InfoWorld

Once thought safe, WPA Wi-Fi encryption is cracked

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 ...
Digital Journal

New Wi-Fi standard offers ‘robust’ encryption and security

The Wi-Fi Alliance, an international network of companies behind the Wi-Fi ecosystem, unveiled WPA3 at the CES tech show this week. It’s the first time Wi-Fi security has been fundamentally upgraded ...
Threat Post

Billions of Devices Open to Wi-Fi Eavesdropping Attacks

The Kr00k bug arises from an all-zero encryption key in Wi-Fi chips that reveals communications from devices from Amazon, Apple, Google, Samsung and others. SAN FRANCISCO — A serious vulnerability in ...
PC World

New Attack Cracks Common Wi-Fi Encryption in a Minute

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 ...
Traders Magazine

Wi-Fi 7: Powering the Next Era of Real-Time Finance

How will Wi-Fi 7’s lower latency and Multi-Link Operation impact trading floors and real-time market activity? Wi-Fi 7 ...
Dark Reading

Wi-Fi Alliance: WPA3 Standard Will Improve WiFi Security, Encryption

This week, the Wi-Fi Alliance announced the long-awaited release of WPA3, which is the latest version of Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) protocol -- the user authentication technology needed for WiFi ...
Mashable

Huge security flaw leaves Wi-Fi devices wide open to hackers

There's a hole in Wi-Fi security, and it affects the vast majority of Wi-Fi devices and networks. That very likely means your phone, your home wireless network, your wireless network at work -- ...
WeLiveSecurity

KrØØk: Serious vulnerability affected encryption of billion+ Wi-Fi devices

ESET Research has published its latest white paper, KrØØk - CVE-2019-15126: Serious vulnerability deep inside your Wi-Fi encryption. This blogpost summarizes that white paper, authored by researchers ...
Electronic Design

Wi-Fi Encryption Codes Need Powerful Pass-Phrases To Hinder The Hackers

A couple of weeks ago, my home office ground to a standstill because my trusty Wi-Fi router of nearly six years decided to irrevocably quit on me. Not surprisingly, years of service and the internal ...

Coming Wi-Fi 8 will bring reliability rather than greater speed

Intel's pitch for Wi-Fi 8 is that it will "just feel better," taking the raw speed of Wi-Fi 7 and adding intelligence to ...
InfoWorld

New attack cracks common Wi-Fi encryption in a minute

Attack works on older WPA systems that use the TKIP algorithm and gives hackers a way to read encrypted traffic sent between computers and certain wireless routers Computer scientists in Japan say ...