Social Security is not the same program it was even a few years ago. A handful of big policy shifts, administrative ...

Learn how the Social Security Fairness Act repeals WEP and GPO, triggers retroactive lump-sum payments, and raises monthly ...

The Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and the Government Pension Offset (GPO) have long been contentious elements of the ...

When it comes to Social Security benefits, private-sector and public-sector employees are not created equal. For those falling under the latter category, there are two rules that may reduce the amount ...

Many of us are counting on ours, or our spouses’, Social Security Benefits for a significant part of our retirement income. But, if you or your spouse are government workers or teachers, you may be in ...

A friend called recently about her Social Security benefit, and she was not happy. Preparing to retire following a successful career in academic, private sector, and federal government positions, she ...

Last week we showed you how to crack a Wi-Fi network's WEP key using a live CD and some command line fu. Today we've got other cracking options—but more importantly, clarification on the point of all ...

For those who still don't think it's a major problem to run WEP encryption on a wireless LAN, this is your final warning. Humphrey Cheung of Tomsnetworking has released a tutorial that can essentially ...

I heard about a new WEP cracking technique. Can you explain it? WEP has been generally recognized as broken since 2001 when Fluhrer, Mantin, and Shamir, commonly known as FMS, published their paper ...