What this book covers

Chapter 1, Wireless Penetration Testing Fundamentals, introduces you to the hardware, software, and terminology associated with wireless penetration tests. It guides you through deploying Kali and verifying your wireless hardware required to conduct a successful wireless assessment.

Chapter 2, Wireless Network Scanning, covers the steps that are to be performed in order to discover, identify, and catalog wireless networks and clients that are in the scope of your penetration test.

Chapter 3, Exploiting Wireless Devices, describes weaknesses that may be present in the wireless equipment itself and tools and techniques you can use to exploit these weaknesses.

Chapter 4, Wireless Cracking, digs into the interception of wireless key exchanges and authentication between the clients and the infrastructure. It also shows you practical techniques to crack these various security mechanisms and expose the encrypted data transmissions.

Chapter 5, Man-in-the Middle Attacks, explains and demonstrates ways to extract sensitive information from the clients who are using the wireless infrastructure by enabling you to intercept their traffic and manipulate critical network resources.

Chapter 6, Man-in-the Middle Attacks Using Evil Twin Access Points, expands on the previous chapter by showing you techniques to set up a parallel wireless infrastructure to emulate the production network. This enables additional attacks against the clients utilizing the wireless network.

Chapter 7, Advanced Wireless Sniffing, covers the use of traffic captures and decryption as a means to extract sensitive information from the data that is traversing the wireless network. Tools and techniques used to collect and analyze the data are provided.

Chapter 8, Denial of Service Attacks, discusses the use of targeted or broad disruptions in the performance or availability of the wireless network as an element of a wireless assessment.

Chapter 9, Wireless Pen-Testing from Non-Traditional Platforms, expands upon the previous chapters and introduces additional hardware and software platforms that can be used during a wireless assessment, including Raspberry Pi and Android devices.