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Relay Attacks on Bluetooth Authentication and Solutions

This paper describes relay attacks on Bluetooth authentication protocol. The aim of these attacks is impersonation. The attacker does not need to guess or obtain a common secret known to both victims in order to set up these attacks, merely to relay the information it receives from one victim to...

Tags: Springer Science+Business Media, Attack, Bluetooth Authentication Protocol, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, Security, Wireless And Mobility

White papers 2004-10-29

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50 questions asked and answered on Android

At the very end of the Google I/O 2008 conference last week the Android development team hosted a great fireside chat on the new mobile platform. The session was free-form, completely driven by questions from the audience. Although Google was trying to keep mum on a number of issues, several...

Tags: Developer, Google Inc., Application, Google Android, Phone, Device, Platform, OEM, App, Question, Q., A., XMPP, A. Goal, A. Qemu, Thing Cert, Apk, UMA, A. Compatability, A. Distribution, Android Device, Linux, Wireless LANs, Advertising & Promotion, Productivity, Telecom & Utilities, Open Source, Wi-Fi, Operating Systems, Software, Wireless, Marketing, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2008-06-05

Java vs. Android APIs

Google's mobile phone platform, Android, supports a relatively large subset of the Java Standard Edition 5.0 library. Some things were left out because they simply didn’t make sense like printing, and others because better APIs are available that are specific to Android like user interfaces. This article lists what is...

Tags: Google Inc., Java 2, API, Android, Java, Programming Languages, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2008-01-14

Wireless LAN security myths that won't die

Its been two years since I wrote "The six dumbest ways to secure a wireless LAN," and its probably been one of my more successful blog entries ever, with two flashes on Digg. Since that time, Ive written a free electronic book on enterprise wireless LAN security for anyone to...

Tags: LANs, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, security, wireless-LAN security, WLAN, wireless

Blog posts 2007-03-26

AirShare 1.02 (Mobile)

is a Bluetooth file-sharing application. It allows you to use your Windows Mobile 2005-based device to share files over Bluetooth protocol. By means of AirShare you can wirelessly access folders and files on your Windows Mobile 5.0 device including files on SD cards from your desktop/notebook computer without ActiveSync or...

Tags: Mobile, Widcomm Inc., Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, Wireless And Mobility

Software downloads 2007-01-24

NOW will Apple release a Wi-Fi iPod?

NOW will Apple release a Wi-Fi iPod?Why bother?I think the companies producing these wifi mp3 players will quickly learn just why Apple has avoided this approach when they start having to field the support calls from people trying to use them with their t-mobile hotspot accounts (can you realistically add...

Tags: Wireless LANs, WIRELESS, Digital music, Digital media, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Apple iPod, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2006-01-06

Internet toll booth: Has Microsoft dropped the other shoe?

eWeek's Steven Vaughan-Nichols has written an alarming report regarding Microsoft's publication of a Royalty-Free Protocol License Agreement. The agreement starts off by saying "If You want a license from Microsoft to implement one or more Protocols as defined below, You must (1) complete the designated information in the box below,...

Tags: Microsoft Corp.

Blog posts 2004-11-08