Yet another aircrack-ng guide

I managed to get hold of a Linksys WUSB54GC USB wireless-g adapter and a burnt copy of Backtrack 2 with Aircrack-ng.

So let’s get started then..Back Track 2 loaded with the rt73 drivers.

The following commands is to get your WUSB54GC dongle into the monitor/injection mode.

“ifconfig rausb0 up”

“iwconfig rausb0 mode monitor channel 1 rate 1M”

“iwpriv rausb0 forceprism 1”

“iwpriv rausb0 rfmontx 1”

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JanusVM – The Internet Privacy Appliance

I was trying out JanusVM in my VMware server. It’s a linux based OS with this few key components, openVPN, Squid, privoxy and Tor, packaged neatly into a VMware “appliance”.

Basically it provides a layer of security and privacy for most TCP based applications, like IM, web browsing, etc, even DNS requests are passed through Tor. Most importantly, it provides you with access to sites that are filtered off by your ISP transparent proxies.

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