One day after it disclosed a security vulnerability in a wireless networking product, Cisco Systems must contend with a new threat – the long-promised release of a hacking tool that targets wireless ...

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 ...

The problems with LEAP were highlighted by the release last week of a tool that attacks the protocol. The tool, dubbed asleap, was released by Joshua Wright, a security architect for Johnson and Wales ...

Cisco announced the availability of a protocol that’s designed to defeat brute-force dictionary attacks that capture users’ passwords in its wireless LAN products. The company urged end users and ...