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BackTrack 5 Wireless Penetration Testing Beginner's Guide

You're reading from  BackTrack 5 Wireless Penetration Testing Beginner's Guide

Product type Book
Published in Sep 2011
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849515580
Pages 220 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Vivek Ramachandran Vivek Ramachandran
Profile icon Vivek Ramachandran

Table of Contents (18) Chapters

BackTrack 5 Wireless Penetration Testing
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Wireless Lab Setup 2. WLAN and Its Inherent Insecurities 3. Bypassing WLAN Authentication 4. WLAN Encryption Flaws 5. Attacks on the WLANInfrastructure 6. Attacking the Client 7. Advanced WLAN Attacks 8. Attacking WPA-Enterprise and RADIUS 9. WLAN Penetration Testing Methodology Conclusion and Road Ahead Pop Quiz Answers Index

Chapter 1, Wireless Lab Setup


Question

Answer

1)

Run the command ifconfig wlan0. In the output, you should see a flag "UP", this indicates that the card is functional.

2)

You will only need a hard drive if you would like to store anything across reboots like configuration settings or scripts.

3)

It shows the ARP table on the local machine.

4)

We would use WPA_Supplicant.

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