12 Medium Range Radio: Hacking Wi-Fi
Medium-range radio technologies can connect devices across a range of up to 100 meters (approximately 328 feet). In this chapter, we focus on Wi-Fi, the most popular technology in IoT devices.
We explain how Wi-Fi works and then describe some of the most important attacks against it. Using a variety of tools, we perform disassociation and association attacks. We also abuse Wi-Fi Direct and walk through some popular ways of breaking WPA2 encryption.
How Wi-Fi Works
Other medium-range radio technologies, such as Thread, Zigbee, and Z-Wave, were designed for low-rate applications with a maximum of 250Kbps, ...
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