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can wireless or wifi can really be hacked?

roland thsive
By roland thsive
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Routers? Yes.

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Yes it can. Quite easily actually.

Not gonna tell how, since I don't know the specifics :P

 

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Encryption can be cracked and if there is no encryption, the signals can just be intercepted and read.

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do you know, if then how

 

Not really. I just know it's not that hard on normal consumer models if someone really wanted to get into it.

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Yes but with varying degrees of difficulty depending on the type of encryption used and the time frame you have to hack it (some are stupid easy to hack).

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It's especially easy if you use WPS

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Yes it can. Some people use aircrack-ng. I've used it to test my own network. Got the password easily.

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but is a strong password with wpa2 easily taken down?

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Yes...backtrack is a tool that is commonly used. But WPA2 is a little harder to crack.

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Cracking wifi networks, if they're not properly secured (WEP networks for example) can be done within less than half an hour. As stated above, Backtrack/KALI-Linux is a popular tool for doing that.

As for cracking WPA2 passwords, this is also doable, it just takes significantly more time. But, there are even (kind of) consumer-grade command line tools like "Wifite.py" which also comes with Kali which can also crack WPA2, although they use a "dictionary attack", that means that the wifi password must be in the cracking tool's "dictionary file" (a list of words it will try as a password). You could of course brute forcingly generate a giant wordlist with every possible combination of strings with a given length and character set, but that would take a really long time.

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Backtrack and Kali are not tools, they are Linux Distros that come setup with the tools for pentesting.

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anything can be hacked why can't wifi... :P

There's always a way...

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anything can be hacked why can't wifi... :P

You can't hack an Ethernet cable.

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You can't hack an Ethernet cable.

 

Well, as per the definition... Hacking usually refers a way to use something the way it's not meant to be used...

So, I guess there could be some other use of an ethernet cable as well...

There's always a way...

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