I'd suggest you go the cheap route with the Hawking. It's good gear to start working on. Just remember that you cannot check for the N WiFi band -- so it should not be used for WiFi site audits.
That is unless you can find a cheap USB wifi card that can do it all a,b,g,n,etc. -- if you (anyone else on the list?) do know of one, please share. I'd be willing to switch to something more cutting edge. - Mick On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 8:21 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Michael, > > Thanks for the feedback, ideally its for playing around with the tech in my > home lab and learning it. > > Once I get an idea of a few things I want to develop a plan for my job's > network. We recently deployed 2 Cisco wifi controllers, and a bunch (can't > remember actually number) of AP throughout our four locations, I want to see > what type of attacks we are open too! > ------Original Message------ > From: Michael Douglas > To: PaulDotCom Security Weekly Mailing List > Cc: [email protected] > Sent: Jul 27, 2009 7:21 AM > Subject: Re: [Pauldotcom] What's you Wifi Pentesting Gear? > > If you don't mind sharing (or you're able to do so) could you let us > know what you're trying to accomplish? Different WiFi tools are > needed for different things. > > For instance, at the Pen Test Summit in June, Josh Wright made mention > of the iPhone using WiFi-Fo-Fum in an area with too many signals. > Since the iPhone has a weaker detection than most pro gear (stuff with > Real Antennas) the limited range actually helped him narrow down the > signals much faster than it might have otherwise taken. > > --- > > For the low cost, I'm still loving my Hawking USB WiFis. The hawking > G that I bought on John's suggestion is probably the best thing > tech-wise I've bought in a long time. It just works. And by works I > mean it is amaz-wait for it-ing. The drivers seem to be available for > every OS and the fact that the pigtail is just there, makes it a great > entry level card. (NOTE THIS DOESN'T DO N I DO NOT USE FOR REAL > AUDITS -- but it's still damn handy) > > http://www.google.com/products/catalog?q=hawking+usb+wireless+g&cid=4227856102301885371&sa=title#p > > > I have played with a 1 watt omni directional antenna and wowzers is it > fun... but you're gonna have so many SSIDs that you won't know what to > do with them. ;-) But for war driving, or doing preliminary work, > it's something to consider. > > > > > > On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 4:54 PM, Carlos > Perez<[email protected]> wrote: >> For pentests the basic kit where I work at are a omni 12dbi, yagui >> 24dbi and a 2dbi ruberdukkie. For cards ubiquiti 300mw and a alpha >> 500mw, physical laptops running Linux(bactrack or ubuntu). For lab we >> have a slew of equipment from linksys, cisco, 2wire, netguear and >> enterasys to play with. In addi >> Sent from my Mobile addition to this we have a pelican brief filed >> with more antenas, pigtails, digital camera ...etc that is used for >> wireless surveys and is narrowed during assesments >> >> On Jul 26, 2009, at 1:31 PM, [email protected] wrote: >> >>> Hello All, >>> >>> With so many wifi gears out there (cards, applications, antennas) >>> which is your favorite for wifi testing. >>> >>> Are you using a virtual lab/physical? >>> >>> >>> I recently got the alpha clone with a rtl8187 chipset(which sucks >>> couldn't get it to handle injection under aircrack suite). >>> >>> My setup >>> >>> WinXP (desktop pci wifi setup) >>> 1 windows 7 usb wifi >>> 1 Laptop Ububtu 9 (Atheros chipset) >>> --Virtual box (Pentoo alpha & BT4pre) >>> 2 wifi AP (Linksys & verizon fios) >>> 1 La Fonera (with Jasager) >>> >>> Thank You! >>> Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Pauldotcom mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom >>> Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com >> _______________________________________________ >> Pauldotcom mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom >> Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com >> > > > Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry _______________________________________________ Pauldotcom mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com
