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Maximum Wireless Security
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Maximum Wireless Security

by Cyrus Peikari, Seth Fogie
December 2002
Intermediate to advanced
408 pages
10h 1m
English
Sams
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Clean Up

Clean up is the stage in which a hacker goes back over his actions and cleans up any files or logs that were created as a result of the attack. This is the most important part of any hack attack. If a hacker can clean up 100%, the owner of the network will not know the hacker was ever there, and thus will not be expecting the hacker at a later date. In addition, by deleting the logs, a hacker deletes all evidence of his crime.

In the case of hacking through a WLAN, there will be some log files left behind on the access point that could provide hints as to the identity of the hacker. MAC addresses and more can be logged depending on the configuration settings, which means a hacker either has to own the access point and delete the logs, ...

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