What do the acronyms WPS, WPA, and WPA2 mean? Why should I care about these? A. WPA and WPS sound similar, but they're entirely different technologies that perform entirely different tasks.

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 ...

Technically, it will need to be a network using WPA security with the WPS feature enabled. I'll explain in more detail in the "How Reaver Works" section how WPS creates the security hole that ...

WPS enables typical users who possess little understanding ... selecting from a jumble of geeky-sounding and ill-explained encryption options (WEP, WPA, WPA2, TKIP, AES), and then repeating ...

Both TNS, the discoverers of the exploit and Stefan at .braindump have created their respective "reaver" and "wpscrack" programs to exploit the WPS vulnerability. From this exploit, the WPA ...

WPA, or Wi-Fi Protected Access, is an encryption standard used on newer wireless routers to secure wireless data transmission. It was designed to replace the older, less-secure WEP standard and ...