Nibba group: Tools for Hacking Into Wireless Connections

Thursday, 6 June 2019

Tools for Hacking Into Wireless Connections

The tools for hacking into wireless connections are available today. You will have to pay for the really good ones but there are open source (i.e. free) ones out there that will also do a decent job. You will have to look up and download what is known as penetration testing software (e.g. Air cracking among many others). Some of these programs will cost you hundreds if not thousands of dollars. If that isn’t a price you’re comfortable with then you can just go with open source variants. They work
too but they have their limits. Wireless penetration testing programs can send deauth frames. After that they will capture pcap files for you (pcap = packet capture). Capturing the pcaps will take an hour or so. The next question is what do you do with the pcap files? Some penetration testing software can examine the data for you. However, if the functionality of your hacking tool is limited (since it’s free) then you will have to get another tool to crack the pcap files – they’re called password crackers. Again, some password crackers are free and others are paid. Some of them you have to install onto your computer while others are online applications. The basic operation of these password crackers is that they check the pcap files against a database consisting of millions of possible passwords. Sometimes it only takes seconds before these software programs can crack the passwords. One secret is that many routers nowadays still have WiFi Protected Setup enabled. Cracking software will usually break down the PIN into a couple of equal halves. The pin actually has 8 characters. Note that the last character of that pin is nothing more than a checksum. This means that the only digits/characters that need to be cracked are the first seven. You may have encountered routers that do not broadcast its SSID, the name assigned by the user to the wireless network. You can figure it out using a war driving stumbler program. Some routers also have MAC filtering, which only allows listed devices to access the wireless network. That may also sound secure, however, MAC addresses on this list can also be captured in the same way that pcap files are captured. You can then copy or use the captured MAC addresses as your own, which is called spoofing. Yes, there are software tools that can spoof MAC addresses for you or you can do that by yourself by editing the registry.