Last Thursday, the GPS and smartwatch firm Garmin suffered what was allegedly a massive, system-wide ransomware attack, forcing them to take down all of their services ranging from their apps to their support call centers. While Garmin has been tight-lipped as to the cause of the outage, multiple publications have reported that the company was targeted by WastedLocker, a … [Read more...]
Ruckus (Commscope) Access Points Put to The Hackers’ Test
Did they pass? You’ll have to read on to find out... Ruckus, which is now a part of Commscope via acuquisition in 2018, came into the business-class Wi-Fi market in 2002 with a disruptive antenna design. At the time, the antenna technology was quite novel and utilized multiple electrically-steerable antenna arrays to focus signal to desired targets such as laptops or mobile … [Read more...]
How To Stop Wi-Fi Hackers Abusing Ubiquiti’s UniFi Access Points
Ubiquiti, a global networking technology company came onto the mainstream marketplace beginning in 2005 with a clever idea of offering products at low prices to mass markets guiding channel players to monetize their services instead of the hardware. Every strategy has its pluses and minuses and some would say Ubiquiti’s low-price leader concept swung the pendulum too far, … [Read more...]
5 Hot Topics From Wi-Fi NOW 2019 London
Wi-Fi NOW, an independent organization led by Claus Hetting, exists to hold the thought leadership agenda for the Wi-Fi industry. Their mission is to support and promote all things Wi-Fi and they work with individuals, carriers, service providers, tech vendors, and regulators. Basically, if there’s something happening in the world of Wi-Fi, it’s discussed at one of Wi-Fi … [Read more...]
Public VPNs Don’t Always Make You Any More Secure
Recent news on a compromised NordVPN server highlights a concern that when you want to use a public VPN, it doesn’t necessarily add any additional security. Some VPN providers want you to think that simply using a public VPN will make your connection perfectly secure, but this doesn’t hold true. While a compromised VPN connection allows hackers access to your Internet traffic, … [Read more...]
