CHAPTER 3ATTACKING 802.11 WIRELESS NETWORKS
Security on wireless networks has had a very checkered past. WEP, in particular, has been broken so many times that you would think people would quit getting all spun up about it. This chapter covers tools and techniques to bypass security on networks that are using everything short of WPA. Where possible, attacks are presented on Linux, Windows, and OS X.
BASIC TYPES OF ATTACKS
Wireless network defenses can fall into a few different categories. The first category—“totally ineffective,” otherwise known as security through obscurity—is trivial to break through for anyone who’s genuinely interested in doing so.
The next type of defense could be classified as “annoying.” Generally, WEP and a dictionary-based ...
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