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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

Product type Paperback

Published in Mar 2015

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781783280414

Length 214 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Tools

Kali Linux

Concepts

Penetration Testing

Authors (2):

Vivek Ramachandran

Cameron Buchanan

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Table of Contents (13) Chapters

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

WEP encryption

The WEP protocol was known to be flawed as early as 2000 but, surprisingly, it is still continuing to be used and access points still ship with WEP enabled capabilities.

There are many cryptographic weaknesses in WEP and they were discovered by Walker, Arbaugh, Fluhrer, Martin, Shamir, KoreK, and many others. Evaluation of WEP from a cryptographic standpoint is beyond the scope of this book, as it involves understanding complex math. In this section, we will take a look at how to break WEP encryption using readily available tools on the BackTrack platform. This includes the entire aircrack-ng suite of tools—airmon-ng, aireplay-ng, airodump-ng, aircrack-ng, and others.

The fundamental weakness in WEP is its use of RC4 and a short IV value that is recycled every 224 frames. While this is a large number in itself, there is a 50 percent chance of four reuses every 5,000 packets. To use this to our advantage, we generate a large amount of traffic so that we can increase the likelihood...

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Authors (2)

Vivek Ramachandran

Vivek Ramachandran

Vivek Ramachandran has been working on Wi-Fi security since 2003. He discovered the Caffe Latte attack and also broke WEP Cloaking, a WEP protection schema, publicly in 2007 at DEF CON. In 2011, he was the first to demonstrate how malware could use Wi-Fi to create backdoors, worms, and even botnets. Earlier, Vivek was one of the programmers of the 802.1x protocol and Port Security in Cisco's 6500 Catalyst series of switches, and he was also one of the winners of the Microsoft Security Shootout contest held in India among a reported 65,000 participants. He is best known in the hacker community as the founder of SecurityTube.net, where he routinely posts videos on Wi-Fi security, assembly language, exploitation techniques, and so on. SecurityTube.net receives over 100,000 unique visitors a month. Vivek's work on wireless security has been quoted in BBC Online, InfoWorld, MacWorld, The Register, IT World Canada, and so on. This year, he will speak or train at a number of security conferences, including Blackhat, DEF CON, Hacktivity, 44con, HITB-ML, BruCON Derbycon, Hashdays, SecurityZone, and SecurityByte.

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Cameron Buchanan

Cameron Buchanan

Cameron Buchanan is a penetration tester by trade and a writer in his spare time. He has performed penetration tests around the world for a variety of clients across many industries. Previously, Cameron was a member of the RAF. In his spare time, he enjoys doing stupid things, such as trying to make things fly, getting electrocuted, and dunking himself in freezing cold water. He is married and lives in London.

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