Computer scientists in Japan say they’ve developed a way to break the WPA encryption system used in wireless routers in about one minute. The attack gives hackers a way to read encrypted traffic sent between computers and certain types of routers that use the WPA (Wi-Fi Protected Access) encryption system. The attack was developed by [...]

In 1979, Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman authored a practical method of public key exchange, which was known almost immediately as Diffie-Hellman. After thirty years, Diffie Hellman is still used in all the best examples of encryption software due to its speed, accuracy and ability to ensure protection from “Man in the Middle attacks” when [...]

Hardware loss is perhaps the biggest threat to corporate security as the loss of a notebook computer or storage device could effectively give a hacker full access to not only files contained within the device, but also possibly full unabridged access to the corporate network. Today’s growing trend for home workers and road warriors is [...]