Wireless beacon monitoring (for fun and profit)
Wifi Beacons This was an adventure. Some back story first, when any device you have that listens for connections for wifi wants to connect to something, even when the access point it's trying to reach isn't there, the default tends to be probe for it. That's basically a small little radio in your phone, car, watch, light bulb, whatever saying publicly "YO! IS MY WIFI OUT THERE? WHAT ABOUT THIS OTHER ONE!!?!? NOT THAT ONE EITHER, OKAY NEVER MIND!". When doing wireless network pentesting, it's pretty common to use tools like kismet or airodump and include these beacons, in part to flag what's relating to what network you're targeting / have permission to access and in part to see if network devices in scope are connecting so you can redirect their traffic to a fake network as part of the test. But I came up with an idea a while back due to having a scan going at my house and I kept seeing these "ROPD-CAR4" (fake, but something like th...