Nowadays, either homes or offices have been provided Wi-Fi hotspots in order to connect to the internet wirelessly. Generally, those Wi-Fi hotspots can be divided into two categories namely the free Wi-Fi hotspot and the registered Wi-Fi hotspot. Especially for the registered Wi-Fi hotspot, users have to own the registered username and password to use this wireless network. This network is usually equipped with the encryptions for the security reason. In this post, the author will try to share about how to hack Wi-Fi network.
This article is intended to give the information about the how to hack Wi-Fi network in some simple steps. But keep in mind that this is not for any destructive use but certainly for the educational needs for example to help somebody to recover any misplaced network key for those who own Wi-Fi network.
First, we will discuss about how to connect to the wireless network by using notebook computer. You have to make sure that your device supports for Wi-Fi and then turn on the device and go to the desktop. Look for the network icon in the lower right corner and then right click on it. Select the option for searching the available wireless networks in your area. If any wireless network is available, then you will see the list of available network that you can easily choose.
In this list, you may find two types of the network connections i.e. the free Wi-Fi network and the locked wireless network that will require the username and password to be utilized. The free wireless network is usually provided by restaurants, hotels, café, library and many other public are. When you find any locked network, you will need to do several things in order to be able to use this network for accessing the web.
The major consideration on how to hack Wi-Fi network will be the way to crack the encryption of the network itself. The encryption usually consists of WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy), WPA (Wi-Fi Protected Access), WPA 2 PSK and many others. All of these encryptions will bring the protection to the Wi-Fi IEEE 802.11 wireless networks.
To hack the wireless network, initially you have to locate the wireless network signal by simply using the default Windows tool namely the "View Available Wireless Network" capability. Then you have to use the AirSnort tool to crack the WEP keys. When the AirSnort has finished recovering enough packets, the program will then continue to read the captured information gathered from the packets and crack the key that will be giving you the internet access.
After you are informed about how to hack Wi-Fi network, it is also beneficial for you to know about how to prevent it from getting hacked. First thing is that you must not broadcast your own SSID, and then change the default router login to something else, use WPA or WPA 2 rather than WEP because it has better encryption, always update the router, and also terminate the router when you are not using it.[IS]
