I am starting to research and learn wireless threats. Everything from how hashes work, to vulnerabilities in WEP, WPA1, etc.

I would like to start very basic, like using a program like Cain and Abel. (i heard its the easiest).

Anyone here have any experience with this kind of stuff.

As I said before, this is for educational use, not anything malicious

Er... That's cart before the horse. The Cain & Abel suite is an injectable trojan for taking control of a network after you've broken in. If you really want to explore cracking WiFi encryptions, you'd need to start with AirSnort or WireShark.

I may still have a link to a WiFi cracking tutorial at home, I'll check later and post if I can find it.

thank you for that.I just got back from a Cisco thing about wireless security, and they also suggested aircrack. And basically, there is a suite of tools, and I have to slowly use them all.

I'll tell you straight up before you get started, wifi cracking isn't what it used to be. Even a home-based WPA2-enabled network with a good (12-14 digit) key is next to impossible to hack. So unless your user is dumb (and most entry-level routers won't let them be anymore) or your network equipment is obsolete, it's not worth the effort to try and hack in. And if it IS worth the effort, you should be unplugging those WAPs and using wires.

A well designed corporate wireless lan? Hah. You'll be blocked at a web site and never see an unencryped packet to anything else.

It is kinda fun to try, tho

Let us know how you get on. Plus what tools ya used. I once watched a video of this guy hacking a wireless network. In 3 minutes flat.

Yea, cisco showed us a demo. I really don't want to hack anyone, I want to practice and learn for professional knowledge and experience.

I'm sure I'd be nice to use a neighbors wifi, but I have a cell card on my laptop, so I got my internet with me always.