Wifi Hacking 101

Prompts and answers

• What type of attack on the encryption can you perform on WPA(2) personal?
  brute force
• Can this method be used to attack WPA2-EAP handshakes? (Yea/Nay)
  Nay
• What three letter abbreviation is the technical term for the "wifi code/password/passphrase"?
  PSK
• What's the minimum length of a WPA2 Personal password?
  8
• How do you put the interface “wlan0” into monitor mode with Aircrack tools? (Full command)
  airmon-ng start wlan0
• What is the new interface name likely to be after you enable monitor mode?
  wlan0mon
• What do you do if other processes are currently trying to use that network adapter?
  airmon-ng check kill
• What tool from the aircrack-ng suite is used to create a capture?
  airodump-ng
• What flag do you use to set the BSSID to monitor?
  --bssid
• And to set the channel?
  --channel
• And how do you tell it to capture packets to a file?
  -w
• What flag do we use to specify a BSSID to attack?
  -b
• What flag do we use to specify a wordlist?
  -w
• How do we create a HCCAPX in order to use hashcat to crack the password?
  -j
• Using the rockyou wordlist, crack the password in the attached capture. What's the password?
  greeneggsandham
• Where is password cracking likely to be fastest, CPU or GPU?
  GPU