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Mastering Kali Linux for Advanced Penetration Testing, Second Edition

You're reading from   Mastering Kali Linux for Advanced Penetration Testing, Second Edition Secure your network with Kali Linux – the ultimate white hat hackers' toolkit

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787120235
Length 510 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Vijay Kumar Velu Vijay Kumar Velu
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Preface 1. Goal-Based Penetration Testing FREE CHAPTER 2. Open Source Intelligence and Passive Reconnaissance 3. Active Reconnaissance of External and Internal Networks 4. Vulnerability Assessment 5. Physical Security and Social Engineering 6. Wireless Attacks 7. Reconnaissance and Exploitation of Web-Based Applications 8. Attacking Remote Access 9. Client-Side Exploitation 10. Bypassing Security Controls 11. Exploitation 12. Action on the Objective 13. Privilege Escalation 14. Command and Control

DoS attacks against wireless communications

The final attack against wireless networks that we'll evaluate is the DoS attack, where an attacker deprives a legitimate user of access to a wireless network or makes the network unavailable by causing it to crash. Wireless networks are extremely susceptible to DoS attacks, and it is difficult to localize the attacker on a distributed wireless network. Examples of DoS attacks include the following:

  • Injecting crafted network commands, such as reconfiguration commands, onto a wireless network can cause a failure of routers, switches, and other network devices.
  • Some devices and applications can recognize that an attack is taking place and will automatically respond by disabling the network. A malicious attacker can launch an obvious attack and then let the target create the DoS itself!
  • Bombarding the wireless network with a flood...
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