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The “Evil” Access Point

Apr 22,2010 by alperen

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One of the sneakier tricks that hackers use is to plant an “extra” access
point somewhere in the corporate facilities (or close to a pocket of heavy
wireless network traffic) in an attempt to capture wireless traffic without
the knowledge of the wireless user.
This attack is difficult to discover since the access point is hidden
from view. The only requirement is that the “evil” access point have a
stronger signal than the “true” access point. This device could easily
capture enough information, which the hacker can exploit as an access
vulnerability, to access all the wireless network resources without proper
authorization mechanisms.
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