Wi-Fi password hack: How to hack into WPA Wi-Fi and WPA2 | Free Cyber Work Applied series

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Published 2021-11-05
In this episode of Cyber Work Applied, Infosec Skills author Mike Meyers demos a Wi-Fi WPA key hack. He uses Aircrack-ng and Airodump-ng to access 802.11 WPA and WPA2 connections.

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0:00 - WPA and WPA2 security
0:25 - Problem with WPA and WPA2
1:36 - Humans use weak passwords
2:16 - What is a dictionary file?
3:08 - Setting up the Wi-Fi hacking demo
4:27 - Using airodump to grab WPA connection data
6:30 - Cracking passwords with aircrack
7:32 - Weak keys are vulnerable to attack

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All Comments (21)
  • @Katie-Bee
    Wow you put that in such an easy way to understand. Deserves a like.
  • @100PercentOS2
    Nothing is ever easy when you are up to no good. But I like it. Carry on.
  • @giovanniguarino588
    You are always fantastic. I got from you the first lessons and now I am a Certified Ethical Hacker. Thank you
  • @QUEENNEESYA
    "Kebersamaan itu seperti permulaan, kemudian menjaga kebersamaan merupakan kemajuan dan bekerja bersama merupakan keberhasilan."
  • @lindadiaz3268
    Visiting and curious about two little disk's with instructions, which I found with while cleaning out old disk's, I believe I'll keep them in my safe lol
  • @moonchild8155
    So i was trying to openline this newly bought wifi router with streamwatch basically i relied youtube i followed the virtual instruction and i disabled something and boom i can no longer access it, did not change anything only disabled, i factory reset the android tv, lost all the data instored, and i cannot connect any device with the router, it said ssid: unknown, pw: unknown, firmware: unknown everything there is unknown... I tried wps apps ip scanner, the IP have changed and i can access the ISP IP... Im screwed...
  • @edciljr.3593
    Where did get the info of that thing!! Why is it the dictionary are already there?
  • @gmarch4618
    Hey there. Been following a lot of your material. The college I am attending references you quite a bit. I need to put together a project for a Wireless class and hacking WPA was something that came to mind. This is fundamentally what I was looking for. 2 questions. First is when you got to 4:46 you have airodump running. What was the command syntax for running it? Second question is the antenna on the hacker laptop. Was this anything specific. I have a desktop with a built in wireless antenna that I can use. Just checking if there is any special hardware I need to order. Thanks.
  • @tznutz4824
    lets recap as this method of attack only works if the passphrase is already stored within your wordlist as aircrack basically cross reference all the different passphrase within the wordlist file to see if any of them matches. So by no means this type of method is meant to brute force its way in.
  • @Soky91
    4:48 Did you do it through Windows 10 and CMD?
  • @WPGinterceptor460Interceptor
    at 06:13, i have this window open and this same setting yet I dont get a handshake, just the data numbers keep increasing.. I tried to kick them off and nothing.. just data numbers increasing