Aplicación de hacking ético para la determinación de vulnerabilidades de acceso a redes inalámbricas WiFi.

Abstract

The application of Ethical hacking to determine access vulnerabilities to wireless networks Wifi has been developed as thesis research with the objective of analyse the Hacking techniques to be used as audit tool to report threats that show this type of networks and therefore build a reference guide that can mitigate risks that show the access vulnerabilities. It has been used in this investigation the inductive-deductive method beginning of an ordered and sequential phases that a hacker follow to make attacks to Access Points located in a commercial sector of the Riobamba city and also to a router provided by an ISP, with free software called BackTrack and Wifiway as distributions that help to make these attacks and after this evaluation has been developed a guide of best practices to reduce the possible unauthorized intrusions in wireless networks Wifi. From a set of penetration test in wireless routers has been developed the summarized reports of the executed procedures and next a list of vulnerabilities categorized by their respective severity level and exploitation range together with their corresponding threat and the best practices to maintain the wireless security. Thus it was concluded that the information security in this type of networks has a great importance for the protection of various resources that have an organization or entity with the information as the most sensitive asset that should possess confidentiality, authenticity, integrity and availability. It is recommended to owners of wireless networks enforce measures presented in this research to mitigate the impacts that can mean the exploitation of these gaps, besides this investigation should be updated regularly because the incidents of security can happen frequently and in each one of these they can be discovered new facilities so that the accesses are exploited by intruder agents.