Most of us don’t pay much attention to the WiFi routers in our homes. It’s an innocuous technology that we all take for granted, and we don’t really think about unless it’s not working properly. However, WiFi has a unique property that might make you reconsider a land line. Like many frequencies on the electromagnetic…
How many readers know what the term “Wi-Fi” is the contraction for? It’s tech speak for “Wireless Fidelity.” And, nothing is more of an oxymoron than Wi-Fi, which is extremely vulnerable to all sorts of attacks and hacking, all because of the porous network(s) it operates on no matter where you find it, plus its…
Friday saw many of the web’s largest website suffer outages, when a major internet infrastructure company was struck by a large-scale distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack coming from unlikely sources. Millions of people, most notably those on the US’ eastern seaboard, were unable to access websites ranging from Twitter to the New York Times…
City dwellers spend nearly every moment of every day awash in Wi-Fi signals. Homes, streets, businesses, and office buildings are constantly blasting wireless signals every which way for the benefit of nearby phones, tablets, laptops, wearables, and other connected paraphernalia.
