Gathering All the WiFi: Tales of the WiFiCactus and WiFiKraken

Presented at SAINTCON 2019, Oct. 23, 2019, 9 a.m. (60 minutes)

Over the last 3 years Mike has learned a lot about how to effectively capture and process WiFi data. This talk will discuss the improvements and frustrations that lead to the creation of the WiFiKraken as well as data that has been captured. Difficulties in data analysis will be discussed and solutions and methodologies will be presented including Mike's tool PCAPinator that addresses the issue of dealing with very large PCAP files. Interesting examples of data captured at some of the largest hacker conferences in the world will be discussed including things like credential, leaked APIs and DNS.


Presenters:

  • Mike Spicer / d4rkm4tter as Mike Spicer
    Mike Spicer (d4rkm4tter) is a mad scientist hacker who likes to meddle with hardware and software. He is particularly obsessed with wireless. He has a degree in computer science from Southern Utah University which he has put to use building and breaking a wide array of systems. These include web application pentesting, wireless monitoring and tracking as well as good old fashioned reverse engineering. He is the creator of the #WiFiCactus and has been seen presenting at Saintcon, and DEFCON as well as a number of other hacker conferences. He is a Kismet cultist and active in the wireless and wardriving communities.

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