WPA Keeps Law Enforcement Away

Recently a Minnesota man was charged with aggravated identity theft and threatening the vice president after allegedly tapping into a neighbor’s wireless network and sending threatening email messages to US Vice President Joe Biden.   With a long history of having disputes...

New Attacks on Wireless Encryption

Two graduate students in Germany have successfully demonstrated an attack against the WPA wireless encryption protocol. WPA was developed as a stop-gap measure when it was discovered that WEP, the original wireless encryption protocol, was deeply flawed and offered virtually no...