The Wi-Fi Alliance today announced an update to its certification program for perhaps one of the most under-used features in networking products: WPS (Wi-Fi Protected Setup). WPS is a push-button or ...

On the plus side, your router's mostly secure. Security researcher Stefan Viehbock has just discovered a major security hole which allowed him to use a brute force technique to access a WPS ...

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 Wi-Fi Alliance today announced an update to its certification program for perhaps one of the most under-used features in networking products: WPS (Wi-Fi Protected Setup). WPS is a push-button or ...

Stefan Viehböck published his technique in late 2011, one which greatly reduced the number of brute-force attempts needed to find a working WPS PIN. While router manufacturers can somewhat thwart this ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link A flaw in WPS, or WiFi Protected Setup, known about for over a year by TNS, was finally exploited with proof of concept code. Both TNS, the ...

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 ...

Just a day after security researcher Stefan Viehbock released details of a vulnerability in the WiFi Protected Setup (WPS) standard that enables attackers to recover the router PIN, a security firm ...

I've never trusted Wi-Fi Protected Setup (WPS) on my Wi-Fi access points (AP) and routers. I've always thought that anything that was that easy to set up had to be easy to hack. It turns out my gut ...

It sometimes goes without saying: the more convenient a security system is for a user, the easier it is for those looking to take advantage of it. Take browser passwords, for example. Everyone loves ...