In this case a lot of companies are even further behind and are still using WEP rather than WPA. They should have changed over but their bosses are basically morons. This is part of an attempt to try getting companies to switch over to an effective encryption system.
And yes, WEP was broke before it even got accreditation. It isnt so much news as informing people that they really should be moving on.
the thing is, some companies think that WEP is the only thing they should use. One place I worked at were using Drayteks set to 64Bit WEP, then they locked all the users out of it. This with a VPN tunnel on them into the main company infrastructure.
Basically there is little reason these days to use WEP unless you are using ancient hardware. I think all the modern consoles are WPA-PSK compliant, but I may be wrong.