Hacking Workshop
The net has cracks and crackers are among us. With all the news of security failures, it can be a challenge to know what is FUD and what is really at risk and to what extent. This session isn’t about hacking an application together nor is it about coding a solution. It is about looking at the network and network infrastructure and understanding some of its weaknesses. This workshop is a 50% mix of lecture / discussion and hands on attacking in order to best understand the challenges.
The labs will require the use of:
- a virtual machine with BackTrack 5
- a wifi adaptor
- and a laptop.
We will have ISO installations of BackTrack 5 for you to install on your VM. It is best if you have this pre-installed, it can be downloaded at http://www.backtrack-linux.org/ . In order to run backtrack, you will want to install this to a virtual machine, if this is new to you, pick up virtualbox or vmware.
The wifi adaptor needed is an Alfa AWUS036H or Alfa AWUS036NHA. You will need 1 of these external adaptors. There are ~ $30 at amazon.
Through the labs we will:
- Disassociate wireless traffic
- Crack a WEP key
- Learn to break through a WPA device
- Scan for open ports
About Ken Sipe
Ken is a distributed application engineer. Ken has worked with Fortune 500 companies to small startups in the roles of developer, designer, application architect and enterprise architect. Ken's current focus is on containers, container orchestration, high scale micro-service design and continuous delivery systems.
Ken is an international speaker on the subject of software engineering speaking at conferences such as JavaOne, JavaZone, Great Indian Developer Summit (GIDS), and The Strange Loop. He is a regular speaker with NFJS where he is best known for his architecture and security hacking talks. In 2009, Ken was honored by being awarded the JavaOne Rockstar Award at JavaOne in SF, California and the JavaZone Rockstar Award at JavaZone in Oslo, Norway as the top ranked speaker.
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