Episode 505 – Introducing Interceptor: The network tap and rogue wireless access point
This episode was a blast! Although I got sick over the weekend (and I’m still recuperating), I still had a great time putting together a partially improv sketch and helping Darren with his animation. I hop you enjoy it!
Our friend digininja is at it again. On this episode we feature Robin Wood’s latest hack based on none other than the Fon+ wireless router.
Interceptor is a wireless wired network tap. Simply put you place it in line on an ethernet cable, then connect to it via a special wireless access point. Once connected and running the Interceptor scripts you’ll be able to sniff all of the traffic passing across the wire.
Interceptor doesn’t affect TTL and adds minimal latency to packets. It doesn’t associate to the target network so discovering an active Interceptor on your LAN isn’t trivial.
This tool is perfect for pen testers. The device inexpensive, based on the Fon+ router and using open source software. It is small enough to fit behind a network wall plate, inside a plush monkey, or even inside a network switch or other gear.
In this episode we demonstrate the usage, illustrate the installation and speak with the developer Robin Wood.
You can download the software and play with it yourself from digininja.org/interceptor and find support and discussion at the Hak5 Interceptor Forum.
Thanks for watching, subscribing, and most of all supporting the show. On a related note custom commissioned WiFi Pineapples running Jasager are now available.
We return next week with a regular format show. Don’t forget to submit your questions@hak5.org and feedback@hak5.org and trust your technolust!
March 18 2009 07:39 pm | Podcasts and e-life and technology
March 25th, 2009 at 7:08 am
Great episode as always. Lookin’ forward to gettin’ my pineapple soon!
On another note: What did the t-shirt you were wearing in the episode say? I saw “MSU” and what appeared to be some sort of creature.