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 ...

An emerging standard in wireless security finally is giving IT departments a way to fend off key-sniffing hackers and users who install their own unauthorized access points. In At last, real 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 ...

A tool exploiting another flaw in Cisco's wireless LAN products has been released, but the company said it has everything under control. Marguerite Reardon started as a CNET News reporter in 2004, ...

This short primer will provide a few guidelines to consider when choosing an Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) method, one element of the authentication component of your Wi-Fi security plan.

A new patent application titled Planar Waveguide Apparatus with Diffraction Element(s) and System Employing Same sounds like a scientific snoozefest, but just also might provide a playbook for the ...

Cisco last week submitted a protocol to the IETF that could serve as an alternative to the proprietary scheme that the company promotes for securing wireless LANs. Cisco last week submitted a protocol ...

One day after it disclosed a security vulnerability in a wireless networking product (see story), Cisco Systems Inc. must contend with a new threat — the long-promised release of a hacking tool that ...

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 ...

BANGALORE: Cisco Systems acknowledged security problems with its proprietary Lightweight Extensible Authentication Protocol (LEAP) and has released a new security protocol, that it said eliminates the ...

The problems with LEAP were highlighted by the release last week of a tool that attacks the protocol. The tool, dubbed asleap, was released by Joshua Wright, a security architect for Johnson and Wales ...