If the challenge of securing a wireless LAN wasn't already confusing enough, things have just gotten worse. The confusion started last month when the Wi-Fi Alliance changed the WPA and WPA2 standards ...

Note that these changes to the WPA and WPA2 standard only pertain to the "enterprise" version and not the "personal" version. The WPA enterprise standard is meant for businesses or organizations and ...

This short primer will provide a few guidelines to consider when choosing an Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) method, one element of the authentication component of your Wi-Fi security plan.

At the start of the millennium, the Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) security protocol allowed encrypted data to be sent securely between two endpoints. In 2003, the ...

This issue, one in a short series of primers on deploying wireless LAN security, will begin discussing the task of selecting an authentication method to use in your Wi-Fi security scheme. WLAN ...

Certificate misconfigurations of the EAP protocol in Eduroam (and likely other networks globally) threaten Android and Windows users. Multiple configuration flaws in a free Wi-Fi network used by ...

In a thread elsewhere about wireless connection problems with a particular adapter, someone recommended looking at certain Services settings, and one of them was the one in the thread title. That ...

Find out how WPA and WPA2 improve upon WEP's encryption methods for better wireless security. The previous tip in this series on wireless encryption methods explained how WEP works. By 2001, hacker ...

Protected Extensible Authentication Protocol, better known as PEAP is a protocol that adds an extra layer of security to wireless LANs and point-to-point connections with PEAP passwords. The protocol ...