Wi-Fi's Protected Setup Woes
A common feature found in most wireless routers, was recently exposed as vulnerable to hacking by a security researcher.
This feature is Wi-Fi Protected Setup, referred to as WPS. WPS is used to easily connect a wireless device such as a tablet or a wireless printer, to a wireless router. The wireless device, once connected to the router, gets Internet connectivity and access to shared files and content on a home or business' wireless network.
How WPS Works
WPS works in two ways: push or PIN. Newer wireless routers and devices often have a WPS button on their chassis. By pressing this button on a router and then on a device, the two pieces of hardware make a connection without requiring an end-user to do any type of software or hardware configuration. This is the "Push" method of WPS.
Alternatively, end users can access a wireless routers' software and establish a WPS PIN code. The code is entered into the software of a wireless device that a user wants to connect to the router. Like the PUSH method, the PIN method was developed to make connecting wireless devices to wireless routers, and subsequently, wireless networks, easy for the average computer user.
However, WPS has been fairly simple to compromise. Once WPS is hacked, a malevolent or perhaps just mischievous user can leech off not only your Internet connection, but can access any shared data that resides on your wireless network.
The vulnerability of WPS is through its PIN capability. To initiate PIN, a user has to go into the management interface of a router; login, enable PIN, and create a nine-digit PIN code. Because the code is only nine digits, there is a finite amount of combinations that a PIN code can be—making it easy to find because there are only 11,000 possible guesses! A relatively simple program can be used to generate PIN codes. That's not the only reason why WPS is vulnerable, though. After a few bad PIN guesses, some ATM machines will eat your ATM card just in case you are a criminal trying to guess someone's code. Routers don't have that sort of inherent defense mechanism (yet). So, they will keep accepting bad PIN codes over and over again.
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