{"id":149386,"date":"2022-11-03T13:24:36","date_gmt":"2022-11-03T18:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/researchers-discover-security-loophole-allowing-attackers-to-use-wi-fi-to-see-through-walls"},"modified":"2022-11-03T13:24:36","modified_gmt":"2022-11-03T18:24:36","slug":"researchers-discover-security-loophole-allowing-attackers-to-use-wi-fi-to-see-through-walls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/researchers-discover-security-loophole-allowing-attackers-to-use-wi-fi-to-see-through-walls","title":{"rendered":"Researchers discover security loophole allowing attackers to use Wi-Fi to see through walls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-discover-security-loophole-allowing-attackers-to-use-wi-fi-to-see-through-walls3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A research team based out of the University of Waterloo has developed a drone-powered device that can use Wi-Fi networks to see through walls.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/device\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">device<\/a>, nicknamed Wi-Peep, can fly near a building and then use the inhabitants\u2019 Wi-Fi network to identify and locate all Wi-Fi-enabled devices inside in a matter of seconds.<\/p>\n<p>The Wi-Peep exploits a loophole the researchers call polite Wi-Fi. Even if a network is password protected, <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/smart+devices\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">smart devices<\/a> will automatically respond to contact attempts from any device within range. The Wi-Peep sends several messages to a device as it flies and then measures the response time on each, enabling it to identify the device\u2019s location to within a meter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A research team based out of the University of Waterloo has developed a drone-powered device that can use Wi-Fi networks to see through walls. The device, nicknamed Wi-Peep, can fly near a building and then use the inhabitants\u2019 Wi-Fi network to identify and locate all Wi-Fi-enabled devices inside in a matter of seconds. The Wi-Peep [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488,418,1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones","category-internet","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}