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Skyworks’ advanced connectivity solutions powering Wi-Fi 6 devices
2019-10-14 02:00

Skyworks Solutions, an innovator of high performance analog semiconductors connecting people, places and things, announced that its advanced connectivity solutions are powering next generation...

Wi-Fi Hotspot Tracking
2019-10-10 10:49

Free Wi-Fi hotspots can track your location, even if you don't connect to them. This is because your phone or computer broadcasts a unique MAC address. What distinguishes location-based marketing...

Wi-Fi signals let researchers ID people through walls from their gait
2019-10-07 10:36

Police could set up transceivers outside a building and compare spectrograms of suspects walking vs. crime scene footage.

Magecart Group Targets Routers Behind Public Wi-Fi Networks
2019-09-25 21:37

Magecart Group 5 has been spotted testing and preparing code to be injected onto commercial routers - potentially opening up guests connecting to Wi-Fi networks to payment data theft.

Some D-Link and Comba WiFi Routers Leak Their Passwords in Plaintext
2019-09-10 16:48

What could be worse than your router leaking its administrative login credentials in plaintext? Cybersecurity researchers from Trustwave's SpiderLabs have discovered multiple security...

AirTies enhances its cloud management platform with new “Wi-Fi Experience Index” ratings scale
2019-09-06 00:00

AirTies, the most widely deployed supplier of managed in-home Wi-Fi solutions to service providers globally, unveiled its enhanced cloud management platform with a powerful new “Wi-Fi Experience...

Hack-age delivery! Wardialing, wardriving... Now warshipping: Wi-Fi-spying gizmos may lurk in future parcels
2019-08-07 18:36

Maybe, maybe not. These hack-in-a-box widgets are something to think about at least, says Big Blue Black Hat IBM's X-Force hacking team have come up with an interesting variation on wardriving –...

Latest Android patches fix critical ‘QualPwn’ Wi-Fi flaws
2019-08-07 10:51

The August 2019 security bulletin is out - and two of the critical flaws could allow an attacker to compromise the Android system kernel.

There's fraud, and then there's backdoor Wi-Fi routers, malware, and bribing AT&T staff seven figures to unlock 2 million phones
2019-08-06 18:28

Pakistani bloke extradited to US, accused of masterminding telco hack caper AT&T staff were bribed $1m to slip the necessary codes to unlock two million smartphones to a gang operating out of...

Recovering Wi-Fi Password via Dragonblood Attack Costs $1 of Computing Power
2019-08-06 08:25

Some of the mitigations recommended by the Wi-Fi Alliance in response to Dragonblood, a set of WPA3 vulnerabilities that can be exploited to obtain a Wi-Fi network’s password, are not efficient in...