Wireless attacks
Over the past few years, the use of wireless in our daily lives and in the office has increased to an extent that if I am booking a hotel room and there is no wireless, then I look for another hotel. As you travel on the railways to and from work, the rail company provides complimentary Wi-Fi. Let's look at the types of wireless attacks:
- Evil twin: An evil twin is a wireless access point with no security that is made to look like a legitimate wireless access point; when the user connects to it, all of his traffic is being scanned and he is unaware of this:
Figure 9: Evil twin
The diagram in Figure 9 will help explain an evil twin wireless access point. The victim has gone to a coffee shop to purchase some coffee; the shop is providing Wi-Fi free of charge, the SSID is hidden, and the WAP password is included on the receipt. However, when the customer sits down at the table to hook up his tablet, he finds an SSID also called CAFÉ; he then thinks that this is the Wi-Fi that he...
