Date of Award
2014
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Science (MS)
Department
Computer Science
Committee Chair
Feng Zhu
Committee Member
Letha Etzkorn
Committee Member
Mary Ellen Weisskopf
Subject(s)
Bluetooth technology--Security measures, Mobile communication systems--Security measures, Wireless communication systems--Security measures
Abstract
The prevalence of personal mobile devices and the accompanying use of wireless technologies with those devices have seen unprecedented growth in recent years. The ubiquity of these devices combined with the reliance on users for security prevention and mitigation efforts makes these devices attractive targets for malicious intent. We provide an overview of wireless communication security issues and present a method of categorizing those vulnerabilities based on their general root cause. We further illustrate this method by assigning known Bluetooth exploits to those categories. We presented this and further security research to experiment participants in the form of articles, demonstrations, and hands-on projects hosted on a website. We compared user attitudes and intended security behaviors before and after this user education. Our results indicate that user attitudes towards recommended security behaviors changed favorably after we provided them with hands-on, real world projects and demonstrations on wireless security attacks and mitigations.
Recommended Citation
Brink, Deborah Silvia, "Affecting user attitudes : mobile devices and bluetooth security" (2014). Theses. 72.
https://louis.uah.edu/uah-theses/72