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Kali Linux Wireless Penetration Testing Cookbook

You're reading from   Kali Linux Wireless Penetration Testing Cookbook Identify and assess vulnerabilities present in your wireless network, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth enabled devices to improve your wireless security

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2017
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ISBN-13 9781783554089
Length 216 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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A brief history of Bluetooth

Bluetooth technology, as originally envisioned, was something that was invented and put forth by the Swedish telecommunication company Ericsson. The original concept for Bluetooth began back in 1989 when a group of engineers at the company decided to come up with, or were tasked with coming up with, a short-range radio technology that would be able to transmit and enable communications between the personal computers and headsets that Ericsson was intending to bring to market at that time. It was this core concept of uniting devices over short-range radio links that spurred the evolution of the technology into connecting more than just headsets and personal computers but later on different types of devices much like we see today.

In the 90's, with the development of portable technology such as personal data assistants or PDAs and other similar...

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