Using WPA on your phone. Wi-Fi Protected Access is a Wi-Fi security technology developed in response to the weaknesses of Wired Equivalent Privacy standards. It ...

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.

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 ...

WPA optionally also connects clients via the Extensible Authentication Protocol to an authenticator via 802.1X. The authenticator can be a RADIUS server or other components of a network key ...

Joshua Wright, the systems engineer who created a tool that targets wireless LANs protected by Cisco Systems Inc.’s Lightweight Extensible Authentication Protocol (LEAP), said he did so to demonstrate ...

Apple’s iOS 8 addresses a serious weakness that could allow attackers to hijack the wireless network authentication of Apple devices and gain access to enterprise networks. “An attacker could have ...

Anyone developing wireless LAN (WLAN) systems knows the security problem created by the wired equivalency protocol (WEP). The bigger issue designers must wrestle with is how to solve the problems ...

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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 ...

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 ...