Challenge by my Security+ Professor

[KiL3MaNjAr0W]

Okay so my professor for Net+ has offered a challenge to his students that will be enrolled in his Security+ class next semester. The challenge is getting passed his network security and obtaining his windows product code if successful we will not have to attend a class or complete an assignment and will be credited with 100% completion. He does not broadcast his ssid but has provided us with his network name: notyournetwork and has told us a basic bit of security information such as he uses mac address filtering.

basically I'm looking for information on a best approach to bypassing the network security, and entering the network to retrieve the product code. what tools are best used and seeing as his wife also holds degrees in it and networking security I'm guessing there maybe some IDS or IPS on the system as well so what tools and methods would best prevent detection.

 

[USAFRet]

Okay so my professor for Net+ has offered a challenge to his students that will be enrolled in his Security+ class next semester. The challenge is getting passed his network security and obtaining his windows product code if successful we will not have to attend a class or complete an assignment and will be credited with 100% completion. He does not broadcast his ssid but has provided us with his network name: notyournetwork and has told us a basic bit of security information such as he uses mac address filtering.

basically I'm looking for information on a best approach to bypassing the network security, and entering the network to retrieve the product code. what tools are best used and seeing as his wife also holds degrees in it and networking security I'm guessing there maybe some IDS or IPS on the system as well so what tools and methods would best prevent detection.

If we told you/advised you on how to do it...what purpose does that serve?
He posed this task as a problem for you to solve, not me.

(disclaimer - I've passed the Sec+ test, twice)

 

[USAFRet]

I will give you one hint before closing this, because this info is way out of bounds for Tom's Hardware...

Figure out how to break into your own network first.