Public Wi-Fi Is … Safe?
Many years ago Eric Butler released a program called Firesheep which showed just how amazingly insecure HTTP over public WiFi was, not to mention exposing the bad habits of web surfers in…
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Tag: WiFi
Wi-Fi Alliance Bringing Improved WPA3 Security To Wi-Fi Devices This Year
The Wi-Fi Alliance has announced an update to its Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) security suite in the form of WPA3. The first major update in more than a decade, WPA3...
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It’s not easy rounding up wireless devices
As Sebastian discovered when he delved into the world of MU-MIMO routers, benchmarking the performance of wireless devices is not as easy as it sounds. TweakTown recently put together a...
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Protection against Pineapple penetration is important
Today Slashdot linked to an article about the popular Wi-Fi Pineapple as well as how to defend yourself against what it does. Depending on what you are using it for, the Wi-Fi…
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Don’t let todays WiFi security Krack drive you into a panic
If you are running Windows 7 or a more recent version and applied the patches from last Tuesday then you are essentially immune to KRACK attack, however older Android OS,...
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Mesh Wi-Fi Performance Benchmarks: eero vs. Google Wifi vs. Amplifi HD
Back in February we took a quick initial look at the eero Home Wi-Fi System, one of several new entrants in the burgeoning Mesh Networking industry. Like its competitors,...
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Why the world of WiFi is as murky as the HiFi market
Our own Sebastian Peak has delved into the nightmare world of testing WiFi, specifically MU-MIMO and explained some of the difficulties you encounter when testing wireless networks. It is now...
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The eero Home WiFi System: Get Meshed
Mesh networking is the current hot topic when it comes to Wi-Fi. Breaking from the trend of increasingly powerful standalone Wi-Fi routers that has dominated the home...
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CES 2017: D-Link Launches New Wi-Fi Routers and Extenders
D-Link recently announced two new Covr branded wireless products that promise to blanket homes in Wi-Fi and eliminate dead spots. The Covr Wi-Fi System is a D-Link DIR-883 router and DAP-1655 extender kit…
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CES 2017: ASUS Announces HiveSpot and HiveDot Mesh WiFi
ASUS has just announced the HiveSpot and HiveDot Mesh WiFi systems, which both combine multiple access points into a single network. Any individual node could be configured as either a...
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Intel will be absorbing USB and WiFi duties into the chipset
Rumours have reached the sensitive ears of DigiTimes about the inclusion of USB 3.1 and WiFi chips on Intel's upcoming 300-series chipsets. This move continues the pattern of absorbing secondary...
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Google WiFi Bringing Wireless Mesh Networking to the Home
Building on the company’s OnHub WiFi router program, the search giant will be offering up its own mesh WiFi network solution for home users later this year aptly named “Google WiFi.” Available…
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Can’t WiFi and LTE-U just get along?
LTE-U, aka LTE in unlicensed spectrum, is a new standard originally proposed by Qualcomm which allows LTE signals to stray into the 5GHz band to allow faster data transfer over short throws…
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Faster WiFi is great but … MegaMIMO 2.0; really?
Multi-In Multi-Out routers are a wonderful thing, not only are the routers far more tentacular than before, the technology also make our unwired lives better as Sebastian explained. The...
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Western Digital My Passport Wireless Pro 2TB Review – More Power
Introduction Western Digital launched their My Passport Wireless nearly two years ago. It was a nifty device that could back up or offload SD cards without the need...
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Sharing is good … until it starts eating your bandwidth
ISPs have stumbled onto a new money making venture, renting out your wireless internet connection to third parties so that those companies can provide public WiFi to their customers. Sources...
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Make yourself a WiFi camera remote
Hack a Day has posted a perfect example of how inexpensive and easy it is to build yourself useful things instead of shopping for expensive electronics. If you have looked at the…
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CES 2016: Fasetto Teases Link SSD Storage Platform
Fasetto is a company previously known as one of those cross-platform file-sharing web apps, but I was shocked to see them with a space at CES Unveiled. Companies without physical products…
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