Infosec Training - Wireless Pentesting

[denzuko]

Vintage Computer Committee will be hosting a wifi security training session.

Training Schedule:

• Dinner, Meet, Greet and Key Signing
• Kali linux Install fest
• Lecture: Wifi packets and you - Intro to 802.11 networking
• Slide Deck A - Introduction to WPA security with Kismit
• Slide Deck B - Introduction to packet analysis with WireShark
• Live exam

Course Description

This class is geared towards beginner/intermediate participants. But advance participants are welcome.

Doing the install fest students will have a chance to setup their own laptop and have get some help with setting up the following:

• Keysigning
• Docker/VMWare/Virtualbox
• Kali Linux or Tails Linux
• Adding security tools to your Linux host
• Virtual machine swaps (bring external hard drives)
• Building your own hacklab

In this course, students will learn to identify existing vulnerabilities in wireless networks and execute organized wifi attacks in a controlled and focused manner. We believe the best penetration testing training is hands on!

Students are expected to provide their own lab equipment from laptops, routers, and wifi cards. Most access points can be used for the course exercises although some variations may occur. The instructor will provide two access points for classroom instruction. However your wireless card must be injection-capable so please refer to the Aircrack-ng wiki to verify compatibility.

Challenge rating:

Resources:

Instructor:

Dwight Spencer (@Denzuko)

denzuko

[bscharff]

Doesn’t sound very much like Vintage Computing…

[jast]

By score or more linear annual endowment be made this vintage.

[carpa]

Should Vintage Computing be renamed? It seems they are actively involved in many kinds of computing education, and that Vintage Computing is only about half (or possibly less) of what they do.

[jast]

Should Vintage Computing be renamed?

If you search on Talk re: “software development committee” you can find quite a bit of relatively recent discussions surrounding that committee, as well as how that may or may not affect Vintage Computing.
Here is one example:

The New Software Development Committee ***APPROVED***

Well, we did it… Software Development is now officially a committee! Thank you all who showed up to express your support for the new committee. For those of you who were not able to make it to the board meeting last night, at one point I asked a show of hands who was in attendance specifically for the new committee agenda and roughly 2/3’s of the audience raised their hand. The support in numbers was what helped push our agenda through with little to no resistance from the board. Moving forwar…

[denzuko]

Should Vintage Computing be renamed?

Now, for those that didn’t know Vintage Computers started as a SIG under classroom and was granted the over site of software development at the space a few years back when @Draco was the Digital Media chair. However this debate has been well covered all over talk and we believe in the democratic process so further debate will need to include the software committee.

The idea of VCC being renamed has came up at a few previous committee meeting prior to the whole “software development committee” thing and we did vote for the change. But since there has been some confusion with the group that is formally the software development sig we decided to work on resolving the differences internally to our committees instead of having further tensions or political battles at the space.

seems they [VCC] are actively involved in many kinds of computing education

Yes actually we have always been. Most of the stuff we have is geared toward modern programming, Mobile AR, IoT, and DevOps but to fully understand how development got to where we are now in the world. One still needs to know the fundamentals that us greybeards learnt growing up since despite what some think, a stacktrace, pcap, and debugger goes a lot farther than any apm, tool, or “insert x industry buzzword here”, ever will.

By the way, why the name Vintage computers?

Two factors, one the founder is an old school BBS hacker that created the “vintage” interactive computer museum. Thus we chose to use Vintage Computer Committee is a Backagram for VCC Computer Committee just like GNU is GNU’s Not Unix. The other thought behind it is VCC is the power for a computer therefor one really should think of VCC not solely “Vintage”.

[Bill]

Should Vintage Computing be renamed? It seems they are actively involved in many kinds of computing education, and that Vintage Computing is only about half (or possibly less) of what they do.

Does it really matter what they are called if they are the only ones doing something? Conversely, should a committee’s activities be restricted by its name?

Other examples:

Vacuum former in 3D Fabrication
Tools for plastics in Machine Shop

[denzuko]

Well… If one wants to go there with thier argument then let me point out that 802.11 (ie wifi) was created in 1997. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_802.11#802.11-1997_(802.11_legacy)

Sure by “collectors” standards that’s more retro than vintage but by electronics standards that’s just pure medieval.

Also the mandate that VCC has is clear:

https://dallasmakerspace.org/wiki/VCC#Purpose

The Vintage Computer Committee strives to provide a … program for learning hands on about the whole computer from hardware to software and networking.