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Wednesday, 1 June 2016

CEH v9 Question of the Week: Same MAC Address

CEH-v9-QOWGreenPaul has just finished setting up his wireless network and has enabled numerous security features such as changing the default SSID, enabling WPA encryption and enabling MAC filtering on his wireless router. Paul notices that when he uses his wireless connection, the speed is sometimes 54 Mbps and sometimes it is 24Mbps or less. Paul connects to his wireless router’s management utility and notices that a machine with an unfamiliar name is connected through his wireless connection. He checks the router’s logs and notices that the unfamiliar machine has the same MAC address as his laptop.

What is Paul seeing here?

A. Macof
B. ARP spoofing
C. DNS spoofing
D. MAC spoofing

Reveal Answer

The correct answer is D.

MAC spoofing is a technique for changing a factory-assigned Media Access Control (MAC) address of a network interface on a networked device. The MAC address is hard-coded on a network interface controller (NIC) and cannot be changed. However, there are tools which can make an operating system believe that the NIC has the MAC address of a user’s choosing. The process of masking a MAC address is known as MAC spoofing. Essentially, MAC spoofing entails changing a computer’s identity, for any reason, and it is relatively easy.

 

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