Topic: Save your crypto, Disable WPS! - page 2. (Read 433 times)

Your warning is right , WPS is not safe, but i don't see much connection between WPS and crypto. Even if someone connect to your wifi, your crypto are still safe , right? Hacker still need to hack the cellphone to stole from a hot wallet.

Unfortunately many routers enable WPS by default, its one of those things you should turn off immediately and never use.

Yes it was made for lazy people, who can't bother with setting up a decent password and inputting it. Well once again this shows laziness leads to losses.

I wish they would just kill WPS like they did to WEP. Now we shall see how long it takes for WPA3 to be adopted...

 I thought that everybody and their grandmother is already aware of WPS vulnerability, today I had  a friend calling  and asking why did his internet connection became so slow out of a sudden, i used teamviewer to access his PC , checked his router and found that he got 2 unknown devices enjoying free internet.

luckily no harm was done , seems like an amateur kid trying out his new alfa kit.

so my naive friend left his router WPS enabled, and exposed himself to every amateur hacker around him.

if you don't know what WPS is, google it, a short explanation > that  button on your router that you click to allow devices to connect to your router without having to use your wireless password.

WPS vulnerability is so bad that even a mobile phone can use it to hack into your network and with a few easy to use tools they can f*** you up.


so make sure you go to your router setting, find where WPS is and disable it, also notice that some routers will still have  WPS enabled even if it says disabled on the interface.

a simple way to know for sure is by actually trying to use it, or searching for the "router model  + wps " on google to see if anybody has reported that WPS is still enable even after disabling, and if that's the case, get rid of the router and buy another more secured one.

stay safe.