Simple security for wireless: no password required
Monday, August 22, 2011 - 07:00
in Mathematics & Economics
In early August, at the Def Con conference a major annual gathering of computer hackers someone apparently hacked into many of the attendees cell phones, in what may have been the first successful breach of a 4G cellular network. If early reports are correct, the incident was a man-in-the-middle (MITM) attack, so called because the attacker interposes himself between two other wireless devices.