Exam 2: Wireless LAN Vulnerabilities

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____ traffic is traffic sent to all users on the network.

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Access control is intended to guard the ____ of information by making it accessible only to authorized users.

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Deploying dynamic WEP is a very expensive solution that involves a lot of effort.

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In WEP, the ____ is a cyclic redundancy check (CRC) value calculated with a checksum based on the contents of the text.

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At regular intervals (normally every 100 ms) an AP sends a(n) ____ to announce its presence and to provide the necessary information for other devices that want to join the network.

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A(n) ____ carries information about the data rates that a device can support along with the Service Set Identifier (SSID) of the network it wants to join.

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What was the criteria used by the IEEE 802.11 committee to design WEP?

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In WEP, the ____ is a 24-bit value that changes each time a packet is encrypted.

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The SSID can be easily discovered even when it is not contained in beacon frames.

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____ requires the wireless device (and not the user) to be authenticated prior to being connected to the network.

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Match each item with an statement below:
adds two new security enhancements to WEP.
Shoulder surfing
the "network name" for the wireless network.
AirSnort
an encryption algorithm.
Access control
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adds two new security enhancements to WEP.
Shoulder surfing
the "network name" for the wireless network.
AirSnort
an encryption algorithm.
Access control
stream cipher that accepts keys up to 128 bits in length.
Access restrictions
can limit a user's access to the Internet.
Cipher
tool to perform WEP attacks.
WEP2
looking over someone's shoulder.
Keystream attack
method of determining the keystream by analyzing two packets that were created from the same IV.
RC4
method of restricting access to resources.
SSID
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What are some of the tools used to perform WEP attacks?

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Briefly explain how WEP implementation violates the cardinal rule of cryptography: anything that creates a detectable pattern must be avoided.

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Wired equivalent privacy (WEP) is intended to guard one of the three CIA characteristics of information, namely ____.

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What are the main characteristics of Kerberos?

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Wireless access control through MAC address filtering is the same as access restrictions.

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What are the options for creating keys in WEP?

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A(n) ____________________ acts as the central base station for the wireless network.

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____ traffic is traffic destined for only one address.

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In a ____ attack, an attacker attempts to create every possible key combination by using a program to systematically change one character at a time.

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