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Smartphones On Drones Can Hack Your Wireless Printer

2015-10-08 17:56:21| Wireless - Topix.net

Researchers from iTrust, a cybersecurity research center at Singapore University of Technology and Design, have used a drone carrying an Android smartphone to compromise a network through a connected WiFi-enabled printer. Exploiting the erroneous assumption that printers can get by without wireless security , the researchers, including professor Yuval Elovici, Jinghui Toh, and Hatib Muhammad, created an Android app that can identify a printer's open wireless network.

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