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How to Protect Your Wi-Fi Network from the WPA Hack

lifehacker.com — WEP Wi-Fi security has been known as an easy-to-crack security protocol for a while now, which is why it was superseded by the more secure Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) standard. But now a PhD candidate studying encryption has found an exploit in the WPA standard that would allow a hacker to "send bogus data to an unsuspecting WiFi client,"

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  • holyskeleton, on 11/08/2008, -0/+1WPA2 it is.
  • LANjackal, on 11/08/2008, -0/+1I've been secure since I set up my network. Bottom line: use the most secure protocol/encryption your devices ALL support. WPA2 + AES for me :)
  • sky912, on 11/08/2008, -0/+0or you can use WPA with CCMP

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