Google may be ending support for Wi-Fi Protected Setup (WPS) in Android P. The Wi-Fi Alliance introduced the WPS standard in 2006 as simpler method of connecting a new device to a network. While a ...

David is the former Editor-in-Chief of Android Police and now the EIC of Esper.io. He's been an Android user since the early days - his first smartphone was a Google Nexus One! David graduated from ...

Android P isn’t a major overhaul to Google’s mobile OS, but it has a whole lot of tweaks built in. One change that flew under the radar, though, has been the option to use WPS. Apparently, that ...

WPS (Wi-Fi Protected Setup) is an alternate on-ramp to a Wi-Fi network. Thinking that clicking on the name of a network and entering its password is too hard, the Wi-Fi Alliance came up with the WPS ...

Wireless network administrators, beware: a vulnerability in the WiFi Protected Setup in some wireless routers threatens to make it easier for attackers to gain access to the router via brute force, a ...