Most Popular Stories
Events
- Northwestern University Master's in Information Systems
- CIO Healthcare Summit
March 11-14 — Scottsdale, AZ - The AIIM Conference 2012
March 20-22, 2012 — San Francisco, CA - CIO Summit
March 18- 21 — Miami, FL
Sponsored Links
Free Newsletter
HOT TOPICS >> Tech world's top flops and fiascos of 2011 | Windows 8 slideshow | Cybersecurity | Caron's Q&As
INDUSTRY >> Healthcare IT | Government IT | Financial Services IT | Biotech IT | Compliance IT
Free Newsletter
FierceCIO provides CIOs with IT best practices, business intelligence, and forward-looking IT strategies. Join 32,000+ industry insiders who get FierceCIO twice a week via email and save time.
About | View Sample | Privacy
Latest News
Popular Topics
Whitepapers
- Whitepaper: Integrated Analytics and WCM Can Improve Performance & ROI
- Security Intelligence: Enabling Security Monitoring for Landscapes
- Enterprise Portals: Harnessing Portal Power
- 5 Ways to Reduce Enterprise Mobililty Costs with Wireless Telecom Expense Management
- Whitepaper: 10 Reasons You Absolutely Need AD Reporting
- Five Tips to Get IT Auditors Off Your Back
Security holes found in wireless drivers
As if increasingly frequent hacker attacks aren't enough to worry about when it comes to wireless security, two professional security researchers have discovered how to hack into wireless drivers and grab mobile device data without even logging onto a network position. They've done it by playing with buggy code within the wireless card environment using an open-source tool. Just how they did it, and other vulnerabilities they've discovered with wireless devices, will be the focus of a presentation at the upcoming Black Hat conference.
For more on wireless insecurity:
- read this article at InfoWorld
Related Stories
- Wireless connectivity can breed wireless insecurity
- Elements of a mobile infrastructure
- The dawn of the communications dashboard
- A joint effort on boosting wireless security
- A wireless network balancing act
- SMiShing is latest threat to cell phones
- Xerox printers pose security risk
- WiFi flaws put laptop data at risk
- Intel flaws tied to Microsoft drivers
- Skype bug requires quick patching
Home
| Subscribe | Advertise | RSS |
Privacy
| Site Map
| EditorsTHE FIERCEMARKETS NETWORKFierceEnergy | FierceSmartGrid | FierceFinance | FierceFinanceIT | FierceComplianceIT | FierceHealthcare | FierceHealthFinance | FierceHealthIT | Hospital Impact | FierceMobileHealthcare | FierceHealthPayer | FiercePracticeManagement | FierceEMR | FierceCIO | FierceCIO:TechWatch | FierceContentManagement | FierceMobileIT | FierceGovernmentIT | FierceGovernment | FierceHomelandSecurity | FierceBiotech | FierceBiotech Research | FiercePharma | FierceVaccines | FierceBiotechIT | FiercePharma Manufacturing | FierceMedicalDevices | FierceDrugDelivery | FierceIPTV | FierceOnlineVideo | FierceTelecom | FierceEnterpriseCommunications | FierceBroadbandWireless | FierceDeveloper | FierceMobileContent | FierceWireless | FierceWireless:Europe | FierceCable© 2011 FierceMarkets. All rights reserved. |
![]() |




