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Building a Pentesting Lab for Wireless Networks

By : Andrey Popov, Vyacheslav Fadyushin, Aaron Woody
Book Image

Building a Pentesting Lab for Wireless Networks

By: Andrey Popov, Vyacheslav Fadyushin, Aaron Woody

Overview of this book

Starting with the basics of wireless networking and its associated risks, we will guide you through the stages of creating a penetration testing lab with wireless access and preparing your wireless penetration testing machine. This book will guide you through configuring hardware and virtual network devices, filling the lab network with applications and security solutions, and making it look and work like a real enterprise network. The resulting lab protected with WPA-Enterprise will let you practice most of the attack techniques used in penetration testing projects. Along with a review of penetration testing frameworks, this book is also a detailed manual on preparing a platform for wireless penetration testing. By the end of this book, you will be at the point when you can practice, and research without worrying about your lab environment for every task.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Building a Pentesting Lab for Wireless Networks
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Chapter 6. Exploring Hacking Toolkits

As you probably know, hackers and penetration testers use not only small standalone utilities in their work, but also (probably more often) various sets of security tools and whole OS distributions built for penetration testing and filled with necessary tools.

In the course of this chapter, we are going to review toolkits, frameworks, and distributions and provide examples of their utilization in our lab environment in order to familiarize you with them and help you choose the toolkits you would like to learn in more depth for your tasks.

In this chapter, we are going to cover the following topics:

  • Wireless hacking tools

  • Infrastructure hacking tools

  • Cracking tools

  • Web application hacking tools