Cracking WPA2 Tutorial
In this video we will demonstrate how to crack WPA2 using the Airmon-ng suite. We will do it by:
- Identifying an access point
- Capturing traffic from that access point
- Attempt to capture the handshake. We have two options for doing this.
- We can wait for a client to connect on their own
- We can run a deauth attack to force them to disconnect and then you can capture the handshake then
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Once you have captured the handshake, you can attempt to crack it with a word list or a rainbow table. The key can then be found from there.
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Andrew Whitaker is a Senior Instructor for both the InfoSec Institute and the Intense School. He is also a nationally recognized expert on information security. He has performed penetration tests on numerous financial institutions throughout the United States and has been a regular consultant to government agencies on cyber security.He is also the author of several best-selling security and networking books, including "Penetration Testing and Network Defense" (Cisco Press), "Cisco Router Configuration Handbook" (Cisco Press), and "Chained Exploits: Advanced Hacking Attacks From Start to Finish" (Addison-Wesley). He is also a frequent conference speaker and has given talks on ethical hacking at Defcon, Chicagocon, SecurePhilly, and TakeDownCon. Whitaker also holds a Master’s Degree in Computer Science. He has trained the military, government defense contractors, and intelligence agencies on cyber security, risk management, ethical hacking, reverse engineering and exploit development.
In this series
- Cracking WPA2 Tutorial
- 20 best wi-fi hacking tools
- Security and hacking apps for Android devices
- Popular tools for brute-force attacks [updated for 2025]
- How to hack Facebook accounts: Methods and protection strategies
- Wi-Fi password hack: WPA and WPA2 examples and video walkthrough
- 10 most popular password cracking tools [updated 2025]
- How to become a hacker? Step-by-step guide to do it right
- The rise of ethical hacking: Protecting businesses in 2024
- How to crack a password: Demo and video walkthrough
- Inside Equifax's massive breach: Demo of the exploit
- How to hack mobile communications via Unisoc baseband vulnerability
- Top tools for password-spraying attacks in active directory networks
- NPK: Free tool to crack password hashes with AWS
- Tutorial: How to exfiltrate or execute files in compromised machines with DNS
- Top 19 tools for hardware hacking with Kali Linux
- Man-in-the-middle attack: Real-life example and video walkthrough
- Decrypting SSL/TLS traffic with Wireshark [updated 2021]
- Dumping a complete database using SQL injection [updated 2021]
- Hacking clients with WPAD (web proxy auto-discovery) protocol [updated 2021]
- Hacking communities in the deep web [updated 2021]
- How to hack Android devices using the StageFright vulnerability [updated 2021]
- Hashcat tutorial for beginners [updated 2021]
- How to hack a phone charger
- What is a side-channel attack?
- Copy-paste compromises
- Hacking Microsoft teams vulnerabilities: A step-by-step guide
- PDF file format: Basic structure [updated 2020]
- How quickly can hackers find exposed data online? Faster than you think …
- Hacking the Tor network: Follow up [updated 2020]
- Ethical hacking: TCP/IP for hackers
- Ethical hacking: SNMP recon
- How hackers check to see if your website is hackable
- Ethical hacking: Stealthy network recon techniques
- Ethical hacking: IoT hacking tools
- Ethical hacking: Wireless hacking with Kismet
- Ethical hacking: How to hack a web server
- Ethical hacking: Top 6 techniques for attacking two-factor authentication
- Ethical hacking: Top 10 browser extensions for hacking
- Ethical hacking: Social engineering basics
- Ethical hacking: Breaking windows passwords
- Ethical hacking: Passive information gathering with Maltego
- Ethical hacking: Log tampering 101
- Ethical hacking: Breaking cryptography (for hackers)
- Ethical hacking: Attacking routers
- Linux for ethical hackers 101
- Ethical hacking: Buffer overflow
- Top five remote access trojans
- Covering tracks — Hiding files on Windows/Linux/MacOS
- Top 10 network recon tools
- Nmap evade firewall and scripting [updated 2019]
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