Wi-Fi

Tomorrow's wireless world will be fatter, faster, and creepier

Feature Video didn't kill the radio star – it made it stronger than ever

Networks20 Jul 2021 | 36

Network managers think you're coming back to the office. Why else did they go on a Wi-Fi 6 buying spree?

Q1 WLAN sales rose by 16.7 per cent year-on-year

Networks10 Jun 2021 | 7

Boffins improve on tech that extracts DC power from ambient Wi-Fi

Series of 8 spin-torque oscillators improves efficiency, but parallel design better for wireless transmission

Science21 May 2021 | 52

Wi-Fi slinger Ubiquiti hints at source code leak after claim of ‘catastrophic’ cloud intrusion emerges

Says customer data wasn't touched, doesn't say much about being rooted

Security01 Apr 2021 | 25

Report: UK colleges face testing times with ageing kit, iffy connectivity, and some IT staff supporting 1k+ users

Cloud-first but no 'resilient internet connection'? Oh dear

Security26 Oct 2020 | 14

The WAN of opportunity: Funnily enough, home Wi-Fi sales see 'sudden spike' amid pandemic, not so much for biz

Analyst predicts five good years as homeworking and refresh cycles meld

Networks06 Oct 2020 | 2

Hey, want to make a few bucks? Let Google sell your store's Wi-Fi network capacity

Orion WiFi tries to make a market for under-utilized bandwidth

Networks09 Sep 2020 | 17

Wi-Fi 6 isn't signed off yet, but boffins are already teasing us with specs for venerable wireless tech's next gen

Wi-Fi 7 had us on 'Extremely High Throughput,' the latency improvements sound nice, too

Networks12 Aug 2020 | 36

Battle for 6GHz heats up in America: Broadcasters sue FCC to kill effort to open spectrum for private Wi-Fi

Big Tech pushes back, says band use Hertz no one

Networks28 Jul 2020 | 24

Philippines to install 23,000 free public Wi-Fi hotspots

To help plague time working and learning, even though schools are to remain closed until a vaccine is found

Networks20 Jul 2020 | 6

Caltech to Apple, Broadcom: You know that $1.1bn you owe for ripping off Wi-Fi patents? Double it, hotshots

US uni goes full honey badger on iPhone giant and its chip sidekick

Personal Tech04 May 2020 | 10

Work from home surge may work in Wi-Fi 6's favour, reckons analyst house

Research ponders whether lockdown may lead folk to update dusty networking kit for sitting room setups

Networks23 Apr 2020 | 55

Bored during lockdown? Why not try out these data-spilling KrØØk Wi-Fi bug exploits against your nearby devices

It's not like you can snoop on anyone right now anyway, right?

Security20 Mar 2020 | 6

Wi-Fi kit spilling data with bad crypto – Huawei, eh? No, it's Cisco. US giant patches Krook spy-hole bug in network gear

Roundup Meanwhile, Sophos finds nasty rootkit, OnlyFans says massive archive not a hack

Security02 Mar 2020 | 3

Wi-Fi of more than a billion PCs, phones, gadgets can be snooped on. But you're using HTTPS, SSH, VPNs... right?

Encryption keys forced to zero by chip-level KrØØk flaw

Security27 Feb 2020 | 50

Game over, LAN, game over! Windows software nasty Emotet spotted spreading via brute-forced Wi-Fi networks

And shares with guessable passwords

Security10 Feb 2020 | 16

Caltech takes billion-dollar bite out of Apple, Broadcom for using its patented Wi-Fi tech without paying a penny

Knock knock knock: Give us the money! Knock knock knock: Give us the money!

Networks30 Jan 2020 | 26

Rowhammer rides again as FPGA attack, RSA again reportedly up for sale, anti-theft kit to nuke laptops, etc

Roundup Including: Tesla and a town hit hard by spear-phish bridge scammers

Security06 Jan 2020 | 28

Reasons to be fearful 2020: Smishing, public Wi-Fi, deepfakes... and all the usual suspects

Too soon for New Year Resolutions?

Security06 Dec 2019 | 23

Malware hides as iOS jailbreak, Sucuri is insecuri, and China is about to get even worse

Roundup Plus, new allegations in Iran and American hacking war

Security21 Oct 2019 | 2

UK.gov opens £250k competition to tackle first-world problem of crap conference Wi-Fi

Forget Vegas or Barcelona. Be 'gigabit-capable' in Blighty

Bootnotes16 Aug 2019 | 15

Google pays out $13m to make Wi-Spy scandal go away: Bung goes to peeps and privacy orgs

Not a 'rogue engineer,' nor was the harvested wireless network data 'fragmented, despite Google denials'

Networks23 Jul 2019 | 38

Oh look. Vodafone has extended its ultrafast 5G network to deliver... Wi-Fi?

Hey, that's a real use case, you at the back, stop your sniggering

Networks17 Jul 2019 | 45

RTFM: Wireless Broadband Alliance squeezes out 40-page ode to the joy of Wi-Fi 6

Which means we're nearly there

Networks11 Jul 2019 | 23

Giga-hurts radio: Terrorists build Wi-Fi bombs to dodge cops' cellphone jammers

Explosives activated by wireless networking signals discovered amid election

Security17 May 2019 | 157

Bug-hunters punch huge holes in WPA3 standard for Wi-Fi security

Passwords, personal information can be sussed out by attackers during handshakes

Security11 Apr 2019 | 24

International investors gobble up Brit satellite specialist Inmarsat

Nom-nom-nom, says hungry private equity type Triton Bidco

On-Prem25 Mar 2019 | 11

A few short packets: Cisco still Switchzilla, a neat Wi-Fi hack and more

Networks roundup Also: AT&T inks open source pact with Nokia, ZTE 5G pass, Equinix expands

Networks14 Jan 2019 | 1

Mobile networks are killing Wi-Fi for speed around the world

And that means smartphones will need to get smarter

Networks23 Nov 2018 | 108

Germany pushes router security rules, OpenWRT and CCC push back

Hacker coalition wants device support timeline clarified, free firmware mandates

Security20 Nov 2018 | 70

HPE Aruba's 510 line of campus hotspots do 802.11ax. Which in plain English is Wi-Fi 6, duh

Of course they've crammed some AI in there too

Networks15 Nov 2018 | 7

Mobile ops and Wi-Fi set to scrap for spectrum in the glorious 5G future

To the death? Not necessarily, but the gloves are off

Networks06 Nov 2018 | 13

Spectrum-starved Wi-Fi vendors look at DSRC band, sharpen knives

FCC reckons 5.9 GHz coexistence can Pai

Networks31 Oct 2018 | 8

Man the harpoons: The KRACK-en reawakens in updated WPA2 attack

Belgium, home of fine chocolate, fries-with-mayo, and Wi-Fi key reinstallation attacks

Security05 Oct 2018 | 12

Wi-Fi Alliance ditches 802.11 spec codes for consumer-friendly naming scheme

Meet Wi-Fi 6, the protocol previously known as 802.11ax

Networks04 Oct 2018 | 53

Put your tin-foil hats on! Wi-Fi can be used to guesstimate number of people hidden in a room

Video No doubt this'll be used to sell data to advertisers

Science19 Sep 2018 | 55

Security bods: Android system broadcasts enable user tracking

Bypassing permission protection on network info

Security31 Aug 2018 | 42

Encryption doesn't stop him or her or you... from working out what Thing 1 is up to

Why we hardly have to sniff the packet to know you play tennis with an IoT racket

Security10 Aug 2018 | 28

If for some reason you're still using TKIP crypto on your Wi-Fi, ditch it – Linux, Android world bug collides with it

Patch wpa_supplicant and/or kill off key protocol, thanks

Security09 Aug 2018 | 11

Cracking the passwords of some WPA2 Wi-Fi networks just got easier

Technique exploits weakness in design of roaming-enabled IEEE 802.11i/p/q/r wireless

Security06 Aug 2018 | 32

Cancelled in Crawley? At least your train has free Wi-Fi now, right?

Why your connection is as slow as the service itself

Networks09 Jul 2018 | 113

Australia defies trend for network sales slide, shovels cash at Cisco

Good old-fashioned hardware-defined networking growing like topsy Down Under

Networks09 Jul 2018 | 3

WPA3 is the magic number? Protocol refresh promises tighter Wi-Fi security

Routers shipping with standard soon so don't get WEP behind

Security26 Jun 2018 | 28

In World Cup Russia, our Wi-Fi networks will log on to you!

Researchers warn of shady hotspots in host cities

Security06 Jun 2018 | 23

ISP TalkTalk's Wi-Fi passwords Walk Walk thanks to Awks Awks router security hole

Brit broadband biz has only had four years to patch up WPS

Security22 May 2018 | 30

OpenWrt forums lost as hardware failure again crocks open Wi-Fi router

Sole admin on holiday as devs cross fingers and hope there's a backup

Networks15 May 2018 | 19

Apple grounds AirPort once and for all. It has departed. Not gonna fly any more. The baggage is dropped off...

Terminal. It's outta runway. We're winging it with these puns

Personal Tech27 Apr 2018 | 58

How's your Wednesday? Things going well? OK, your iPhone, iPad can be pwned via Wi-Fi sync

RSA 2018 Don't panic… until you finish reading

Security18 Apr 2018 | 13

What most people think it looks like when you change router's admin password, apparently

Whopping 82% have never changed theirs – survey

Networks12 Apr 2018 | 73

Google wants to gobble up Nokia's airborne broadband biz – reports

Potential deal said to be at an 'advanced stage'

Networks11 Apr 2018 | 8

What a mesh: BT Whole Home Wi-Fi users moan over update

Longed-for firmware update borks some home networks. Be careful what you wish for

Networks26 Mar 2018 | 58

Wi-Fi Alliance allegedly axed army reservist for being called up. Now the Empire strikes back

Trade body gets sued by Uncle Sam, insists no wrongdoing

Networks02 Mar 2018 | 31

Facebook recruits Nokia to trial and standardise Terragraph wireless tech

Fibre to the pole, then Facebook's well-behaved wireless brings signal to the great unwired

Networks26 Feb 2018 | 4

802.11ax Wi-Fi standard isn't ready, Qualcomm bakes chips anyway

Future Access points will tell clients when to sleep, then make a wake up call

Networks23 Feb 2018 | 5

Swipe fright: Tinder hackers may know how desperate you really are

Eavesdroppers could be able to peek in on mobile flirts

Security23 Jan 2018 | 9

Google fuels up Chromecast Wi-Fi flooding fix

It lands today

Security18 Jan 2018 | 11