aircrack-ptw – Fast WEP Cracking Tool for Wireless Hacking
WEP is a protocol for securing wireless LANs. WEP stands for “Wired Equivalent Privacy” which means it should provide the level of protection a wired LAN has. WEP therefore uses the RC4 stream to...
View Articleaircrack-ng – WEP and WPA-PSK Key Cracking Program
aircrack is an 802.11 WEP and WPA-PSK keys cracking program that can recover keys once enough data packets have been captured. It implements the standard FMS attack along with some optimizations like...
View ArticleWifiZoo v1.2 – Gather Wifi Information Passively
WifiZoo is a tool to gather wifi information passively. Similar to dsniff but for wireless work, the author wanted to do something wifi-related somewhat helpful in wifi pentesting. Something of an...
View ArticleRussix – LiveCD Linux Distro for Wireless Penetration Testing & WEP Cracking
It looks like it might be time to update our very well received list of the 10 Best Security Live CD Distros (Pen-Test, Forensics & Recovery) since we have Russix now and Backtrack new version is...
View ArticleOSWA Assistant – Wireless Hacking & Auditing LiveCD Toolkit
The OSWA-Assistant is a no-Operating-System-required standalone toolkit which is solely focused on wireless auditing. As a result, in addition to the usual WiFi (802.11) auditing tools, it also covers...
View ArticleConfused by WEP, WPA, TKIP, AES & Other Wireless Security Acronyms?
I found an interesting article today which sums up most of the acryonyms involved in wireless networks and wireless security and explain them all in brief. It may clear things up for some people who...
View ArticleWEPBuster – Wireless Security Assessment Tool – WEP Cracking
WEPBuster basically seems to be a toolkit that attempts to automate the tasks done by the various parts of the aircrack-ng suite. The end goal of course is to crack the WEP key of a given Wireless...
View ArticleinSSIDer v1.2.3.1014 – Wi-Fi network scanner For Windows
inSSIDer is an award-winning free Wi-Fi network scanner for Windows Vista and Windows XP. Because NetStumbler doesn’t work well with Vista and 64-bit XP, we built an open-source Wi-Fi network scanner...
View ArticleWPA2 Vulnerability Discovered –“Hole 196″– A Flaw In GTK (Group Temporal Key)
Well as it tends to be, when something is scrutinized for long enough and with enough depth flaws will be uncovered. This time the victim is WPA2 – the strongest protection for your Wi-fi network which...
View ArticleHalf Of Home Wi-Fi Networks In The UK Vulnerable to Hacking/WiFi-Jacking
Once again WiFi security is in the news, this time a new report in the UK shows that almost half of UK home WiFi networks could be compromised within 5 seconds. While that sounds a little dramatic it...
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