The Wi-Fi Alliance announced today the first round of products that are Wi-Fi CERTIFIED for the WPA2 (Wi-Fi Protected Access 2) capability. WPA2 builds on its predecessor, WPA, and is specifically ...

Russian security firm ElcomSoft has released software that leverages NVIDIA GPUs to speed up the brute-force cracking of WPA and WPA2 pre-shared WiFi keys. ElcomSoft Co. Ltd. accelerates the recovery ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

I keep seeing people say that "WPA 2 supports AES and WPA doesn't," but I've found that to be untrue. Before WPA2 came out my Thinkpad could do "WPA/AES" instead of "WPA/TKIP" (the latter presumably ...

Enamored by Wi-Fi’s convenience, we tend to be blind to its risks. Many routers are riddled with security holes that leave your data exposed to enterprising hackers and other intruders. And if you’re ...

If you need to add a new computer or device to your home wireless network, your Mac's System Preferences menu is one of the fastest ways to retrieve the WPA2 encryption key that you need to enter on ...