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Mastering Kali Linux Wireless Pentesting

By : Sak, Raghu Ram
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Mastering Kali Linux Wireless Pentesting

By: Sak, Raghu Ram

Overview of this book

Kali Linux is a Debian-based Linux distribution designed for digital forensics and penetration testing. It gives access to a large collection of security-related tools for professional security testing - some of the major ones being Nmap, Aircrack-ng, Wireshark, and Metasploit. This book will take you on a journey where you will learn to master advanced tools and techniques to conduct wireless penetration testing with Kali Linux. You will begin by gaining an understanding of setting up and optimizing your penetration testing environment for wireless assessments. Then, the book will take you through a typical assessment from reconnaissance, information gathering, and scanning the network through exploitation and data extraction from your target. You will get to know various ways to compromise the wireless network using browser exploits, vulnerabilities in firmware, web-based attacks, client-side exploits, and many other hacking methods. You will also discover how to crack wireless networks with speed, perform man-in-the-middle and DOS attacks, and use Raspberry Pi and Android to expand your assessment methodology. By the end of this book, you will have mastered using Kali Linux for wireless security assessments and become a more effective penetration tester and consultant.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)
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Index

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.