April 2017
Intermediate to advanced
512 pages
7h 59m
English
WPS stands for Wi-Fi Protected Setup. This was introduced in 2006 and the main purpose of WPS was to ease the process of adding new devices to the network; there was no need to remember long WPA or WEP passphrases. However, the security of WPS was short-lived; in 2011 a major security flaw was revealed that affected wireless routers that supported WPS.
For this recipe, we are going to use a tool called Reaver. It is an open source WPS cracking tool preinstalled in Kali Linux. Reaver performs a brute force attack on the WPS pin number. Once we get the WPS PIN, the WPA PSK is recovered. For this exercise we will require a wireless router that has the WPS feature enabled.
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