#AIRMON NG WINDOWS HOW TO#
By learning how to work with Aircrack, you will be able to understand the exact steps an attacker would take to gain access to your network. Thinking like an attacker has always been the best way to defend against a network. While Wireshark can help you watch what is happening on your network, Aircrack is more of an offensive tool that lets you attack and gain access to WiFi networks. With tools like Wireshark and Aircrack, you can perform security audits of your WiFi networks. Have you wondered how secure it is? Do you know if someone in the parking lot is connected to your network and capturing your company’s confidential data? If you are working for a company, chances are they use a WiFi network, too. Unless you use a VPN or the website uses HTTPS, your data (including passwords and credit card details) will be visible to the entire network. Unless it is properly secured, it's easy to perform man-in-the-middle attacks using tools like Wireshark.įor example, if you are connected to a Starbucks network, anyone connected to that network can look at every other person’s network traffic. However, WiFi is also a vulnerable network compared to the ethernet. Now we can connect to the internet at coffee shops, subway stations, and almost anywhere we go. There is no debate about how much easier WiFi has made our lives.
We would still be using long wires of ethernet cables to connect to the internet. In the example below I’m now over 10,000 IV’s captured, and I’ve stopped forcing traffic (CTRL+C).Imagine a world without WiFi. This took about an hour and I was right next to the router, and I rebooted it every time it locked up, (which I saw because the Data figure suddenly stopped rising).Ĩ. Someone passively attacking your wireless will need lot of patience. In this example I used about five attempts (the router froze and needed to be rebooted). You can stop and start the forcing of traffic by pressing CTRL+C, and then executing the command again (it just appends the data to the capture file). You can get enough data packets without the ‘aireplay-ng -3’ command, but it will take a lot longer. Reality Check!: In most tutorials (including my video above) this is a nice painless process, it relies on there being a decent quality signal, the router/access point not crashing because you are ‘battering’ it, and there being lots of healthy traffic around. Back in the original terminal window the Data count should start to rise, do nothing further until its over 10,000 (that’s 10,000 IVs captured). Note: ‘-3’ denotes a client attack, if your data packets do not rise (you will understand in a minute), then try with ‘-4’ instead.ħ.