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Ethical Hacking Workshop

You're reading from   Ethical Hacking Workshop Explore a practical approach to learning and applying ethical hacking techniques for effective cybersecurity

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781804612590
Length 220 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Rishalin Pillay Rishalin Pillay
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Mohammed Abutheraa Mohammed Abutheraa
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1:Network Fundamentals
2. Chapter 1: Networking Primer FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Capturing and Analyzing Network Traffic 4. Chapter 3: Cryptography Primer 5. Part 2: Breaking and Entering
6. Chapter 4: Reconnaissance 7. Chapter 5: Scanning 8. Chapter 6: Gaining Access 9. Part 3: Total Immersion
10. Chapter 7: Post-Exploitation 11. Index 12. Other Books You May Enjoy

Wi-Fi and cloud scanning

Wi-Fi or wireless and cloud scanning are two additional crucial phases within any ethical hacking engagement, especially if they are part of the environment. In this section, these two phases will be discussed in detail. We will look at wireless scanning first.

Wireless scanning

Most of the time, many wireless access points or routers are configured with minimum or no security by default. In addition, many wireless access points are configured with weak security protocols such as Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) and Lightweight Extensible Authentication Protocol (LEAP), which have security flaws or weaknesses.

Wireless access points broadcast beacon packets with their SSIDs. SSID is the service set identifier and acts as the name of the wireless access point. A few tools that are used for wireless scanning are NetStumbler, inSSIDER, Wellenreiter, Aircrack-ng, and Kismet. We will cover these in the following sub-sections.

To successfully use wireless...

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