WPA brings several security improvements to the airwaves. WPA uses Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP), which replaces WEP's 40-bit static key with a 128-bit dynamically assigned key. That ...

Cisco announced the availability of a protocol that’s designed to defeat brute-force dictionary attacks that capture users’ passwords in its wireless LAN products. The company urged end users and ...

Emerging standards and products aim to remedy the problem. Rachel Metz opened her Apple iBook in June to take some notes at a middle school she was visiting in Palo Alto, the heart of Silicon Valley.

The IEEE 802.11i standard will plug all known security holes in IEEE 802.11 wireless LANs, also known as Wi-Fi, but it probably won’t see final approval or shipping products until about a year from ...

Securing a wireless LAN remains complex and costly because of immature standards and a lack of interoperability, according to a Meta Group Inc. report released last week. Several approaches have ...

That's good news for corporations and home users that want to work untethered, but it also brings up security issues that solution providers must help their customers face. "There's a great need for ...