Most of the routers come with a special feature that allows any device with Wi-Fi to connect with a password. It’s called WPS or Wi-Fi Protected Setup standard. While the support for WPS has been ...

Why Disable Wi-Fi Protected Setup (WPS)? Wi-Fi Protected Setup (WPS) is a feature designed to simplify the process of connecting devices to a wireless network, but it comes with significant security ...

The recent wave of new mesh router systems has brought with it changes besides the obvious increase in Wi-Fi range. For example, these mesh routers are more likely to insist on WPA2-AES encryption, as ...

The US-CERT is warning about a vulnerability in the WiFi Protected Setup standard that reduces the number of attempts it would take an attacker to brute-force the PIN for a wireless router’s setup ...

Design flaws in the Wi-Fi Protected Setup (WPS) standard used by most modern routers could make it easier to retrieve a wireless network's password through brute force and leave it open to attack. The ...

After mentioning briefly about the recently discovered Wi-Fi Protected Setup (WPS) vulnerability due to certain design flaws in various routers of major Wi-Fi Vendors, the present blog tries to ...

On December 27, the Department of Homeland Security’s Computer Emergency Readiness Team issued a warning about a vulnerability in wireless routers that use WiFi Protected Setup (WPS) to allow new ...

The US-CERT is warning of a security threat in a protocol that's supposed to make it easier to set up a protected Wi-Fi network. Marguerite Reardon started as a CNET News reporter in 2004, covering ...

WPS (Wi-Fi Protected Setup) is an alternate on-ramp to a Wi-Fi network. Thinking that clicking on the name of a network and entering its password is too hard, the Wi-Fi Alliance came up with the WPS ...

Design flaws in the Wi-Fi Protected Setup (WPS) wireless standard can make it easier for attackers to obtain access codes for secured wireless networks by brute force. The vulnerabilities identified ...