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
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.
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
yum install wireshark_gnome
Configuration of Network Tools
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
