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Kali Linux Wireless Penetration Testing Beginner???s Guide

You're reading from   Kali Linux Wireless Penetration Testing Beginner???s Guide Master wireless testing techniques to survey and attack wireless networks with Kali Linux, including the KRACK attack

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2017
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ISBN-13 9781788831925
Length 210 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Vivek Ramachandran Vivek Ramachandran
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Cameron Buchanan Cameron Buchanan
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Daniel W. Dieterle Daniel W. Dieterle
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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 WLAN Infrastructure 6. Attacking the Client 7. Advanced WLAN Attacks 8. KRACK Attacks 9. Attacking WPA-Enterprise and RADIUS 10. WLAN Penetration Testing Methodology 11. WPS and Probes A. Pop Quiz Answers Index

Time for action – cracking WEP


Follow the given instructions to get started:

  1. Let's first connect to our access point Wireless Lab and go to the settings area that deals with wireless encryption mechanisms.

  2. On my access point, this can be done by setting the Security Mode to WEP. We will also need to set the WEP key length. As shown in the following screenshot, I have set WEP to use 128bit keys. I have set the default key to WEP Key 1 and the value in hex to abcdefabcdefabcdefabcdef12 as the 128-bit WEP key. You can set this to whatever you choose:

  3. Once the settings are applied, the access point should now be offering WEP as the encryption mechanism of choice. Let's now set up the attacker machine.

  4. Let's bring up wlan0 by issuing the following command:

    ifconfig wlan0 up
    
  5. Then, we will run the following command:

    airmon-ng start wlan0
    
  6. This is done to create wlan0mon, a monitor mode interface, as shown in the following screenshot. Verify that the wlan0mon interface has been created using the ifconfig...

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