DPETAs: Detection and Prevention of Evil Twin Attacks on Wi-Fi Networks Seminar

On April 24, 2021, a seminar entitled “DPETAs: Detection and Prevention of Evil Twin Attacks on Wi-Fi Networks” was held in the CUE presented by Assist.Prof.Dr. Mohammed Gouse and Mr. Fanar Rofo, lecturers in the Information Technology (IT) Department.

The seminar was attended by CUE’s president, Assist .Prof.Dr.Riadh Francis along with the university’s academic staff.

The key consideration of this seminar was the identification and avoidance of the Evil Twin attack over any Wi-Fi networks. It is named DPETAs to address the strategies intruders use to extract identities and what users need to do to keep them out of the networks.  Numerous types of threats could become vulnerable to Wi-Fi networks.

Also the presenters explained the terms of preventing and reducing the effect on the networks, that has become an imperative activity of any user to understand the threats.

Moreover, the presenters demonstrated the shortcomings in Wi-Fi security protocols and hardware modules that are available in the market.

This Evil Twin attack in a Wi-Fi network is a unique outbreak mostly used by attackers to make intrusion or to establish an infection where the users are exploited to connect with a victim’s network through a nearby access point. It is named DPETAs to address the strategies that intruders use to extract identities and what users need to do to keep them out of the networks.

The session ended with a few questions and discussions among the attended academics.