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 ...

When you think about home Wi-Fi and wireless security, technical concepts like antiviruses, encryption, and vulnerabilities often come to mind. Still, the simpler things usually end up causing the ...

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 ...

A printer's IP address is a group of four sets of numbers separated by periods that allows wireless access to your printer's settings and information via a web browser. A WPS PIN (Wi-Fi Protected ...

A common feature found in most wireless routers, was recently exposed as vulnerable to hacking by a security researcher. This feature is Wi-Fi Protected Setup, referred to as WPS. WPS is used to ...

Its one thing to be lectured to about Wi-Fi security and quite another thing to see the actual manuals used by government spies. At The Intercept, Cora Currier and Morgan Marquis-Boire have just ...

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 ...

If you've ever paid attention to your home's WiFi router, you might have noticed a small button on it. This button is called WPS, or Wi-Fi Protected Setup. This button's function is to simplify the ...