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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
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