Threats: Threats to WiMAX

Black Hat Threat To WiMAX

Another threat to WiMax is black hat hackers, they are commonly known as awful people in our world with the negative thinking about cracking into the network or the computer system for their own financial benefit or mental satisfaction. They are also known as crackers or Black Hats. The essential thing to understand is not all the hackers are terrible as some people are doing penetration of a network or computer system in the limits of ethical standards to understand the vulnerabilities in their system or their clients system, also called white hat hackers.

See Major Threats:

Rouge Base Station

DoS (Denial of Service) Attacks

Data Link-Layer Threat

Application Layer Threat

Physical Layer Threat

Privacy Sub-Layer Threat

Mutual Authentication

Key Management Problem In WiMAX

Threat of Identity Theft

Water Torture