As the subject says really, has anyone done the Offensive Security Wireless Attacks - Backtrack WiFu course online?

I was thinking about giving it a go at some point, but wondered how good the quality is and the benefits of doing this. My WiFu is reasonable as they say, but thought perphaps there would be some missing tricks I might find in this.

Any thoughts of anyone would be apppreciated.
Dale

Thanks Kev,

the device arrived today, will test it out later. I assume you need both USBs connected to power this beast

Doesnt look to bad from the trailer.

Thanks for the information guys, I have just done some searching and its looking to be just under $2000 just for the flights and room, so I think its going to be to much, really need to plan for these things.

Thanks again for sharing the info, and have a great time.

Hiya Guys,

Where do people stay at this event and how much is a room per night all in?
Also is it a daily cost to get into Defcon, or a one off fee?
Also how much do you normally need to spend per day, food, drink etc?

I am trying to get an idea how much this event would cost for me to attend from the UK. It will probably be to much but I wont know unless I have a look at working it out.

Thanks in advance.

Dale

Kev,

thanks for the post. I have heard good things about these, and have been looking for a decent USB wifi card. I ordered one the other day, so look forward to testing it when it arrives.

Have you used any Yagi Antenna or Cantenna with this card with positive results?

Dale

My pleasure Snouto,

be sure to keep us informed as to what you do, and even though I dont spend as much time on this forum as I should, stick around, very nice people on here, and Don is a legend.

Dale

Perhaps something like a Cisco 1720 would probably be ideal. Be good in a little lab environment, and should be able to get one cheap enough.

Don,

all the best with going full time with the DCC, I look forward to hearing your updates and keeping the pressure on you .

I know we are in different countries, but some time I would like to have a chat with you about your side projects, how you juggled these with work and family comitments.

Dale

Snouto,

everyone in life has an opinion, doesnt make it the right or wrong opinion, but it is specific to them.

It is good to want to achieve things and have goals in your life. So if you want to study the tools and topics relating to CEH go ahead. In my opinion you dont have to be a full time pentester etc to be an Ethical Hacker, it can be a hobby not just a career.

I work in Information Security, but my interests span the whole IT and Information Security spectrum. I prefer to have a broad range of knowledge and skill sets, others prefer to become the master of one. Each has advantages and disadvantages.

I would go with what you want to do, perhaps study the CEH part time, and maybe in the future this may lead you to getting a full time CEH job, perhaps you will stay in programming but with a much better understanding of various vulnerabilities and techniques to review your code. I think you have a lot to gain, and little to use.

All the best with what ever you decide to do in life.

Thanks Jason,

I will give it a read and try it out.

Heh,

I just very quickly had a look around before getting back to writing this report (having to work at the weekend sucks). I probably wont have time to try it this weekend but something called SOX is used apparently:

Sox is needed to listen to the raw PCM output from the headset
sox -t raw -r 8000 -c 1 -s -w <recorded .raw file> -t ossdsp /dev/dsp
Sox can also change the raw PCM to .wav
sox -t raw -r 8000 -c 1 -s -w <recorded .raw file> -t wav -r 44100 -c 2 out.wav
Make your own message to send:
sox -t wav -r 44100 -c 2 <your .wav-file> -t raw -r 8000 -c 1 -s -w message.raw

I have been messing about this with software in my lab, but I am really fairly limited into my knowledge of bluetooth related vulnerabilities. I have messed with bluesnarfer and bluebugger in the past with success in the lab, but a non security related issue has me stuck and maybe you guys can help.

Admitedly I have not had much time to google, but when using carwhisperer you are required to use an input file and this is some form of audio .RAW file, then output then will also be a .RAW file.

My question is, what tool can be used to create and playback these audio .RAW files?

If know one has experiance, I will post an answer when I find some spare time to do some further hunting.

Thanks in advance.
Dale

Congratulations, and all the best for the future.

This USB DriveDock looks really good, but it doesnt say if its a write blocker, so I assume it isnt?

If your using one of these, do you use this in conjuction with something to stop data alteration when conducting a forensic investigation.