Cisco and Xircom have teamed up to offer mobile wireless LAN (WLAN) network adapters. The relationship between the two vendors will initially bear fruit in the shape of Xircom's Springboard WLAN module - incorporating Cisco's Aironet technology...
It often includes the parking lot and public roads - leading to the phrase 'drive by hacking' to refer to WLAN interception. WLAN systems come with encryption disabled to ease their installation. The limited geographic range of a WLAN system does...
We believe [Cisco's] somewhat unusual move will help stimulate the corporate WLAN [wireless local area network] market, which has been slow to adopt the technology due to lack of standards and security issues," Armacost said in a report Monday.
For home users, lock down which MAC addresses - used to identify each piece of hardware on a network - are allowed access to your WLAN. He said users may feel they have a secure connection at a coffee shop, only to find someone can get into their...
Apparently, many hassles with WLAN security come from carefree users who do not turn security on, or who use the default configuration. Wi-Fi is not, of course, limited to the enterprise WLAN. Fortunately, many enterprises appear to be holding back...
The new filter uses three main techniques for identifying phishing sites: it compares addresses of websites a consumer attempts to visit with a list of reported legitimate sites that is stored on the consumer's computer and updated periodically...