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Kali Linux: Wireless Penetration Testing Beginner's Guide, Second Edition

You're reading from   Kali Linux: Wireless Penetration Testing Beginner's Guide, Second Edition Master wireless testing techniques to survey and attack wireless networks with Kali Linux

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2015
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781783280414
Length 214 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Vivek Ramachandran Vivek Ramachandran
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Cameron Buchanan Cameron Buchanan
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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. Attacking WPA-Enterprise and RADIUS 9. WLAN Penetration Testing Methodology 10. WPS and Probes A. Pop Quiz Answers Index

MAC filters


MAC filters are an age-old technique used for authentication and authorization and have their roots in the wired world. Unfortunately, they fail miserably in the wireless world.

The basic idea is to authenticate based on the MAC address of the client. The MAC filter is an identification code assigned to a network interface; a router will be able to check this code and compare it to a list of approved MACs. This list of allowed MAC addresses will be maintained by the network administrator and will be fed into the access point. We will now take a look at how easy it is to bypass MAC filters.

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