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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Seven months after researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, discovered flaws in the encryption algorithm designed to protect wireless LANs, a different group of experts has uncovered a ...

If you use a secure wireless network, hackers may be able to steal data from your computer in the time it takes to have a cup of coffee. At the Toorcon hacking conference in San Diego this coming ...

The IEEE’s initial attempt at wireless LAN security was Wired Equivalent Privacy. This turned out to be a quite unfortunate moniker, as WEP was quickly shown to ...

Q: An option in our access point interface calls for the configuration of four WEP keys. Why would you need four instead of one? Is it in order to share the encryption/decryption load across clients?

Bob Russo and Troy Leach of the PCI Security Standards Council explain why ending WEP is key to bolstering wireless security The security savvy know WEP is full of holes and shouldn’t be used. That’s ...