Trying to keep your WiFi safe can feel confusing. There are a bunch of letters like WEP, WPA, WPA2, and WPA3 that show up when you look at your router settings. You might wonder what they all mean or ...

In a recent column, I suggested that a consumer worried about Internet banking over a home Wi-Fi network could use a wired Internet connection that would be safer. But several readers asked whether ...

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This week, the Wi-Fi Alliance announced the long-awaited release of WPA3, which is the latest version of Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) protocol -- the user authentication technology needed for WiFi ...

A Russian password recovery outfit has announced a patent pending technology that dramatically accelerates the brute-force cracking of WiFi security encryption when a compatible Nvidia graphics card ...

Millions of households still run routers loaded with factory-set usernames, default passwords, and outdated encryption, ...

I'll admit that a few years ago I just gave up on WiFi (or ethernet VLANs even) providing more then token security. Instead I switched to having everything important either being hard isolated or ...

A couple of weeks ago, my home office ground to a standstill because my trusty Wi-Fi router of nearly six years decided to irrevocably quit on me. Not surprisingly, years of service and the internal ...

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 ...

Public Wi-Fi networks, found in cafes, airports, and hotels, pose significant privacy risks. Connecting to these hotspots ...

Computer scientists in Japan say they’ve developed a way to break the WPA encryption system used in wireless routers in about one minute. The attack gives hackers a way to read encrypted traffic sent ...

Separate from the MITM, there are other ways to abuse the injection issue. An attacker can inject a UDP request for something like NetBIOS/mDNS/SSDP/SNMP that bounces a response back to the internet, ...