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Rogue access points and evil twins

Rogue access points and evil twins

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Rogue access points and evil twins

- [Narrator] Attackers sometimes use fake wireless access points that pose as legitimate network connections in order to gain sensitive information or network access. Let's take a look at the risks posed by rogue access points and evil twin attacks. Rogue access points occur when someone connects an unauthorized wireless access point to an enterprise network. This might be as innocuous as an employee with bad wireless connectivity in his or her office purchasing an access point and plugging it into a nearby network jack to gain a better signal. Or it could be more sinister with a hacker connecting an access point to later gain remote access to the network. The huge risk with rogue access points is that they can bypass other wireless authentication mechanisms. If you spend hours configuring your systems to use WPA2 security, a rogue access point configured to avoid encryption can quickly bypass all of that. Anyone…

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