Holy Moses! Wireless Data in the Great White North! Futurelooks checks it out...
"It is about time that people in Canada have access to a viable high-speed, wireless data solution. We have needed something now for a long time. Wireless data is not only for IT professionals, and Knowledge workers. It is for everyone. Let us have a look at what is available..."
It seems that every generation of new wireless technology is smaller than the last. At IBM's Almaden Research Center, IBM Fellow Don Eigler and his research group are reaching whole new frontiers of miniaturization, building molecule-sized logic gates, one atom at a time. Ira Kalb talked to Don to learn what today's developers can do to prepare for the future of wireless.
Source: Security Focus
A wireless network is like hundreds of network cables floating in search of a rogue computer.
A good attacker can get into most networks by taking advantage of a wireless connection and its Wired Equivalent Privacy security.
Source: Security Focus
Organizations ignore the security risks of wireless networking at their peril.
I recently strolled past federal buildings along Connecticut Avenue in Washington, carrying a beta-test model of a tablet PC equipped with an integrated IEEE 802.11b wireless PC Card.
Source: The Inquirer
Tests carried out by the Nikkei Network suggest the effective speeds obtainable using wireless Lans is less than half what it says on the box.
The Network measured the average speeds of FTPing data over a distance of two meters for a minute. It compared the results managed over connections compared to a wired Ethernet connection and found the wireless products sorely short of their stated speed ratings.
Source: Security Focus
The Wi-Fi Alliance aims to make it easier to build robust security into wireless LANS with the announcement yesterday of a successor to the flawed WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy) protocol.
Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) uses a higher level of encryption and brings in dynamic key exchange functions absent with WEP. WPA is designed to work with existing products and is expected to first appear in Wi-Fi certified products during the first quarter of next year.
