Wireless attacks Flashcards
What is a rouge access point
Access point controls in a area throughout the network, if a hacker brings in a rogue access point because it causes the people to disconnect to the actual AP and connect with rogue AP
What is a evil twin attack?
This is where a hackers setup a access point with the same name as a legit SSID and causes a DDoS attack or capture information from the users
What is a dissociation attack?
If a attacker forges a frame and sends this request on the behalf of the users the AP will boot all the users off the network. Or connect over to a evil twin
What is a initialization vector?
A network has encryption and data is encrypted when its sent and to keep that data looking different a initialization vector is added like a random number or hash
What is a initialization vector attack?
This is where a hacker attack the initialization vector with small encryption protocols like 24 bit could be brute force attacked and eventually get cracked
What is RFID?
A chip or transponder in a card and chip reader and middleware to help with their communication.
What is RFID attack?
This is where a attack tries to reverse engineer their communication through power analysis of the communication and then resend that attack
What is a NFC?
This is near-field communication, are electric ticket tranfers communication, device pairing, near device comminication.
What is NFC attack?
This is a attacker sends a NFC mole send a card broadcast and talking to the users phone and then gets a card reader to record that communication the attack then gets that information
What is Jamming?
Where a communication is sent in the same energy range as a network communication. A attacker can get in between the user and AP they can block their communication
What is a bluetooth attacks
Bluejacking - is where a attacker tries to steal the communications sent between the user and a blue tooth device.
Bluesnarfing - the hacker tries to get the user to send them their information by getting between the two devices communication