Penetration Testing: Wireless Network Attacks Method on Kali Linux OS

Abstract

This paper implements a wireless attack technique by cracking the password on kali Linux OS using Hashcat technique. This study identifies the security weakness, using brute-force attack for online attacking and straight attack for offline attacking. The brute-force attack is also recognized as a detailed search, where it attempts guessing the target password one password at a time until reaching the correct password, which is called a dictionary attack. then using hash algorithms to deal with MD5 hash algorithm and SHA-512 (Linux). In this article, we will learn about the various wireless attacks. These days, wireless networks are everywhere. With users being on the go like never before, having to remain stationary because of having to plug into an Ethernet cable to gain Internet access is not feasible. For this convenience, wireless connections are not as secure as Ethernet connections. In this article, we will explore various methods for manipulating wireless attacks and their techniques including several methods on Linux.