Security analysis and penetration testing is an integral part of creating any kind of secure network. This brings us to the WiFi hacking software that could be used for ethically testing a wireless network and make amends. In the past, we’ve already covered the top wireless security apps for Android and now it’s the turn of such tools for your PC. In case you’re looking for a more diverse collection of tools (not for just wireless analysis), you can refer to another list.

Important: Trying to tamper someone’s wireless or ethernet network without prior permission is a criminal offense. This list has been prepared for educational purposes and you’re advised to test these software on the device you own.

Top WiFi hacking tools for your Windows/Linux/Mac device

1. AirCrack

If you have a basic knowledge of ethical hacking or you’re interested to make a career in this field, chances are that you might have heard of AirCrack. Written in C language, this WiFi hacking software is a combination of lots of tools to access the security of a WiFi network. The different tools available as a part of the AirCrack suite can be used for tasks like monitoring, attacking, pen testing, and cracking. With the Aircrack-ng software, you can crack 802.11 WEP and WPA-PSK keys after capturing enough data packets. To make the attack faster and efficient, standard FMS attack, KoreK attack, and new PTW attack are implemented.

This cross-platform, command line tool is available for Linux, Windows, OS X, Windows, and BSD platforms.

2. Cain and Abel

In case you’re looking for a password recovery tool specifically for Microsoft’s Windows operating system, look no further than Cain and Abel. Named after the sons of Adam and Eve, this tool recovers the passwords using different methods like network packet sniffing and performing attacks like brute force, dictionary attack, and cryptanalysis. That’s not all, using this Windows WiFi hacking software, you can record VoIP conversations, decode scrambled passwords, get caches data, and get hold of routing protocols for ethical hacking purposes. One of the new features added to this useful tool is ARP support for sniffing on switched LANs and MITM attacks.

As said above, Cain and Abel is available for different versions of Microsoft Windows operating system.

3. Fern WiFi Cracker

As the name suggests, Fern WiFi Cracker tool is meant for analyzing your network, finding the loopholes, and plugging them to ensure maximum security. Written in Python programming language, this ethical hacking program can run different network-based attacks on ethernet and wireless. Its major highlights are WEP/WPA/WPA2/WPS cracking, session hijacking, MITM attacks, brute force attacks, etc.

You can use Fern WiFi Cracker on any Linux machine with different dependencies mentioned on the project page.

4. Reaver

If you know the actual strength of your WiFi security, you can take some actual steps to make it more secure. That’s where Reaver comes into play. It’s an open source and free WiFi password finder software that can crack most of the current routers’ passwords. Reaver uses a brute force attack against WPS PIN and gets back WPA/WPA2 passphrases. In case you’re wondering about its efficiency, it can recover a plain text passphrase in 4-10 hours. In practical situations, you can get results even sooner.

Reaver can be installed on Linux distributions. This tool also comes preinstalled in many ethical hacking distros, including Kali Linux.

5. Wireshark

Wireshark is undoubtedly the most famous network protocol analyzer around. While it won’t directly help you in recovering the plaintext passphrases, it can help you sniff the packets in the best possible manner. This software gives you the power to inspect hundreds of protocols and get the best results with the help of live capture and offline analysis. Not just wireless, Wireshark can capture live data from Bluetooth, Ethernet, USB, Token Ring, FDDI, etc.

Wireshark tool is available for all major platforms, including Windows, Linux, OS X, Solaris, BSD, etc.

6. Infernal Twin

The #6 entry on our list of best WiFi hacking software has a very interesting name. Called Infernal Twin, it’s an automated tool that can be used for wireless pen-testing. You can use it to automate Evil Twin attack, which creates a fake WiFi access point to sniff wireless communications. By using this tool, one can eavesdrop users using phishing and run man-in-the-middle attacks to target the intended user. Using this WiFi password hacker tool, one can target WPA2/WEP/WPA security, wireless social engineering, automatic report generation, etc.

This GPLv3 licensed security tool, written in Python, can be installed on Linux distros and used for a network audit and pentesting.

7. Wifisher

Wifisher is a WiFi security tool that has gained popularity in recent years. It could be used by hackers for carrying out automated and customized phishing attacks to infect the victims or obtain credentials. Please note that Wifisher doesn’t use attacks like brute force; instead, as the name suggests, it relies on social engineering techniques. This is done by redirecting all HTTP requests after carrying out a MITM attack using KARMA or Evil Twin attack.

While Wifisher can be used by most of the Linux distros, Kali Linux is the officially supported OS and all the new features are supported on this platform.

8. Hashcat/oclHashcat

While Hashcat is known as the world’s fastest CPU-based password cracking tool, it can be used perfectly to brute force WPA/WPA2 security. Before doing that, you can use tools like Reaver to collect shared keys and decrypt hashes. In case you are willing to make the WiFi hacking faster, you can go for oclHashcat to use the modern GPUs. This tool can be used with or without a wordlist for cracking.

It’s a cross-platform tool that can be used on Linux, Windows, and macOS for fast password recovery.

Honorable mentions:

That’s not all. There are tons of other WiFi security tools that you can use and make sure that your network is secure. Some more notable tools are: Wifite, KisMac, Bluepot, coWPAtty, Ghost Phisher.

So, which WiFi Hacking Software are you going to use in 2018, let us know in the comment section below.

Everybody loves free Wi-Fi. It's an important factor for the connected traveler when they're choosing a hotel, and there are even websites dedicated to finding hotels with fast Wi-Fi and testing speeds. But there's a problem: it's inherently unsafe.

'Hotel Wi-Fi is designed for easy and frictionless access,' says Stephen Moody, Solutions Director, EMEA at ThreatMetrix. 'Devices are connecting to insecure, non-encrypted Wi-Fi networks.' The bottom line is this: use hotel Wi-Fi and you may be open to scams, hacks, viruses and malicious software attacks.

What's wrong with Wi-Fi?

The very nature of Wi-Fi, with traffic from all mobile devices broadcast loudly over the airwaves, makes any public Wi-Fi network insecure. 'With a cheap Wi-Fi adapter and some free software anyone can listen in on all conversations your phone or laptop is having with the outside world,' says Glenn Wilkinson, senior security analyst at SensePost.

'In general terms hotels have not implemented a network with business class segmentation,' says Paul Leybourne, Head of Sales at Vodat International. 'Many hotels also do not restrict the sites that guests can view, which leaves them wide open for external people to access.'

Download nagin dance nachna mp3 free song from bajatey raho. Public and hotel Wi-Fi doesn't use WPA. 'Any device that is connected to hotel Wi-Fi is effectively sending all data in clear-text, allowing a remote attacker to identify and extract information,' says Adam Tyler, Chief Innovation Officer of CSID.

Why is hotel Wi-Fi considered especially risky?

'The sophisticated security systems usually in place on corporate networks are not present on these kind of connections,' says Moody, who maintains that it's easier for cybercriminals to execute Man-in-the-Middle (MitM) and Man-in-the-Browser (MitB) attacks due to the lowered security standard.

A 2015 report from Cylance found a critical vulnerability in the ANTlabs InnGate product used by hotels, which affected 277 hotels across 29 countries. The vulnerability enabled attackers to monitor and tamper with data traffic from Wi-Fi connections and gain access to hotels' management systems.

Who's intercepting hotel Wi-Fi?

Hotels are 'dirty' because of who's staying in them – you. 'Hotel networks are very lucrative targets for cybercriminals,' says David Emm, Principal Security Research at Kaspersky Lab, which last year published details of the Darkhotel espionage campaign that targets C-Level executives while they stay in luxury hotels.

'The criminal gang compromises hotel Wi-Fi networks and then waits for a victim to logon to the network, before tricking them into downloading and installing a backdoor, which in turn infects the device with spying software,' says Emm.

This is the 'Evil Twin' hack. 'Hackers set up a fake network to mirror the real, freely available one, users unwittingly connect to the fake network, and then a hacker can steal account names and passwords, redirect victims to malware sites, and intercept files,' says Steve Fallin, Senior Product Manager at NetMotion Wireless.

Tekken 4 game free download for pc full version highly compressed. Last year, the Darkhotel group of hackers surfaced with a new attack, aimed at exploiting hotel Wi-Fi to target business travelers staying at high-end hotels. While they have long used Trojans combined with targeted phishing attacks, their latest efforts have evolved to use the Inexsmar malware. They use multi-stage Trojans, and the group has also targeted political figures using these techniques.

Tools like the Snoopy drone and Mana can automate these attacks and target a large number of people simultaneously. 'They have the ability to profile your device and figure out where you live and work,' says Wilkinson, who invented the Snoopy drone to prove how easy it is to emulate a Wi-Fi network and trick smartphones into connecting to it – and then steal data.

'Unless your data is encrypted and sharing is turned off hackers are free to rifle through all of the data on your device or whatever is passing through your connection,' says Fallin. The lesson is simple; assume all alien Wi-Fi networks are insecure.

Are some hotels riskier than others?

Absolutely – the higher the class of guests, the greater the chance that hackers are about. 'Hotel Wi-Fi comes with a particular risk, as it's a likely concentration of valuable targets like business travellers,' says David Chismon, senior researcher at MWR Infosecurity. 'Upmarket hotels are still more likely to have high-value targets such as executives, while Wi-Fi in business class lounges is also a highly tempting hunting ground for attackers.'

What are the cybercriminals after?

Your digital footprint. 'Cybercriminals aren't interested in a laptop or email addresses in isolation, but in stealing a victim's online ID and gaining access to all the resources they are able to connect to,' says Emm. The target isn't the laptop itself, but company servers, emails and other remote resources.

Are we safe with SSL websites?

You shouldn't assume that using SSL websites (those using 'https://') mean you're protected. 'You might think you're protected if you only use SSL websites, but beyond passive listening an attacker in another hotel room can redirect your traffic via his machine, and easily defeat SSL,' says Wilkinson.

Nor are portals safe. 'Networks that have portals requiring a username and password can also still be intercepted or manipulated by an attacker,' says Chismon.

How can I stay safe on hotel Wi-Fi?

The threats are many, but the solution is simple – use a Virtual Private Network (VPN). 'This will encrypt traffic leaving your devices all the way to your VPN server,' says Wilkinson. 'Most IT departments should have one for employees to use, or these services can be rented for a small fee.'

'A VPN encrypts traffic data, making it far more difficult to sniff,' says Crocker, who advises that all business travellers turn off file sharing, check firewalls are up to date and patched, use different passwords, force HTTPS wherever possible, and turn Wi-Fi off when it's not being used.

Is there a safer alternative to hotel Wi-Fi?

Public and citywide Wi-Fi is just as risky; consider these networks unencrypted and open. If you're a commuter using public Wi-Fi, you're putting corporate data at risk.

The safest way for businesses and frequent international travelers to get online while abroad is via the mobile network. Where possible, travelers are recommended to use mobile 4G connections, either tethering to their phone or by using a dongle. Many providers now offer free data roaming in numerous countries, although those after a 'little black box' global Wi-Fi hotspot for multiple devices also have options.

The Goodspeed 4G Hotspot is available for $149, offers a daily flat rate of $8.50 for 250MB of data when roaming, and has password-protected coverage in 85 countries. Other global operators are now starting to offer unlimited EU/global data plans for business customers, while those visiting remote places can rent a mobile hotspot from TEP or Vision Global WiFi.

Is mobile data as good as hotel Wi-Fi?

'In many locations the upload and download speeds are as good, if not better than Wi-Fi,' says Leybourne. 'Mobile data is more secure than Wi-Fi due to the encryption automatically applied to CDMA/LTE and HSDPA/3G-based connections by mobile operators,' adds Tyler. 'There is no longer an excuse not to use them.'

'An alternative would be to look into products like iPass or Skype Wi-Fi in combined usage with VPN technology to secure the connections used,' says Moody.

What should hotels do to secure their Wi-Fi?

This would seem the most sensible option, especially since there are legal implications for hotels offering Wi-Fi networks that get hacked.

'With the demand for free Wi-Fi on the rise, hotels need to ensure they are integrating the latest solutions that can provide packages that are tailored to guests' download demands and cost requirements,' thinks Lee Marsden, President of ZyXEL Europe.

'Connectivity and security vendors are increasingly looking to provide Unified Threat Management (UTM) solutions to both public spaces and hotels alike.' UTM means network security for guests, and helps meet the growing demand for higher-speed web connections. This doesn't just apply to hotels – coffee shops, train stations and towns need to consider UTM, too.

Over time, things should also improve. With the discovery in 2017 of the KRACK vulnerability, which exploits the four-way handshake for a client to join a wireless network, the Wi-Fi Alliance announced its new security protocol, known as WPA3 at CES 2018. Expected to be available in 2018, the enhancements will include encrypted security sessions even at public wireless hotspots.

When in doubt, a belt-and-braces approach is best – business travellers should routinely use a VPN or their mobile network, because free hotel Wi-Fi could prove hugely costly.