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What's a Pumpkin Honeypot and why you should probably be using a VPN when you're on free Wi-Fi

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So to start off I repurposed the first honeypot I had created a couple of months ago. This was quite similar to flashing the microSD the first time so I won't go into the details again. You can read more about Kali for Raspberry PI here . This is really cool because once you flash the Kali image onto the SSD with the addition of a battery pack you have now created a portable Kali machine that is ready to take with you on all sorts of adventures. Please remember to only test on things that you have permission to do so. An easy way is to just test against your own devices and I will show a few examples below of some fun things I found going a little deeper into my security research on Wi-Fi. So in the first honeypot I created before I had simple logging capabilities if a rogue device where to connect to my access point. I had at least a mac address and minimal information about the device. So that was interesting but I wanted to go a bit further and see what else you could do. I d...