Anti-computer baddy company McAfee offers a web-based Wi-Fi Scan which will check your wireless network for potential security holes. The Wi-Fi Scan will only work in Internet Explorer for Windows ...

A new Wi-Fi scanner tool is in Mountain Lion’s refreshed Wi-Fi Diagnostics Utility, allowing users to easily discover Wi-Fi networks within range and view related data not available from Apple’s Wi-Fi ...

Over the past couple of years, Google has made a lot of changes to permissions and APIs in Android for a variety of reasons. Back in Android Pie, the company started throttling apps that performed ...

Looking for a way to make his warwalking sessions a bit more interactive, [Roni Bandini] has come up with an interesting way to gamify the discovery of new WiFi networks. Using a Heltec WiFi Kit 8, ...

Also shitcanned by Apple in the Great App Store Purge of 2010: Wi-Fi scanning apps. The reason being that they used private frameworks to access wireless info. While some of these apps might’ve been ...

Cybercriminals behind the Smoke Loader botnet are using a new piece of malware called Whiffy Recon to triangulate the location of infected devices through WiFi scanning and Google's geolocation API.

GUEST RESEARCH: On 8 August 2023, Secureworks Counter Threat Unit (CTU) researchers observed the Smoke Loader botnet dropping a custom Wi-Fi scanning executable to infected systems. CTU researchers ...

If you don't want Google using your device to constantly scan for Wi-Fi networks, even with Wi-Fi turned off, you need to read this. Jason Cipriani is based out of beautiful Colorado and has been ...