Hacking My Home Wifi Part 1
Throughout this year I have been studying many different ethical hacking topics and this topic seemed to be a perfect exercise that I could do at home. Demonstrating how to hack into my home Wi-Fi network is mainly just for "fun" and to cement some of these techniques into my skill set. Disclaimer: DO NOT DO THIS TO ANY NETWORK THAT IS NOT YOUR OWN. Be a white hat hacker, not black hat one. Let's quickly discuss the Wi-Fi encryption standards to see how they evolved. WEP is an encryption protocol that was a part of the original standard for 802.11. Used for protecting 802.11a and 802.11b networks, WEP uses the RC4 encryption algorithm with either a 64 bit or a 128 bit key size. In 2001 critical cryptographic vulnerabilities were brought to light that made it known how easy it would be to crack a WEP key. A hacker only needs a certain amount of network traffic to uncover the keystream that can be used to decrypt the ciphertext. It is possible to quickly hack the WEP netwo...