As a seasoned or an upcoming penetration tester in the field of cybersecurity, your arsenal of tools and components is not complete without an external network interface card (NIC) to conduct packet-injection on an IEEE 802.11 wireless network. Each item contained within the list is recommended by the team at Offensive Security for being mostly compatible with standard Android-based mobile devices. These external NICs will allow a penetration tester to execute various wireless attacks, such as the following:
- Eavesdropping, which is listening to a target's wireless network
- Capturing network traffic for later analysis consisting of confidential information that may be passed along the network
- Capturing a WPA handshake for attempting to perform various password-cracking techniques
- De-authentication attacks
Each of the external...
