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Kali Linux Wireless Penetration Testing Essentials
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Kali Linux Wireless Penetration Testing Essentials

by Marco Alamanni
July 2015
Intermediate to advanced
164 pages
3h 27m
English
Packt Publishing
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Rogue access points

Until now, we have covered unauthenticated attacks against the wireless networks, to crack WEP or WPA keys, attack WPA-Enterprise, recover the WPS PIN, and to gain access to such networks.

In this section, we will cover an attack that assumes the attacker (insider or outsider) to be controlling a machine already connected to the wired LAN: rogue access points.

Indeed, a rogue AP is an access point installed on a LAN without authorization and can be used by an attacker as a backdoor to the network.

A rogue AP can be installed either physically or via software (soft AP). The installation of a physical AP involves breaking the physical security policies of the network and can be identified more easily. We are going to see how to ...

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ISBN: 9781785280856