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What is the difference between 2.4 GHz and 5.8 GHz WiFi? Today, we will be discussing the differences between the two wireless frequencies and when to use them. When someone refers to a device as being dual-band, the term indicates that the device has the capability of broadcasting both a 2.4 GHz and 5.8 GHz frequency. The 2.4 GHz radio runs on a lower frequency between 450 Mbps or 600 Mbps. The 5.8 GHz radio can support up to 1300 Mbps. That’s a pretty big difference in wireless speed. M …

Seemingly every day I read how some big company has been hacked and all of our private information has been breached.  This has made me not even want to watch the news.  At the same time, I want to make sure my financial information and data is safe and secure.  So, how does the average person do that?You sign up for a VPN service and get a VPN Router powered by Sabai OS for your home.  Well, what does that actually mean?Some people do not know what a VPN is, let alone a …

KRack: Key Reinstallation AttackPart One: Why is a Handshake so Complicated?For us to talk secretly, I need to give you a secret... but I can't do that in a crowded room. However, we can agree on a way of using two pieces of public information in a way that makes it hard for anyone to follow. If we just used a single passphrase (the PMK) everywhere and encryped everything with it, someone could feasibly listen in and reason out our passphrase simply from our conversation. Enter the PTK--think of …

Photo by Lionel Abrial Just a short while ago Google announced that they will release a few changes to Google Drive. This announcement nearly broke the internet as users thought their beloved cloud storage was going up in flames. With nearly 800 million active users on the app, there is no way Google would retire the Drive. The matter has since been clarified and users can sigh a breath of relief, but it does bring attention to one of the best things to hit the internet since Google Sear …

Part One: TechnicalFeel free to skip this section if you are not interested in how Equifax was hacked. I’m not going into extreme detail, just enough for the average person to have some idea of what happened.The reported source of the breach, a bug in Apache Struts (CVE-2017-5638), was first discovered in March 2017 and patched on the day it was discovered. Since the access to Equifax’s systems occurred May through June, well after the patch was available, there is only one possible root cause: …