Disclaimer: You are allowed to interact ONLY with your OWN WiFi Networks and Devices.

For these challenges you need a WiFi card that is capable of operating in Monitor Mode.

How to solve these challenges:

• Write your solution in the terminal and test it.

• If your solution is not correct, then try to understand the error messages, watch the video again, rewrite the solution and test it again. Repeat this step until you get the correct solution.

• Compare your solution to the provided one.

• Save the solution in a file for future reference or recap.

Challenge #1

Using a Linux command check the WiFi card mode of operation.

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Challenge #2

Install or update aircrack-ng.

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Challenge #3

Using airmon-ng put the WiFi interface into Monitor Mode.

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Challenge #4

Using airmon-ng put the WiFi interface back into Managed Mode.

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Challenge #5

Using ifconfig and iwconfig put the WiFi interface into Monitor Mode.

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Challenge #6

Using Wireshark start capturing packets on the WiFi interface that operates in Monitor Mode and notice how it captures all the traffic in the air (on the medium) from all the WiFi networks in the range: beacons, authentication frames, probe request and response, data frames etc.

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Challenge #7

Open this capture file in Wireshark and notice the WiFi Frames (beacons, ACKs, Probes etc) and their headers.

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Challenge #8

Using airodump-ng monitor all APs and clients on channel 1.

Don’t forget to put first the WiFi adapter into Monitor Mode.

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