Wireless network hacking

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These instructions describe how to test wireless networks for security holes and how to use the various security softwares with the XO OLPC. However, great care should be taken in using these tools and software as they may brick your XO in the worst case or considerably bloat your configuration. (Especially when saving large data files...)

Updating Your Software/Firmware

Check General Firmware

to do

Check Wireless Firmware

Check that you have a recent version of the wireless firmware by following these instructions: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Test_Config_Notes#Update_the_wireless_firmware


Find a target network

Press the Mesh button and inspect any interesting access point (AP).

Check if the network has some form of security

If you can connect to the access point without any trouble, the network is not secured. Check the instructions at #Securing your network.

Install security related software

In order to continue we need some network tools:

wireshark      - 
kismet         - 
aircrack-ng    - 
nessus         - 
bind-utils     - 
traceroute     - 

We can install all of these in one go (in the terminal application):

su
yum install wireshark kismet aircrack-ng nessus bind-utils traceroute

Probably you should use:

yum install wireshark_gnome

Configuration of Network Tools

to do


Collect Network data

For More Info

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Wireless_Driver_README
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/88W8388
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Wireless#Capturing_wireless_traffic_on_the_xo
http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/4805
http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/libertas-dev/2007-July/000607.html
http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/libertas-dev/2007-December/001003.html
http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Linux.Wireless.drivers.802.11ag.html
http://www.olpcnews.com/forum/index.php?topic=814.msg13043;topicseen


Cracking a WEP key

Follow the instructions at this page: http://docs.lucidinteractive.ca/index.php/Cracking_WEP_and_WPA_Wireless_Networks


TODO: We should write a short distillation of that wiki here.

Cracking a WPA key

Execute the following command in the terminal application while there is a client succesfully connected to the wireless access point:

 aireplay -0 5 -a <AP MAC> -c <Client MAC> ath0

Cracking mesh networks

TODO

Securing your network

TODO


References:

http://www.wireshark.org/