Since the ratification of the IEEE 802.11i amendment, organizations have been able to take advantage of improved security on wireless networks with WPA2-compliant hardware. However, the protection ...

IEEE 802.11 working group manages the standards for wireless local area networks (LANs). The earliest 802.11 standards are from the 1990s, when they group was working on the Wireless LAN Medium Access ...

IEEE's wireless security amendment adds stronger encryption, authentication, and key management strategies that go a long way toward guaranteeing data and system security. With the falling cost and ...

The most recent version of the IEEE’s wireless local-area network (WLAN) standard, 802.11ac, uses the 5-GHz unlicensed band and multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) to significantly boost data speeds ...

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Researchers at Belgium's KU Leuven discovered a fundamental design flaw in the IEEE 802.11 Wi-Fi standard that gives attackers a way to trick victims into connecting with a less secure wireless ...