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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
Content preview from Kali Linux Wireless Penetration Testing Essentials

The Caffe Latte attack

In Chapter 4, WEP Cracking, we covered how to crack the WEP keys when the client is connected to the AP, injecting ARP request packets and capturing the generated traffic to collect a consistent number of IVs and then launching a statistical attack to crack the key.

Two wireless security researchers, Vivek Ramachandran and MD Sohail Ahmad, presented a new attack called Caffe Latte at the Toorcon 2007 conference that allows you to retrieve the WEP key from a client even when it is not connected and it is distant from the network.

The attack has been given this name because the authors demonstrated that the time required to complete it is (almost) as short as to take a cup of coffee in a coffee shop or in a restaurant (two classical ...

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ISBN: 9781785280856