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Building a Pentesting Lab for Wireless Networks

You're reading from   Building a Pentesting Lab for Wireless Networks Build your own secure enterprise or home penetration testing lab to dig into the various hacking techniques

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2016
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ISBN-13 9781785283154
Length 264 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Andrey Popov Andrey Popov
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Aaron Woody Aaron Woody
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Vyacheslav Fadyushin Vyacheslav Fadyushin
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Preface 1. Understanding Wireless Network Security and Risks 2. Planning Your Lab Environment FREE CHAPTER 3. Configuring Networking Lab Components 4. Designing Application Lab Components 5. Implementing Security 6. Exploring Hacking Toolkits 7. Preparing a Wireless Penetration Testing Platform 8. What's Next? Index

Cracking tools


Today, hashing is a basic security mechanism of most IT services. Overall, hashing transforms data of arbitrary length into the output bit string of a fixed length in a non-recoverable way (that is why it also called a one-way conversion). Hashes are often used for authentication purposes (to store and compare hashes of user passwords instead of storing passwords in clear text what is insecure), for integrity control (checksums).

Nowadays, we cannot imagine technologies that do not use encryption. Therefore, the question of the restoration of hashed data is one of the most important in today's IT security world. In this section, we will look at some of the popular tools that can be useful in performing this security analysis.

John The Ripper

John The Ripper (JTR) is a free program designed to recover passwords from their hashes. The main purpose of the program is to audit weak passwords on Unix systems. The program can also perform an audit of NTLM hashes (Microsoft Windows...

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