Describe a rogue access point (AP).

What will be an ideal response?


A rogue access point (rogue AP) is simply an unauthorized access point. Rogue access points have tortured every wireless network since the day Linksys came out with the first cheap wireless router back in the early 2000s. Most rogue APs aren't evil: just a user wanting to connect to the network who installs a WAP in a handy location into the wired network. Evil rogue APs are far more nefarious, acting as a backdoor to a network or a man-in-the-middle attack, grabbing user names and passwords, among other items.
 

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