Introduction With the popularity of wireless networks and mobile computing, an overall understanding of common security issues has become not only relevant, but very necessary for both home/SOHO users and IT professionals alike. This article is aimed at illustrating current security flaws in /WPA/WPA2. Successfully cracking a wireless network assumes some basic familiarity with networking principles and terminology, as well as working with command-line tools. A basic familiarity with Linux can be helpful as well. Disclaimer: Attempting to access a network other than your own, or one you have permission to use is illegal insome U.S.

Speed Guide, Inc. Are not to be held liable for any damages resulting from the use or misuse of the information in this article. To successfully crack /WPA, you first need to be able to set your wireless network card in 'monitor' mode to passively capture packets without being associated with a network. This mode is driver-dependent, and only a relatively small number of network cards support this mode under Windows.

One of the best free utilities for monitoring wireless traffic and cracking WEP/WPA-PSK keys is the suite, which we will use throughout this article. It has both Linux and Windows versions (provided your network card is supported under Windows). The aircrack-ng site has a comprehensive list of supported network cards available here:. If your network card is not supported under Windows, one can use a free Linux Live CD to boot the system. Is probably the most commonly used distribution, since it runs from a Live CD, and has aircrack-ng and a number of related security auduting tools already installed. For this article, I am using aircrack-ng on another Linux distro (Fedora Core) on a Sony Vaio SZ-680 laptop, using the built-in Intel 4965agn network card. Idm Cc For Firefox 16. If you're using the BackTrack CD aircrack-ng is already installed, with my version of linux it was as simple as finding it with: yum search aircrack-ng yum install aircrack-ng The aircrack-ng suite is a collection of command-line programs aimed at and WPA-PSK key cracking.