First item is a doozie. Trying to develop a standard Altiris image for notebooks to be deployed to over 50 schools across 5 states. It's much easier if the wireless is pre-configured as part of the ...

MacFixIt reader Guy Kuo reports a limitation in Apple's AirPort devices that prevents proper access to Windows-based wireless networks using a WEP slot key other than "1." In essence, if the wireless ...

In wireless security, passwords are only half the battle. Choosing the proper level of encryption is just as vital, and the right choice determines whether your wireless LAN is a house of straw or a ...

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 ...

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 ...

For a number of third party wireless access points, AirPort 3.3 (released earlier this month) will not allow entry of a WEP key in the drop-down AirPort network selection menu, forcing users to enter ...

First let me preface this by saying that I've been working on wireless security for about 2 months solid now, 8 hours a day, 5 days a week. Why is everyone touting 128-bit WEP as this giant ...

several minutes to break the key. Now, that time is down to 3 seconds, according to German researchers and reported by Computerworld on Wednesday. Erik Tews, a researcher in the computer science ...

I heard about a new WEP cracking technique. Can you explain it? WEP has been generally recognized as broken since 2001 when Fluhrer, Mantin, and Shamir, commonly known as FMS, published their paper ...