The New Vulnerability of Service Set Identifier (SSID) Using QR Code in Android Phone

Author

Cheon, Woo Bong ; Heo, Keon Il ; Lim, Won Gyu ; Park, Won Hyung ; Chung, Tai Myoung

Author_Institution

Sch. of Inf. & Commun. Eng., Sungkyunkwan Univ., Suwon, South Korea

fYear

2011

fDate

26-29 April 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

Wireless network is one of the 2010s most important security issues. As smartphone(android) is popularize, the number of Wireless Internet users is really growing and wireless AP spring up everywhere. But most wireless AP have not being managed properly in terms of security, Wireless Internet users also dont recognize important of security. This situation causes grave security threats. This paper design and analyze a new cyber attack whose it circulates malware via QR code and activates Mobile AP to induce service charge. The new vulnerability we suggest forces to activate Mobile AP of smartphone based on Android and responds to all probe request are generated around, and brings induction of service charge and communication problems in its train.

Keywords

Internet; mobile handsets; telecommunication security; QR code; android phone; grave security threats; service set identifier; smartphone; wireless Internet users; wireless network; Communication system security; Internet; Malware; Mobile communication; Probes; Wireless communication;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information Science and Applications (ICISA), 2011 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Jeju Island

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-9222-0

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-9223-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICISA.2011.5772367

Filename

5772367