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  Recently HTC acknowledged a vulnerability that can expose a user’s WiFi credentials, including the WiFi SSID and security passwords to a malicious app running on some of its Android phones. The vulnerability was discovered by the security architects Chris Hessing and Bret Jordan, and i ...

After mentioning briefly about the recently discovered Wi-Fi Protected Setup (WPS) vulnerability due to certain design flaws in various routers of major Wi-Fi Vendors, the present blog tries to capture the potential implications of the WPS vulnerability. Unauthorized Access to Wi-Fi network: With t ...

Public WiFi hotspots have shown tremendous growth in recent years. Much of this can be attributed to growing number of people carrying smart mobile devices (such as smartphones and tablets) and using bandwidth-consuming internet applications (such as gaming, social networking sites and audio/video s ...

  WiFi security continues to hog the limelight with the series of related revelations and incidents happening periodically. And the latest in this series are the results of a online survey conducted by the UK's Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) published recently, which revealed th ...

  Increased use of public WiFi access at hotspots, retail stores, hotels and other similar establishments has recently motivated New York Democrat, Sen. Charles Schumer, to call on major US website operators – including Amazon and Twitter – to switch to secure protocol (HTTPS) ...

 Firesheep is a recently released Firefox add-on/extension, developed by software freelancer Eric Butler. The intention behind the add-on was to expose the gravity of commonly found security vulnerability in many websites, particularly popular social networking sites, such as Facebook, Amazon, ...