Wireless hacking becomes more widespread these days. Many people drive / walk through town with their laptops trying to find unprotected wireless networks to do all sorts of things. Most harmless one would be to use your connection to surf and download, but it could also include downloading your files, spamming using your computer, installing malicous programs on your computer aso.

But this is no article on how to protect yourself, I probably write one soon. The Ethical Hacker Network published an interesting article by Daniel V. Hoffman about essential wireless hacking tools. The article has four chapters: Finding Wireless Networks, Attaching to the Found Wireless Network, Sniffing Wireless Data and Protecting Against These Tools.

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Have you every wondered how hackers actually do their hacking ? What tools they use, how they handle the tools and stuff like that ? I found a site that has some recorded demonstrations of hacking attempts.

All movies are about 20 megs in size and can be downloaded from their website. Topics include Penetration Test Reconstruction, Cracking WEP in 10 Minutes and Tunneling Exploits via SSH.

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