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Building a Pentesting Lab for Wireless Networks
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Building a Pentesting Lab for Wireless Networks

by Andrey Popov, Vyacheslav Fadyushin, Aaron Woody
March 2016
Beginner to intermediate
264 pages
5h 40m
English
Packt Publishing
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Preparing configs and scripts

We have installed the necessary tools in our Wi-Fi pentesting system, but it is just a part of the preparation work. In order to be able to use some of them, we need to prepare some configuration files and develop a script to automate some tasks.

Note

You might need to tweak some of the configs and scripts given in this chapter in order to make them work with your hardware and software setup.

We would like to start with Hostapd. We mostly use it in two situations: when we need to install a fake AP to attack clients' traffic and to set an AP with FreeRADIUS-WPE when we attack WPA-Enterprise protected networks.

Standalone Hostapd-based APs

To install a rogue AP for client traffic or phishing attacks you can use Hostapd in ...

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