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Essential Wi-Fi security tips everyone must know
A recent survey on Wi-Fi conducted by Wakefield Research, on behalf of the Wi-Fi Alliance, found that while almost all users consider their data to be secure, average scores were lower when it came
Wi-Fi hacker gets 18 years, highlights danger of unsecured networks
A man who hacked into his neighbor's Wi-Fi router and launched a vindictive campaign of terror has been sentenced to 18 years in prison for his crimes. The two-year episode was perpetuated by Barry
Security: Existing tools are good enough
Some reports have come in this week that the Indian Department of Telecom (DoT) is moving to compel companies to make data on their networks available to the government in unencrypted form . Whether
WiFi key-cracking kits being sold in China
Hacking toolkits for cracking WiFi networks are being sold in China to ordinary users, according to various reports. Costing just US$24 at a Beijing bazaar, the kit comes with an off-the-shelf
Kingston admits to insecure USB drives
Memory maker Kingston Technologies has admitted that the BlackBox (DTBB), Secure (DTSP) and Elite (DTEP) variants of its DataTraveler family of USB flash drives have security problems that allow
Cloud service to hack your WPA network in 20 minutes
Security researcher Moxie Marlinspike has come out with a cloud-based service to audit the security of a WPA network in just 20 minutes. The 400-node system works by performing a dictionary attack
Automated oil rigs vulnerable to hacking
Foreign Policy magazine ran an article last week on the vulnerability of offshore oil rigs to hacking via computer networks. At the crux of the issue is how oil rigs are increasingly automated and
Security researchers crack TKIP layer of WPA
Security researchers Erik Tews and Martin Beck have found a way to break the Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP) key that is used by the Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) encryption standard. The
