hey all, me again.
My mom recently asked me to reveal the security flaws in our home network and her computer in particular because it contains very sensitive data and she needs to know how easy or hard it is for people to get to her information both from connecting to our network (through WEP cracking) and from the internet.
The problem with this is that I don't know how to do most of this. I've only done some light research on WEP cracking but other than that I know very little of penetration testing.
Aside from running distros of linux specially designed for penetration testing (like nubuntu, which I will probably end up running), what else should I keep in mind? utilities, methods, etc?
for the sake of keeping this knowledge off of the forum (because I realize it can be used for black-hat hacking), I kindly ask that you PM me any/all information you have and lets keep TBCS from being a hacking website. Also, applications for windows hacking are acceptable, but I know linux is typically more powerful for this as there's a lot of stuff that's not regulated like it is under windows.
Thanks,
Omega