Wireless Attacks Unleashed

As we all know, wireless networks are spread at each and every part of the world, starting from personal home to corporate business environments, schools/universities, cafes, etc. The major merit of wireless networking is to eliminate the big and untidy cables, which acquires space and unspoils the look of your working area. But as we all know, each coin has two sides. There are demerits of wireless networking as well. It comes with high possibility of attacks on it. In this article I am going to describe different techniques of attacks on wireless networks and what we should do to prevent them.

Let’s start with WLAN protocol, which is also known as 802.11 protocol, commonly used for wireless networking. The major function of this protocol is to link more than one device. It uses spread spectrum signals. The functionality of these signals is based on radio frequency communication where networking is established between two point-to-point end devices consisting of a transmitter and a receiver. In this mechanism, participants (in terms of end devices) must have transmitters and receivers to send and receive signals.

To connect to the wireless network, each participant must have wireless AP (Access Point – also known as Wi-Fi hot-spot) along with the wireless adaptor. The AP acts as a walkie-talkie. It converts radio signals into digital signal and vice-versa. When AP transmit the signals, those signals have SSID, known as service set identifier & information of network identification. The receiver detects the signals and lists the available wireless network around him/her, along with the signal strength. Not only this, it also identifies whether the AP is using any security, and if yes, then what is the level of security. As its wireless network, it allows more than one node to let those nodes connect with the network, so that is why authentication is important to ensure there is not any malicious Internet user lying in that network. The AP holds this responsibility.

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Creating custom username list & wordlist for bruteforciing.

During brute-forcing every time you need custom  password list & username list. Username list is as well as important as password list, it should be unique for every organization.If we use traditional large number of username list , then it will be tedious process.Custom username list also useful in username enumeration.

Creating custom username list:-

(1)Jigsaw:-

During information gathering stage , you may use jigsaw script. It is great script for gathering employees `s details like fullname, position, department, email addresses.You should use script with your jigsaw credential.

some times email address`s initial can be username of employee.So you can get different username from output of jigsaw script.

(2)Username script:-

If you have full name of users then you can use username.py script to generate possible username by using different combination of first name & last name.

I also write bash script which generate possible username using first name, last name & birth date.

Creating Custom word list:-

(1)Cewl:-

Custom Word List generator. CeWL is a ruby app which spiders a given url to a specified depth, optionally following external links, and returns a list of words.

(2)Wyd:-

wyd is a password profiling tool that extracts words/strings from supplied files and directories. It parses files according to the file-types and extracts the useful information, e.g. song titles, authors and so on from mp3's or descriptions and titles from images.

(3)Cupp:-

People spend a lot of time preparing for effective dictionary attack. Common User Passwords Profiler (CUPP) is made to simplify this attack method that is often used as last resort in penetration testing and forensic crime investigations. A weak password might be very short or only use alphanumeric characters, making decryption simple. A weak password can also be one that is easily guessed by someone profiling the user, such as a birthday, nickname, address, name of a pet or relative, or a common word such as God, love, money or password.

Everything About Linux Iptables/Linux Firewall

Introduction

Firewalls are used to monitor and control the inbound and outbound traffic on the protected network. They have an ability to block and allow the internal as well as external services within the network. Before allowing access to the service, a firewall may also force the client / user to pass through an authentication. Sometimes a firewall can be also used in IPSEC tunnels as a platform. It monitors security-related events.

Packet Filtering

The packet filtering mechanism mainly contains inspection on TCP/IP and UDP packets. It also includes all ports in its inspection. In this process, certain rules are written for allowing and rejecting the packets passing through the network. The rules written in the firewall may contain TCP and UDP port numbers, source and destination addresses. One can implement firewall rules which may work in both inbound and outbound directions.

Types of Firewalls

There are basically four types of firewalls:

1. Packet Filter Firewall
2. Stateful Packet Filter Firewall
3. Circuit Level Gateway
4. Application Level Gateway

Packet Filter Firewall

This firewall comes into play when an administrator wants only certain packets to enter into the protected network. In this case, each packet will be monitored and inspected before passing through the network, and after monitoring and inspecting, the firewall will decide whether to let it pass or not.

There are two types of packet filter mechanisms:

1. Stateful Packet Filtering
   These types of firewalls are known as a smart / clever firewall. If the firewall remembers the packets it allowed and blocked in the network, then it is known as Stateful packet filtering. Sometimes it is also called a dynamic packet process.
2. Stateless Packet Filtering
   In this case, information about all those previous packets passed through the networks is not being remembered by a firewall. This type of firewall can be bypassed and easily fooled by attackers, and is especially dangerous for UDP data packets. This firewall will never come to know whether the given packet is a part of existing connection or any rough useless packet, because it isolates each and every packet.
3. Stateful Filter Firewall
   I have already mentioned about the Stateful packet filtering process in the above section. Additionally, this type of firewall keeps a track record of TCP streams to inspect each and every packet passing through and in and out of the network. Generally this type of firewall is only constructed to inspect packets which are coming in only one direction, from client to server. There is an automatic process which handles counter requests (replies) going from server to client. It has an ability to support a wider range of protocols such as IRC, FTP, etc…
   
   
   
   
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Transport Layer Security - Part 2 SSL

Introduction
I have already discussed about SSL in my previous article. Here I will be explaining you SSLv3. It is developed by Netscape company .In this section I will discuss on SSLv3.

General SSL Architecture
It is designed to secure end-to-end service on the internet. I will illustrate that SSL is not a single handed protocol. It is a layer of more than one protocol such as
a.    SSL record protocol
b.    SSL handshake protocol
c.    SSL change cipher spec protocol
d.    SSL alert protocol

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