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Re: Tool to find rouge wireless access points?


From: Jon D <rekcahpmip () gmail com>
Date: Tue, 15 May 2012 15:27:49 -0400

Sorry Felipe. Basically the core question is 'how to find rouge access points'.
For example, if an end user plugs in a linksys wireless router under
their desk, how do you detect it?

Expanding on the question, is that usually from what I've seen, just
scanning with nmap or something might not pick it up if the AP is
configured not to respond to pings, and doesn't have ports open, etc.
And without knowing the encryption password, sniffing wireless traffic
seems out of the question too. Simply scanning with something like
kismet will only tell you that there's an AP in the area, but you
don't know if it's an AP plugged into your network, or if it's another
companies AP.
The link that was posted about sniffing the encrypted wireless traffic
for netbios requests that aren't encrypted seems interesting.
Something I'll try.


Thanks,
Jon


On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 3:58 PM, Felipe Martins
<martins.felipe.security () gmail com> wrote:
Yes, i'm on the same way. I didn't  fully understand what the question
was. Can you be more specific Jon.

Best Regards

Felipe Martins
CEH, RHCE, RHCI, LPI, ITIL, NCLA, DCTS
Security Specialist and Projects



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