Sandia fingerprinting technique demonstrates wireless device driver vulnerabilities

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Wireless network drivers say Sandia researchers are easy to interact with and potentially exploit if the attacker is within transmission range of the wireless device. By role-playing the position of an adversary Sandia has demonstrated a unique finge ...
Wireless network drivers, say Sandia researchers, are easy to interact with and potentially exploit if the attacker is within transmission range of the wireless device. By role-playing the position of an adversary, Sandia has demonstrated a unique fingerprinting technique that allows hackers with ill intent to identify a wireless driver without modification to or cooperation from a wireless device.

The next time you’re sipping a latte and surfing the Net at your favorite neighborhood wireless cafe, someone just a few seats away could be breaking into your laptop and causing irreparable damage to your computer’s operating system by secretly tapping into your network card’s unique device driver, researchers at Sandia National Laboratories in have concluded.


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