RSA Security picked up data from over a hundred wireless LANs just by walking around some streets in the City with a simple scanner. This is when the signal from wireless LANs carries on outside the building, allowing anyone nearby to get access to...
Voice is the application most likely to drive the popularity of wireless LANs in the enterprise and beyond, according to new research. Over half of the providers said the greatest barriers to market growth are the unproven business model and the...
IEEE 802.11 systems have a range of at least 100 metres from a transmitter. Wireless LAN, whether based on the IEEE 802.11 or the Bluetooth standard, is a security nightmare. The industry and its customers are waiting on the standards community and...
Only a third of European companies using wireless LANs (WLANs) have issued security policies and many more are seemingly blasé about various aspects of making sure corporate networks aren't compromised.
In a statement, Cisco said it is aware of the dictionary attack method that exploits known vulnerabilities to password-based security schemes for WLANs. In February, Cisco submitted documentation to the Institute of Electrical and Electronics...
Bluetooth has been slow to take off because most IT managers have never even heard of it - and the few that have are worried about the security implications. So businesses which already use wireless LANs on the 802.11 standard can't see why they...