Wireless routers have two sets of passwords: one that allows users to join it when it is using a wireless encryption method such as WPA-PSK, and another for accessing its administrative control panel.

Businesses can secure their wireless networks using Wi-Fi protected access and WPA2, which are wireless security protocols that encrypt data sent through your router. TKIP and AES encrypt and decrypt ...

The first thing someone encounters when he or she tries to log into your router is the router ID and password. You have to set it to something good. A random string ...

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 ...

Public WiFi hotspots have shown tremendous growth in recent years. Much of this can be attributed to growing number of people carrying smart mobile devices (such as smartphones and tablets) and using ...

If you are like most people, your home or small office wireless router probably is running without any encryption whatsoever, and you are a sitting duck for someone to easily view your network traffic ...

The bad news: most people don’t give a second thought to their routers. This lack of know-how puts a lot of households in a dangerous position. The United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team ...

Disable WiFi on it and connect a separate, external access-point (with up-to-date firmware) to your network and use that? The hard part is finding out which access-points are vulnerable and which ones ...

A vulnerability in the WPA2 Enterprise standard allows an authorized user to spoof packets on the network and thereby perform man-in-the-middle attacks, impersonating other users and injecting data ...