Offensive Security - Wireless Attacks - WiFu version 3.0 pdf

This course is designed to expose various wireless insecurities to the student and teach practical procedures to attack and penetrate wireless networks. It was designed by Thomas d’Otreppe de Bouvette, the author of the Aircrack-NG suite, Mati Aharoni, and Devon Kearns. Aircrack is by far the single most popular tool in the realm of wireless security assessment with a large range of capabilities. Together with Offensive Security, a comprehensive list of attack methodologies and techniques was created, resulting in this course. 

The presentation of this course tends to be quite challenging, as it is very tempting to jump straight into the practical hacking methods. However, we quickly realized that a proper introduction of the terms and concepts was required in order to fully benefit from this course. The first few modules will provide the basic overview of the wireless arena and get you familiar with the technical environment. In further modules, we’ll discuss and practice hacking methods and techniques. We can promise you that the first couple of chapters in the course manual might be a bit boring with lots of definitions, explanations, acronyms, packet dumps, and diagrams. However, without a thorough understanding of the basics, true WiFu is not achieved. Please bear with us the first few chapters and do your best not to skip them. It really is worth it!

In the attacks ahead, we will often be repeating commands, for example, to initialize the wireless card. This may, at first, seem redundant but is actually by design. This will allow you to view the various modules later and be able to execute the specific attack without the need to review the entire course from the beginning.