Whenever you login into a website that requires a username and password, your information is sent to the site to verify your credentials. This is nothing new and happens constantly whether its Facebook or Gmail. Ever wonder how hackers capture these passwords? It is done by using tools such as Wireshark which is built into… Read More »
The word list that are built into Kali are located in the /usr/share/wordlists directory. They are compressed with Gzip. A popular wordlist in Kali is called “rockyou” here is how to extract it for use. Open a terminal window. Change to the directory rockyou is located in. cd /usr/share/wordlists Use the” ls” command… Read More »
If you have ever used a command line DOS box in Windows than this is the way most programs are run in Kali Linux. Even though there is a GUI the commands are still run from a command line prompt. Here are the basic commands. Basic Linux commands ls: Short for list and list the current directory/folder… Read More »
A good Wardriving USB adapter must be capable of a few things, including packet injections, Deauth command, or basicaly working with the aircrack-ng suite. There are other WiFi cracking tools such as Kismet but Aircrack is the most widely used and if an adapter works with Aircrack than it will more than likely work with other wireless… Read More »
After a WPA/WPA 2 Handshake Capture has been saved to a drive cracking it with current computers can be challenging. To speed this process up the GPU in some video cards can be utilized. This can speed things up drastically when doing a brute force crack on a WPA data capture. You will need to know the… Read More »
The traditional wireless 2.4 GHz frequency has become very overcrowded from remote control helicopters to Wi-Fi tablet users. To combat this overcrowding the 5 GHZ range has been introduced. The 5.8 GHz range has not been overused as the 2.4 GHz has. Because of this there is less interference from other devices allowing for better connections. … Read More »
Long-range USB adapters are great when penetration testing with Kali Linux but what if you want to stay low-profile. Most USB adapters that work with Kali Linux such as the popular Alfa adapters have large antennas that stick out and are very noticeable. To stay low-profile small nano USB adapter/dongle’s need to be used with Kali. Of course… Read More »
The Alfa AWUS036H was a great wifi USB adapter back in the day especially with Backtrack / kali Linux and penetration testing, but its age caught up with it as the 8187 chipset the AWUS036H used is only a wireless G chipset. Most devices now use wireless N leaving the legacy 802.11g standard to the history… Read More »
Today were doing a review of the brand-new Skullcandy Hesh 2 wireless headphones (video review below). It’s the first set of wireless headphones Skullcandy has ever released. They are Bluetooth and so they will work with any device that has Bluetooth. It comes with accessories such as cable if you want to use a wired… Read More »
Hackers at a security conference showed how easily a RFID chip embedded in credit cards and passports are easily read by simply sitting in a crowded area and recording the data as people walk by. They showed how this can be done easily by buying a RFID credit card reader on eBay for less than $20 dollars. To… Read More »