{"id":5611,"date":"2020-09-16T10:47:27","date_gmt":"2020-09-16T10:47:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5611"},"modified":"2020-09-16T10:47:29","modified_gmt":"2020-09-16T10:47:29","slug":"using-beacons-to-prevent-a-lunchtime-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/using-beacons-to-prevent-a-lunchtime-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Using Beacons to Prevent a Lunchtime Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There&#8217;s a new paper on <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-030-58951-6_14\" target=\"_blank\">DE-auth of the Blue! Transparent De-authentication Using Bluetooth Low Energy Beacon<\/a>. While the paper is behind a paywall, the paper&#8217;s abstract provides enough information to determine the intent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When people move away from their desk, for example for lunch, they often don&#8217;t log out. It can be some time before the screen saver kicks in and logs the user out. The paper takes a look at the use of beacons to provide de-authentication when the person moves away from their desk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/deauthenicationmoveawayfromdesk-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"De-authentication move away from desk\" class=\"wp-image-5613\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/deauthenicationmoveawayfromdesk-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/deauthenicationmoveawayfromdesk-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/deauthenicationmoveawayfromdesk-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/deauthenicationmoveawayfromdesk-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/deauthenicationmoveawayfromdesk.jpg 1368w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a much simpler method than previous research that used <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/pdf\/1708.03978.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Seated Posture Biometrics<\/a> (pdf).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a new paper on DE-auth of the Blue! Transparent De-authentication Using Bluetooth Low Energy Beacon. While the paper is behind a paywall, the paper&#8217;s abstract provides enough information to determine the intent. When people move away from their desk, for example for lunch, they often don&#8217;t log out. It can be some time before &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/using-beacons-to-prevent-a-lunchtime-attack\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Using Beacons to Prevent a Lunchtime Attack&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5611"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5611"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5614,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5611\/revisions\/5614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}