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Monday, February 27, 2012

Essential Wireless Hacking Tools

Wireless hacking is becoming more and more popular day by day as more number of wireless servers and clients are coming into place. So in this post I will tell you about different wireless hacking tools that are worth having in your tool kit. This post is not comprehensive in nature but the main moto is to provide you information.

There are three steps involved in this:
1. Finding the wireless networks
2. Getting connected to the found network
3. Sniffing the network


Finding the Network
I am going to recommend 2 softwares which are very helpful in finding the wireless networks in your radar.


Net Stumbler
This is a must have for the windows users. This provides you the facilty of finding the wireless signals within your range and it also detects the signal/noise info which can be used for site surveys.
wifi netstumbler output Essential Wireless Hacking Tools


Kismet

This software provides you an extra facility which is missing in NetStumbler , this tools detects those wireless networks also which doesn’t broadcast their SSID ( you should realize that this info is broadcasted by the access points but are not read or cracked). Kismet will crack the SSIDs which are not broadcasted and will display them , as this is very crutial for detecting ireless networks.




Getting connected to the Network
If the wireless network is not authenticated or encrypted then it very easy to connect with the network by directly connecting to the SSID. If the SSID is not bing broadcasted then you need to use Kismet to detect the SSSIDs and then get connected. If the network is authenticated or encrypted then you need to use these tools.

CowPatty
This is a very good tool for cracking the WEP- PSK , you can use the “New WEP” for the home wireless security. This tols uses permutation and combination of different from its dictionary to see if any option matches or not. This is defined as Pre- Shared Key.
cowpatty3 Essential Wireless Hacking Tools

ASLeap
This tool serves very well, if you want to gather the authentication data in a network It sniffs the data passing across the network and can crack them. LEAP ca be broken because of the fact that it doesn’t protect the authentication like various other real EAP types.
asleap1 Essential Wireless Hacking Tools



Snifffing The Network
Dosen't matter if you are connected to a network or not but still if there is some wireless network in your range then there is information flying in the air. So in order to read that data you would require this software.
Wireshark

 Essential Wireless Hacking Tools
This tool is very essential for sniffing data in the network. This tool can scan wireless data as well as ethernet data and it is provide to you with powerful filtering capabilities. This can also be used to sniff different 802.11 management probes and beacons. And with the help of this tool you can also detect the non-broadcasting SSIDs.
The above mentioned tools are very useful for the detection of vulnerabilities of wireless networks and are a must haves for every wireless security expert. The best way to get familiar is to use them in controlled lab environment. So enjoy as these tools are free of cost over the internet.

WARNING: Me or www.downloads4you-by-wangdu.blogspot.in is not responsible for any kind of damage caused by the above provided information. The above tutorial is completely safe to use. It will do no harm to the PC. The sole motive of this tutorial is to help you gain knowledge.

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