MAC filtering never really works. Anyone wanting to get on the wifi can just run a sniffer for a few minutes, find a MAC that is allowed and use it on their device. MAC filtering is useless. As for ...

I set up MAC address filtering on my VZW router for security reasons with my job. They told me I couldn't have the wifi enabled while using a VPN for some reason. I think they're idiots, am I wrong?

MAC address filtering for wireless networking isn’t real “security”. Anyone who pays any attention to current trends in wireless security at all should know that MAC filtering is less effective than ...

MAC Address Filtering is a special security feature through which you can use the MAC Address of a device to determine its access to the network. It is special security that protects your router and ...

[Updated 4/2/2007 - follow-up article here] For the last three years, I've been meaning to put to rest once and for all the urban legends and myths on wireless LAN security. Every time I write an ...

Researchers this week published information about a newfound, serious weakness in WPA2 — the security standard that protects all modern Wi-Fi networks. What follows is a short rundown on what exactly ...

Some places of business use MAC filtering to restrict access to their wireless networks. This filtering protocol requires that the MAC number associated with your device be registered with the network ...