Monday, June 9, 2008

Explains how to ethically hack a wifi wireless internet connection using free hacking software.



Wireless InternetHave a laptop, or a wireless internet card in your PC? Have you ever been in the position that where you lost your WEP / WPA key, and you interested on retrieving it back? Well with Aircrack you can.

Aircrack is a set of tools for auditing wireless networks. It consists of: airodump (an 802.11 packet capture program), aireplay (an 802.11 packet injection program), aircrack (static WEP and WPA-PSK cracking), and airdecap (decrypts WEP/WPA capture files).

I have used aircrack to try and hack my own wireless network and I happy to say I am as secure as I can get wirelessly. Again Aircrack comes with the four following pieces of software to help you secure your wireless internet connection

  • airodump (an 802.11 packet capture program)
  • aireplay (an 802.11 packet injection program)
  • aircrack (static WEP and WPA-PSK cracking)
  • airdecap (decrypts WEP/WPA capture files)

    External Links
  • Aircracks Official Homepage
  • Visit Aircrack on Freshmeat.com

    Download
  • Download the Package (Working Mirror)
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