Ethical Hacking Wireless Security

Question 1

Which wireless security protocol is considered obsolete and easily crackable due to weak RC4 encryption?

Accepted Answer

WEP

Answer

WPA3

Answer

WPA2

Answer

802.1X

Question 2

What tool is used by ethical hackers to capture WPA2 handshakes for offline cracking?

Accepted Answer

Aircrack-ng suite (airodump-ng)

Answer

Nmap

Answer

Hydra

Answer

Netcat

Question 3

What is a 'deauthentication attack' in wireless hacking?

Accepted Answer

Sending forged 802.11 deauthentication frames to force clients to disconnect and reauthenticate

Answer

Flooding an AP with authentication requests

Answer

Injecting malicious packets into encrypted wireless traffic

Answer

Cracking the WPS PIN to recover the WPA2 passphrase

Question 4

What is an 'evil twin' wireless attack?

Accepted Answer

Creating a rogue AP with the same SSID as a legitimate network to intercept client traffic

Answer

Cracking a Wi-Fi password using a wordlist

Answer

Jamming legitimate wireless signals to force clients offline

Answer

Eavesdropping on wireless traffic using a passive packet sniffer

Question 5

What vulnerability in WPS (Wi-Fi Protected Setup) allows its PIN to be cracked much faster than expected?

Accepted Answer

The 8-digit PIN is validated in two halves of 4 digits each, reducing possible combinations to ~11,000

Answer

The PIN is transmitted in plaintext during setup

Answer

WPS uses a static PIN that never changes

Answer

WPS disables account lockout by design

Question 6

What is 'wardriving'?

Accepted Answer

Driving around to discover and map wireless access points using a laptop and antenna

Answer

Hacking wireless networks using a car antenna

Answer

Jamming wireless signals from a moving vehicle

Answer

Intercepting cellular communications from a car