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Wireless Security: WEP, WPA, WPA2 and WPA3 Explained

eSecurity Planet

Wireless security is the protection of wireless networks, devices and data from unwanted access and breaches. It involves a variety of strategies and practices designed to preserve the confidentiality, integrity and availability of wireless networks and their resources. What is Wireless Security?

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Tap ‘n Ghost Attack Creatively Targets Android Devices

Threatpost

Researchers use malicious NFC tags and booby-trapped physical surfaces to connect Android devices to malicious wireless networks.

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What Is VLAN Tagging? Definition & Best Practices

eSecurity Planet

A virtual local area network (VLAN) is a virtualized segment that’s created on a physical network to separate and group devices into more logical environments. This separation helps to control traffic, optimize network performance, and even improve security by isolating sensitive workloads and data.

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The Rise of “Bulletproof” Residential Networks

Krebs on Security

Cybercrooks increasingly are anonymizing their malicious traffic by routing it through residential broadband and wireless data connections. The WHOIS records for one of several networks associated with Residential Networking Solutions LLC.

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Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE): NAC Product Review

eSecurity Planet

Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) expands upon a basic Network Access Control (NAC) concept to include modules for network device control and integrated security options. With backing from the most dominant brand in network infrastructure, many larger organizations will need to seriously consider ISE as a NAC solution.

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This is the old ChiefTech blog.: Replace or redundant?

ChiefTech

Considering all my recent telecommunications problems, perhaps I should have thought about going completely wireless? Now here in Australia , Virgin Mobile are offering a completely wireless home phone and broadband package as fixed line replacement. Im not sure if the limit here is technology or network access cost by Virgin ?

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Teslas

ForAllSecure

And if that means a bad actor can create a wireless key for your new Tesla, that price is pretty steep. At CanSecWest 2022, researcher Martin Herfurt announced a new tool, TeslaKee.com , which he hopes prevents wireless key attacks from happening. As Kevin Mahaffey of lookout said, Tesla is just a big network server on wheels.