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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 default accounts on the access points

Follow these instructions to get started:

  1. Let's first connect to our Wireless Lab access point and attempt to navigate to the HTTP management interface. We see that the access point model is TP-LINK Wireless N Router WR841N, as shown in the following screenshot:
    Time for action – cracking default accounts on the access points
  2. From the manufacturer's website, we find the default password for admin is admin. We try this on the login page and we succeed in logging in. This shows how easy it is to break into accounts with default credentials. We highly encourage you to obtain the router's user manual online. This will allow you to understand what you are dealing with during the penetration test and gives you an insight into other configuration flaws you could check for.

What just happened?

We verified that the default credentials were never changed on this access point, and this could lead to a full network compromise. Also, even if the default credentials are changed, the...

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