Mastering Kali Linux for Advanced Penetration Testing - Third Edition

Denial-of-service (DoS) attacks against wireless communications

The final attack against wireless networks that we'll evaluate is DoS attacks, where an attacker deprives a legitimate user of access to a wireless network or makes the network unavailable by causing it to crash. Wireless networks are extremely susceptible to DoS attacks, and it is difficult to localize the attacker on a distributed wireless network. Examples of DoS attacks include the following:

• Injecting crafted network commands, such as reconfiguration commands, on to a wireless network can cause the failure of routers, switches, and other network devices.
• Some devices and applications can recognize that an attack is taking place and will automatically respond by disabling ...