Poster: LAPWiN: Location-Aided Probing in Wi-Fi Networks

Reckless Wi-Fi probing is becoming a serious threat as diverse Wi-Fi based services emerge for mobile devices. An attacker, for instance, can observe the list of previously associated Wi-Fi access points (APs) in the user’s Wi-Fi device without efforts, and exploit the information for launching fake AP attack, revealing hidden APs, or profiling users. In this work, we propose a novel Wi-Fi probing mechanism (LAPWiN), which is based on the current location of device and show how it can mitigate the possible threats.