Showing posts with label Deauth Attack. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Deauth Attack. Show all posts

Thursday, May 5, 2022

Mitigating WiFi deauth attack with Protected Management Frames in Unifi (aka 802.11w Management Frame Protection MFP)

by Steve Endow

Note:  In case the title didn't make it obvious, this post has nothing to do with Business Central.  I wanted to document my learning because I found very little reliable or current information on mitigating WiFi deauth attacks, as of May 2022.  If I got anything wrong or if you find a good resource covering this topic, please post a comment and let me know.


When I'm not trying to learn Business Central, I like to learn about computer security.  I'm not a computer security expert by any means, just someone who finds it interesting as a side hobby.

While learning about password cracking several months ago, I learned about Kali Linux, an amazing distribution that includes lots of different computer and network security tools pre-installed.

In order to learn how to use Kali Linux and the security tools it includes, I decided to try to learn how to crack my WiFi password.  It seemed like a fun exercise, and it was.  But it just happened to teach me something entirely unexpected.

While following the instructions in this "Hacking Wi-Fi" guide (which had some minor omissions--I recommend using this version instead), I was quite surprised when I read this step:

"...disconnect the clients connected to the target network..."

Wait, what?

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