Last week, you may have read the headline "WPA Cracked!" or something to that effect. Just to clear things up now, it is not the overall standard that has been "cracked" but the simpler implementation ...

Wireless routers have two sets of passwords: one that allows users to join it when it is using a wireless encryption method such as WPA-PSK, and another for accessing its administrative control panel.

Although the implementation of wireless networks has increased exponentially, the focus on network and information security has not kept pace. Empirical evidence suggests that fewer than one-third of ...