Wireless LANs were once seen as the easy alternative to the wired LAN. After all, they weren't used for primary network access and they didn't have to be eternally stable or particularly far-reaching.

Wireless networking is a convenient but highly insecure technology. In its default configuration, a wireless router is completely open and allows anyone to connect to the network. In addition, some ...

This excerpt is from Chapter 10 Wireless LANs from the book Hacking for Dummies written by Kevin Beaver and published by Wiley Publishing. You can download the entire ...

In the modern office environment, each worker is equipped with a personal computer with its own processor and multiple disk drives. The computer may be free-standing (very much the exception these ...

Well, a network is a group of computer systems connected to share resources and communicate. It is also a collection of devices and computers linked together via transmission media and communication ...

For seasoned road warriors who spend time at airports, hotels or conference centers, the chance to easily obtain secure, high-speed data access for laptops or PDAs is a real business plus. Enterprise ...

Wireless LANs are finally venturing out of their vertical market niches and into mainstream business environments. But they pose some special deployment challenges when compared with their wired ...

A large-scale scan by Motorola’s AirDefense group has found that wireless LAN vulnerabilities in retailer networks though much improved over last year, are still all too common, despite repeated, ...

Colubris Networks, a manufacturer of secure WLAN routers, has added IPSec and L2TP support to its CN1050 range of secure Wireless LAN Routers in an attempt to address security concerns relating to the ...

Wi-Fi signals are everywhere, did you ever want to know where they are coming from? NetStumbler, short for Network Stumbler, will let you easily detect Wireless LAN networks around you, using the ...

Jim lives on an island off the coast of Florida where virtually nobody is interested in information technology. To compensate for that, Jim frequently goes on the road to meet with vendors and ...