How to Crack WEP Password Protection So Easily

This tutorial of how to crack WEP password protection  is for educational reason, the author does not encourage anyone to apply it maliciously to anyone's wifi network.  Use this technique to test your WEP vulnerability or to give you an idea of how easy a WEP password protected wifi can be crack. Easy because it can be crack in less than 5 minutes.

In order to start cracking or hacking WEP password, you will need the following tools below. You can download the WEP cracking tools on their websites. It works on linux operating system. Below are the requirements you need.


1. Backtrack5 - BackTrack is a Linux-based penetration testing arsenal that aids security professionals in the ability to perform assessments in a purely native environment dedicated to hacking. Download backtrack5 live dvd boot on the specified link site.

2. Wireless Card - try your card to work on linux, this is the only way to test if this is capable in monitor mode. Nowadays, most wireless cards are compatible with linux operating system.

3. Make sure that there's an active client connected to an active wifi network to be cracked.

To learn how to crack WEP using backtrack 5, go to this link or you can visit this wep cracking guide, pdf format This will show you the step by step procedure.

I hope that you'll be able to learn that the vulnerability of WEP password wifi encryption, can be easily be crack and hack by anyone following the guide above. So if you have configured your wifi using WEP password encryption, now is about the time to change it. But if you're router does not support other password wifi protection encryption, then you better purchase a new router or ask your ISP to give you a new one.

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