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BackTrack 5 Wireless Penetration Testing Beginner's Guide

You're reading from   BackTrack 5 Wireless Penetration Testing Beginner's Guide Master bleeding edge wireless testing techniques with BackTrack 5.

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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 Vivek Ramachandran
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BackTrack 5 Wireless Penetration Testing
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
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

Hidden SSIDs


In the default configuration mode, all access points send out their SSIDs in the Beacon frames. This allows clients in the vicinity to discover them easily. Hidden SSIDs is a configuration where the access point does not broadcast its SSID in the Beacon frames. Thus, only clients which know the SSID of the access point can connect to it.

Unfortunately, this measure does not provide robust security, but most network administrators think it does. We will now look at how to uncover hidden SSIDs.

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