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Deploying Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) and WPA2 in the Enterprise
White Papers This white paper is structured to provide a practical hands-on guide for deploying WPA and WPA2 in the enterprise. The paper provides an overview of Wi-Fi security and discusses the features and benefits of WPA and WPA2 as over-the-air solutions...
[July 9, 2007, 2:41]
WiFi Protected Access (WPA) Overview
White Papers This paper provides information about the WiFi Protected Access (WPA) update for the Microsoft Windows XP family of operating systems. The paper also describes features of WPA Security, changes required to support WPA, and call to action and...
[September 2, 2008, 7:35]
WPA crack details revealed
News A proof-of-concept tool to crack Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) has also been published by the researchers, Martin Beck of the Technical University of Dresden, and Erik Tews of the Technical University of Darmstadt.
[November 10, 2008, 14:16]
Researchers claim WPA crack
Blog German malware researchers Erik Tews and Martin Beck are due to give a presentation next week at the PacSec conference on a crack of WPA, a wireless encryption protocol. However, WPA up until now had been considered more secure.
[November 7, 2008, 16:20]
Is the Latest Wireless Vulnerability Just the Tip (or TKIP) of the Iceberg?
White Papers The newly discovered Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP) vulnerability on Access Points using WPA encryption protocol opens the door to potentially new WPA/TKIP attacks. While it is an exaggeration to say TKIP is broken today, this is a new and...
[October 1, 2009, 1:24]
Wi-Fi Security Is No Longer Secure
Blog Comment However, I don't agree with your conclusion that WPA and WPA2 encryption systems are no longer enough to protect wirleless data. Since the beginning of WPA/WPA2 it has been recognized that weak passphrases are susceptible to attack (http://www...
[October 27, 2008, 6:59]
Attack cracks Wi-Fi crypto in a minute
News Computer scientists in Japan have developed a way to break the WPA (Wi-Fi Protected Access) encryption system used in wireless routers in just one minute. The attack, which reads encrypted traffic sent between computers and certain types of routers...
[August 28, 2009, 10:25]
How to Secure Your Wireless Home Network With Windows XP
White Papers Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) has emerged as the improved security standard. WPA comes in two flavors: WPA-Enterprise for large wireless networks and WPA-Person for small office and home wireless networks.
[September 20, 2005, 3:00]
Desktop Linux for small business
Talkback Wireless is becoming more and more prevalent and more people are using WPA to protect it. A good review on the various distributions, on Dell and HP desktops and laptops, with Wireless G, WLAN wrappers, WEP, and a comprehensive WPA battery would be...
[November 25, 2005, 11:51]
Easy to set-up even for a novice
Member Review Only problem I have experienced was that my Dell Inspiron 510M was not able to maintain a wireless connection with WPA enabled, but fine with WEP. Dell said that WPA is not supported so probably a problem with my wireless card, not the router.
[July 12, 2004, 12:14]
Wi-Fi Security Is No Longer Secure
Blog A Russian firm’s use of the latest nVidia graphics cards to accelerate Wi-Fi ‘password recovery’ times by up to an astonishing 10,000% proves that Wi-Fi’s WPA and WPA2 encryption systems are no longer enough to protect wireless data.
[October 13, 2008, 8:56]
Secure Wi-Fi hot spots rolled out
News WPA, which is based on the 802.11i standard, encrypts data sent between a user's laptop and the access point, and is more secure than the earlier wireless security protocol WEP which is much more vulnerable to hackers.
[October 5, 2005, 13:05]
Secure Wi-Fi standard in 12 months
News Earlier this week, an industry group called the Wi-Fi Alliance announced the certification of products using the latest security specification, Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA). WPA is the third specification related to Wi-Fi to receive certification...
[May 2, 2003, 9:33]
WPA2-certified Wi-Fi toughens security
News Because WPA2 is compatible with WPA, companies who have already implemented WPA can upgrade to the new standard in stages. The first products certified to support Wi-Fi Protected Access 2 (WPA2), the latest wireless security technology, were...
[September 1, 2004, 17:20]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Perhaps the nastiest is Windows Product Activation, or WPA. Some people think that WPA is a way to get people to buy annual site licences instead of outright purchase; if you do that, you can install it without a key pretty much as you wish.
[August 10, 2001, 18:27]
Wi-Fi Alliance certifies security products
News The latest security specification, Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA), is a subset of what will become the 802.11i standard. WPA replaces the existing security protocol, called Wired Equivalent Privacy. WPA is the third specification related to Wi-Fi to...
[April 30, 2003, 12:15]
Windows XP gets Wi-Fi security upgrade
News The update adds support for Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA), which is intended to replace the current standard, Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP). WPA has been approved by the Wi-Fi Alliance, which is the group responsible for establishing standards...
[March 31, 2003, 14:46]
Netgear RangeMax Next review
Reviews Support for WPA and WPA-2 security comes as standard, along with both 64-bit and 128- bit WEP encryption for backwards compatibility. A clear winner when it comes to design, the RangeMax Next router is housed in a shiny iPod-white plastic case with...
[November 20, 2006, 9:52]
Microsoft may disable upgraded PCs
News The new system, called Windows Product Activation, or WPA, first surfaced earlier this year in build 2410 of the new operating system, but few details were released as to exactly how it would work. Following widespread criticism from its corporate...
[March 2, 2001, 22:00]
Better ways emerge to protect wireless data
News In the meantime, though, most of the Wi-Fi manufacturers have agreed to use a temporary standard for enhanced security called Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA). Although WPA is a temporary protocol and isn't recognised by IEEE, it is very similar to the...
[August 20, 2003, 15:20]
