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![]() If it is enabled, WPS can be easily cracked within 24 (or less in many cases) hours by breaking down the 8-character PIN into 2 halves, and cracking those halves. This is all well and good, but one thing to keep in mind: if you have WiFi Protected Setup(WPS) enabled on your router (and you likely do if you bought a router in the past 4-5 years), it makes no difference how long or complex your WPA/WPA2 passkey is. ![]() (It may seem like an unnecessary hassle, but it makes your accounts significantly more difficult to compromise.) Additionally, WikiMonksrecommends taking precautions like turning off sharing and enabling the firewall on your laptop. If you haven’t already, it’s also important to secure all of your accounts by setting up a password manager, changing repetitive or insecure passwords, and enabling two-factor authentication on accounts that support it. Since probably windows 95 all they’ve done is re-skin the same engine and maybe tweak a few things that may make things worse instead of better which is why my Personal PC is a Mac. Yet another good reason why I will recommend to clients not to upgrade to windows 10, currently I recommend Windows 7 until MS stops supporting it like I did with Windows XP.
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