The sole purpose of this article is so that you may be informed about how your neighbor may be able to take a laptop, crack your wep/wpa key to your router you think is safe, then reroute all your internet traffic to his computer you think he can't look at, and even watch you browse the internet in real time when you think nobody is watching. | Hacking Wireless Networks by data -disclaimer- The sole purpose of this article is so that you may be informed about how your neighbor may be able to take a laptop crack your wep wpa key to your router you think is safe then reroute all your internet traffic to his computer you think he can t look at and even watch you browse the internet in real time when you think nobody is watching. -What I will be Going Over- In this article I don t plan on giving you any bullshit. I don t plan on hinting towards how to break into a wifi network I will show you how to break into a wifi network. I will do it simple steps and only break them down if I feel that you will need it or can benefit from knowing it. The following subjects I will touch on include the following 1. Brief Introduction to Backtrack 2. Cracking the WEP Key we will go over WEP cracking I may write another one on WPA a bit later. 3. MITM Attack 4. Basic Network Analysis -Brief Introduction to Backtrack- Backtrack is something that is essential in my opinion to be in any hackers toolbox. It is a live-linux cd that is compatible with most laptops Just for reference sake I am using my Eee PC with an external DVDRom drive to boot it . All you have to do is go to and download the ISO that fits what you would like to use it on CD DVD or USB SD . Once you do that you will need to to stick the CD DVD USB SD into your laptop and restart. When you restart you must hit whatever key you need to do load the boot options for most computers it s F8 or F9 for mine it s the ESC key. Once you boot into it you will have to go through a few menus basically all you have to do is keep hitting enter until the KDE loads. When the boot is finished you should see a screen similar to this
