Setting up encryption on your business's wireless router can help protect sensitive personal and professional information from prying eyes. Wired Equivalent Privacy ...

For a number of third party wireless access points, AirPort 3.3 (released earlier this month) will not allow entry of a WEP key in the drop-down AirPort network selection menu, forcing users to enter ...

the blanks on the router's admin page should be the right size, only accepting as many characters as you need. Should just be a matter of typing them in. Only thing that can be confusing is that you ...

Hi all. I'm trying to use WEP between a netgear MR814 and two macs with airport cards (one running OSX 10.2.2 and the other OS 9.2.2). I have tried using both 64 and 128 bit encryption and putting the ...

Providing security for wireless LANs (WLANs) presents particular challenges. In a wired network it is possible to maintain physical control over the access points (APs)-an intruder must have access to ...

MacFixIt reader Guy Kuo reports a limitation in Apple's AirPort devices that prevents proper access to Windows-based wireless networks using a WEP slot key other than "1." In essence, if the wireless ...

It should be acknowledged that WPA with pre-shared keys can be cracked if IT management unwisely uses straightforward passwords. However, this is not a weakness in WPA security, but rather a potential ...

I heard about a new WEP cracking technique. Can you explain it? WEP has been generally recognized as broken since 2001 when Fluhrer, Mantin, and Shamir, commonly known as FMS, published their paper ...

Starting with the May 2019 (v1903) update that is currently being rolled out, Windows 10 will show a warning to users if they are connecting to a WiFi network that is ...

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