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Kali Linux Wireless Penetration Testing Essentials
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This book is targeted at information security professionals, penetration testers and network/system administrators who want to get started with wireless penetration testing. No prior experience with Kali Linux and wireless penetration testing is required, but familiarity with Linux and basic networking concepts is recommended.
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Kali Linux Wireless Penetration Testing Essentials
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Kali Linux Wireless Penetration Testing Essentials
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Preface
What this book covers
What you need for this book
Who this book is for
Conventions
Reader feedback
Customer support
Errata
Piracy
Questions
1. Introduction to Wireless Penetration Testing
Phases of penetration testing
The planning phase
The discovery phase
The attack phase
The reporting phase
The executive summary
The technical report
Summary
2. Setting Up Your Machine with Kali Linux
Introduction to the Kali Linux distribution
Installing Kali Linux
Installation on a virtual machine
Creating a new virtual machine
Installation steps
Wireless adapter setup and configuration
Requirements of the wireless adapter
Wireless card configuration
Testing the adapter for wireless penetration testing
Troubleshooting
Summary
3. WLAN Reconnaissance
Introduction to 802.11 standard and wireless LAN
802.11 frames, types, and subtypes
Infrastructure mode and wireless access points
Wireless security
Wireless LAN scanning
Configuring the wireless adapter in monitor mode
Wireless scanning with airodump-ng
Wireless scanning with Kismet
Summary
4. WEP Cracking
An introduction to WEP
Attacks against WEP
WEP cracking with Aircrack-ng
Cracking the WEP key with connected clients
Cracking the WEP key without connected clients
The Fragmentation and ChopChop attacks
Forging and injecting ARP request frames
WEP cracking with automated tools
WEP cracking with Fern WiFi Cracker
Summary
5. WPA/WPA2 Cracking
An introduction to WPA/WPA2
Attacking the WPA
WPA cracking with Aircrack-ng
WPA cracking with Cowpatty
WPA cracking with the GPU
Pyrit
oclHashcat
WPA cracking with automated tools
Wifite
Summary
6. Attacking Access Points and the Infrastructure
Attacks against Wi-Fi Protected Setup
Reaver
Attacking WPA-Enterprise
Setting up a WPA-Enterprise network
Attacks targeting EAP
Attacking PEAP
Denial of Service attacks
DoS attacks with MDK3
Rogue access points
Attacking AP authentication credentials
Summary
7. Wireless Client Attacks
Honeypot access points and Evil Twin attacks
The Evil Twin attack in practice
Man-in-the-middle attacks
Ghost phisher
The Caffe Latte attack
The Hirte attack
Cracking WPA keys without the AP
Summary
8. Reporting and Conclusions
The four stages of report writing
Report planning
Information collection
Documentation tools
Writing the first draft
Review and finalization
The report format
The executive summary
The technical report
Summary
Conclusions
A. References
Chapter 1 – Introduction to Wireless Penetration Testing
Chapter 2 – Setting Up Your Machine with Kali Linux
Chapter 3 – WLAN Reconnaissance
Chapter 4 – WEP Cracking
Chapter 5 – WPA/WPA2 Cracking
Chapter 6 – Attacking Access Points and the Infrastructure
Chapter 7 – Wireless Client Attacks
Chapter 8 – Reporting and Conclusions
Index
Kali Linux Wireless Penetration Testing Essentials
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Author
Marco Alamanni
Reviewers
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Panos Georgiadis
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Disclaimer
This book contains instructions on how to perpetrate attacks with Kali Linux. These tasks are likely to be illegal in your jurisdiction in many circumstances, or at least count as terms of service violation or professional misconduct. The instructions are provided so that you can test your system against threats, understand the nature of these threats, and protect your own systems from similar attacks.
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