Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If you think securing your Wi-Fi network with a strong password is enough to keep hackers away, well, think again. A researcher ...

Just when I thought that WiFi (802.11b/g) networks were getting safer, I get an email from a friend indicating that Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) has been cracked. InformIt.com has posted the details: ...

Wi-Fi, the wireless data transfer technology practically all of us use on a daily basis, is in trouble. The WPA2 security protocol, a widespread standard for Wi-Fi security that's used on nearly every ...

Security researcher Thomas Roth told Reuters that he will show off his findings at the Black Hat conference in Washington, D.C., next week. Roth claims that he used Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2 ...

For years, security managers have been frustrated by the continued use of outdated Wi-Fi encryption standards that have been proved to be insecure. Now it appears that standards groups are going to do ...

The same standard that allows wireless devices to remain connected and roam between access points also allows attackers to easily collect critical Wi-Fi keys that can later be hashed to find Wi-Fi ...

The Ethical Hacker Network offers several software tools that discover private wifi networks and even crack wireless passwords. While this is a good way to learn how to break into private networks ...

I'm confused. I use a 9 alphanumeric+symol variable-sized word passphrase with modifications from standard words, of course. I was under the impression that, excluding physical access, it was ...

A researcher has managed to crack 70% of a 5,000 WiFi network sample in his hometown, Tel Aviv, to prove that home networks are severely unsecured and easy to hijack. CyberArk security researcher Ido ...