Yuhuuuu Neighbor

 

Ever felt that you want to get hold of your neighbors wireless key just to have access to internet? Well I do, with tons of research it is possible and it's easy (well that's what they say). Take note that accessing and hijacking your neighbors wireless is against the law( I'm not sure it does exist in Brunei) and what I'm providing is for educational purposes only (sentence taken from the video hehe) .

Interesting video to look at  Weak WEP Encryption

There are many sites available, just Google it. Many people consider is a hack but to me its just something new just to pass my boredom. Look into it briefly getting or cracking many would call it, would require specific hardware, software, drivers even the OS.

The video linked above showed us that you'll need:

Aircrack - is an 802.11 WEP and WPA-PSK keys cracking program that can recover keys once enough data packets have been captured. In fact, Aircrack-ng is a set of tools for auditing wireless networks.

Commview is a powerful network monitor, analyzer and packet sniffer designed for LAN administrators, security professionals, network programmers, home users.

A compatible wireless card which can capture packets and injects packets, common ones are Atheros chipset card, CISCO, DLinks wireless cards. Google for more info.

An of course the OS, windows XP.

To get the idea of the whole process. Assume that you have all the necessary stuff loaded and ready.

• Start with capturing packets you need a tons of packets which is important because packets contains unique IV (WEP keys)
• 100K-200K IV's would be enough for a 64 bit WEP encryption
• Run a cracker to get the WEP key (Google it) :)

It's simple but its time consuming. Either way if your are one of those enthusiastic or advance users you could try using Linux or I recommend Back track 3 which contains all those security goodies that makes you a happy bunny. I would like to go on but I shouldn't spoil you and let you get started with the experimenting.

 

Interesting read facts on wireless networks.

Happy wardriving