Security issues in wireless networks: An overview

Wireless mobile communication have grown dramatically in last decades. Due to increased usage of wireless mobile networks and communications in our everyday life, the society has become extremely exposed to cyber security attacks and threats in this environment. In order to provide a basis for further in detail discussion on attacks and security mechanisms in this challenging environment, this paper provides a brief overview of security issues, i.e., attacks, vulnerabilities, and threats in wireless networks. Based on the review, it may be concluded that future steps in this domain should include in detail investigation of security issues in all addressed networks and their categorization in a unified manner, either by the place they occur, network level, type of damage they cause, security breach level, etc., accompanied by the description of proposed classes.