Your Wi-Fi network's name (called your SSID) identifies your router so you know which network to connect to, but considering how often smartphones pop up connection notifications, your network's name ...

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, ...

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 ...

There’s a new way to break an iPhone this time you can do it with nothing more than a well chosen WiFi SSID. Connecting to a WiFi network with the name %p%s%s%s%s%n ...

We often find ourselves in a situation where we have to share the credentials of our Wi-Fi network with other people. Generally, the owner of the Wi-Fi router has to give out the password, which ...

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 ...

A utility app I use has a new update that requests permission for Location info, claiming it's to conform with "android 8.1 retrieve Wifi SSID requirement". Is that BS or not? If true, it reads like ...