Ultimate Wi Fi Hacking & Security Series 2018

Identify the basic requirements for this course, including an external wireless adapter, virtualization software, and a compatible guest OS, to enable safe wifi hacking practice with packet injection.

Compare Windows and Linux for wireless hacking, showing why Windows is ineffective for security work and how Kali Linux provides open source tools and ready-made security software.

Learn why an external wireless adapter is essential for virtual machines to access nearby wireless devices, enabling testing with packet injection, and choose adapters with compatible chipsets like Atheros.

Demonstrates connecting a wireless router, accessing the router setup page via the gateway, and exploring wireless settings, security options like WPA, bandwidth, and channels for practical security testing.

Install Kali Linux in a virtualization environment using VirtualBox or VMware Workstation. Download the 64-bit ISO, create a new VM, allocate hardware resources, and complete a graphical install.

Configure gui drivers for kali linux by editing sources.list, updating repositories, and installing open vm tools and fuse, then adjust the virtual machine display to full screen.

Learn basic wifi security tools and configuration, from verifying external adapters to using monitor mode for wireless testing with aircrack-ng.

Understand how wifi beacon signals announce networks, reveal ssid information, and how ssid hiding can affect wifi security and exposure.

Explore how beacon frames broadcast SSIDs and how disabling SSID broadcast hides the network, and how hidden networks require entering the SSID and password to connect.

Learn to analyze hidden ssid networks by examining beacon frames and client connections to reveal the network name, and understand how to identify the hidden ssid when connecting.

Learn how MAC filtering controls wireless access by using MAC addresses as unique identifiers, allowing only specified devices to connect even with the correct password.

Mac address filtering on a wireless router, test connectivity, and verify that only whitelisted devices can connect.

Explores how MAC address filters work and how attackers might bypass a whitelist to connect to a wireless router, emphasizing secure wireless practices.

Learn the foundations of cryptography, from simple substitution to modern encryption, and the importance of secret keys and ciphertext in securing passwords and banking communications.

Understand how computers share a common language through protocols to enable communication. Explore protocols such as transmission control protocol, domain name system protocol, and secure file transfer.

Explore plain text versus encrypted protocols, showing how sniffers can read usernames and passwords in plain text, while encrypted packets protect data with a secret key.

Examine wireless security protocols from open networks with no encryption to WEP, WPA, and WPA2, and understand why WPA2 is the prevailing secure choice.

This lecture explains how wired equivalent privacy, or WEP, can be cracked by collecting initialization vectors from data packets and using them to break the encryption.

Capture wlan packets with a wireless interface, monitor traffic between a station and its access point, and analyze the packets that include initialization vectors.

Learners discover how to crack WEP-based wifi networks using tools that scan networks, target a WEP access point, capture ivs, and perform a replay attack to crack password with aircrack-ng.

This lecture covers WPA and WPA2 history, why WPA was a temporary fix, the four-way handshake, and how attackers can crack passwords offline with dictionary or brute-force attacks.

Explore how WPA/WPA2 networks can be tested and cracked by capturing the handshake and using the rockyou wordlist with dictionary-based and brute-force methods.

Explore how to deploy fake wifi by generating beacon frames with tools like airbase-ng, broadcasting fake networks, and testing how devices reveal nearby access points.

Learn how a simple wifi jammer can block client connections, examine graceful ends of wireless communication, and explore authentication and intrusion detection considerations.

Explore how wireless access points are identified and mapped with graphical tools, automatically revealing hidden ssids, and how wardriving and intrusion detection illuminate available devices in a city.

Explore wardriving with Kismet as you scan and analyze wifi networks, devices, beacons, and channels from the street, while noting security risks and the importance of securing access points.

Learn about future courses to develop wireless security expertise and compare major certification options, including cost considerations (about $5000), and how they guide entry into the field of wireless security.