Lesson 8: Fundamentals of Wireless Hacking

DO NOT HACK YOUR NEIGHBOR! Use these instructions on a controlled lab and in your own wireless network.

Exercise 8.1 - Building Your Own Wireless Lab

  1. In the training we covered the different wireless adapters, antennas, and other devices. You can also watch this video for additional references.
  2. Make sure that you install and configure a wireless adapter that can not only monitor wireless communication, but that can also inject frames into a wireless network. I also have a write-up about recommendations of wireless adapters in this GitHub repository.
  3. Use airmon-ng to setup your adapter in monitoring mode.
  4. Use airodump-ng to monitor the wireless networks that are in your proximity. Can you find your wireless router? Record the channel, BSSID, and ESSID.

Exercise 8.2 - Cracking WEP

  1. Setup your wireless router to perform WEP authentication.
  2. Use aircrack-ng to crack your WEP password. Follow this video for step-by-step instructions.

Exercise 8.3 - Attacking WPA Networks

  1. Setup your wireless router to perform WPA pre-shared key authentication.
  2. Follow this video and use aircrack-ng to crack your WPA password.

Exercise 8.4 - Surveying other tools

  1. Use cowpatty to crack the WPA pre-shared key.
  2. You can follow the step-by-step instructions in this video.

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