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You select the clients you want to disconnect from their network and start the attack. As long as the attack is running, the
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selected clients are not able to connect to the network.
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# How it works:
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## How it works:
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The 802.11 WiFi protocol contains a so called deauthentication frame. It is used to disconnect clients safely from a wireless
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network.
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Because they are unencrypted, you just need the mac address of the WiFi router and of the client device which you want to
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disconnect from the network. You don’t even have to be in the network or know the password, it’s enough to be in its range.
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# What an ESP8266 is:
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## What an ESP8266 is:
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The ESP8266 a very cheap micro controller with build in WiFi. It contains a powerfull 160 MHz processor and you can program it
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with the Arduino IDE. This makes it perfect for this project.
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You can buy these chips for under $2 from China. But I recommend you to buy one of the USB breakout/developer boards.
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It doesn’t matter which board you use, as long as it has an ESP8266 on it.
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# How to protect yourself:
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## How to protect yourself:
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With 802.11w-2009 WiFi got an update to encrypt management frames.
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So make sure your router is up to date and has management frame protection enabled. But be sure that your client device
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This attack shows how vulnerable the 802.11 WiFi standard is and that we need to fix it.
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A solution is already there, why don’t we use it?
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##### Tutorial #####
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# Tutorial
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coming soon :)
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#### Sources and additional links ####
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# Sources and additional links
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deauth attack: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wi-Fi_deauthentication_attack
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deauth frame: https://mrncciew.com/2014/10/11/802-11-mgmt-deauth-disassociation-frames/

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