Your Wi-Fi router may be vulnerable to hacking. Research by the National Institute of Standards and Technology found up to 209 security flaws in routers in 2022. These flaws leave your routers open to ...

This Cisco Systems 7500 router was used between 1994 and 2001 in the first Commercial Internet Exchange (CIX). For most of its active life, this server was located in the Palo Alto Internet Exchange, ...

Like all radio waves, Wi-Fi signals undergo subtle shifts when they encounter objects—human beings included. These can reveal information about the shape and motion of what has been encountered, in a ...

Engineers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, have developed a system that turns everyday wireless signals into a medical tool. The proof-of-concept research shows that a simple WiFi ...

In the midst of rooting about routers, or routing for routers, the last column took a different route than promised. Several readers emailed asking us to get back on route. First and foremost, if you ...

As in the old Gershwin song “You say tomahto, I say tomayto,” you may call the device that fosters internet connectivity a “rauter” or a “rooter,” but don’t turn it off. Nearly everyone with an ...