Hacking WPA/WEP encrypted WIFI network Using Fern WIFI Cracker
I am going to discuss the use of a tool named as FERN WIFI CRACKER using which in general you can hack WEP as well as WPA secured WIFI networks and this GUI based application is quite easy to use plus, it cracks password in quite fast time if you have a good computer with fast RAM and processor. In backtrack 5 its already installed an is properly configured but you can get it on Ubuntu and other Linux flavours also. Read this post to learn how to setup FERN for Ubuntu.Setting Up and Running Fern WIFI Cracker In Ubuntu What this application uses has been listed in the post. After installing Fern in any linux or else you can also use backtrack 5 for this purpose. Read here how to install backtrack 5 :-and Install Backtrack 5 as dual boot (Windows and Bt5 Together). Whatever OS you are going to use just run Fern and read below.
Using Fern Wifi Cracker:-
Click the refresh button to load monitor interfaces. Then hit scan button, its for dual functioning mean, at first hit it will start scanning and again if you hit it it will stop scanning.
When any WIFI network with WEP and WPA will be found by FERN it will be displayed as in this below screen shot. You have to hit button of WPA or else WEP inorder to crack the password for any of the WIFI network.
Cracking WEP encryption based WIFI password key:-
After hitting the activation button of the WEP attack. What happens can be seen in screen shots below:-
So, key has been successfully recovered.
Cracking WPA encryption based WIFI password key:-
So, key has been successfully recovered, as you can see.