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  2. Wi-Fi deauthentication attack - Wikipedia

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    One of the main purposes of deauthentication used in the hacking community is to force clients to connect to an evil twin access point which then can be used to capture network packets transferred between the client and the access point.

  3. BGP hijacking - Wikipedia

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    The Internet is a global network that enables any connected host, identified by its unique IP address, to talk to any other, anywhere in the world.This is achieved by passing data from one router to another, repeatedly moving each packet closer to its destination, until it is delivered.

  4. VPNFilter - Wikipedia

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    If the router has remote management enabled, a factory reset will often disable this (the default setting of many routers). Remote management is thought to be one possible vector for the initial attack. Before connecting the factory-reset router to the internet again, the device's default passwords should be changed to prevent reinfection. [9]

  5. Wireless security - Wikipedia

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    Wireless security is another aspect of computer security. Organizations may be particularly vulnerable to security breaches [6] caused by rogue access points.. If an employee adds a wireless interface to an unsecured port of a system, they may create a breach in network security that would allow access to confidential materials.

  6. DNS hijacking - Wikipedia

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    DNS hijacking, DNS poisoning, or DNS redirection is the practice of subverting the resolution of Domain Name System (DNS) queries. [1] This can be achieved by malware that overrides a computer's TCP/IP configuration to point at a rogue DNS server under the control of an attacker, or through modifying the behaviour of a trusted DNS server so that it does not comply with internet standards.

  7. Evil twin (wireless networks) - Wikipedia

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    An evil twin is a fraudulent Wi-Fi access point that appears to be legitimate but is set up to eavesdrop on wireless communications. [1] The evil twin is the wireless LAN equivalent of the phishing scam.

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  9. Port knocking - Wikipedia

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    In computer networking, port knocking is a method of externally opening ports on a firewall by generating a connection attempt on a set of prespecified closed ports. Once a correct sequence of connection attempts is received, the firewall rules are dynamically modified to allow the host which sent the connection attempts to connect over specific port(s).