Wireless Evil Twin Attack
Abstract
In Today’s world multiple Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs) can coexist in a airspace. Every wireless mobility devices tries to find the access point through probe request using a unique name that is the Service Set Identifier (SSID) of the network to make automatic authentication. As a wireless user you are concerned only with the broadcast SSIDs that let you connect to a WLAN. This paper discusses about the Wireless Mobility devices communication security issues using Basic Service Set Identifier BSSID or Extended Service Set Identifier ESSID which a network administrator need to keep track of. Also it discusses about the available flaws in it and how by modifying the probe request header we can make the connectivity more secure for the new generation of devices.
Keywords: Wireless, Evil Twin, Wi-Fi Security, Security, Exploitation.
Introduction
Every wireless mobility devices tries to find the access point through probe request using a unique name that is the Service Set Identifier (SSID) of the network to make automatic authentication. The users are usually unaware of which basic service set (BSS) they belong to. When the user physically moves the laptop from one room to another, the BSS used could change because of moving from the area covered by one access point to the area covered by another access point, but this does not affect the connectivity of the laptop. In this paper we are going to study how a mobility device
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