Learn Ethical Hacking from Scratch

Fake authentication attack

In the previous section, we saw how easy it is to crack a WEP key on a busy network. In a busy network, the data increases very quickly. The problem is that we're now going to fake as an AP that doesn't have any clients connected to it, or an AP that has a client connected to it, but the client is not using the network as heavily as the client in the previous section (perhaps the client is just reading articles or going on Facebook, not using as much data as we saw last time).

Let's look at an example. We will run airodump against the target AP, Test, to take a look at an idle AP. We now have Test, the same AP that we used before, but the difference is that we've disconnected the device that was connected. As we ...