Which of the following attacks would cause all mobile devices to lose their association with
corporate access points while the attack is underway?
A.
Wireless jamming
B.
Evil twin
C.
Rogue AP
D.
Packet sniffing
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EASY ONE:
Incorrect answers: B, C and D are out from the onset.
In here, the attack cause disconnection to the Access Point let it be a valid AP or a rogue AP.
B.Evil twin – An evil twin is a fraudulent Wi-Fi access point that appears to be legitimate, set up to eavesdrop on wireless communications.[1] The evil twin is the wireless LAN equivalent of the phishing scam.
C.Rogue AP – A Rogue Access Point (Rogue AP) is a wireless access point installed on a wired enterprise network without authorization from the network administrator. A Rogue AP may be naively installed by a legitimate user who is unaware of its security implications or it could be deliberately installed as an insider attack.
D.Packet sniffing – Packet sniffing is the act of capturing packets of data flowing across a computer network. The software or device used to do this is called a packet sniffer. Packet sniffing is to computer networks what wiretapping is to a telephone network. This may slow things down, but it will not cause “devices to lose their association with
corporate access points”
Furthermore, the question indicates that devices are loosing the connection to “corporate access points”, which intimates:
* That more than one AP is affected
* That the affected AP’s are legitimate
So this just leaves one possible answer: A.Wireless jamming
When most people think of frequency jamming, what comes to mind are radio, radar and cell phone jamming. However, any communication that uses radio frequencies can be jammed by a strong radio signal in the same frequency.
In this manner, Wi-Fi may be attacked with a network jamming attack, reducing signal quality until it becomes unusable or disconnects occur. With very similar methods, a focused and aimed signal can actually break access point hardware, as with equipment destruction attacks.
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