What is a Keylogger?

A keylogger builds a log of everything typed into a keyboard to be reviewed by a third party. Keyloggers can be used for legitimate purposes to troubleshoot networks, analyze employee productivity, or to assist law enforcement, for example; or they can be used for illegitimate purposes to surreptitiously spy on people for personal gain. A keylogger can be a hardware device or a software program.

The most common hardware keylogger plugs into the computer’s keyboard port, connecting to the keyboard cable. It can look like an extension tail or in other cases a small cylindrical device. This makes it easy to spot, if looked for, but it won’t be detectable by software. Models are priced around the number of keystrokes they can hold, with higher capacities being more expensive. One entry model costs $49 US Dollars (USD) with a capacity of 128,000 keystrokes.

How to Hack & Crack Wifi Key With Backtrack 5

How to Hack & Crack Wifi Key With Backtrack 5

Requirements :-

Here is what you would require to crack a WEP key:

1. Backtrack or any other Linux distro with aircrack-ng installed

2. A Wifi adapter capable of injecting packets , For this tutorial I will use Alfa AWUS036H which is a very popular card and it performs well with Backtrack

You can find compatible wifi card lists here.

Procedure :-

First Login to your Backtrack / Linux distro and plug in your Wifi adpter , Open a new konsole and type in the following commands

ifconfig wlan0 up

where wlan0 is the name of the wireless card ,it can be different .To see all wireless cards connected to your system simply type in " iwconfig ".

Wi-Fi Packet Capturing and Session Hijacking

Wi-Fi Packet Capturing and Session Hijacking
Requirements :-
1. Backtrack 5 - r2/r3
2. USB Adapter (If you use Virtual Machine)

Step 1 -

 

How To Install Backtrack 5 On Virtual Machine

How To Install Backtrack 5 On Virtual Machine

If you want to experience and experiment with backtrack 5 hacking tools such as kismet, metasploit etc. Then today i am going to show you how you can install and run Backtrack 5 Operating System inside a virtual machine(VirtualBox). It works on all computers running any operating system such as Windows Xp, Windows 7, Or Mac Os X. So lets get stared installing backtrack 5 on your operating system.

Downloading Softwares to install Backtrack on Virtual Box



1. First you will need Virtual Machine to run Backtrack 5 which you can Download From VirtualBox Website. After downloading VirtualBox Install the program. Installing VirtualBox is really simple like any other program you install on your computer.
2. Then you will need Backtrack 5 .iso file which you can download from Here with below configuration. You can download it directly or via torrent thats your choice.

Getting started installing Backtrack 5 on Virtual Box

1. Open VirtualBox and Click on New. Then a popup box will appear in that write Name as backtrack, Type as Linux and Version as Ubuntu as shown in below picture and click on Next.

2. Next allocate memory to your virtual machine. I usually allocate half the ram i have which is 2GB of 4GB as shown below and click Next.

3. Then choose second option Create Virtual Hard Drive Now from three options and then click on Next.

4. Then Choose VDI(Virtual Disk Image) From all the options and click Next.

5. Now to options will come to allocate size on Hard Drive from that choose Dynamically Allocated and click Next

6. Then leave name as it is and allocate the size to arround 15-20GB and click Create.

7. Now you will have your virtual machine on left. To start it double click the virtual machine. As you running it for the first time you need to configure it.

8. Navigate to the Backtrack 5 .iso file we downloaded by clicking on button i highlighted in red in below image and select it and click on start.

9. After clicking on start click Enter and leave the setting as it is and press Enter again.

10. Now it will ask for command so type startx and press Enter and it will load user interface of backtrack.

11. Click on Install Backtrack icon from desktop and it will open installation window. Now leave language to English and click on Forward. It will now ask for location, Enter your location and press Forward.

12. On Step 3,4,5,6 you don't need to do anything just click on Forward and on step 7 Click on Install. It will take couple of minutes and you will have backtrack 5 install on your computer.

13. Now will need to enter username and password to enter backtrack, the defaultusernamefor backtrack is root and password is toor. You can use passswd command to change your password.

14. Done you now have Backtrack 5 running on your virtual machine.