jane invites her friends Alice and John over for a LAN party. Alice and John access Jane's wireless network without a password. However. Jane has a long, complex password on her router. What attack…

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• AWireless sniffing
• BPiggybacking
• CEvil twin
• DWardriving

• A
  11% (3)
• B
  4% (1)
• C
  71% (20)
• D
  14% (4)

Explanation

Evil Twin Attack Explanation

An Evil Twin attack occurs when an attacker sets up a rogue wireless access point that mimics a legitimate network's name (SSID), tricking users into connecting to it instead of the real network - which explains why Alice and John connected without a password despite Jane having a strong one on her actual router. The key clue here is that they bypassed the password entirely, meaning they never connected to Jane's real router at all.

Why the distractors are wrong:

• A. Wireless Sniffing involves passively capturing network traffic, not gaining unauthorized access to a network
• B. Piggybacking requires physical proximity and the knowledge/consent of the network owner, or at minimum connecting to the real network
• D. Wardriving involves driving around to discover wireless networks, not actively exploiting them

Memory Tip: Think of an "Evil Twin" like an impostor - just like an evil twin pretends to be someone else, an evil twin access point pretends to be the legitimate network. If someone connects without needing the real password, a fake network is almost certainly involved.

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