Cyber Security Researcher. Information security specialist, currently working as risk infrastructure specialist & investigator. He is a cyber-security researcher with over 25 years of experience. He has served with the Intelligence Agency as a Senior Intelligence Officer. He has also worked with Google and Citrix in development of cyber security solutions. He has aided the government and many federal agencies in thwarting many cyber crimes. He has been writing for us in his free time since last 5 years.
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WPA/WPA2 vastly improves the security of wireless networks; however, the extra protection comes at the price of added complexity to the protocol. Although WPA was developed with security in mind, it does have its own flaws that we can take advantage of.At a high level, WPA attacks can be broken down into two categories:. attacks against authentication and. attacks against encryption.Authentication attacks are the most common and yield direct access to the wireless network. When attacking WPA-PSK authentication, the attacker also has the ability to decrypt/encrypt traffic since the PMK is recovered.Encryption attacks are just emerging against WPA networks.
Dec 12, 2018 Aircrack-ng is an 802.11 WEP and WPA-PSK keys cracking program that can recover keys once enough data packets have been captured. The application works by implementing the standard FMS attack along with some optimizations such as KoreK attacks, as well as the PTW attack. To crack WPA-PSK, we'll use the venerable BackTrack Live-CD SLAX distro. It's free to download, but please consider donating, since this really is the Swiss Army knife of network security. As you can see from my system specs in Table 1, it doesn't take much computing power to run WPA cracks.
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