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A rogue access point at RSA Conference? Here’s what happened
Ever since businesses began to offer Wi-Fi access to customers, experts have warned that open hotspots are not secure. Open Wi-Fi hotspots don’t ask a user for a …
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1 in 3 home routers will be used as public Wi-Fi hotspots by 2017
Juniper Research predicts that at least 1 in 3 home routers will be used as public Wi-Fi hotspots by 2017, and that the total installed base of such dual-use routers will …
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Cisco kills hardcoded password bug in Wi-Fi access points
Along with fixes for a number of older vulnerabilities in Cisco IOS and IOS XE software, the Cisco IOS Software Common Industrial Protocol, and the OpenSSL package …
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Wi-Fi and security are better together for SMBs
Wireless adoption is growing fast globally, with Wi-Fi access becoming ubiquitous in businesses, stores, corporate environments and public spaces; literally everywhere we go. …
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Wi-Fi HaLow to extend Wi-Fi solutions for the Internet of Things
With industry momentum mounting around a low power Wi-Fi solution, Wi-Fi Alliance announced the Wi-Fi HaLow designation for products incorporating IEEE 802.11ah technology. …
3G/4G cellular USB modems are full of critical security flaws, many 0-days
An analysis of popular 3G and 4G cellural USB modems and routers used around the world revealed a myriad of serious vulnerabilities in each of them.The SCADA Strange Love team …
Belkin’s N150 router sports multiple flaws, including default access credentials for telnet server
Belkin’s SOHO routers are not exactly a paragon of a secure device, so it shouldn’t come as a surprise that, once again, a security researcher has unearthed a …
Network protocol analyzer Wireshark 2.0 released
Wireshark, the most popular network protocol analyzer, has reached version 2.0. It features a completely new user interface which should provide a smoother, faster user …
WiFi jamming attacks more simple and cheaper than ever
A security researcher has demonstrated that jamming WiFi, Bluetooth, and Zigbee networks is not difficult to perform but, most importantly, also not as costly as one might …
Thousands of Zhone SOHO routers can be easily hijacked
Two days before he is scheduled to give a talk about discovering and exploiting 0-day vulnerabilities in SOHO routers’ firmware, security researcher Lyon Yang has …
Authentication bypass flaw in Netgear SOHO routers exploited in the wild
A critical security vulnerability affecting nine Netgear router models is being exploited in the wild. The flaw that the attackers took advantage of allowed them to access the …
Huawei 3G routers rife with flaws
South Korean security researcher Pierre Kim has revealed today that fifteen Huawei 3G routers have a slew of serious vulnerabilities – RCE, XSS, CSRF, DoS, …
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