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Wireless has become ubiquitous in today’s world. The mobility and flexibility provided by it makes our lives more comfortable and productive. But this comes at a cost – Wireless technologies are inherently insecure and can be easily broken. BackTrack is a penetration testing and security auditing distribution that comes with a myriad of wireless networking tools used to simulate network attacks and detect security loopholes.
Backtrack 5 Wireless Penetration Testing Beginner’s Guide will take you through the journey of becoming a Wireless hacker. You will learn various wireless testing methodologies taught using live examples, which you will implement throughout this book. The engaging practical sessions very gradually grow in complexity giving you enough time to ramp up before you get to advanced wireless attacks.
This book will take you through the basic concepts in Wireless and creating a lab environment for your experiments to the business of different lab sessions in wireless security basics, slowly turn on the heat and move to more complicated scenarios, and finally end your journey by conducting bleeding edge wireless attacks in your lab.
There are many interesting and new things that you will learn in this book – War Driving, WLAN packet sniffing, Network Scanning, Circumventing hidden SSIDs and MAC filters, bypassing Shared Authentication, Cracking WEP and WPA/WPA2 encryption, Access Point MAC spoofing, Rogue Devices, Evil Twins, Denial of Service attacks, Viral SSIDs, Honeypot and Hotspot attacks, Caffe Latte WEP Attack, Man-in-the-Middle attacks, Evading Wireless Intrusion Prevention systems and a bunch of other cutting edge wireless attacks.
If you were ever curious about what wireless security and hacking was all about, then this book will get you started by providing you with the knowledge and practical know-how to become a wireless hacker.
Hands-on practical guide with a step-by-step approach to help you get started immediately with Wireless Penetration Testing
Backtrack 5 Wireless Penetration Testing Beginner’s Guide will take you through the journey of becoming a Wireless hacker. You will learn various wireless testing methodologies taught using live examples, which you will implement throughout this book. The engaging practical sessions very gradually grow in complexity giving you enough time to ramp up before you get to advanced wireless attacks.
This book will take you through the basic concepts in Wireless and creating a lab environment for your experiments to the business of different lab sessions in wireless security basics, slowly turn on the heat and move to more complicated scenarios, and finally end your journey by conducting bleeding edge wireless attacks in your lab.
There are many interesting and new things that you will learn in this book – War Driving, WLAN packet sniffing, Network Scanning, Circumventing hidden SSIDs and MAC filters, bypassing Shared Authentication, Cracking WEP and WPA/WPA2 encryption, Access Point MAC spoofing, Rogue Devices, Evil Twins, Denial of Service attacks, Viral SSIDs, Honeypot and Hotspot attacks, Caffe Latte WEP Attack, Man-in-the-Middle attacks, Evading Wireless Intrusion Prevention systems and a bunch of other cutting edge wireless attacks.
If you were ever curious about what wireless security and hacking was all about, then this book will get you started by providing you with the knowledge and practical know-how to become a wireless hacker.
Hands-on practical guide with a step-by-step approach to help you get started immediately with Wireless Penetration Testing
About the Author
Vivek Ramachandran
Vivek Ramachandran is a world renowned security researcher and evangelist. He is the discoverer of the wireless "Caffe Latte Attack" and has delivered presentations in world renowned Information Security conferences such as Defcon and Toorcon in the US. His discoveries and talks have been widely quoted by the International media including - BBC Online, Network World, The Register, Mac World, Computer Online and others.
In 2006, Microsoft declared Vivek as one of the winners of the Microsoft Security Shootout Contest held in India among an estimated 65,000 participants. In 2005, he was awarded a team achievement award by Cisco Systems for his work in the 802.1x and Port Security modules.
He is well known in the hacking and security community as the founder of SecurityTube.net , a free video based computer security education portal which gets an estimated 100,000 monthly visitors.
Vivek is also an accomplished trainer and travels around the world conducting workshops and training sessions for corporates and students. He holds a degree in B.Tech from IIT Guwahati and acts as an advisor to the computer science department's Security Lab.
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After reading the first 3 Chapters I thought "wow this is great" - and I still do think that, but after a while I became a bit fed up of reading that a certain subject was beyond the scope of the book or it asking you to look further into a certain backtrack tool. I appreciate that you have to learn to think for yourself but the whole reason why I buy a book is so that it pulls everything together and things that are understandably beyond the scope of a book should be well referenced so that you can then spend some time searching these references online - for nearly £30 I would expect this from a book.
However, apart from a poor reference section this book is great! I set up the wireless lab that the book recommends although I would suggest you buy the alfa AWUS306NH which supports the "new" 802.11n network instead of just the old b and g networks which the suggested card in the book only supports. Backtrack 5 R2 now has the support for the new alfa card and there is no problem with injection. I would highly recommend that you set up this wireless lab and buy the wifi router as it allows you to see first hand how an Acess Point (AP) is affected. It also enables you to check that you are doing things correctly, for example, if you set up a WPA AP with a very short easy dictionary password but you are unable to crack the password then you know you must be doing something wrong. It is also good to log into your wifi router and see the connections and logs that are left behind. (I bought the D-Link Wireless N Router.)
This is a simple step by step guide with accompanying screen shots - I would advise you to follow the commands on the screen shots as there are some typos in the book, for example, when it asks you to type in the name "Wireless Lab" it sometimes misses the quotes ("") off resulting in the command not working, but on the screen shot it appears correctly as "Wireless Lab" (you will understand this when you come to do it!).
The basic tools used are Aircrack and Wireshark and there are some very good basic commands and filters for these programs in the book and it pulls these two programs together to work hand-in-hand. There is a lot of time spent on WEP and creating your own open WEP access point for your wireless lab - I would just be careful if you do this as I had some neighbours sniffing about my open WEP! Although WEP is becoming obsolete you will be amazed how many people still use it and how relevant it is. The book then proceeds onto WPA and looks at how to crack passwords (again some decent references here would have been great). The learning curve of the book progressively increases with more in-depth penetration testing.
There is a good section about changing the region of your wifi card so that you can select a different range of channels or greater power, for example, the alfa card I have defaulted to 20dBm but when I changed the region of the card I could then increase the txpower of the card to 30dBM - of course there are lgal limits for your own country but you do need to know how to do this if you travel abroad.
All-in-all this is a great book. For the price I would expect more and better references, however, I am very glad that I bought this book and would highly recommend it as the first step in learning penetration testing and as a means of securing your own wireless system!
I hope the author does another book - maybe for the intermediate/advanced user with more references at the end of each chapter - I for one would certainly buy it.
However, apart from a poor reference section this book is great! I set up the wireless lab that the book recommends although I would suggest you buy the alfa AWUS306NH which supports the "new" 802.11n network instead of just the old b and g networks which the suggested card in the book only supports. Backtrack 5 R2 now has the support for the new alfa card and there is no problem with injection. I would highly recommend that you set up this wireless lab and buy the wifi router as it allows you to see first hand how an Acess Point (AP) is affected. It also enables you to check that you are doing things correctly, for example, if you set up a WPA AP with a very short easy dictionary password but you are unable to crack the password then you know you must be doing something wrong. It is also good to log into your wifi router and see the connections and logs that are left behind. (I bought the D-Link Wireless N Router.)
This is a simple step by step guide with accompanying screen shots - I would advise you to follow the commands on the screen shots as there are some typos in the book, for example, when it asks you to type in the name "Wireless Lab" it sometimes misses the quotes ("") off resulting in the command not working, but on the screen shot it appears correctly as "Wireless Lab" (you will understand this when you come to do it!).
The basic tools used are Aircrack and Wireshark and there are some very good basic commands and filters for these programs in the book and it pulls these two programs together to work hand-in-hand. There is a lot of time spent on WEP and creating your own open WEP access point for your wireless lab - I would just be careful if you do this as I had some neighbours sniffing about my open WEP! Although WEP is becoming obsolete you will be amazed how many people still use it and how relevant it is. The book then proceeds onto WPA and looks at how to crack passwords (again some decent references here would have been great). The learning curve of the book progressively increases with more in-depth penetration testing.
There is a good section about changing the region of your wifi card so that you can select a different range of channels or greater power, for example, the alfa card I have defaulted to 20dBm but when I changed the region of the card I could then increase the txpower of the card to 30dBM - of course there are lgal limits for your own country but you do need to know how to do this if you travel abroad.
All-in-all this is a great book. For the price I would expect more and better references, however, I am very glad that I bought this book and would highly recommend it as the first step in learning penetration testing and as a means of securing your own wireless system!
I hope the author does another book - maybe for the intermediate/advanced user with more references at the end of each chapter - I for one would certainly buy it.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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This book walks you through the essential wireless protocol vulnerabilities very well, first by setting up a lab to test the theory in the book, and then by building on your knowledge piece by piece; each time with practical exercises to complete. This well written book WILL allow the beginner to gain a good awareness of wireless security issues. A great grounding for taking your studies to the next level..
I would have liked a greater range of tools to have been covered but this could complicate matters and detract from the real security material so ultimately I am glad the author resisted this and stuck to their progressive chapters - which essentially follow the following pattern - theory, do, pop quiz & summary. I personally learn better by doing and this book does not leave it too long before investigating the theory with a practical exercise - Highly recommended.
I would have liked a greater range of tools to have been covered but this could complicate matters and detract from the real security material so ultimately I am glad the author resisted this and stuck to their progressive chapters - which essentially follow the following pattern - theory, do, pop quiz & summary. I personally learn better by doing and this book does not leave it too long before investigating the theory with a practical exercise - Highly recommended.
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Anyone with a serious interest in wireless security must have this book on their shelf.
Vivek pitches the information at the right level to help people start in this topic before
moving on to more complex topics.
I would definitely recommend this book.
Vivek pitches the information at the right level to help people start in this topic before
moving on to more complex topics.
I would definitely recommend this book.
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