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Question #: 201
Topic #: 1
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A company has implemented WPA2, a 20-character minimum for the WiFi passphrase, and a new WiFi passphrase every 30 days, and has disabled SSID broadcast on all wireless access points. Which of the following is the company trying to mitigate?

  • A. Downgrade attacks
  • B. Rainbow tables
  • C. SSL pinning
  • D. Forced deauthentication
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oooooga
4 years, 9 months ago
I don't think implementing WPAv2 necessarily stops downgrade attacks. The whole point of the downgrade attack is to take a system that uses a strong cipher suite and try and trick it into using something weaker. I think it has to be B.
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iphy
4 years, 12 months ago
Keyword here is WPA2 which is modern more secured...moving to this means trying to avoid attackers exploiting the old less secured WPA... and the question also said..what are they trying to mitigate against by switching to WPA2
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MagicianRecon
4 years, 11 months ago
But do you realise that the question never mentions a WPA. The emphasis here seems to be on password attacks. Using long passphrase and changing them every month.
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xxdxx
5 years, 2 months ago
why A ? Shouldn't be B ?
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TheThreatGuy
5 years, 1 month ago
I agree. Downgrade attack doesn’t make sense here.
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TheThreatGuy
5 years, 1 month ago
Rainbow tables attempt to crack the password hash. So frequently changing it and And making it longer will make cracking it more difficult. B is correct.
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Blind_Hatred
5 years ago
Agreed. Here's some interesting read: https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/92903/rainbow-tables-hash-tables-versus-wpa-wpa2
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