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| Personal Area Network (PAN) technology |
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Established when two Bluetooth devices come
within range of each other
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One device (master) controls all wireless traffic
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Other device (slave) takes commands
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Active slaves can send transmissions
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Parked slaves are connected but not actively
participating |
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Group of piconets
with connections between
different piconets |
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Attack that sends unsolicited messages to
Bluetooth
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enabled devices
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Text messages, images, or sound |
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Unauthorized access to wireless information
through a Bluetooth connection |
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| Acts as “base station” for wireless network |
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Documenting and then advertising location of
wireless LANs for others to use
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Previously done by drawing on sidewalks or walls
around network area
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Today, locations are posted on Web sites |
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Attacks using access points
Rogue access points
AP setup by an attacker
mimic authorized AP |
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Unauthorized access point that allows attacker to
bypass network security configurations |
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Frame carries Service Set Identifier (SSID)
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User
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supplied network name
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Can be any alphanumeric string 2
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32 characters long |
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WEP can only use 64
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bit or 128
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bit number to encrypt
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Initialization vector
(IV) is only 24 of those bits
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Short length makes it easier to break |
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Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (
TKIP
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Encryption
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Used in WPA
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Uses longer 128 bit key than WEP
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Dynamically generated for each new packet
WPA encryption technology |
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| Proprietary method developed by Cisco Systems |
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Simplifies deployment of 802.1x by using
Microsoft Windows logins and passwords
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Creates encrypted channel between client and
authentication server |
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wireless technology using short
-range RF transmissions |
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Attackers can identify the existence of a wireless network using wireless location mapping
using portable computing device |
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| PAN, personal area network technology designed for data communication over short distances |
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| 2005, BASED ON Bluetooth v1.2 |
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| 2 types of Bluetooth Network topologies |
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| a group of piconets in which connections exist between different piconets |
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speed: 600Mbps
Coverage Area: The new standard doubles for indoor range and triples the outdoor range of coverage
Interference: uses different frequencies to reduce interference
Security: strongest level of security
2.4Ghz 0r 5Ghz |
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| Combination of standards established in 2007 |
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| 1997: release of IEEE 802.11 |
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Standard for wireless local area networks (WLANs)
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Higher speeds added in 1999: IEEE 802.11b |
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Specifies maximum rated speed of 54Mbps using
the 5GHz spectrum |
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Preserves stable and widely accepted features of
802.11b
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Increases data transfer rates similar to 802.11a
2.4Ghz@54Mbps |
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| Wireless client network interface card adapter |
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| performs same function as a wired adapter with one major exception, no external RJ-45 connection |
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An antenna and a radio transmitter/receiver to send and receive wireless signals
special bridging software that allows to interface wireless devices to other devices
a wired network interface that allows it to connect by cable to a standard wired network |
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Act as a base station
act as a bridge between the wireless and wired networks |
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| Standard AP's are known as |
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| an AP sends a signal to announce its presence and to provide the necessary information for devices wishing to join the wireless network |
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| orderly means for wireless devices to establish and maintain communications |
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| each wireless device looks for those beacon frames |
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| What are the entry points features of hardware devices from the internet into a wireless network? |
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AP
Firewall
router
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol |
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| wireless location mapping |
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| formal expression for this passive wireless discovery process of finding a WLAN signal |
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| posting the location of discovered WLAN's on web sites |
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| Attacks through RF spectrum |
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wireless protocol analyzer
generating interference |
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| Attacks using Access Points |
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rogue access points
evil twins |
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| 3 Categories of vulnerabilities for the 802.11 |
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Definition
MAC address filtering
SSID broadcast
Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) encryption |
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Media Access Control
MAC address filtering |
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| method for controlling access to a WLAN based on the device's MAC address |
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| Vulnerabilities of MAC address filtering |
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exchanged between wireless devices and the AP in an unecrypted format
not practical because of large and dynamic wireless network |
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| transmission of the SSID from the access point to a wireless device |
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WEP
Wired Equivalent Privacy |
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| IEEE 802.11 security protocol designed to ensure that only authorized parties can view transmitted wireless information |
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| 24 bit value used in WEP that changes each time a packet is encrypted |
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| method of determining the keystream by analyzing 2 packets that were created from the same IV |
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| "scrambling", format that cannot be viewed by unauthorized parties while being transmitted |
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WPA
Wi-Fi Protected Access |
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| Protect both present and future wireless devices, address both encryption and authentication |
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| WPA replaces_____with an encryption technology called TKIP |
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TKIP
Temporal Key Integrity Protocol |
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Per-packet keys, dynamically generates a new key for each packet that is created
prevent collisions which were one of the primary weaknesses of WEP |
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PSK
Preshared Key Authentication |
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| key must be created and entered into both the access point and all wireless devices prior to the devices communicating with the AP |
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AES-CCMP Encryption
Advanced Encryption Standard |
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blocks 128 bits
encryption protocol standard for WPA2 |
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| Counter Code with CBC-Mac of the AES encryption algorithm |
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Lightweight EAP
Protected EAP |
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| A propriety EAP method developed by CISCO Systems requiring mutual authentication used for WLAN encryption using Cisco Client software |
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| An EAP method designed to simplify the deployment of 802.1x by using Microsoft Windows Logins and passwords |
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EAP
Extensible Authentication Protocol |
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| A framework for transporting authentication protocols that defines the format of the messages |
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