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Kali Linux Wireless Penetration Testing Beginner???s Guide - Third Edition

By : Cameron Buchanan, Daniel W. Dieterle, Vivek Ramachandran
Book Image

Kali Linux Wireless Penetration Testing Beginner???s Guide - Third Edition

By: Cameron Buchanan, Daniel W. Dieterle, Vivek Ramachandran

Overview of this book

As wireless networks become ubiquitous in our lives, wireless penetration testing has become a key skill in the repertoire of the professional penetration tester. This has been highlighted again recently with the discovery of the KRACK attack which enables attackers to potentially break into Wi-Fi networks encrypted with WPA2. The Kali Linux security distribution comes with a myriad of tools used for networking attacks and detecting security loopholes. Kali Linux Wireless Penetration Testing Beginner's Guide, Third Edition has been updated to Kali Linux 2017.3 with the latest methodologies, including full coverage of the KRACK attack and how to defend against it. The book presents wireless pentesting from the ground up, introducing all elements of penetration testing with each new technology. You'll learn various wireless testing methodologies by example, from the basics of wireless routing and encryption through to detailed coverage of hacking methods and attacks such as the Hirte and Caffe Latte.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Kali Linux Wireless Penetration Testing Beginner's Guide Third Edition
Credits
Disclaimer
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
Index

Time for action – bypassing Open Authentication


Let's now take a look at how to bypass Open Authentication:

  1. We will first set our lab access point Wireless Lab to use Open Authentication. On my access point, this is simply done by setting Security Mode to Disable Security:

  2. We then connect to this access point using the iwconfig wlan0 essid Wireless Lab command and verify that the connection has succeeded and that we are connected to the access point.

  3. Note that we did not have to supply any username/password/passphrase to get through Open Authentication.

What just happened?

This is probably the simplest exercise so far. As you saw, there is no barrier to connecting to an Open Authentication network and connecting to the access point.