Sunday, January 17, 2010

MiFi Attack Exploits GPS To Reveal User's Location

http://evilpacket.net/2010/jan/14/mifi-geopwn/

The MiFi by Novatel Wireless (re-branded and sold by multiple vendors such as Sprint and Verizon) is a mobile wifi hotspot. The mifi also has a built in GPS to provide location based searching. Turns out that the web interface to this little device has a lot going on that can be exploited, from gaining the user's GPS data to terminating the user's connectivity.

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So for those that weren't paying attention: Any MiFi user that visits a specially crafted page will give up their GPS location to the attacker.

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