Portable Penetrator gets top review amidst hacking chaos
Here are some quotes from the piece...
- “Security firm SecPoint has released a portable version of its penetration testing appliance, Penetrator, designed specifically for pen-testing wireless networks;
- “SecPoint’s Portable Penetrator product is designed to conduct all wireless hacking tasks in a single package. The product ships on a Dell netbook as a pre-installed Linux distribution with SecPoint’s own tools added. The unit also comes with an external Wi-Fi card, which plugs into the USB port of the network;
- “One of the things that the system can help a pen-tester to spot is rogue access points, which are more common than you might think. These can be installed maliciously or naïvely. Attackers install them covertly by plugging them into the wired infrastructure and then use them to gain access to the core network from hundreds of feet outside the building;
- “SecPoint’s Portable Penetrator includes the ability to mount re-authentication attacks as part of its workflow. Its main value proposition is that it brings together all the tools and files available across all Linux distributions in one conveniently preconfigured package;
