Tim Higgins
Glenn Fleishman over at Wi-Fi Net News had a chat with Eric Tews, one of the researchers reported to have come up with a crack for WPA’s TKIP encryption. Glenn has posted a good summary of what he found has really been discovered.
The short story is that if you are using WPA/TKIP, you have little to fear from this exploit. You are more at risk from using a weak passphrase, whether you are running WPA/TKIP or WPA2/AES.
(Las Vegas, NV) UWB patent-meister Pulse~LINK announced that it be demonstrating its UWB-based CWave Whole-Home Interactive HD system at next week's Consumer Electronics show.
The system claims "true room-to-room networking of interactive HD multimedia content" using UWB technology. But it uses a home's coax cabling for the room-to-room part and goes wireless only within a room.
Ruckus Wireless has announced two new 802.11n access points.
AirMagnet today announced the latest version of its wireless security and performance troubleshooting solution. Laptop Analyzer 7.0 PRO's key features include a new user interface and ability to analyze sources of interference and troubleshoot devices that utilize the 4.9 GHz public safety band.
