“Security researchers say they’ve developed a way to partially crack the Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) encryption standard used to protect data on many wireless networks…

…To do this, [Erik] Tews and his co-researcher Martin Beck found a way to break the Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP) key, used by WPA, in a relatively short amount of time: 12 to 15 minutes, according to Dragos Ruiu…”

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What this means to you:

Using either WEP or WPA with TKIP to secure your home network is ineffective.  Simply adjust your routers settings to use AES instead of TKIP, with a long, random password, and you are once again safe.

Questions?  E-mail WifiSecurity@SixChip.com

More on the subject:

[Website] PCWorld