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Kali Linux: Wireless Penetration Testing Beginner's Guide, Second Edition

By : Cameron Buchanan
Book Image

Kali Linux: Wireless Penetration Testing Beginner's Guide, Second Edition

By: Cameron Buchanan

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Kali Linux Wireless Penetration Testing Beginner's Guide
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Disclaimer
Preface
Index

Chapter 7. Advanced WLAN Attacks

 

"To know your enemy, you must become your enemy."

 
 --Sun Tzu, Art of War

As a penetration tester, it is important to know the advanced attacks a hacker can do, even if you might not check or demonstrate them during a penetration test. This chapter is dedicated to showing how a hacker can conduct advanced attacks using wireless access as the starting point.

In this chapter, we will take a look at how we can conduct advanced attacks using what we have learned so far. We will primarily focus on the man-in-the-middle attack (MITM), which requires a certain amount of skill and practice to conduct successfully. Once we have done this, we will use this MITM attack as a base from which to conduct more sophisticated attacks such as Eavesdropping and session hijacking.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • MITM attack

  • Wireless Eavesdropping using MITM

  • Session hijacking using MITM