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WEP Cracking via Passive Listening
WEP Cracking via Passive Listening

The purpose of this lab is to understand and exploit the security vulnerabilities of an 802.11 WEP-secured network. You will passively collected enough WEP IV's (Initialization Vectors) to determine the WEP encryption key. After obtaining the key, you will need to masquerade as a legitimate WEP client on the network, access a server, and download a file.

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WEP Cracking via Active Injection
WEP Cracking via Active Injection

The purpose of this lab is to continue exploring the vulnerabilities of the 802.11 WEP security protocol. It is well-known that the WEP protocol is crippled with numerous security flaws. In the WEP Cracking via passive Listening lab in the Eureka series, we explored the methods of exploiting these flaws when a large amount of data was present. However, it is unlikely that a sufficiently large data stream is present on a network when in regular usage. This makes the relatively easy WEP crack from the Basic lab considerably more difficult. In this lab, we will use more efficient techniques to continue exploiting the WEP protocol.

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WPA-PSK Key Cracking via Handshake Capture
WPA-PSK Key Cracking via Handshake Capture

The first generation of the IEEE 802.11 Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) security standard was found to be vulnerable to various statistical weaknesses in the encryption algorithm. While at- tempts were made to correct the problem, it is still relatively simple to crack WEP and essentially obtain the password right out of thin air. As a result, the Wi-Fi Alliance created an interim stan- dard called Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA). However, the WPA Pre-Shared Key (PSK) mode is crackable due to a flaw that exists in the au- thentication procedure. There is a human-friendly password and a user involved. Combined with the reality that most users select poor passwords, there is an opportunity that can be exploited. The TKIP cipher is not crackable, as it is a per-packet key. However, the initialization of the TKIP, which happens during client authentication, provides an opportunity to obtain the password. An effective way to crack WPA-PSK is to force a re-authentication of a legitimate client. By forcing an actively connected client to disconnect and reconnect, we can capture the WPA-PSK four-way handshake that protects the key exchange. A robust dictionary attack may take care of a lot of simple passwords. Consequently, it is potentially easier to crack WPA-PSK than it is to crack WEP, as we will discover in this lab.

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"Unlock" Wi-Fi Protected Setup (WPS)
"Unlock" Wi-Fi Protected Setup (WPS)

Wi-Fi Protected Setup, or WPS, is a push-button authentication method for WPA2 Personal-secured networks. Have you ever been connecting to a network and seen an option underneath the ``Password" field that said ``Or push the button on the router to connect?" That is WPS at work. WPS relies mainly on physical security, or the idea that a potential attacker needs to be physically present to compromise the system. However, this lab will demonstrate how a remote WPS attack is still possible.

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Secure your WiFi with WPA2-Enterprise
Secure your WiFi with WPA2-Enterprise

The purpose of this lab is to setup a WPA/WPA2 Enterprise (TKIP/AES + EAP-TTLS/PEAP) wireless network using FreeRadius and OpenWRT on a router. In addition, you will configure Linux/Windows/Android clients to connect to the network.

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Lab Platform for Users (Updated)
Lab Platform for Users (Updated)

In this document, we first will introduce how to create a user lab platform to perform activities for our Eureka labs. Next, we will exercise with a few important wireless related commands. Lastly, we will perform a rudimentary wireless network survey with these tools and commands.

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"Hide-and-Seek" in Wireless
"Hide-and-Seek" in Wireless

In this basic lab, we will setup a simple wireless network with SSID hiding enabled. Students will be tasked to perform wireless network ``hide-and-seek'' (a simple wireless penetration test).

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Mischievous MAC?
Mischievous MAC?

Carrier Sense Multiple Access (CSMA) is a probabilistic media access control (MAC) protocol in which a node verifies the absence of other traffic before transmitting on a shared transmission medium. CSMA/CA (Collision Avoidance) is a protocol for carrier transmission in 802.11 networks. In this lab, we will observe how traffic is regulated by CSMA/CA. With this knowledge, we can detect abuses and misbehavior targeted at CMA/CA at the MAC layer.

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Evil Twin AP Attacks and Prevention
Evil Twin AP Attacks and Prevention

Evil twin is a malicious access point set up to copy the identity of a real access point, hence the name twin, in order to eavesdrop and steal sensitive information. This attack will trick unsuspected users to connect to it, and from there, the attacker can perform many other attacks like man-in- the-middle or phishing websites.

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