years, it has been a great reference for getting the technical lowdown on different ...

New method makes cracking WPA/WPA2 Wi-Fi network passwords easier and faster Your email has been sent Major password-cracking tool, Hashcat, found a simpler way to ...

If you need to add a new computer or device to your home wireless network, your Mac's System Preferences menu is one of the fastest ways to retrieve the WPA2 encryption key that you need to enter on ...

The WPA2 encryption scheme has been broken leaving Wi-Fi connections open for would-be attackers who could use an attack to read information that was previously believed to have been secure because it ...

A key reinstallation attack vulnerability in the WPA2 wi-fi protocol has been made public today. Security researcher Mathy Vanhoef has identified what he dubs a “serious weakness” in the wireless ...

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 ...

As part of their purported security protocols routers using WPA2 must reconnect and re-authenticate devices periodically and share a new key each time. The team points out that the de-authentication ...