BackTrack 5 Wireless Penetration Testing Beginner's Guide

by Vivek Ramachandran

About the Book: BackTrack 5 Wireless Penetration Testing Beginner's Guide 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-st

Genres: Hackers, Technology, Computer Science, Nonfiction, Technical, Computers

232 pages, Paperback

First published September 9, 2011

Reviews

[Jefferson F · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a really great book, it does a great job of spelling things out for you if your a novice like myself and a curious one at that this book makes things really really easy, and that might not be a good thing. Try your best not to get yourself into to much trouble, which is about as high on the list of wishful thoughts that I could muster with this book in my hands.

[Chetan Singh · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is 1 of the amazing book which i have read until now, it has taught me how to master the air, the content and examples are very much understandable for a beginner like me, if anyone 1 wants to start learning about wifi hacking then this book is best obvious because the author is Vivek ramachandran.

[Seth Kenlon · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a great book, all about pen testing and understanding what is happening on your network. If you're interested in computing and hacking and pen testing and what other people might be able to see of YOUR traffic, this is a good book to read...

[Aasem Mohemed · Rating 4 out of 5]

the book is good for beginners to start with Wifi hacking, but the book focus to show the How-to use command than explain what is going on behind the seen,you need WLAN protocol background, but this book is great.

[Acc13 · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very good beginner guide.

Hands on, great info.

Easy read - very short, due to the extensive use of screenshots.

Recommended for interested in intro to aircrack-ng suite on Kali; and for some high level wifi security fundamentals.

[عَبدُالكَرِيمْ · Rating 5 out of 5]

I loved it. Very good for beginners to start with Wifi hacking. You need a background about the WLAN protocol + some skills in Linux.

[Jack]

ok thanks