BackTrack 5 Wireles Penetration Testing

                                             

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Master bleeding edge wireless testing techniques with BackTrack 5 :

Chapter 1: 
Wireless Lab Setup  
Hardware requirements  
Software requirements  
Installing BackTrack  
Time for action – installing BackTrack  
Setting up the access point  
Time for action – configuring the access point  
Setting up the wireless card  
Time for action – configuring your wireless card  
Connecting to the access point  
Time for action – configuring your wireless card  

Summary  

Wireless Lab Setup :-

Hardware requirements

We will need the following hardware to set up the wireless lab:

 ‹ Two laptops with internal Wi-Fi cards: We will use one of the laptops as the victim 

in our lab and the other as the penetration tester's laptop. Though almost any 

laptop would fit this profile, laptops with at least 3 GB RAM is desirable. This is 

because we may be running a lot of memory-intensive software in our experiments.

 ‹ One Alfa wireless adapter: We need a USB Wi-Fi card that can support packet injection 

and packet sniffing, and that is supported by Backtrack. The best choice seems to be 

the Alfa AWUS036H card from Alfa Networks as BackTrack supports this out-of-the-

box. This is available on Amazon.com for a retail price of $34 at the time of writing.

 ‹ One access point: Any access point which supports WEP/WPA/WPA2 encryption 

standards would fit the bill. I will be using a D-LINK DIR-615 Wireless N Router for 

the purpose of illustration in this entire book. You can purchase it from Amazon.com 

where it is retailing at around $35 at the time of writing.

 ‹ An Internet connection: This will come in handy to perform research, download 

software, and for some of our experiments.

Software requirements :

We will need the following software to set up the wireless lab :

 ‹ BackTrack 5: BackTrack can be downloaded from their official website located at 

http://www.backtrack-linux.org. The software is open source and you 

should be able to download it directly from the website.

 ‹ Windows XP/Vista/7: You will need any one of Windows XP, Windows Vista, or 

Windows 7 installed in one of the laptops. This laptop will be used as the victim 

machine .