I updated the Broadcom wireless network driver on my laptop yesterday. Mistake. After reboot, my laptop would not display any available wireless networks, meaning I couldn't connect to anything. I ...

Wireless chip maker Broadcom on Thursday announced good news for Linux users in the form of a fully open wireless driver that’s compatible with the operating system. Wireless networking has long been ...

The MoKB (Month of Kernel Bugs) project has released a Metasploit 3.0 kernel-level driver exploit for Broadcom based Wireless LAN devices for Windows 2000 and XP. The flaw was discovered by researcher ...

eSpeaks’ Corey Noles talks with Rob Israch, President of Tipalti, about what it means to lead with Global-First Finance and how companies can build scalable, compliant operations in an increasingly ...

There has been quite a bit of discussion and celebration in the Linux community recently because Broadcom released an open-source driver for their wireless networking adapters. This is, undoubtedly, a ...

Broadcom announced today the initial release of its new open source wireless drivers for Linux. The drivers, which are built using the kernel’s own native SoftMAC framework, are currently in the ...

Just when you thought that spilling a hot cup of latte was all you had to worry about while surfing the web at your local Starbucks - or any public place for that matter - think again: Nearby ...

The flaw relates to how the driver handles 802.11 requests with a long service set identifier, or SSID, which differentiates WLANs from one another. Attackers could send a specially designed packet to ...