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Pwnie Express Releases Android-Based Network Hacking Kit
At last year's RSA security conference, we ran into the Pwnie Plug. The company has just come out with a new take on the same basic idea of pen-testing devices based on commodity hardware. Reader puddingebola writes with an excerpt from Wired: "The folks at security tools company Pwnie Express have built a tablet that can bash the heck out of corporate networks. Called the Pwn Pad, it's a full-fledged hacking toolkit built atop Google's Android operating system. Some important hacking tools have already been ported to Android, but Pwnie Express says that they've added some new ones. Most importantly, this is the first time that they've been able to get popular wireless hacking tools like Aircrack-ng and Kismet to work on an Android device." Pwnie Express
will be back at RSA and so will Slashdot, so there's a good chance we'll get a close-up look at the new device, which runs about $800.
You could chroot BackTrack on a Nexus One a couple of years ago I thought. That gets you aircrack. If they've ported it over without needing that though? excellent.
Waiting for an amusing sig.
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“I even called them and said we’d like to purchase 10,000 iPads, but we’d need to modify [iOS] slightly,” Porcello says.
Apple said “no.”
Translated: We don't want your $7million, since you're not just going to hand it over. You don't want our product, you want a customized product.
Please edit the hype out of submissions. "Bashes the hell out of corporate networks"? Come on guys, this is Slashdot. Have some respect.
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A lot of people are probably going to come on here and talk about how you can just root your standard Android tablet and then set it up to work the same way.
Frankly, I think that's a lot of work. Possibly more than $800 worth of work at standard IT wages. I think every corporate IT department should invest in one of these, it would seriously improve network security on the whole.
It's still running Android.
The king of mobile pentesting is the n900. Aircrack-ng has been working for ages, even with packet injection if you can find the patched drivers. Metasploit also runs as do tools like dsniff and ettercap
You are surely of God of Trolls, whomever you are. I have had stupid arguments with and bitten the troll apk many times.
I liked how you got it just long enough to display all the content, and yet the Slashdot renderer still teased me with "Read the rest of this comment" or whatever it says.
You had this ready for the next article to appear, didn't you? Helluva copypasta, baby!
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Doesn't it?
If I was to read a headline that said "Katy Perry has a smokin' hot rack!", I would not call it hype.
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Go on fanboys, mod me down for being right, I own one and have had to return it once thanks to faulty hardware and wait months for them to fix 4.2 to deal with Bluetooth even remotely stably and for it to bring up the start screen icons in less than ten seconds. Before anyone starts spouting the fanboy line I should not have to root it, mod it or reflash it to make the damn thing work reasonably.