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 ...

With Wireless LANs becoming mainstream, organizations want to tightly integrate Wireless LANs with wired LANs. Network managers are reluctant or unwilling to deploy Wireless LANs unless those LANs ...

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 ...

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 ...

If you are a Cisco wired network shop and also use Cisco’s thin-AP, controller-based wireless LANs, you can now apply wired Cisco security functions to your Wi-Fi traffic. Cisco last week said that ...

Wireless test vendor VeriWave has released a “master test plan” to guide enterprises in testing wireless LAN gear for performance, behaviors and characteristics. The 190-page free downloadable ...

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 ...

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 ...

For the past few weeks, I’ve been locked in various dark rooms (OK, it’s not as bad as that) performing benchmark tests on a number of wireless LAN systems. Some of the products tested were ...