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Mastering Kali Linux Wireless Pentesting

Test your wireless network's security and master advanced wireless penetration techniques using Kali Linux

Publisher:Packt Publishing Limited
By: Brian Sak and  Jilumudi Raghu Ram  
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|Sep 2025
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Test your wireless network's security and master advanced wireless penetration techniques using Kali Linux

Key Features

  • Develop your skills using attacks such as wireless cracking, Man-in-the-Middle, and Denial of Service (DOS), as well as extracting sensitive information from wireless networks
  • Perform advanced wireless assessment and penetration tests
  • Use Embedded Platforms, Raspberry PI, and Android in wireless penetration testing with Kali Linux

Book Description

Kali Linux is a Debian-based Linux distribution designed for digital forensics and penetration testing. It gives access to a large collection of security-related tools for professional security testing - some of the major ones being Nmap, Aircrack-ng, Wireshark, and Metasploit.
This book will take you on a journey where you will learn to master advanced tools and techniques to conduct wireless penetration testing with Kali Linux.

You will begin by gaining an understanding of setting up and optimizing your penetration testing environment for wireless assessments. Then, the book will take you through a typical assessment from reconnaissance, information gathering, and scanning the network through exploitation and data extraction from your target. You will get to know various ways to compromise the wireless network using browser exploits, vulnerabilities in firmware, web-based attacks, client-side exploits, and many other hacking methods. You will also discover how to crack wireless networks with speed, perform man-in-the-middle and DOS attacks, and use Raspberry Pi and Android to expand your assessment methodology.
By the end of this book, you will have mastered using Kali Linux for wireless security assessments and become a more effective penetration tester and consultant.

What you will learn

  • Fingerprint wireless networks with the various tools available in Kali Linux
  • Learn various techniques to exploit wireless access points using CSRF
  • Crack WPA/WPA2/WPS and crack wireless encryption using Rainbow tables more quickly
  • Perform man-in-the-middle attack on wireless clients
  • Understand client-side attacks, browser exploits, Java vulnerabilities, and social engineering
  • Develop advanced sniffing and PCAP analysis skills to extract sensitive information such as DOC, XLS, and PDF documents from wireless networks
  • Use Raspberry PI and OpenWrt to perform advanced wireless attacks
  • Perform a DOS test using various techniques and tools

Who this book is for

If you are an intermediate-level wireless security consultant in Kali Linux and want to be the go-to person for Kali Linux wireless security in your organisation, then this is the book for you. Basic understanding of the core Kali Linux concepts is expected.

Table of Contents

  1. Wireless Penetration Testing Fundamentals
  2. Wireless Network Scanning
  3. Exploiting Wireless Devices
  4. Wireless Cracking
  5. Advanced Wireless Attacks
  6. Man-In-The-Middle attacks
  7. Advanced Sniffing
  8. Denial of Service Attacks
  9. Wireless Pen-Testing from Non-Traditional Platforms
PDF ISBN: 978-1-78528-285-0
Publisher: Packt Publishing Limited
Copyright owner: © 2016 Packt Publishing Limited
Publication date: 2025
Language: English
Pages: 310
Related subjects:
Computer sciences,
Computer sciences, other

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