Default passwords and outdated routers put your data and home safety at risk. Here's how to secure your Wi-Fi network.

You only need to walk past a location with an active WiFi network and radio waves WiFi sends out will bounce off you and create an image ...

In a recent column, I suggested that a consumer worried about Internet banking over a home Wi-Fi network could use a wired Internet connection that would be safer. But several readers asked whether ...

The first wireless security network to mark its appearance was WEP or Wired Equivalent Privacy. It started off with 64-bit encryption (weak) and eventually went all ...

QUESTION: My Wi-Fi network was set up for me, and it's not password protected. It connects a Toshiba laptop, a Sony PlayStation 3, a Roku media player -- and, I suppose, anyone else in the area. I do ...

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 ...

Rob McMillan at IDG has the scoop on new research that shows it's possible to partially crack the WPA (Wi-Fi Protected Access) encryption standard. Full details of the theoretical attack is not yet ...

A couple of weeks ago, my home office ground to a standstill because my trusty Wi-Fi router of nearly six years decided to irrevocably quit on me. Not surprisingly, years of service and the internal ...