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Thursday, September 15, 2011

Book : Backtrack 5 Wireless Penetration Testing by Vivek Ramachandran


This book will provide a highly technical and in-depth treatment of Wi-Fi security. The emphasis will be to provide the readers with a deep understanding of the principles behind various attacks and not just a quick how-to guide on publicly available tools. We will start our journey with the very basics by dissecting WLAN packet headers with Wireshark, then graduate to the next level by cracking WEP, WPA/WPA2 and then move on to real life challenges like orchestrating Man-in-the-Middle attacks, creating Wi-Fi Honeypots and compromise networks running WPA-Enterprise mechanisms such as PEAP and EAP-TTLS.

Even though touted as a Beginner's Guide, this book has something for everyone - from the kiddies to the Ninjas. You can purchase the book from:
Global:  http://www.amazon.com/BackTrack-Wireless-Penetration-Testing-Beginners/dp/1849515581/
India: http://www.packtpub.com/backtrack-5-wireless-penetration-testing-beginners-guide/book

Sample Chapter can be downloaded here: 
http://www.packtpub.com/sites/default/files/5580OS-Chapter-6-Attacking-the-Client_0.pdf

Author Bio:
Vivek Ramachandran, the author of the book has been into Wireless security research since 2003. He has spoken at conferences such as Blackhat, Defcon and Toorcon on Wireless Security and is the discoverer of the Caffe Latte attack. He also broke WEP Cloaking, a WEP protection schema in 2007 publically at Defcon. He was one of the programmers of the 802.1x protocol and Port Security in Cisco's 6500 Catalyst series of switches. He was one of the winners of 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 etc. Vivek's work on wireless security has been quoted in BBC online, InfoWorld, MacWorld, The Register, IT World Canada etc. places. This year he is either speaking or training at Blackhat, Defcon, Hacktivity, HITB-ML, Brucon, Derbycon, HashDays, SecurityByte etc.
For those who cannot afford to purchase the book, Vivek's Wireless Megaprimer Video series (12+ hours of HD videos on Wi-Fi Hacking) is the next best thing to it.
You can download the DVD here: http://www.securitytube.net/downloads

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