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Risks of Using AP Locations Discovered Through <endeca_term>War Driving</endeca_term>

Risks of Using AP Locations Discovered Through War Driving

...Because the actual locations are often unavailable, they use estimated locations from war driving. But these estimated locations may be different from actual locations. In... Read more

1 January, 2011

The Roads Taken

...answer's actually pretty simple - dis-intermediation. Companies like Skyhook have used war driving techniques to build massive databases of cell tower IDs and WiFi... Read more

25 April, 2011
On Map Matching of Wireless Positioning Data: A Selective Look-Ahead Approach

On Map Matching of Wireless Positioning Data: A Selective Look-Ahead Approach

...aspects: First, wireless positioning systems typically derive the location estimates based on war-driving Access Point (AP) data. Second, the locations of the AP beacons... Read more

6 September, 2010

Police: Wi-Fi arrest not part of a crackdown

The arrest of a man for unauthorised use of a third party's broadband connection will not prompt further action, says the Metropolitan Police Read more

23 August, 2007 by Tom Espiner

War driver jailed for nine years

Brief: The FBI has helped to convict a Michigan man for hacking wireless networks Read more

16 December, 2004 by Dan Ilet

Bluesocket scans the spectrum for wardriving

Security firm Bluesocket has launched a product that aims to protect an enterprise's wireless networks from unwanted visitors Read more

20 July, 2004 by Munir Kotadia
Towards Mobile Phone Localization Without <endeca_term>War-Driving</endeca_term>

Towards Mobile Phone Localization Without War-Driving

...in mobile phones, as a simple and scalable method of localization without war-driving. The idea is not fundamentally different from ship or air navigation... Read more

21 December, 2009
Signal Dragging: Effects of Terminal Movement on <endeca_term>War-Driving</endeca_term> in CDMA/WCDMA Networks

Signal Dragging: Effects of Terminal Movement on War-Driving in CDMA/WCDMA Networks

In cellular networks, the signal pattern reported by a mobile terminal has been the major source for localization. In... Read more

13 September, 2007

RSA Europe: Turn off your wireless modem (unless you're using it that is)

...spoken about in much depth before. Most people are aware of the war-driving phenomenon, where armed with some simply hardware, you can find unsecured... Read more

23 October, 2007

Wi-Fi Week: Mobility at the cost of security

The mass media has had a lot of fun with wireless security: war driving, virus insertion and bandwidth stealing have all had their day in... Read more

28 January, 2004 by Rupert Goodwins

Rupert Goodwins' Diary

...and go clambering over the Svenska fields with a Linux laptop running war-driving software. The cows certainly enjoyed it Read more

6 June, 2003 by Rupert Goodwins

Wi-Fi's Achilles heel

...scheme can be cracked, and unencrypted networks can easily be identified during "war driving" expeditions. However, the weakest link in Wi-Fi networks continues to... Read more

5 August, 2002 by Michael Sutton

Hackers use Wi-Fi invisibility cloak

...scheme can be cracked, and unencrypted networks can easily be identified during "war driving" expeditions. However, the weakest link in Wi-Fi networks continues to... Read more

25 July, 2002 by Michael Sutton

The war over 802.11x security

Why? Ever hear of "war driving"? War driving is the updated version of "war dialing"--popularised in... Read more

17 July, 2001 by Rich Santalesa
Assessing Network Security 1.0

Assessing Network Security 1.0

...using port scanningRecognize and help counter common network threats, including:War dialing, war driving, and Bluetooth attacksPacket and network sniffingIP, e-mail, and DNS spoofingPassword... Read more

12 January, 2010

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