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Cybersecurity researchers have identified two authentication bypass flaws in open-source Wi-Fi software found in Android, Linux, and ChromeOS devices that could trick users into joining a...
Microsoft has released the Windows 11 KB5034123 cumulative update for versions 23H2 and 22H2 to fix a variety of issues, including a potential Wi-Fi bug that was fixed in a KIR last month. [...]
Wi-Fi 7 is three times faster than Wi-Fi 6 because it supports 4K QAM and channel widths up to 320 MHz versus 160 MHz for Wi-Fi 5 and Wi-Fi 6. Wi-Fi 7 will enable consumer, enterprise, Industry 4.0, medical, smart city and other applications that are impractical or impossible with other wired and wireless technologies, providing twice the bandwidth of Wi-Fi 6 and providing features such as deterministic network support.
Microsoft has fixed a known issue causing Wi-Fi network connectivity problems on Windows 11 systems triggered by recently released cumulative updates. Microsoft resolved this widespread known issue through Known Issue Rollback, a Windows feature that helps reverse flawed non-security updates delivered via Windows Update.
Microsoft has confirmed that some Windows 11 devices experience Wi-Fi connectivity issues after installing recent cumulative updates. "Microsoft has received reports of an issue in which some Wi-Fi adapters might not connect to some networks after installing KB5032288," Redmond said in a new update to the Windows release health hub.
The KB5033375 cumulative update released during the December 2023 Patch Tuesday causes Wi-Fi connectivity issues on some Windows 11 devices. As a temporary solution, users affected by this issue are advised to uninstall the KB5033375 Windows 11 December cumulative update and the related KB50532288 optional preview update.
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Three years after Apple introduced a menu setting called Private Wi-Fi Address, a way to spoof network identifiers called MAC addresses, the privacy protection may finally work as advertised, thanks to a software fix. "To communicate with a Wi-Fi network, a device must identify itself to the network using a unique network address called a Media Access Control address," Apple explains in its documentation.
The popular D-Link DAP-X1860 WiFi 6 range extender is susceptible to a vulnerability allowing DoS attacks and remote command injection. An attacker within the extender's range can set up a WiFi network and deceptively name it similar to something the target is familiar with but include a tick in the name, like 'Olaf's Network,' for example.
Fun technique – but how practical is it? Some smart cookies at institutions in China and Singapore have devised a technique for reading keystrokes and pilfering passwords or passcodes from...