Lecture9 Wireless Hacking

Question 1

Wifi is noisy

Answer 1

• constantly sending out messages saying I’m here!

Question 2

BSSID

Answer 2

Binary SSID - looks like a MAC address

Question 3

Wireless net maintains two separate nets

Answer 3

1) LAN

2) WLAN

Question 4

Issue with WEP

Answer 4

same shared key to all users

- Wireless Equivalent Protection/Privacy

Question 5

Aircrack-ng

Answer 5

suite of tools to assess WiFi Network security e.g. Airmon-ng

Question 6

Handshake

Answer 6

when you open your machine or come into the range of a router and connect to it

Question 7

SSL Strip

Answer 7

• downgrade the quality of encryption on that SSL connection such that brute forcing becomes feasible

Question 8

SSL Split

Answer 8

• where you have a rogue SSL
• you’re in the middle, you have a fully secure link that you create between your rogue access point and the target, you have a fully secure link between your rogue access point and the original access point for the original website. Both sides are happy that everything is secure but you are actually performing a man in the middle attack on both sides

Question 9

VPN

Answer 9

all data between you and a third party server is encrypted