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Aircrack-ng is a network software suite consisting of a detector, packet sniffer, WEP and WPA/WPA2-PSK cracker and analysis tool for 802.11 wireless LANs. It works with any wireless network interface controller whose driver supports raw monitoring mode and can sniff 802.11a , 802.11b and 802.11g traffic.
There are a number of software toolsets that can mount a Wi‑Fi deauthentication attack, including: Aircrack-ng suite, MDK3, Void11, Scapy, and Zulu. [ 10 ] A Pineapple rogue access point can also issue a deauth attack.
As promiscuous mode can be used in a malicious way to capture private data in transit on a network, computer security professionals might be interested in detecting network devices that are in promiscuous mode.
Wireless suites such as aircrack-ng can crack a weak passphrase in less than a minute. Other WEP/WPA crackers are AirSnort and Auditor Security Collection . [ 25 ] Still, WPA Personal is secure when used with ‘good’ passphrases or a full 64-character hexadecimal key.
The only security currently in the Parrot drones prevents a second pilot from taking over, however SkyJack uses Aircrack-ng to perform a "deauthentication attack" against the pilot, exploiting a mechanism in wireless security. The SkyJack software then takes over the drone as the primary pilot and provides full control and camera access to the ...
Aircrack is another program that's even simpler to use, as no command need to be entered; instead the user is asked to type in some parameters and click some buttons. First airodump is started to gather the packets; herefore channel and MAC-filter are asked, yet the user does not need to know them per se (instead 0 and p may be inputted ...
the wiki for aircrack-ng has had a lot of information added to it over the last 18 months, this wikipedia entry is missing a lot of information about this product. The latest version is 0.9.4 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.241.11.36 ( talk ) 02:22, 28 June 2008 (UTC) [ reply ]
Usually the wireless adapter is unable to transmit in monitor mode and is restricted to a single wireless channel, though this is dependent on the wireless adapter's driver, its firmware, and features of its chipset.