A penetration tester is conducting an internal assessment and has discovered a wireless network that uses WPA2-PSK. The tester has captured the four-way handshake. What is the most effective method to establish network access?

Use a deauthentication attack to force a client to reconnect and capture a new handshake

Perform a dictionary attack on the captured handshake to recover the PSK

Use a rogue access point with the same SSID to capture credentials

Exploit a vulnerability in the WPA2 protocol to bypass authentication

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A penetration tester is conducting an internal assessment and has discovered a wireless network that uses WPA2-PSK. The tester has captured the four-way handshake. What is the most effective method to establish network access?

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