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 ...

How creative are you with the name of your home network’s SSID? Invariably I tend to use ‘Tin Foil Hat Time’ or ‘Secret Nuclear Bunker’, but it can change depending on the mood I’m in. The short ...

Recently, I have had a lot of new people moving into my neighborhood, and I have been amused by some of the fun and creative names that some of my new neighbors use for their Wi-Fi networks. At the ...

AJ Dellinger is a writer, reporter, and editor based in Madison, Wisconsin. He has been published in Wired, Gizmodo, CNET, and a variety of other publications. He has covered small business and ...

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 ...

A Wi-Fi signal is a broadcast-based communication. This is what makes it so easy to use — instead of dealing with the limitations of physically connecting with a network cable, you can simultaneously ...

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 ...

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 ...

Researchers at Belgium's KU Leuven discovered a fundamental design flaw in the IEEE 802.11 Wi-Fi standard that gives attackers a way to trick victims into connecting with a less secure wireless ...

I'm attempting to extend a wireless network, so I purchased a Linksys RE1000. It extends the signal wonderfully, but it has broken my HP wireless printer. The printer sees 2 identical SSIDs and fails ...

Here’s a funny bug: a security researcher has found that a carefully crafted network name causes a bug in the networking stack of iOS and can completely disable your iPhone’s ability to connect to ...