Method, Apparatus, and System for Detecting Rogue Wireless Access Point

摘要

Disclosed are a method, an apparatus, and a system for detecting a rogue wireless access point (AP) as relates to the field of communications network technologies, which is used to solve a problem of information leakage to a certain degree. An authentication client obtains a basic service set identifier (BSSID) of a radio signal to be connected and checks the BSSID of the radio signal to be connected against a valid BSSID list; the authentication client determines that an AP corresponding to the BSSID of the radio signal to be connected is a rogue AP when the BSSID of the radio signal to be connected does not exist in the valid BSSID list; and generates a prompt message. The solutions provided in the embodiments of the present invention are applicable to detecting whether an AP is a rogue wireless AP.

主权项

1. A method for detecting a rogue wireless access point (AP) comprising:
obtaining, by an authentication client, using an operating system application programming interface (API), a basic service set identifier (BSSID) of a radio signal to be connected; checking, by the authentication client, the BSSID of the radio signal to be connected against a valid BSSID list, wherein the valid BSSID list comprises a BSSID of each valid AP air interface; determining, by the authentication client, that an AP corresponding to the BSSID of the radio signal to be connected is a rogue AP when the BSSID of the radio signal to be connected does not exist in the valid BSSID list; and generating, by the authentication client, a prompt message, wherein the prompt message is used to indicate that the AP corresponding to the BSSID of the radio signal to be connected is the rogue AP.