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 ...
A security researcher has gone public with at least two design implementation flaws in Wi-Fi Protected Setup (WPS), the on-by-default tool that helps users set up wireless networks without worrying ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
WiFi hacking has long been a favorite pastime of hackers, penetration testers, and people too cheap to pay for their own Internet connection. And there are plenty of targets out there for would-be ...
If you set WPA/WPA2 security protocol on your home or small business wireless router, and you think your Wi-Fi is secure, there are two recently released brute force tools that attackers may use to ...
Security researchers have released new tools that can bypass the encryption used to protect many types of wireless routers. Ironically, the tools take advantage of design flaws in a technology pushed ...