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Proximity Breeds Danger: Emerging Threats in Metro-Area Wireless Networks
Overview The growing popularity of wireless networks and mobile devices is starting to attract unwanted attention especially as potential targets for malicious activities reach critical mass. This paper tries to quantify the threat from large-scale distributed attacks on wireless networks, and, more specifically, wifi networks in densely populated metropolitan areas. The paper focuses on three likely attack scenarios: "Wildfire" worms that can spread contagiously over and across wireless LANs, coordinated citywide phishing campaigns based on wireless spoofing, and rogue systems for compromising location privacy in a coordinated fashion.
| Publisher | Columbia University | File Format | |
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| Date Published | May 2007 | ||
| Format | White Papers | ||
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