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Kali Linux Wireless Penetration Testing Essentials

You're reading from   Kali Linux Wireless Penetration Testing Essentials Plan and execute penetration tests on wireless networks with the Kali Linux distribution

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2015
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785280856
Length 164 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introduction to Wireless Penetration Testing FREE CHAPTER 2. Setting Up Your Machine with Kali Linux 3. WLAN Reconnaissance 4. WEP Cracking 5. WPA/WPA2 Cracking 6. Attacking Access Points and the Infrastructure 7. Wireless Client Attacks 8. Reporting and Conclusions A. References Index

Chapter 3. WLAN Reconnaissance

In this chapter, we are going to introduce the basic concepts behind wireless LANs (Local Area Networks) and see how to carry out the reconnaissance and information gathering phase of our penetration test.

This chapter deals with wireless networks scanning and information gathering, enumerating visible and hidden networks, identifying the security protocols used, their possible vulnerabilities and the connected clients. The topics covered are as follows:

  • Introduction to 802.11 standard and wireless LAN
  • Introduction to wireless scanning
  • Wireless scanning with airodump-ng
  • Wireless scanning with Kismet
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