I have a nice little Mandrake install on a Toshiba Satellite from work, with a Netgear wireless card connecting to my home network. Mandrake recognised the card on install, and worked flawlessly with ...

A new paper by a leading security expert says that the new Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) security standard may be less secure in certain scenarios than WEP, the wireless standard it was designed to ...

New wireless security standard could drive hot spot, academic installations. The wireless LAN industry’s first crack at security – 802.11 Wired Equivalent Privacy ...

The continued usage of WEP in wireless networks is staggering. In fact, I’m not sure why it’s allowed as an option at all. You have two main security decisions to make when setting up a wireless ...

Within months, federal agencies will reap the rewards of the growing wireless local-area network (WLAN) market, as major government contracts begin offering a new class of wireless network gear ...

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 ...

Ah, the joys of aging: seeing friends who haven’t laid eyes on you in a few months or even years and hearing, “Geez, you’ve certainly got a lot of gray hair.” That’s always a mood booster. Then I ...