An attacker outside a municipal community center records unprotected 802.11 frames on the city’s open public cafe-style SSID. Which threat does this scenario primarily illustrate?
Select an answer to reveal the explanation.
Short Explanation
Open Wi-Fi is like shouting city business across a park picnic table—anyone with a radio can listen. That capture of unprotected frames is classic eavesdropping, a confidentiality hit. Fake-SSID floods or BGP drama are different problems.
Full Explanation
Eavesdropping on WLANs captures frames from the air. Open or weakly protected SSIDs make confidentiality failures trivial because payloads and metadata may be observable without breaking modern cryptography. CWSP candidates must recognize eavesdropping as a core WLAN attack distinct from DoS floods, enrollment cracking, or unrelated routed-network attacks.