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Mastering Kali Linux for Advanced Penetration Testing - Third Edition
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Mastering Kali Linux for Advanced Penetration Testing - Third Edition

by Vijay Kumar Velu, Robert Beggs
January 2019
Intermediate to advanced
548 pages
12h 7m
English
Packt Publishing
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Bypassing the MAC address authentication and open authentication

The Media Access Control (MAC) address uniquely identifies each node in a network. It takes the form of six pairs of hexadecimal digits (0 to 9 and the letters A to F) that are separated by colons or dashes, and usually appears like this: 00:50:56:C0:00:01.

The MAC address is usually associated with a network adapter or a device with networking capability; for this reason, it's frequently called the physical address.

The first three pairs of digits in the MAC address are called the Organizational Unique Identifier, and they serve to identify the company that manufactured or sold the device. The last three pairs of digits are specific to the device and can be considered to be ...

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ISBN: 9781789340563