Wi-Foo: The Secrets of Wireless Hacking

Wi-Foo: The Secrets of Wireless Hacking


The definitive guide to penetrating and defending wireless networks.
Straight from the field, this is the definitive guide to hacking wireless networks. Authored by world-renowned wireless security auditors, this hands-on, practical guide covers everything you need to attack -- or protect -- any wireless network.
The authors introduce the 'battlefield, ' exposing today's 'wide open' 802.11 wireless networks and their attackers. One step at a time, you'll master the attacker's entire arsenal of hardware and software tools: crucial knowledge for crackers and auditors alike. Next, you'll learn systematic countermeasures for building hardened wireless 'citadels''including cryptography-based techniques, authentication, wireless VPNs, intrusion detection, and more.
Coverage includes:
  • Step-by-step walkthroughs and explanations of typical attacks
  • Building wireless hacking/auditing toolkit: detailed recommendations, ranging from discovery tools to chipsets and antennas
  • Wardriving: network mapping and site surveying
  • Potential weaknesses in current and emerging standards, including 802.11i, PPTP, and IPSec
  • Implementing strong, multilayered defenses
  • Wireless IDS: why attackers aren't as untraceable as they think
  • Wireless hacking and the law: what's legal, what isn't
If you're a hacker or security auditor, this book will get you in. If you're a netadmin, sysadmin, consultant, or home user, it will keep everyone else out.



Details of Ebook: Wi-Foo: The Secrets of Wireless Hacking


Title: Wi-Foo: The Secrets of Wireless Hacking
Author: Andrew Vladimirov, Konstaintin V. Gavrilenko, Andrei A. Mikhailovsky
ISBN: 0321202171
ISBN-13: 9780321202178,978-0321202178
File Type: CHM
File Size: 6.72 MB
Publisher: Addison-wesley Professional
Number of Pages: 555
Language: English


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