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 ...

A network security key is basically your Wi-Fi password — it's the encryption key that protects your internet. There are three different kinds of network security keys: WEP, WPA, and WPA2, each more ...

A researcher investigating strengths and weaknesses of the new WPA3 Wi-Fi standard accidentally discovered a new way to attack networks protected by the widespread WPA2 standard (WPA2 was introduced ...

WPA2 is the security protocol for Wi-Fi. It replaced WEP, which was hacked many years ago. While WEP is still supported by most wireless access points, WPA2 is now the recommended security measure.

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Your home network’s security is only as good as the configuration of your router or gateway. Leave it open or vulnerable, and you might end up with freeloaders that hog your bandwidth, at best. At ...

After troubleshooting for the last 3 hours... I just finished adding a new access point to my network and decided to redo everything with WPA/WPA-TKIP instead of just MAC address filtering. So, I now ...

I'm looking to attach a wireless bridge to an existing WPA2 network. I'm hoping to do this without having to have two special routers. The main one is what it is and is unlikely to change.

Amid the alphabet soup of what is 802.11-standard security, how do you merge support for a mix of client devices that support the range of Wi-Fi security protocols? If you are building Greenfield ...