As the COVID-19 outbreak devastated the travel industry, many hotels launched “work-from-hotel” programs to appeal to locals who needed an escape from their home workspace. Hotels now offer daytime room reservations for people who wanted a quiet, distraction-free place to work, with the added amenities one would expect in a hotel. Unfortunately, cyber criminals have seized … [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...]
Meraki’s Air Marshal Gets Help from a New WIPS Sheriff
Wi-Fi hacking is a hot topic, but one that’s plagued by ambiguous and often contradictory technical terminology. Luckily, the lack of common definitions for Wi-Fi threat vectors has actually produced a solution to the problem: the Trusted Wireless Environment. The Trusted Wireless Environment framework succinctly defines the six Layer 2 Wi-Fi hacks that affect nearly every … [Read more...]
Have All Three: Wi-Fi that’s Fast, Secure, and Affordable
Where other enterprise-grade Multi-User MIMO (MU-MIMO) access points (APs) focus only on serving up Wi-Fi to users, the new AP325 does this without breaking a sweat and also blocks hackers from stealing passwords, credit cards, and other data with man-in-the-middle (MitM) attacks. Wi-Fi served by WatchGuard’s AP325 is protected by patented Wireless Intrusion Prevention System … [Read more...]
Dear Journal and the Misconfigured Access Points
Dear Journal, Flight to Spain from London was a short one. My owner made a friend on the flight and I stayed powered off during the entire 2-hour and 25-minute duration. Ibiza, pronounced ‘Ee-bee-tha’, attracts nearly six million tourists a year. Not bad for 571 square kilometers (220 square miles) island with a population of around 150,000 people. From the plane, we … [Read more...]
