What's you Wifi Pentesting Gear?

[gbugbear at gmail.com (Tim Mugherini)]

Nice! That's a pretty cool USB card, perfect for my netbook which doesnt
have a PCMCIA slot and I often dont feel like carrying along my Alfa with
the 9dBi. Looks like I'm heading to microcenter at lunch - 9 in stock at the
local shop!



On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 7:21 AM, Michael Douglas <mick at pauldotcom.com>wrote:

> 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<carlos_perez at darkoperator.com> 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, infolookup at gmail.com 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
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