Testout Ethical Hacker Pro 13.1.14 Locate a Rogue Wireless Access Point

Scenario

You are the IT security administrator for a small corporate network. To achieve Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) certification, you are required to scan for rogue access points quarterly. In this lab, your task is to scan for rogue wireless access points using Terminal as follows: Use airmon-ng to discover and enable the onboard wireless adapter. Use airodump-ng to scan for wireless access points. Answer the questions.

Solution

From the Favorites bar, open Terminal. At the prompt, type airmon-ng and press Enter to view and find the name of the wireless adapter. Type airmon-ng start wlp1s0 and press Enter to put the adapter in monitor mode. Type airmon-ng and press Enter to view the new name of the wireless adapter. Type airodump-ng wlp1s0mon and press Enter to scan for wireless access points. After a few seconds, press Ctrl + c to stop the scan. In the top right, select Answer Questions. Answer the questions. Select Score Lab.

Questions - Answers

Q1: What is most likely the ESSID of the rogue access point? Correct answer: CoffeeShop Q2: What is the signal power of the rogue access point? Correct answer: -90 Q3: What is the frequency channel used by the rogue access point? Correct answer: 11