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Mastering Kali Linux Wireless Pentesting

You're reading from   Mastering Kali Linux Wireless Pentesting Test your wireless network's security and master advanced wireless penetration techniques using Kali Linux

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2016
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ISBN-13 9781785285561
Length 310 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Jilumudi Raghu Ram Jilumudi Raghu Ram
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Brian Sak Brian Sak
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Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Wireless Penetration Testing Fundamentals FREE CHAPTER 2. Wireless Network Scanning 3. Exploiting Wireless Devices 4. Wireless Cracking 5. Man-in-the-Middle Attacks 6. Man-in-the-Middle Attacks Using Evil Twin Access Points 7. Advanced Wireless Sniffing 8. Denial of Service Attacks 9. Wireless Pentesting from Non-Traditional Platforms Index

Tools of the trade

Kali provides an excellent platform for the discovery, cataloging, and penetration of wireless networks. In this section, we will look at several tools that can be used to scan and discover wireless networks. This process will be instrumental in later chapters as we use the information gathered here to choose our targets and focus our efforts:

  • Airodump-ng
  • Airgraph-ng
  • hoover
  • Wash
  • Kismet
  • Wireshark

Let's look at each of these tools in more detail and show how they can assist with mapping and discovering wireless networks.

Airodump-ng

Airodump-ng is part of the Aircrack-ng suite used extensively to penetrate wireless 802.11 networks. Airodump-ng captures raw 802.11 frames from the wireless medium in the vicinity; it is also capable of capturing weak IVs (Initialization Vectors) that are used in cracking the WEP key. The output from airodump-ng is saved in several formats (pcap, ivs, csv, gps, kismet, netxml, and so on), which can be analyzed once the scan is finished. Airodump...

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