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BackTrack 5 Wireless Penetration Testing Beginner's Guide

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Product type Paperback

Published in Sep 2011

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781849515580

Length 220 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Vivek Ramachandran

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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

BackTrack 5 Wireless Penetration Testing

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewer

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Preface

1. Wireless Lab Setup FREE CHAPTER

2. WLAN and Its Inherent Insecurities

3. Bypassing WLAN Authentication

4. WLAN Encryption Flaws

5. Attacks on the WLANInfrastructure

6. Attacking the Client

7. Advanced WLAN Attacks

8. Attacking WPA-Enterprise and RADIUS

9. WLAN Penetration Testing Methodology

Conclusion and Road Ahead

Pop Quiz Answers

Index

Chapter 2. WLAN and Its Inherent Insecurities

Note

"The loftier the building, the deeper the foundation must be laid."

Thomas Kempis, Writer

Nothing great can be built on a weak foundation, and in our context, nothing secure can be built on something which is inherently insecure.

WLANs by design have certain insecurities which are relatively easy to exploit, such as packet spoofing, packet injection, and sniffing (which could even happen from far away). We will explore those flaws in this chapter.

In this chapter, we will look at the following:

Revisiting WLAN frames
Different frame types and sub-types
Using Wireshark to sniff Management, Control, and Data frames
Sniffing data packets for a given wireless network
Injecting packets into a given wireless network

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Authors (1)

Vivek Ramachandran

Vivek Ramachandran

Vivek Ramachandran has been working on Wi-Fi security since 2003. He discovered the Caffe Latte attack and also broke WEP Cloaking, a WEP protection schema, publicly in 2007 at DEF CON. In 2011, he was the first to demonstrate how malware could use Wi-Fi to create backdoors, worms, and even botnets. Earlier, Vivek was one of the programmers of the 802.1x protocol and Port Security in Cisco's 6500 Catalyst series of switches, and he was also one of the winners of the Microsoft Security Shootout contest held in India among a reported 65,000 participants. He is best known in the hacker community as the founder of SecurityTube.net, where he routinely posts videos on Wi-Fi security, assembly language, exploitation techniques, and so on. SecurityTube.net receives over 100,000 unique visitors a month. Vivek's work on wireless security has been quoted in BBC Online, InfoWorld, MacWorld, The Register, IT World Canada, and so on. This year, he will speak or train at a number of security conferences, including Blackhat, DEF CON, Hacktivity, 44con, HITB-ML, BruCON Derbycon, Hashdays, SecurityZone, and SecurityByte.

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