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312-50V11 · Question #978

A group of hackers were roaming around a bank office building in a city, driving a luxury car. They were using hacking tools on their laptop with the intention to find a free-access wireless…

The correct answer is D. Wardriving Wireless sniffing. Wardriving is the practice of searching for wireless networks from a moving vehicle using a laptop or wireless device, which precisely describes the scenario presented.

Hacking Wireless Networks

Question

A group of hackers were roaming around a bank office building in a city, driving a luxury car. They were using hacking tools on their laptop with the intention to find a free-access wireless network. What is

Options

  • Athis hacking process known as?
  • BGPS mapping
  • CSpectrum analysis
  • DWardriving Wireless sniffing

How the community answered

(62 responses)
  • A
    3% (2)
  • B
    2% (1)
  • C
    6% (4)
  • D
    89% (55)

Why each option

Wardriving is the practice of searching for wireless networks from a moving vehicle using a laptop or wireless device, which precisely describes the scenario presented.

Athis hacking process known as?

This choice appears to be a formatting artifact from the question stem and does not represent a valid attack technique or answer option.

BGPS mapping

GPS mapping refers to recording geographic coordinates of discovered networks and is a supplementary activity sometimes combined with wardriving, but it is not the name of the core scanning process described.

CSpectrum analysis

Spectrum analysis is a radio frequency technique used to measure signal strength and interference across a frequency range, not a targeted wireless network discovery hacking method.

DWardriving Wireless sniffingCorrect

Wardriving involves moving in a vehicle while using wireless networking equipment to detect and map Wi-Fi networks, often targeting unsecured or open-access access points. The scenario explicitly describes attackers driving in a car with hacking tools on a laptop seeking free-access wireless networks, which is the defining characteristic of wardriving. This technique is used to identify vulnerable wireless access points for later exploitation.

Concept tested: Wardriving wireless network discovery technique

Topics

#wardriving#wireless network discovery#Wi-Fi hacking#rogue access point

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