Until now, the assumption was that the risk of an intruder breaching a wireless network secured by the WPA2 system was adequately protected. Tsitroulis and colleagues have now shown this not to be the ...

Wireless routers have two sets of passwords: one that allows users to join it when it is using a wireless encryption method such as WPA-PSK, and another for accessing its administrative control panel.

Mathy Vanhoef, a researcher from the University of Leuven (KU Leuven), has discovered a severe flaw in the Wi-Fi Protected Access II (WPA2) protocol that secures all modern protected Wi-Fi networks.

WPA2 is the security protocol for Wi-Fi. It replaced WEP, which was hacked many years ago. While WEP is still supported by most wireless access points, WPA2 is now the recommended security measure.

Computers, cell phones, tablets and other devices exchange files, stream media and share Internet connections over Wi-Fi networks. Most networks utilize a security protocol to prevent unauthorized ...