WiFi Hacking : setting up the Lab
In this post, you will learn how to set up the lab for hacking. So,
you may have operation system like Windows, Linux or Mac OS X but for
hacking you need specified operation system like Kali or Backtrack. These
operation systems are created for hacking and penetration testing. They have
support almost all of hacking programs. Good news, these operation systems
are free. In this book, we are going to install and use Kali. These both
operation systems are Linux but there are few differences. When we install
Kali, there will be preinstalled programs that can be used for hacking. Maybe
you think there is a problem that you must install new operation system on
your computer, but there are some programs that help you virtualize
operation systems. There are two famous programs called “VirtualBox” and
“VMware Workstation”. We are going to use VirtualBox because it is free
and it has almost same functions. VirtualBox is a free and open-source
program that lets you virtualize operation systems like Windows, Linux, Mac
OS X and even your own operation systems. It supports almost all operation
system. So, you don’t even need to install Kali on your computer you can
simply install Kali in VirtualBox and then use it as common computer. First
of all, download VirtualBox latest version and install it. Here is a link
available:
https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads
if you are using windows operation system you should download for
windows hosts binary release, if you are using Linux download for Linux
operation system and if you are using Mac OS X download for it. We also
need something called “Virtualbox Extention Pack”(you can find and
download it from virtualbox download link), which lets us input USBs,
wireless adapters and many portable devices. First install VirtualBox and
then double-click extention pack and click install, installation is very easy, so
I am not going to explain it. Once you have installed it, we need a Kali
operation system to install on VirtualBox. But why lose time when you can
simply download already installed Kali? In the Kali website, there is link to
download Kali virtual images, then you can just open these virtual images on
VirtualBox and start Kali. There are for VMware Workstation and forVirtualBox and you must download for VirtualBox no matter what operation
system you have. Once you have finished downloading, go to the Downloads
folder and search Kali virtual image, the extension must be “ova”, then
double-click it and wait before process ends. If the image has sucessfully
installed, look for settings button and click it. So first of all, go to the system
and correctly enter ram usage for virtual machine (remember, your operation
system needs at least two gb of ram), then you gonna go to the
system>processor and enter usage of processor, also very important is to set
up network connection, because without that you will not able to do
something with Kali. To do this, go to the network and choose “Bridged
Adapter” this means that program will use your built-in wireless adapter.
Now you are ready to start virtual machine. Click “Start” and wait before
username promt appears. the default username is “root”, and default
password is “toor”, but for security we going to change it later. The screen
should look like this:
On the left side should be program called “terminal”, click on it and
you will see that black screen appears with red promt “root@kali#”. You may
have question like “what does root means?”, well root is an access type, to
understand easly this is access when you have full access over computer, you
can do anything what your computer is able to do. In windows you may think
that “Administrator” is a highest level access but that is not so. Highest level
access is root. This is where we going to run our commands. From terminal,
you can run programs easly and do whatever you want. Our system is may
out of date, so run command “apt-get update” to update system and wait until
promt appears. The apt-get is a program that lets us to update system and
install programs easly (we will use it often later), so with the command “apt-
get update” we are calling the apt-get program and telling it to update system.
Once you have updated system we need to change password because it is
default, and anyone can access to it. To change password open again terminal
and run command “passwd”, then it going to ask you old password, enter
“toor”and click enter, and enter new password (does not metter what it will
be) and remember it. So to power off virtual machine correctly click on the
button to the up and right and then click on the power off sign. Now we
already set up everything, and ready to learn how to hide your identify how to
become untraceable.
you may have operation system like Windows, Linux or Mac OS X but for
hacking you need specified operation system like Kali or Backtrack. These
operation systems are created for hacking and penetration testing. They have
support almost all of hacking programs. Good news, these operation systems
are free. In this book, we are going to install and use Kali. These both
operation systems are Linux but there are few differences. When we install
Kali, there will be preinstalled programs that can be used for hacking. Maybe
you think there is a problem that you must install new operation system on
your computer, but there are some programs that help you virtualize
operation systems. There are two famous programs called “VirtualBox” and
“VMware Workstation”. We are going to use VirtualBox because it is free
and it has almost same functions. VirtualBox is a free and open-source
program that lets you virtualize operation systems like Windows, Linux, Mac
OS X and even your own operation systems. It supports almost all operation
system. So, you don’t even need to install Kali on your computer you can
simply install Kali in VirtualBox and then use it as common computer. First
of all, download VirtualBox latest version and install it. Here is a link
available:
https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads
if you are using windows operation system you should download for
windows hosts binary release, if you are using Linux download for Linux
operation system and if you are using Mac OS X download for it. We also
need something called “Virtualbox Extention Pack”(you can find and
download it from virtualbox download link), which lets us input USBs,
wireless adapters and many portable devices. First install VirtualBox and
then double-click extention pack and click install, installation is very easy, so
I am not going to explain it. Once you have installed it, we need a Kali
operation system to install on VirtualBox. But why lose time when you can
simply download already installed Kali? In the Kali website, there is link to
download Kali virtual images, then you can just open these virtual images on
VirtualBox and start Kali. There are for VMware Workstation and forVirtualBox and you must download for VirtualBox no matter what operation
system you have. Once you have finished downloading, go to the Downloads
folder and search Kali virtual image, the extension must be “ova”, then
double-click it and wait before process ends. If the image has sucessfully
installed, look for settings button and click it. So first of all, go to the system
and correctly enter ram usage for virtual machine (remember, your operation
system needs at least two gb of ram), then you gonna go to the
system>processor and enter usage of processor, also very important is to set
up network connection, because without that you will not able to do
something with Kali. To do this, go to the network and choose “Bridged
Adapter” this means that program will use your built-in wireless adapter.
Now you are ready to start virtual machine. Click “Start” and wait before
username promt appears. the default username is “root”, and default
password is “toor”, but for security we going to change it later. The screen
should look like this:
On the left side should be program called “terminal”, click on it and
you will see that black screen appears with red promt “root@kali#”. You may
have question like “what does root means?”, well root is an access type, to
understand easly this is access when you have full access over computer, you
can do anything what your computer is able to do. In windows you may think
that “Administrator” is a highest level access but that is not so. Highest level
access is root. This is where we going to run our commands. From terminal,
you can run programs easly and do whatever you want. Our system is may
out of date, so run command “apt-get update” to update system and wait until
promt appears. The apt-get is a program that lets us to update system and
install programs easly (we will use it often later), so with the command “apt-
get update” we are calling the apt-get program and telling it to update system.
Once you have updated system we need to change password because it is
default, and anyone can access to it. To change password open again terminal
and run command “passwd”, then it going to ask you old password, enter
“toor”and click enter, and enter new password (does not metter what it will
be) and remember it. So to power off virtual machine correctly click on the
button to the up and right and then click on the power off sign. Now we
already set up everything, and ready to learn how to hide your identify how to
become untraceable.
