Kali Linux Wireless Pentesting and Security for Beginners

Description

Wireless Networks have become ubiquitous in today's world. Millions of people use it worldwide every day at their homes, offices and public hotspots to logon to the Internet and do both personal and professional work. Even though wireless makes life incredibly easy and gives us such great mobility, it comes with risks. In recent times, insecure wireless networks have been used to break into companies, banks and government organizations. The frequency of these attacks is only intensified, as network administrators are still clueless when it comes to securing wireless networks in a robust and fool proof way. Kali Linux Wireless Pen-testing and Security for Beginners is aimed at helping the reader understand the depth of insecurities associated with wireless networks, and how to conduct penetration tests to find and plug them and further secure/patch them. This is an essential read for those who would like to conduct security audits on wireless networks and always wanted a step-by-step practical. As every wireless attack explained in this book is immediately followed by a practical demo, the learning is very complete. We have chosen Kali Linux as the platform to test all the wireless attacks in this book. Kali Linux, as most of you may already be aware, is the world's most popular penetration testing distribution. It contains hundreds of security and hacking tools, some of which we will use in this course of this book.