BackTrack 5 Wireless Penetration Testing

Course details

Armed with the essentials, you will learn how to conduct a host of cutting edge wireless attacks. You will learn how to execute attacks such as WLAN packet sniffing, revealing hidden SSIDs, open authentication by defeating MAC address filters, bypassing shared authentication, cracking WEP and WPA/WPA2 encryption.

In addition to documenting the essentials of wireless penetration testing, we will also discuss setting up rogue APs and wireless evil twins, client-based WEP cracking attacks, wireless infrastructure-based attacks, WPS PIN brute force attacks, denial of service (DoS) attacks, eavesdropping and session hijacking, EAP-based enterprise wireless hacking; and much more. Coverage also includes various countermeasures to protect wireless networks against these types of attacks, in order to help bolster the wireless security of any given network.

About the Author

Farrukh Haroon Farhat is an information security professional with over 8 years of experience. He currently works as a Security Analyst in IBM's Global Technology Services (GTS) division. As a member of the Managed Security Services (MSS) operations team, Farrukh works with multi-vendor network security technologies, helping customers improve their security posture. He's previously worked as the IT Security Manager for an emerging telecom operator based in the Middle East. He has also delivered various professional trainings related to Information Security and Networking. Farrukh hold's various industry certifications such as CISSP, CISA, CCIE Security (#20184), JNCIE-Security (#91) et al. He actively contributes to various online communities related to network security like Cisco Netpro. As a result of his contribution to Cisco's official support community, he was awarded the 'Cisco Designated VIP (Security)' accreditation in 2011.