CWSP, 2nd Edition

Chapter 12 Wireless Security Risks

IN THIS CHAPTER, YOU WILL LEARN ABOUT THE FOLLOWING:

✓ Unauthorized rogue access

• Rogue devices

• Rogue prevention

✓ Eavesdropping

• Casual eavesdropping

• Malicious eavesdropping

• Eavesdropping risks

• Eavesdropping prevention

✓ Authentication attacks

✓ Denial of Service (DoS) attacks

• Layer 1 DoS

• Layer 2 DoS

✓ MAC spoofing

✓ Wireless hijacking

✓ Encryption cracking

✓ Peer-to-Peer attacks

✓ Management interface exploits

✓ Vendor proprietary attacks

✓ Social engineering

✓ Physical damage and theft

✓ Guest access and WLAN hotspots

802.11 wireless networking is inherently insecure due to the use of a shared and unbounded medium—radio frequency (RF) signals. Unlike traditional bounded, or wired, networks, the medium ...