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I got my new Alfa card today and I've watching and practicing the videos of Securitytube.net, it's good, a few weeks ago I was only watching the video but watching and following the exercise is great.

I hope after all this video I will take the wireless for Offensive Security

Review the syllabus before you make a commitment. While the first part of the course does a good breakdown of how wireless works and how most packets are structured, it primarily focuses on cracking WEP. It's great for what it is, but IMHO, that course really needs an update.

I agree about the update

I HIGHLY recommend SANS SEC617 if you can afford it. Not only will you learn the inner guts of wireless protocols, current and emerging attacks against wifi encryption and authentication (including WPA2 for both PSK and select EAP types) Bluetooth, Zigbee, etc you will leave armed with the techniques you need to perform research on proprietary and future wireless technologies as well.

I cannot aford it for the moment

Ah the Alfa AWUS036H, my very favourite WiFi adapter and it will serve you well :D

jup, alfa is considered the best with its range and sensitivity. it got me through bad times when i was having beef with my ISP, one of the advantages of living in a big city 8)

I am the course author. I am not sure when was the last time you checked the course but WPA/WPA Personal, Enterprise and ton of other things have been added a while back.

The full list of videos is available here:

http://www.securitytube.net/groups?operation=view&groupId=9

I am at the Defcon 19 Wireless Village today and we are giving out a free DVD of this course. If you are around, please do drop by.

Alternately, you can download this here:

http://securitytube.net/downloads

I'm pretty sure dynamik was referring to OSWP, which is outdated.

Yeah, OSWP definitely needs an update. When there's more information in a Hacking Exposed book, I would think it's time to update ;)

Vivek, the videos are good.

Thanks all!

I hope you are enjoying some of the latest videos I put out.

Yep, the ALFA card are really good! ready to use with Back|Track and really powerfull transmition capability at 1W...
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Yep, the OSWP course should really need an update...

At the moment I am watching Vivek's wifi megaprimer to prepare for the SWSE cert that, as I read around, will be harder to pass then OSWP... ;-)

BackTrack Wifu is supposed to be getting an upgrade to v3.0 at some point in the near future:

http://www.ethicalhacker.net/component/option,com_smf/Itemid,54/topic,7721.msg41790/#msg41790

I've had my Alfa card for about a month now and I stopped watching the securitytube videos because there's not enough time in day =/. I was also interested in the offensive security cert but just like you guys mentioned, its need an update about 2 years ago lol I wonder how the security tube wifi cert compares to OSWP, has any tried the security tube cert yet?

I'm thinking zbout buying an Alfa card as i have learnt a lot of things with Vivek's book.
In my local store they are selling two types the classic one ALFA AWUS036H and the AWUS036H V5. Anyone knows about the V5 ?

ok i've seen the different cards :
AWUS036H : 2dbi
AWUS036H V5 : 5dbi
AWUS036NH : 5 dbi + norm 802.11n

I could be wrong but I think I remember Vivek saying he didn't get as good of results from the Alfa N card as he did from the b/g one. 

I was considering getting an Alfa but I checked the connection on my internal Dell wireless 1390 and it's constantly at 54Mbps so I'll stick with this one. :-)  (i was surprised)

If you're planning on doing anything more than monitoring (e.g. packet injection), then you'll want to make sure your internal card is capable.  One of the reasons for getting an Alfa card is that a lot of internal wifi cards can't do packet injection.

i've ordered mine today  :)
have to wait now...

They are good, sometimes I in customer site and I cannot get good signal from the wireless in some areas, I install the card and I got it without problem.

I thought the 1390 was able to do packet injection.  I'll try sometime soon and let you guys know.

Anyone else have any experience with the Alfa AWUS036NHR card? I was about to get it when I read that it's not plug & play with BT 5 (and manual driver installs were a pain) + something about it not capable of monitor mode while in N. I'm debating on whether or not go ahead and get it or stick with the old one (b/g only).