Wi-Fi Self Defense For Beginners

Covers microcontrollers, cyber security awareness, and best practices to defend against Wi-Fi based attacks.

What you'll learn

Detect and respond to 4 common Wi-Fi based hacking tactics.

Learn to use a beginner friendly Wi-Fi microcontroller tool to recognize, understand, and defend against multiple Wi-Fi hacking tactics.

Learn the difference between ethical and malicious Wi-Fi hacking to ensure a safe and ethical process for exploring Wi-Fi based hacking techniques.

Learn the common vulnerabilities of Wi-Fi connected devices to better harden your personal devices against Wi-Fi based attacks.

Learn how Wi-Fi attacks are executed through a safe and ethical workshop environment.

Use your own Wi-Fi devices as targets and harden their security in this interactive lab!

Requirements

For this course, you will need a Wi-Fi Nugget to participate in each module, however you can still follow along with any ESP8266-based breakout board.

You will need a computer with a Chrome-based browser to navigate the Wi-Fi Nugget's web interface.

You will need a microUSB cable that supports power AND data transfer

Description

We use Wi-Fi connected devices every day of our lives, from our phones, laptops, smart TVs, home security cameras, and anything else you can think of. Yet, while technology helps improve our lives by keeping everything connected to the world around us, those connections inherently have vulnerabilities, and there are malicious actors who attempt to exploit these vulnerabilities for their own benefit. In this interactive course, you will learn about four simple, yet effective Wi-Fi hacking techniques that hackers employ and how to take the best defensive posture to defend yourself should you ever become the target of one of these attacks. Four hands-on workshops using the Wi-Fi Nugget, will show you how hackers are able to craft and execute social engineering campaigns using techniques such as deceptive QR codes, Wi-Fi phishing pages, beacon swarms, denial-of-service attacks, and man-in-the-middle attacks, to divulge sensitive information from a target and gain access to vulnerable devices. The course includes 5 lectures and accompanying quizzes that cover various topics on Wi-Fi hacking and cybersecurity as well as learning how simple Wi-Fi microcontrollers work and how to use them, how to run scripts through web serial, and how a hacker would craft a convincing phishing page. 

Overview

Section 1: Introduction to Wi-Fi Hacking & Lab Prep

Lecture 1 Introduction to Wi-Fi Hacking Self-Defense

Section 2: Lab #1 : Detect & plug Wi-Fi leaks in your devices

Lecture 2 Using the Wi-Fi Deauther's scanning tools to locate and plug vulnerabilities

Section 3: Lab #2: Tracking with beacon swarms

Lecture 3 Using the WiFi Deauthor's beacon tool to extract information from nearby devices

Section 4: Lab #3: WiFi Attacks with Evil QR codes

Lecture 4 Using a QR code generator to create a malicious QR code

Section 5: Lab #4: Catching WiFi phishing attacks

Lecture 5 How to protect yourself from a WiFi phishing attack

Section 6: Closing Comments and Recommendations

Lecture 6 Where to acquire materials and learn more on WiFi hacking self defense

Ethical hacking beginners looking for an interactive course that will give them hands-on experience in Wi-Fi hacking techniques.,Beginners looking to better defend themselves against Wi-Fi attacks,Anyone interested in hardening the Wi-Fi security of their wireless devices