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 ...

I had pretty much declared WEP dead more than two years ago, but there was some room left for aggressive dynamic WEP key rotation. Now that WPA and even WPA2 can be automatically deployed within the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Further flaws found in the algorithm have brought the time taken to find the key down to a matter of minutes, but that’s not necessarily fast enough to break into systems that change their security ...

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?

What OS? If its XP netsh might let you change that information I'd check but I left my laptop at home today (first time in two months and I end up needing it twice).

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 ...