WPA, or Wi-Fi Protected Access, is an encryption standard used on newer wireless routers to secure wireless data transmission. It was designed to replace the older, less-secure WEP standard and comes ...

So my dad has gotten it into his head that WEP is too insecure to tolerate (despite living in a sparsely populated and quiet suburban area). So he bought a new router which supports WPA, but then ...

A network security key is basically your Wi-Fi password — it's the encryption key that your password unlocks to allow access ...

From what I read, WPA-TKIP was supposed to run on both 802.11b network interface cards and routers. Indeed, most 802.11b network cards was updated, but not routers. For a client, the encryption ...

Security researchers say they’ve developed a way to partially crack the Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) encryption standard used to protect data on many wireless networks. The attack, described as the ...

It was only a matter of time. Sure, we can all expect that some hacker with enough time and processing power would eventually crack a WPA-protected wireless network to decrypt someone's precious data.

Asanté Technologies Inc. announced on Thursday an upgrade to the firmware for their FriendleyNET 802.11g wireless router. The version 1.1 update adds Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) encryption, the ...

Computer scientists in Japan say they’ve developed a way to break the WPA encryption system used in wireless routers in about one minute. The attack gives hackers a way to read encrypted traffic sent ...

If you think securing your Wi-Fi network with a strong password is enough to keep hackers away, well, think again. A researcher has detailed a new kind of attack, discovered by accident, which would ...

For US$34, a new cloud-based hacking service can crack a WPA (Wi-Fi Protected Access) network password in just 20 minutes, its creator says. Launched Monday, the WPA Cracker service bills itself as a ...