Today we are joined by: Mike Spicer, the builder of the Wifi Cactus, someone you can see walking around various security conference   

with a backpack filled with wireless monitoring goodies :)

Mike wanted to see what was really happening on one of the most dangerous wifi networks in the world, this and a lot more in this episode of Hacker Talk. 

In this episode we cover:

Questioning the dangerous assumption

How dangerous is Defcon's network really?

Dialup internet, warez, Hacking, Tinkering, and programming

The movie Hackers from 1995

Wardriving, driving around to find internet, Orinoco gold wireless card

WiFi

Starting a startup wireless internet service provider company

Software-defined radio

Hacking Radiofrequency

LoRa

Helium Lori hardware

Things network Lori iot

Amazon sidewalk

Interconnected devices

900megahertz

OpenBTS BladeRF

3g stingrays

WiFi Cactus, wifi kraken

Wardriving with wireless antennas

Pitfalls with airodump

Wireless captures

Wireless standards, going to WiFi 6

From one box to twelve

25 hak5 pineapples from Darren kitchen

Kismet, Andrew dragon(creator of kismet)

Intel nuc

Live streaming data from the WiFi Cactus

WiFi Cactus at Defcamp in Romania

Analyzing wardriving from security conferences

Pcapinator GitHub

Wireshark

Mdns, clear text,

DNS queries to slack

Building your own wardriving device

Wireless penetration tests

Intel ax220 PCI express WiFi adapter, 30-40 USD, native Linux support

Monitoring for wireless de-authentication attacks

Deploying kismet for detection with raspberry pi 4 with a 30usd Wireless adapter for starting to monitor their WiFi security

Best practices for cracking wpa2 handshakes with hashcat

Best security practices for setting up wireless networks

Links:

https://www.imagine41.com/product/orinoco-gold-wireless-networks-pc-card/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software-defined_radio

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wardriving

https://twitter.com/d4rkm4tter

https://github.com/mspicer/pcapinator

https://www.wigle.net/  

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LoRa

https://www.helium.com

https://www.kismetwireless.net/  

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/sku/189347/intel-wifi-6-ax200-gig/specifications.html   

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