Many good open-source software tools are freely available for penetration testers (and hackers) for testing the security of WiFi networks and their users. Getting those tools to run on a given computer isn't always easy, and walking around with a notebook running WiFi penetration tools isn't exactly the right approach if you're trying to be discrete. That's where a device displayed at the DEF CON hacker conference last weekend comes into play and changes the game. The WiFi Pineapple is a small-form-factor Linux device that can discretely fit in a security researcher's bag, enabling the researcher to unobtrusively conduct a penetration-testing exercise. At a presentation in the Wireless Hacking Village at DEF CON, a researcher cut out the middle of a large textbook and hid the Pineapple inside. Pineapple creator Darren Kitchen described the device and detailed new capabilities. Kitchen explained that the original idea to build the Pineapple came from a desire to port the open-source Karma WiFi attack program to the FON (a small Fonera router).
WiFiNovation's insight:
The Pineapple has expanded since then and is now on its MarkIV hardware release, boasting a 400MHz Atheros AR9331 MIPS processor, 32MB of main memory and a complete 802.11 b/g/n stack.
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