New AirSnitch attack bypasses Wi-Fi encryption in homes, offices, and enterprises

Unlike previous Wi-Fi attacks, AirSnitch exploits core features in Layers 1 and 2 and the failure to bind and synchronize a ...
Computerworld

Encryption: The Achilles’ Heel of Wireless

Michael Murphy, director of information systems support services at Minneapolis-based Carlson Hotels Worldwide, parent company to more than 300 hotels in North America, would like to use stronger ...
ZDNet

VIA secures mesh networking with on-chip encryption

A hardware-based cryptographic technology developed by VIA Technologies could allow distributed wireless networks to transmit encrypted data much faster than before. The VIA PadLock ACE (Advanced ...
Network World

Wireless voice calls gain encryption

Fixed-mobile convergence (FMC) start-up Agito Networks Monday plans to announce voice-over-Wi-Fi encryption and other features for its RoamAnywhere Mobility Router. The RoamAnywhere router is customer ...
Network World

WPA encryption not so safe for wireless networks, research says

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 ...
Security

Gulf Area Banks Beef up Security with Wireless Encryption System

ERF Wireless said that its specialized data encryption solution is being deployed along with Motorola's wireless broadband technology by banks in Gulf Coast states to upgrade bank branch financial ...