Close-Up of a WPS button in the center of a white router - Kenneth Cheung/Getty Images A WPS button refers to the Wi-Fi Protected Setup button on a router or Wi-Fi extender. On your router, you'll see ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Security researcher Stefan Viehbock has exposed a hole in the Wi-Fi Protected Setup PIN-protection system used by a number of hardware manufacturers. Security researcher Stefan Viehbock has exposed a ...