Wi-Fi contains one glaring flaw: it's vulnerable to hacking. The range of connectivity means people down the hall or across the street can access your network. Even if it's secured with a password, ...

Therefore, after all of your computers have accessed the wireless network at least once, you no longer need to broadcast the network’s SSID. Therefore, conventional wireless wisdom says that you ...

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You can share WiFi details with others very easily in Android 12. Partly thanks to QR Codes and Nearby Share. So no longer do you need to go lookup the password when ...

Some Windows 11 users fail to connect to the wireless network as an incorrect PSK is provided for network SSID on their computer. This may usually happen after the password of the wireless router is ...

Are there any pitfalls to using SSID cloaking? Many organizations use SSID cloaking as a mechanism to add a layer of security to the WLAN. This technique requires that all users have knowledge of the ...

A vulnerability in LiveBox ADSL modems from Orange allows an attacker to retrieve their SSID and WiFi password in plaintext by simply sending a request over the internet. Honeypot systems at Bad ...

Perhaps it is good to have a normal WiFi name or SSID, as one researcher found. Earlier this week, a new iPhone bug appeared that bricks any iPhone’s WiFi, if connected to a specifically named access ...

What just happened? Just a few weeks after a similar issue was discovered, a security researcher has found that connecting an iPhone to Wi-Fi networks with a certain name can disable the device's ...

I have a Arris Surfboard 6700AC Cable Modem and Wi-Fi router at home. It supports both 2.5Ghz and 5Ghz Wi-Fi. I have one network set up on each band. The 5GHz network has no issues. Every device that ...