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Attacking Wifi Nets with Traffic Injection
TERM PAPER
(5th SEMESTER-3rd YEAR)

TOPIC
ATTACKING WIFI NETS WITH TRAFFIC INJECTION

SUBMITTED TO: Mr. Gaurav Sharma

SUBMITTED BY: JAGTARSINGH SECTION-K1004 ROLL NO- A01 REG NO.11005298
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

I Jagtar Singh student of B.Tech(CSE)-MBA Ist term expressing my deep gratitude to my OE teacher “Mr. Gaurav Sharma”. I am very much thankful to him. I benefited a lot discussing with him.
I am also thankful to my parents who encouraged me and provided such a motivation, so I became able to perform this.
I am also thankful to all my friends and those who helped me directly or indirectly in completion of my project.

CONTENTS
• Introduction
• Crime Definition
• Laws that have been violated
• Possible Punishments (IT ACT + INTERNATIONAL LAWS)
• Unlawful Losses and Gains
• Working of Attacks
• Description of Tools

INTRODUCTION

This term paper is based on “attacking wifi nets with traffic injection” also known as packet injection which simply means the hacking of wireless networks with different techniques to send extra amount of traffic (packets, frames, duplicate copies) on a network by which a hacker can able to access the information and identity that a client is using.

Some techniques are wireless network sniffing, DOS (denial of service attack), Man in the middle attack etc. Attacks on wireless LANs (WLAN’s) and wireless-enabled laptops are a quick and easy way for hackers to steal data and enter the corporate network. Many types of tools are used to perform hacking. Some of them are named as aircrack-ng, airjack etc.



References: http://www.cse.wustl.edu/~jain//cse571-07/ftp/wireless_hacking/index.html http://www.cs.wright.edu/~pmateti/InternetSecurity/Lectures/WirelessHacks/Mateti-WirelessHacks.htm#_Toc77524642 http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/C/cyber_crime.html http://www.wi-fiplanet.com/tutorials/article.php/3568066 file:///C:/Users/jsk/Desktop/Wireless%20Hackers%20101.htm

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