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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 30, 2018
Filed:
Feb. 18, 2015
Symantec Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);
Justin Harmon, Knoxville, TN (US);
Symantec Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
The disclosed computer-implemented method for detecting potentially illegitimate wireless access points may include (1) detecting, at a current point in time, an attempt by a computing device to automatically connect to a target wireless access point that resembles a known wireless access point with which the computing device has established a previous connection at a previous point in time, (2) detecting at least one suspicious discrepancy between the target wireless access point and the known wireless access point, and then (3) determining, based at least in part on the suspicious discrepancy, that the target wireless access point is potentially illegitimate. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.