CHAPTER 5ATTACK 802.11 WIRELESS CLIENTS
With the recent increase in WPA adoption, attacking 802.11 networks has gotten much more difficult. Gone are the days when nearly every 802.11 network could be cracked with a sufficient amount of time. This hardship has lead to an increased interest in hacking 802.11 clients instead.
Client-side attacks are unique in that they often take place at many levels of the protocol stack. At the uppermost level are application-level exploits. These are the advisories that everybody is used to seeing: bugs in QuickTime, bugs in Flash, and so on. What makes client-side attacks interesting is not so much the bug-of-the-day that is used to gain code execution, but the manipulation of the protocol layers required to ...
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