Wireless routers have two sets of passwords: one that allows users to join it when it is using a wireless encryption method such as WPA-PSK, and another for accessing its administrative control panel.

I've got a netgear WGR624 with the latest firmware and I have WPA-PSK enabled and no timeout for the key. A friend of mine just bought a WGR614 and he's enabled WPA-PSK, though the router's setup asks ...

Although the implementation of wireless networks has increased exponentially, the focus on network and information security has not kept pace. Empirical evidence suggests that fewer than one-third of ...

Last week, you may have read the headline "WPA Cracked!" or something to that effect. Just to clear things up now, it is not the overall standard that has been "cracked" but the simpler implementation ...

A new technique has been discovered to easily retrieve the Pairwise Master Key Identifier (PMKID) from a router using WPA/WPA2 security, which can then be used to crack the wireless password of the ...

WPA can be a better option. Unfortunately, the easiest way to use it actually makes it easier to crack than WEP. WPA enhances security in several ways. The most obvious is in the encryption protocol.

You can only use the password option if you have a RADIUS type authentication mechanism. (yes, there are others that work with WPA, IIRC, but this is illustrative of ...