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…
Read Moreby Jeremy Hellstrom | Jan 31, 2020 | General Tech | 0
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…
Read Moreby Tim Verry | Jan 13, 2018 | General Tech | 7
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...
Read Moreby Jeremy Hellstrom | Dec 28, 2017 | General Tech | 4
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...
Read Moreby Jeremy Hellstrom | Nov 22, 2017 | General Tech | 0
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…
Read Moreby Jeremy Hellstrom | Oct 16, 2017 | General Tech | 1
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,...
Read Moreby Jim Tanous | May 1, 2017 | Networking | 12
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,...
Read Moreby Jeremy Hellstrom | Mar 6, 2017 | General Tech | 6
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...
Read Moreby Jim Tanous | Feb 17, 2017 | Networking | 24
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...
Read Moreby Tim Verry | Jan 6, 2017 | General Tech | 0
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…
Read Moreby Scott Michaud | Jan 5, 2017 | Networking | 9
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...
Read Moreby Jeremy Hellstrom | Nov 10, 2016 | General Tech | 12
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...
Read Moreby Tim Verry | Oct 9, 2016 | Networking | 19
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…
Read Moreby Jeremy Hellstrom | Sep 23, 2016 | General Tech | 7
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…
Read Moreby Jeremy Hellstrom | Aug 25, 2016 | General Tech | 0
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...
Read Moreby Allyn Malventano | Jun 21, 2016 | Storage | 10
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...
Read Moreby Jeremy Hellstrom | Jan 29, 2016 | General Tech | 11
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...
Read Moreby Jeremy Hellstrom | Jan 25, 2016 | General Tech | 2
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…
Read Moreby Allyn Malventano | Jan 5, 2016 | Shows and Expos, Storage | 2
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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