This is a short note on Wi-Fi testing tooling and the value of revisiting simpler utilities. The professional takeaway is to keep wireless testing scoped, authorized, and repeatable: know what the tool captures, where credentials or handshakes are stored, and how to clean up afterward.
It was this one about besside-ng.
If you had no concern about stealth, it is as simple as:
- Make sure your wireless card is connected and available:
sudo iwconfigshould do it. - Start a capture:
sudo besside-ng wlan0 -vv
That’s it.
besside-ng will hop channels and attempt deauth attacks on everything it finds automatically.
It can even be configured to send the .cap files for cracking on a remote service as it captures them.
If you’d like to just pass the captures through a simple word-list on your testing machine you could use:
sudo aircrack-ng wpa.cap -w rockyou.txt
(The Alfa AWUS036H is one of the cards you can find relatively cheap that won’t give you any trouble with wifi analysis tools).
