Over the past few years, the use of wireless internet in our daily lives and in the workplace has increased to the extent that, if I am booking a hotel room and there is no wireless internet, then I look for another hotel. Most rail companies provide complimentary Wi-Fi. Let's look at different types of wireless attacks:
- Evil Twin: An Evil Twin is a wireless access point with no security that is made to look like a legitimate wireless access point; when a user connects to it, all of their traffic is scanned and the user is unaware of this:
Figure 9: Evil twin
The diagram in Figure 9 helps to explain an evil twin wireless access point. The victim has gone to a coffee shop to purchase some coffee; the coffee shop provides Wi-Fi free of charge; the SSID is hidden, and the WAP password is included on the receipt. However, when the customer sits down at the...
