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Posted by Ashintha Perera
Ashintha Perera
299 Points

Wireless Hacking

I have to do a small demonstration on wireless hacking for an assignment in my University. (Subject: Information Systems Security & Audit) Can somebody tell me the easiest way to do the hacking demonstration.

2 Answers

Joseph Cahill
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Joseph Cahill
Courses Plus Student 4,739 Points
Joseph Cahill
Joseph Cahill
Courses Plus Student 4,739 Points

Look up Backtrack 5. There are loads of tools built in to Backtrack 5 that will help with hacking any wireless.

Andrew Chalkley
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Andrew Chalkley
Treehouse Guest Teacher
Andrew Chalkley
Andrew Chalkley
Treehouse Guest Teacher

AFAIK - WEP is easily crackable using something like aircrack-ng

You can use something like WireShark to capture packets from a insecure network.

Also be sure to have permission from those on the network and who operate before undertaking any penetration tests.