Crack WEP wifi security in Ubuntu

Hey Guys,

Today we are going to learn some basic wifi hacking. We will be using Fern-wifi-cracker which is extremely easy to use and highly efficient for cracking wifi passwords with WEP security.

Here are the steps:

1. First we will need following components to run Fern-wifi-cracker-
                           - Python
                           - AirCrack-ng
                           - Macchanger
                           - Xterm
                           - Subversion
                           - Python-qt4
 All these can be directly installed using Ubuntu Software Center.

2. Once done with these installation Download Fern-wifi-cracker's debian package from here.

3. Install Fern-wifi-cracker by executing following command-
                  sudo dpkg -i Fern-Wifi-Cracker_1.6_all.deb

4. To Execute Fern-wifi-cracker enter the following command-
                 sudo python /opt/Fern-Wifi-Cracker/execute.py

5.  Following dialog will appear-

Select the Interface and Scan for Access Points. You will get information about the WEP/WPA secured wifi networks available.
 

6. Click on WEP button to see visible networks with WEP security.
 

7. Select the wifi network for which you want to crack the password and click on Attack button. This will crack to Wifi password of selected network.

8. The password cracked will be in hex form. Use this to convert it to text.


Note: Time taken to crack password depends on the strength of network.Stay patient. Happy Hacking :)