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Microsoft Hires Ex-Apple Exec in Charge of Wireless for Hardware

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s former executive in charge of wireless technologies to work on mixed reality hardware and artificial intelligence technology. Caballero is working on hardware such as the HoloLens mixed-reality headset, according to […]. Microsoft Corp. hired Apple Inc.’s

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The Wireless Attack Toolkit

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By BryanHalfpap Wireless security is all about implementation. How much and what you leak depends on your wireless driver, operating system, and the networks that you’ve connected to in the past. Potentially any of your past network connections that weren’t encrypted are targets if they are beaconed for by your hardware.

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Cisco IoT wireless access points hit by severe command injection flaw

Network World

Cisco’s Ultra-Reliable Wireless Backhaul (URWB) hardware has been hit with a hard-to-ignore flaw that could allow attackers to hijack the access points’ web interface using a crafted HTTP request. Cisco’s other wireless access point products that don’t use URWB are unaffected. If this is disabled, the device was not affected.

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How to deploy WPA3 for enhanced wireless security

Network World

WPA3 is the latest iteration of the Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) standard, succeeding WPA2, which has been the de facto security protocol for wireless networks for nearly two decades. Keep in mind, this is an optional feature for network devices and support for it isn’t required for hardware to be Wi-Fi 6 or WPA3-compliant.

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Juniper expands AI management features for wired, wireless networks

Network World

The enhancements are intended to reinforce the vendor’s AI-Native Networking Platform, announced earlier this year , which brings Juniper’s wired, wireless data center, campus and branch networking products under one common management offering. The package can now also detect APs that may be unreachable due to an ISP outage or other reason.

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Remote Office In A Box (ROBO) Is Back, And It’s Called SD- WAN

Forrester IT

Over the last decade and a half, networking vendors have been using various methods to bundle wired, wireless, voice over IP, and security products into a solution sale. No single hardware product had all the […].

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What’s Trending For Hackers?

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Wireless isn’t just about WiFi — there’s all sorts of protocols, specifications, and frequencies zipping through the air at any given moment, especially in the ISM bands. In addition to the hardware, very effective and fairly robust software has been released as well (GnuRadio).

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