When connecting to Wi-Fi networks you may have seen notifications referring to WEP, WPA and WPA2, but what exactly do these terms mean?

Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) was the first standard implemented to make Wi-Fi networks secure. It was designed to be a strong type of security encryption which would keep Wi-Fi user’s data safe. However, it was discovered that WEP had some serious flaws and was not particularly difficult to hack.

Unfortunately, many Wi-Fi users are unaware that WEP is vulnerable and continue to use this type of encryption. This is not helped by the fact that some wireless router manufactures still ship their devices with WEP set as default when the routers are capable of more secure encryption.

Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) was developed to replace WEP and address the security issues associated with Wi-Fi networks. This more secure type of encryption was developed by the Wi-Fi Alliance and released in 2003. The Wi-Fi Alliance is an organisation dedicated to promoting and improving wireless networking technologies. It was founded and run by a group of companies which had an interest in standardising and improving wireless networking technologies.

While far more secure than WEP, it is still possible for a skilled and determined hacker to break WPA encryption. To further improve Wi-Fi security the Wi-Fi alliance developed WPA2. The main difference, in terms of security, between WPA and WPA2 is the type of encryption algorithm used.

WPA uses Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP) encryption. When introduced it was thought that this type of encryption was extremely secure. However, as security advances, so do hackers and WPA’s TKIP encryption was eventually hacked in 2008. As it was based on the WEP type of encryption it was found to be vulnerable to similar, but more advanced, types of attack.

WPA2 uses Counter Mode with Cipher Block Chaining Message Authentication Code Protocol (CCMP, although sometimes known as AES). CCMP was a significant improvement on TKIP and has proved to be extremely resilient to attack. While it is theoretically possible to hack CCMP encryption it would require tremendous computing power and would take an extremely long time.

Remember it is very important to keep your wireless network safe; you should make sure you are using WPA2 in order to keep your data secure. This is especially true for business broadband users. Businesses often have very sensitive and potentially damaging information on their networks and a successful cyber-attack could cost a company a lot of money.

Fiona Roy writes for a digital marketing agency. This article has been commissioned by a client of said agency. This article is not designed to promote, but should be considered professional content.

The internet is already considered by many people to be an essential part of everyone’s life and not having access to it can put you at a great disadvantage.

In recent years governments in the western world have gone to great lengths to connect all of their populaces to a high speed internet connection, even in the remoter regions, as people have come to demand access to the internet, in much the same way as they demand running water.

As well as connecting to the internet through their phone lines, people can now access the internet on mobile devices like their smart phones and tablet devices. The internet has become ubiquitous and essential.

Every year people are demanding faster and faster connections, as people look to the internet more and more as a reliable source of entertainment and business. Fibre optic broadband is heralding a new age of superfast broadband into people’s homes and offices and with it may come an even more essential utility, remote processing power.

In the future processing power may become a utility just like electricity. In this brave new world you would access this processing power through cheap, low-specification terminals; all of your documents and data would be securely stored externally, online; and all the operations on them will be carried out by software provided, run and upgraded by online application providers, perhaps Google. Like any other utility, the more processing power you use, the more you will pay for it - and vice versa.

This future is not as far away as you might think, you probably already store a lot of your data online, be it in email inboxes, drop box accounts or new services like Apple’s iCloud. The concept of running software remotely is something familiar to anyone that has ever used the remote desktop function in windows and running software remotely is already being commercially sold by video games companies like OnLive.

What will be essential to the development of this technology will be the necessity to connect everyone to fibre optic broadband, as a large bandwidth would be essential in ensuring that computers could communicate rapidly across the internet.

The possibilities of this new technology could be astonishing. Imagine just a simple, small, basic computer terminal connected through fibre optic broadband to an online network of supercomputers. You could call upon as much processing power as you need, to run whatever program you want, from the latest computer games to modelling your own weather forecast.

Fiona Roy writes for a digital marketing agency. This article has been commissioned by a client of said agency. This article is not designed to promote, but should be considered professional content.

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Here we’ll see a Graph trend of Facebook.com and Orkut.com for the past 1 Year.

THE IMAGE HAS BEEN TAKEN OFF DUE TO SOME REASON!, please check the comparison manually at Alexa.com.