This short primer will provide a few guidelines to consider when choosing an Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) method, one element of the authentication component of your Wi-Fi security plan.

Security researchers at two universities in the USA and at Microsoft have published a vulnerability in the RADIUS network authentication protocol (CVE-2024-3596 ...

Cisco is taking strides to mollify customers for whom neither password-based nor certificate-based Extensible Authentication Protocol types are quite the right fit for authenticating wireless users.

Apple’s iOS 8 addresses a serious weakness that could allow attackers to hijack the wireless network authentication of Apple devices and gain access to enterprise networks. “An attacker could have ...

Joshua Wright, the systems engineer who created a tool that targets wireless LANs protected by Cisco Systems Inc.’s Lightweight Extensible Authentication Protocol (LEAP), said he did so to demonstrate ...

Wireless LANs offer two things central to the adoption of communications technologies: reach and economy. Scalable end-user reach is gained without stringing wires, and the users themselves often feel ...

Developers behind FreeRADIUS, an open source implementation of the networking protocol RADIUS, are encouraging users to update to address an authentication bypass found in the server. Developers ...