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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 ...

Adding to the users convenience, Wi-Fi is increasingly becoming a default capability of many consumer devices, including smartphones, printers, cameras, TVs, etc. to wirelessly share contents, access Internet or connect to a particular network.   However, configuring the correct Wi-Fi settings ...

A recent survey conducted by Wakefield Research for the WiFi Alliance has revealed that 97% of surveyed WiFi users believe that the data on their devices and networks is “safe and secure”. However, when questioned further about various steps taken to secure their WiFi networks or devices ...

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 remained in focus with noticeable and widely discussed incidents and revelations happening all throughout the year. These events will surely provide strong testimony for advocating the importance of secure WiFi deployments/usage in coming years. The importance can be judged against the ...

Until now, the WPA security version known as ‘WPA2 (AES encryption) with 802.1x authentication’ was considered as one of most secure WiFi deployments by most wireless security experts. This is due to the resilience of this version to brute force dictionary attacks that can possibly ...

  WiFi, today, has become a near ubiquitous technology, used by most of us, with our WiFi enabled gadgets, while we are at offices, homes, public places or while traveling. However, awareness about WiFi security is still lacking and practice of configuring poorly secured or unsecured WiFi netw ...