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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 ...

Google recently announced an approach to provide Wi-Fi Access Point owners an option to opt-out from the Google Location server, thereby addressing specific privacy concerns of certain Access Point owners, and of the users in the coverage area of specific Access Point(s). Location based services ( ...

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 ...

Some years ago, I attended an Information Security Event in Paris, hosted by a very well-known Research Institute. On day one, I received an enquiry to ascertain if I was interested in WiFi Security, and if so, the hosting representative went to say they had a number of slots available the following ...

In a recently released report titled “Wi-Fi Positioning Systems: Beware of Unintended Consequences”  – by Ontario's Information and Privacy Commissioner, Dr. Ann Cavoukian, and Kim Cameron, a leading digital identity expert – indicates that availability of mobile device ...

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 ...

If someone is assuming that hacking/breaking into a WiFi router for piggybacking on the router’s internet connection is illegal, then he/she needs to double check the same with the applicable CyberLaw. This was highlighted in view of a recent WiFi hacking incident where a student broke into a ...

  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) ...

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 ...

 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, ...

  The Deadline to comply with PCI DSS requirements, set for Level 1 Merchants by VISA, recently passed on Sept. 30, 2010. However, what we do not yet know is how many of these merchants have successfully met the compliance requirements.   Knowing the ‘path to c ...

  The growing WiFi capability in the variety of consumer devices is readily evident nowadays. These devices include cameras, camcorders, printers, scanners, smartphones, televisions, music/video players, e-book readers and many more. Having been equipped with WiFi capability, these devices are ...

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 ...

Six months after McDonalds started offering free WiFi, Starbucks also announced it would provide complimentary WiFi service, starting July 1, 2010. As mentioned by Starbucks, the free WiFi will be unlimited and requires just one click, without the need of a username/password to go onl ...

As reported recently, Russian spies in US used private WiFi networks as a means for secret communications. These networks were found to be operating in the ad hoc mode (also knows as peer-to-peer mode) in which two or more WiFi clients can directly communicate with each other over WiFi links without ...

An after look into the cause of WiFi malfunction experienced by Steve Jobs during the recently conducted iPhone 4 launch at Apple's flagship Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) has revealed that around 500 mobile hotspot networks were operational at the time of conference. Most of these ...

The ongoing storm over Google's collection of private WiFi data doesn't seems to be ending anytime soon. It all started when German authorities asked Google to audit the WiFi data collected by Google's Street View cars and Google responded to this by re-examining the collected data. The re-examinati ...