Thursday, October 18, 2012

Turn a Raspberry Pi Into a Super-Cheap Power Strip Packet Sniffer [DIY]

Turn a Raspberry Pi Into a Super-Cheap Power Strip Packet Sniffer If you have a Raspberry Pi and one of those surge protectors that also protects your network cables from voltage fluctuations, you have most of the tools you need to build a cheap network observation device, as long as you're not afraid to use a soldering iron. When you're finished, you'll have the perfect addition to your pen-testing toolkit.

To make this work, you'll need a $25 Raspberry Pi, any surge protector with RJ-45 protection (the folks at Gnurds used this one), a low-profile SD card adapter for the Raspberry Pi, a few cables, a soldering iron, and some electrical tape. You can get a full parts list (and walkthrough of the build) at the link below.

When you're finished and plug everything in, you'll end up with a surge protector that looks completely inconspicuous, but can capture any traffic to and from the system it's connected to. You'll have to come back to pick up the SD card periodically, but you could fix that by adding a Wi-Fi or 3G radio to the sniffer, drive up outside, log in, download your data, and drive away (of course, broadcasting wirelessly will increase your odds of detection and make the build bigger, so there are drawbacks.)

This network tap was built to be an affordable version of the Power Pwn, another network-tap-in-a-surge-protector from the folks at Pwnie Express (who, by the way, can supply all kinds of penetration testing and hacking gear.) If you're interested in ethical hacking, a little DIY, or you're a professional penetration tester, this is for you.

Raspberry Pi Power Strip | Gnurds via Hack a Day

Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/lifehacker/full/~3/GtbYn8cAlrw/turn-a-raspberry-pi-into-a-super+cheap-power-strip-packet-sniffer

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