While most penetration tests tend to focus on the exploitation of networks and the extraction of sensitive data, the loss of service and the inability of an organization to utilize its own wireless network can also have a significant impact on their productivity. Denial of Service attacks on wireless networks are typically given less importance compared to other attacks; however, they can still pose a very credible threat to the network, and the identification and response to such attacks need to be a part of the administrator's repertoire. Attackers can temporarily disable a wireless network using various techniques and can render the network unavailable to legitimate users.
In this chapter, we will look at some common techniques that can be deployed by the attacker to degrade or potentially render the wireless network unusable. We will discuss the following four major techniques to perform DoS attacks on the target wireless network:
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