Summary

After reading this chapter, you should now have a much better understanding of evil twins, address spoofing, rogue access points, and methods used to detect evil twin attacks. Unprotected wireless networks continue to be a favorite attack vector for hackers around the world. As we learned earlier in the chapter, most public wireless networks do not use encryption to secure network communication. That is why using virtual private networks is a much better option when using wireless networks. It is important to remember that even VPNs are vulnerable to evil twins, because if you use a VPN on public Wi-Fi you must first connect to the access point before logging into the VPN (using VPN software). If you log in to an evil twin, you could be giving the attacker access to your VPN credentials. It is best practice to never conduct any business on a public wireless network that involves personal information. This...