10 Nov, 2024

Black Hat USA: Wi-Fi tracking flaw puts the ‘BS’ in BSSID

LAS VEGAS — Geolocation services for a number of popular mobile hardware vendors can be used to perform widescale Wi-Fi network monitoring, according to a presentation Tuesday at the Black Hat conference here. Researcher Erik Rye of the University of Maryland said that a feature known as a Basic Service Set Identifier (BSSID) can be […]

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