Equifax and Yahoo disclosed major security breaches recently, which are quite scary, especially the former. But security researchers are about to unveil to explain how hackers could hack any existing ...

The rejection of China's Wi-Fi encryption algorithm has sparked allegations of foul play. The Standardization Administration of China, a group promoting China's wireless encryption standard, accused ...

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 ...

VPNs, or virtual private networks, continue to be used by millions of people as a way of masking their internet activity by encrypting their location and web traffic. But on the modern internet, most ...

If you've not already done so, prepare to ratchet your router security up to WPA2: the latest news from the tech security world is that researchers have figured out a way to at least partially crack ...

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 ...

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 ...

Researchers have come a step closer to breaking open a common WiFi encryption scheme. An attacker can now read and falsify short packets in the common TKIP version of WiFi Protected Access (WPA) ...

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 ...