Smartphone's hotspot security issues and challenges

Khoula, Al Harthy; Shah, Nazaraf; Shankarappa, Arun N.S.

doi:10.1109/icitst.2016.7856680

Cited by 5 publications

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“…Nowadays smartphones are serving as a common Wi-Fi "hotspot" which allows users to share and gain access to Internet connection by a simply click of a button. However, this type of convenience also comes with a potential security risk to the people who share and use the Wi-Fi connection (Khoula et al, 2016). Therefore, Wi-Fi users have to be reminded not to use unknown Wi-Fi connections as there is a potential danger of giving access to hackers to obtain important personal information including emails or passwords which could therefore give culprits access to bank details or any other data that you share or transmit.…”

Section: Wi-fi and Security Measuresmentioning

confidence: 99%

Wi-Fi Adoption and Security in Hong Kong

Fong¹,

Wong²

2017

IBR

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The benefit of using WiFi for Internet connection is obvious: cost-effective and powerful. WiFi gives us the flexibility and convenience of not being tied to a fixed location. Nowadays, more and more electronic devices and gadgets, such as mobile phones, cameras, gaming devices, TV and entertainment equipment, are WiFi enabled. WiFi also enables your devices to share files instantly. WiFi broadcasting devices, such as Chromecast, give you extra convenience by allowing you to stream video and audio contents from your mobile phone to your TV using WiFi connection. However, this kind of flexibility and convenience comes with a cost. Sharing files, streaming contents or even accessing the Internet via WiFi means signals are being transmitted and they can be captured by anyone with a computer or mobile phone installed with appropriate software. Therefore, it is important to let WiFi users know their security risks and how to minimize them. Educating WiFi users to reduce the WiFi security risk is one of our on-going missions. Basing on empirically collected data, this paper is report of a comprehensive study on the use of WiFi and WiFi networking and the knowledge of WiFi users of the risks and security issues involved in using WiFi in Hong Kong. Findings of the study highlight the WiFi security knowledge gaps of the users in Hong Kong so that stakeholders can take action to improve Internet security by eliminating the security gaps identified.

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Wi-Fi Adoption and Security in Hong Kong

Fong¹,

Wong²

2017

IBR

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“…As internet becomes a daily need for people nowadays, Wi-Fi is implemented to grant internet access toward the society, allowing electronic devices to communicate without physically connected [14][15]. It is rapidly growing from the aspect of security and accessibility that even one can make their own personal hotspot using their computer, such as desktop, laptop, tablet, and smartphone [16][17]. Most of the hotspot require a password for a machine to connect to the hotspot.…”

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Wi-Fi password stealing program using USB rubber ducky

Harianto¹,

Gunawan²

2019

TELKOMNIKA

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A minute is all it takes for a hacker to gain informations from your computer, such as Wi-Fi password. Due to the limited capability of people to remember a lot of complex and unique password, people tend to use the same password for most of their account. This paper aimed to implement Wi-Fi password stealing program in USB Rubber Ducky using USB Rubber Ducky Scripting, Visual Basic Script, Web Server, Command Prompt, and Ducky Toolkit to obtain clear text Wi-Fi password that ever connected to the computer. In the testing phase, the success rate of Wi-Fi password stealing program reached 94.28% with 87.87% obtained personal password is still categorized as guessable password and the password reuse rate reached 81.81%. Thus, Wi-Fi password stealing program can be very dangerous as most of the personal password was used in lots of account and still categorized as guessable.

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