Wi-Fi Security: Do We Still Have to Look Back?

Karim Lounis

Paper 2022/1764

Wi-Fi Security: Do We Still Have to Look Back?

Karim Lounis

, National School of Artificial Intelligence

Abstract

Wi-Fi is a wireless communication technology that has been around since the late nineties. Nowadays, it is the most adopted wireless short-range communication technology in various IoT (Internet of Things) applications and on many wireless AI (Artificial Intelligent) systems. Although Wi-Fi security has significantly improved throughout the past years, it is still having some limitations. Some vulnerabilities still exist allowing attackers to generate different types of attacks. These attacks can breach the authentication, confidentiality, and data integrity of Wi-Fi systems. At the same time, many vulnerabilities have been fixed or patched, and the attacks that were relying on those vulnerabilities would fail on modern Wi-Fi systems. Therefore, it is important for security engineers, in general, and for wireless intelligent system designers, in particular, to be aware of the existing vulnerabilities and feasible attacks on modern Wi-Fi systems and their respective countermeasures. That would help them to not have to look back and care about attacks that can no longer be generated on today’s Wi-Fi systems. In this light, we devote this paper to extensively review the attacks on Wi-Fi. We group the attacks into feasible and unfeasible. Also, for each attack, we discuss the possible countermeasures to mitigate it.

Metadata

Available format(s): PDF
Category: Attacks and cryptanalysis
Publication info: Preprint.
Keywords: Wi-Fi Wi-Fi Security and Wi-Fi attacks
Contact author(s): karim lounis @ ensia edu dz
History: 2022-12-27: approved; 2022-12-25: received; See all versions
Short URL: https://ia.cr/2022/1764
License: CC0

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2022/1764,
      author = {Karim Lounis},
      title = {Wi-Fi Security: Do We Still Have to Look Back?},
      howpublished = {Cryptology ePrint Archive, Paper 2022/1764},
      year = {2022},
      note = {\url{https://eprint.iacr.org/2022/1764}},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2022/1764}
}