In this module, we learn about wireless, Bluetooth, and mobile networks. The chapter discusses various types of WiFi networks and how secure they are. The WiFi networks use broadcasts to pass their traffic. Broadcasting makes the WiFi networks very vulnerable to sniffing and Man in the middle attacks. Bluetooth is a very old standard that allows convenient connection between mobile devices. Unfortunately, this communication protocol is very vulnerable to several types of attacks. A common type of attacks include bluejacking, bluesnarfing and blue bugging.
Interesting article about the latest Bluetooth hacks. The described in article Bluetooth flaw enables an "attacking device" to interfere with the connection encryption process, essentially stealing the encryption key and accessing the data traffic between target devices.
No comments:
Post a Comment