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DENIAL OF CONVENIENCE ATTACK TO SMARTPHONES USING A FAKE WI-FI ACCESS POINT
Title
DENIAL OF CONVENIENCE ATTACK TO SMARTPHONES USING A FAKE WI-FI ACCESS POINT.
Creator
Dondyk, Erich, Zou, Cliff, University of Central Florida
Abstract / Description
In this thesis, we consider a novel denial of service attack targeted at popular smartphone operating systems. This type of attack, which we call a Denial of Convenience (DoC) attack, prevents non-technical savvy victims from utilizing data services by exploiting the connectivity management protocol of smartphones' operating systems when encountered with a Wi-Fi access point. By setting up a fake Wi-Fi access point without Internet access (using simple devices such as a laptop), an adversary...
Show moreIn this thesis, we consider a novel denial of service attack targeted at popular smartphone operating systems. This type of attack, which we call a Denial of Convenience (DoC) attack, prevents non-technical savvy victims from utilizing data services by exploiting the connectivity management protocol of smartphones' operating systems when encountered with a Wi-Fi access point. By setting up a fake Wi-Fi access point without Internet access (using simple devices such as a laptop), an adversary can prompt a smartphone with enabled Wi-Fi features to automatically terminate a valid mobile broadband connection and connect to this fake Wi-Fi access point. This, as a result, prevents the targeted smartphone from having any type of Internet connection unless the victim is capable of diagnosing the problem and disabling the Wi-Fi features manually. For the majority of smartphone users that have little networking knowledge, this can be a challenging task. We demonstrate that most current smartphones, including iPhone and Android phones, are vulnerable to this DoC attack. To address this attack, we propose implementing a novel Internet-access validation protocol to validate a Wi-Fi access point by taking advantage of the cellular network channel. It first uses the cellular network to send a secret to an Internet validation server, and tries to retrieve this secret via the newly established Wi-Fi channel to validate the connection of the Wi-Fi channel.
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Date Issued
2012
Identifier
CFH0004159, ucf:44838
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFH0004159
SPS: an SMS-based Push Service for Energy Saving in Smartphone's Idle State
Title
SPS: an SMS-based Push Service for Energy Saving in Smartphone's Idle State.
Creator
Dondyk, Erich, Zou, Changchun, Chatterjee, Mainak, Hua, Kien, University of Central Florida
Abstract / Description
Despite of all the advances in smartphone technology in recent years, smartphones still remain limited by their battery life. Unlike other power hungry components in the smartphone, the cellular data and Wi-Fi interfaces often continue to be used even while the phone is in the idle state to accommodate unnecessary data traffic produced by some applications. In addition, bad reception has been proven to greatly increase energy consumed by the radio, which happens quite often when smartphone...
Show moreDespite of all the advances in smartphone technology in recent years, smartphones still remain limited by their battery life. Unlike other power hungry components in the smartphone, the cellular data and Wi-Fi interfaces often continue to be used even while the phone is in the idle state to accommodate unnecessary data traffic produced by some applications. In addition, bad reception has been proven to greatly increase energy consumed by the radio, which happens quite often when smartphone users are inside buildings. In this paper, we present a Short message service Push based Service (SPS) to save unnecessary power consumption when smartphones are in idle state, especially in bad reception areas. First, SPS disables a smartphone's data interfaces whenever the phone is in idle state. Second, to preserve the real-time notification functionality required by some apps, such as new email arrivals and social media updates, when a notification is needed, a wakeup text message will be received by the phone, and then SPS enables the phone's data interfaces to connect to the corresponding server to retrieve notification data via the normal data network. Once the notification data has been retrieved, SPS will disable the data interfaces again if the phone is still in idle state. We have developed a complete prototype for Android smartphones. Our experiments show that SPS consumes less energy than the current approach. In areas with bad reception, the SPS prototype can double the battery life of a smartphone.
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Date Issued
2014
Identifier
CFE0005157, ucf:50718
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFE0005157