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Kali Linux Wireless Penetration Testing Cookbook

By : Sean-Philip Oriyano
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Kali Linux Wireless Penetration Testing Cookbook

By: Sean-Philip Oriyano

Overview of this book

More and more organizations are moving towards wireless networks, and Wi-Fi is a popular choice. The security of wireless networks is more important than ever before due to the widespread usage of Wi-Fi networks. This book contains recipes that will enable you to maximize the success of your wireless network testing using the advanced ethical hacking features of Kali Linux. This book will go through techniques associated with a wide range of wireless penetration tasks, including WLAN discovery scanning, WEP cracking, WPA/WPA2 cracking, attacking access point systems, operating system identification, vulnerability mapping, and validation of results. You will learn how to utilize the arsenal of tools available in Kali Linux to penetrate any wireless networking environment. You will also be shown how to identify remote services, how to assess security risks, and how various attacks are performed. By finishing the recipes, you will feel confident conducting wireless penetration tests and will be able to protect yourself or your organization from wireless security threats.
Table of Contents (8 chapters)

Sniffing on a wireless network

Sniffing is a technique that is used to observe the traffic on a network as it makes its way from sender to receiver (and back in many cases). Sniffing allows you to capture traffic either in real-time, and distill it through the use of filters, or it can be captured and saved to a file for later analysis and processing. Sniffing is a powerful technique for gaining information about a network and the devices on it, which in turn can be used as a foundation for later activities based on the results achieved.

Notice that I refer to sniffing in the first line of this paragraph as a technique for observing traffic moving across a network. This is an important detail that I feel may be subtle and needs to be pointed out accordingly. Sniffing itself should never be considered something used for performing attacks, lest we become stuck in our thinking that...