Vivek Ramachandran - Kali Linux: Wireless Penetration Testing Beginners Guide

Vivek Ramachandran has been working on Wi-Fi Security since 2003. He discovered the Caffe Latte attack and also broke WEP Cloaking, a WEP protection schema, publicly in 2007 at DEF CON. In 2011, he was the first to demonstrate how malware could use Wi-Fi to create backdoors, worms, and even botnets.

Earlier, he was one of the programmers of the 802.1x protocol and Port Security in Cisco's 6500 Catalyst series of switches and was also one of the winners of the Microsoft Security Shootout contest held in India among a reported 65,000 participants. He is best known in the hacker community as the founder of SecurityTube.net, where he routinely posts videos on Wi-Fi Security, assembly language, exploitation techniques, and so on. SecurityTube.net receives over 100,000 unique visitors a month.

Vivek's work on wireless security has been quoted in BBC Online, InfoWorld, MacWorld, The Register, IT World Canada, and so on. This year, he will speak or train at a number of security conferences, including Blackhat, Defcon, Hacktivity, 44con, HITB-ML, BruCON Derbycon, Hashdays, SecurityZone, SecurityByte, and so on.

I would like to thank my lovely wife for all her help and support during the book-writing process. I would also like to thank my parents, grandparents, and sister for believing in me and encouraging me for all these years, and last but not least, I would like to thank all the users of SecurityTube.net who have always been behind me and supporting all my work. You guys rock!

Cameron Buchanan is a penetration tester by trade and a writer in his spare time. He has performed penetration tests around the world for a variety of clients across many industries. Previously, he was a member of the RAF. He enjoys doing stupid things, such as trying to make things fly, getting electrocuted, and dunking himself in freezing cold water in his spare time. He is married and lives in London.

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Preface

Wireless Networks have become ubiquitous in today's world. Millions of people use it worldwide every day at their homes, offices and public hotspots to logon to the Internet and do both personal and professional work. Even though wireless makes life incredibly easy and gives us such great mobility, it comes with risks. In recent times, insecure wireless networks have been used to break into companies, banks and government organizations. The frequency of these attacks is only intensified, as network administrators are still clueless when it comes to securing wireless networks in a robust and fool proof way.

Kali Linux Wireless Penetration Testing Beginner's Guide is aimed at helping the reader understand the insecurities associated with wireless networks, and how to conduct penetration tests to find and plug them. This is an essential read for those who would like to conduct security audits on wireless networks and always wanted a step-by-step practical. As every wireless attack explained in this book is immediately followed by a practical demo, the learning is very complete.

We have chosen Kali Linux as the platform to test all the wireless attacks in this book. Backtrack, as most of you may already be aware, is the world's most popular penetration testing distribution. It contains hundreds of security and hacking tools, some of which we will use in this course of this book.