3 Wireless Cards for Penetration Testing
3 Wireless Cards for Penetration Testing Previously, we discussed a quick short list of wireless chipsets to research in order to best handle packet injection. And packet injection, my friends, is what its all about. Our main goal, when dealing with wireless, is being able to inject enough packets into the stream in order to generate the information we need to break the encryption key. Well discuss this in depth later on. For now, we need to select an affordable card that can handle three main key elements of wireless sniffing: The cards need to be able to handle the spectrum of frequencies we want to monitor: 802.11B, 802.11G and 802.11N. There are other types of wireless in use today, but these are the three main types of wireless you find �out in the wild�. The cards must be able to be placed into �monitor mode�, the ability of a card to �listen� to a network, rather than just �speak� to it. The cards must be able to ha...