Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Tom Hager – “Mister Social Security” – offers expert advice from Ohio. This article is written to provide you with the reasoning ...

My wireless router supports up to 256bit WEP, but so far, because of my location I'm not too worried about getting randomly attached to(and my house seems to be a faraday cage anyway). So anyway, I'm ...

What is it and is it fair? There is much discussion as to whether the Social Security Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) is fair. The WEP provision was signed into law on April 21, 1983. This ...

WEP can easily be broken because of inherent flaws in the encryption. MAC filtering is only security through obscurity and easily circumvented.<BR><BR>If you do a scan of connected clients every now ...

MacFixIt reader Guy Kuo reports a limitation in Apple's AirPort devices that prevents proper access to Windows-based wireless networks using a WEP slot key other than "1." In essence, if the wireless ...

Q: An option in our access point interface calls for the configuration of four WEP keys. Why would you need four instead of one? Is it in order to share the encryption/decryption load across clients?

I heard about a new WEP cracking technique. Can you explain it? WEP has been generally recognized as broken since 2001 when Fluhrer, Mantin, and Shamir, commonly known as FMS, published their paper ...