Items tagged with wi fi
Microsoft has discovered a Russian malware campaign called CaptiveCrunch, which is designed to compromise users of public Wi-Fi with falsified prompts at the captive sign-in screen. This includes phishing pages that steal logins or even falsified Windows or Android system update/download...
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The CERT Coordination Center warns that Wi-Fi routers built by Tenda may have a hidden, authentication backdoor in firmware. Researchers from CERT, the Computer Emergency Response Team for the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie...
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Have you ever been using a machine with an Intel wireless adapter and had a Bluetooth device simply disappear on you? It's been an issue for a while, particularly when you're using 2.4G Wi-Fi at the same time as Bluetooth. Microsoft issued...
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AirSnitch is a newly-revealed attack on Wi-Fi networks that work across all major router brands and firmwares, including DD-WRT and OpenWrt. In an alarming turn for cybersecurity, researchers revealed a form of Wi-Fi attack that can...
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With the help of Stable Diffusion 3, researchers at the University of Tokyo have discovered a way to use AI and Wi-Fi signal information to map a real-time image of a room and the people or objects within it. This implementation, called...
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Are you holding on to an aging wireless router in hopes of stretching out the bang for your bucks? That's admirable—no sense in throwing away and filling up a landfill with electronics that are still useful—but depending on the model, it...
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Take note of this company, Threshold: its new motion detection sensor kit is about to change not just the elderly caregiving world, but home security in general. For potential buyers who want to have real-time indoor motion detection minus...
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The Wi-Fi 7 standard brings the tantalizing possibility of improved transfer rates even over the already-speedy Wi-Fi 6E, but much like with HDMI and earlier versions of USB, many of the new features in Wi-Fi 7 are optional. As a result...
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For any smart home gadget to be useful, it needs to communicate with other connected devices. There are numerous ways to do that, including Zigbee, Thread, and Matter, but sometimes Wi-Fi is just easier than dealing with confusing IoT...
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Is a sluggish internet connection slowing you down and putting you in a bad mood for the holiday? If you've gone through the usual troubleshooting steps and determined that your crusty-old wireless router is to blame, then cheer up because...
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It's a good idea to periodically check for firmware updates for all of your hardware devices, especially in this era of the Internet of Things (IoT). We could go on a whole tangent about the state of security affairs within the IoT...
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Ford has issued a statement confirming that some of its Mustang sports cars and several other vehicles have a Wi-Fi vulnerability that could theoretically allow a hacker to launch a remote code execution attack. However, Ford is ensuring...
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Canon has issued a security bulletin warning that hundreds of its inkjet printer models have a flaw that could potentially expose your Wi-Fi network details after you've disposed it or sent it to a third-party entity to be serviced. The...
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Apple was slow to get into the smart speaker market, but it did so in a traditional Apple fashion in 2018 with the release of the HomePod. This $350 speaker never sold very well, and the company canned it in 2021, leaving just the HomePod...
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If your router stinks, then chances are you're not really getting the full broadband experience that you're paying for from your ISP. Low rent models can you leave you with dead spots and/or dilapidated network coverage. The easy solution...
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Back in 2018, a team of security researchers from Akamai released a white paper detailing a malicious proxy system they dubbed UPnProxy that is now being leveraged in a new attack. The malicious proxy system draws its name from Universal...
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Wi-Fi is fast these days. The current state of the art, known as Wi-Fi 6E, can top 1Gbps for multiple clients at once in real-world applications, not just on highly-theoretical spec sheets. It's no replacement for Ethernet yet, but...
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Forces are at play to vastly reduce latency while gaming over Wi-Fi, and quite frankly, that is something that is long overdue. The secret sauce to make this possible is comprised of two main ingredients—Qualcomm's FastConnect hardware and...
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Do you know what would be great? If Apple would stop dragging its feet on a weird bug in iOS that makes it possible to disable an iPhone's ability to connect with a Wi-Fi network. Same goes for iPad devices, presumably. The problem lies...
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Several of Amazon's hardware devices are about to become part of a mesh network, with a crowdsourced spin. It is part of an initiative called Amazon Sidewalk, and what it does is allow devices is create is a low bandwidth network from...
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A researcher who has helped shaped Wi-Fi security has once again discovered a series of vulnerabilities affecting all Wi-Fi devices dating back to 1997. Fortunately, many of the security holes are difficult to exploit, and according to the...
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You might have really fast Internet service, but if your wireless router stinks, you will still be hampered by subpar performance, at least for your wireless devices. Unfortunately for Google Fiber subscribers, using their own Wi-Fi router...
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