A group of academic researchers from the University of Hamburg in Germany has discovered that mobile devices leak identifying information about their owners via Wi-Fi probe requests. Mobile devices use these probe requests to receive information about nearby Wi-Fi access points and establish connections to them when a probe response is received. The post Researchers: Wi-Fi Probe Requests Expose User Data appeared first on SecurityWeek.
A group of academic researchers from the University of Hamburg in Germany has discovered that mobile devices leak identifying information about their owners via Wi-Fi probe requests.
Mobile devices use these probe requests to receive information about nearby Wi-Fi access points and establish connections to them when a probe response is received.
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