Cisco Systems Inc. has developed a new wireless LAN security protocol designed to defeat brute force dictionary attacks that capture a user’s passwords, and it submitted a draft of the protocol to the ...

Cisco announced the availability of a protocol that’s designed to defeat brute-force dictionary attacks that capture users’ passwords in its wireless LAN products. The company urged end users and ...

D-Link, which has been primarily focused on the SMB market, sees an opportunity to move into the enterprise segment by embracing the LWAPP draft, which is now being considered by a working group of ...

eSpeaks host Corey Noles sits down with Qualcomm's Craig Tellalian to explore a workplace computing transformation: the rise of AI-ready PCs. Matt Hillary, VP of Security and CISO at Drata, details ...

Joshua Wright, the systems engineer who created a tool that targets wireless LANs protected by Cisco Systems Inc.’s Lightweight Extensible Authentication Protocol (LEAP), said he did so to demonstrate ...

One day after it disclosed a security vulnerability in a wireless networking product, Cisco Systems must contend with a new threat – the long-promised release of a hacking tool that targets wireless ...

META Trend: The campus/LAN will become increasingly application aware (2003/04), as products incorporate expanded services such as quality of service, security, and user-based policy. By YE02, 75% of ...

Wireless local area network products from Cisco Systems are under fire again after the release of a software tool exploiting an old vulnerability, but the company says it has a new protocol that fixes ...

Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP): An encryption technique built into 802.11 wireless LANs using 40-bit keys. 802.1X: An authentication standard for LANs and WLANs, used ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. The enthusiasm for 802.11b wireless networking has been ...

Apple’s iOS 8 addresses a serious weakness that could allow attackers to hijack the wireless network authentication of Apple devices and gain access to enterprise networks. “An attacker could have ...