Network Investigations: Analyzing Wireless Attacks & Emanations

This discussion board post provides a detailed explanation of various wireless access point attacks, including wardriving, warflying, and warchalking, offering definitions and discussing their differences. It also explores electronic emanation and its potential for compromising wireless devices. The post emphasizes the importance of understanding these concepts in the context of network investigations and digital forensics. It highlights how these elements relate to each other within the broader scope of wireless network security and potential vulnerabilities. This document is available on Desklib, a platform offering a wide range of study resources, including past papers and solved assignments for students.

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Wardriving
Wardriving is referred to the way of searching for Wi-Fi wireless networks by the
person moving in a vehicle. This includes usage of smartphone or with the help of laptop.
The software for wardriving is available on the internet for free of cost. This includes slowly
driving in the area where Wi-Fi signals are located (Lee et al., 2018). This is mainly achieved
when two or more people are associated with this networks. The one will be associated with
driving the vehicles and the other one will focus on searching the wireless networks.
Warflying
Warflying is also sometimes referred to as warstorming. This includes activity that
contains components of Wi-Fi equipped computer. That are laptop or a PDA that helps in
detecting the networks of Wi-Fi. Warflying shares similarities to Wardriving.
Warchalking
Warchalking is the concept of sketching symbols in community places in order to
create advertisement of a Wi-Fi network. This was inspired by hobo symbols. Warchalking
marks were developed a group of friends in the year 2002 and finally got revealed by Matt
Jones (Rahalkar, 2016). Matt jones designed the icons and developed a document that can be
downloaded easily containing the similar set of cons.
Electronic emanations
Electronic emanation is referred to the problem that arises with the use of
electromagnetic items. With the help of electromagnetic shielding, electrically conductive

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materials are placed around other electronic devices (Sapiezynski et al., 2015). This reduces
electromagnetic emanations and also helps in reducing susceptibility towards the
electromagnetic pulses.
Each components are related to each other as this all are related to Wi-Fi signals. The
way Wi-Fi can be used in day to day life. Wardriving, electronic emanations, warflying and
warchalking are related to the technology and effects the network system.

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References
Lee, H. S., Choi, D. H., Sim, K., & Yook, J. G. (2018). Information Recovery Using
Electromagnetic Emanations From Display Devices Under Realistic
Environment. IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility, (99), 1-9.
Rahalkar, S. A. (2016). Wireless Hacking. In Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) Foundation
Guide (pp. 143-151). Apress, Berkeley, CA.
Sapiezynski, P., Gatej, R., Mislove, A., & Lehmann, S. (2015, October). Opportunities and
challenges in crowdsourced wardriving. In Proceedings of the 2015 Internet
Measurement Conference (pp. 267-273). ACM.