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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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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

Attacking SNMP

The identification of the SNMP community string can yield a wealth of information about the wireless device and potentially a way to change the configuration via the 'write' community string. In this section, we will use a tool, onesixtyone, included in Kali to attempt to brute force these community strings. Of course, in order to use this tool, you will need to be able to reach the administrative interface of the access point or wireless router. You will not be able to accomplish this without first being connected to the wired or wireless network hosted by the AP. Follow these steps:

  1. Similar to our attack on SSH, you will need a dictionary file to brute force the community strings. There are several examples on the Internet that can be readily obtained for this purpose or you can use a general word list or dictionary file. The benefit of a specialized word list is that it could reduce the amount of time required to find the SNMP community string. The file we will...
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