Wifi password crackers.

[scorpiox]

The other day someone was telling me there is programs which can crack passwords to peoples wifi's does anyone know if this is true and if there is one for mac?

[Smash]

Don't know about Mac programs but Cain and Abel is the easiest to use cracker. Most programs create what's called a MD5 hash of the password.

If you have the hash, enter it into Cain and Abel and it will crack it. There are different options, namely a password attack and a brute force. Brute force uses every possible combination, dictionary uses words.

It will take a long time if its a secure password.

Cain and Abel has many other feature to, such as sniffing.

Salted hashes are hashes of hashes (hashed twice).

[niki]

I don't know about any of the softwares to know the passwords of people if they are fully secured. But you can always use social engineering to crack some passwords.

[JenniP]

Social engineering is great, we do it at work all the time to test our security procedures.

We had one where one of our security people faked an email from our MD saying that they had been selected as they were good employees to enter a prize draw for a free holiday.

He had done a nice looking web page, that asked them to enter their network password, around half the people "selected" did so and effectively gave their passwords away to someone else.

There are quite a few security companies doing this kind of thing, one even got people to give away their passwords for a bar of chocolate.

Jen

[attagirl]

Well companies should be checking their systems and testing their employees, and teaching them the proper way to protect their passwords. That is how you have problems later when they are not taken care of properly.

I am not sure about eith of the software items listed but would like to investigate them more and see what I can learn. thanks

[funtoosh]

There is no brute force attack that can do this but yes through socail ebgineering everything is possible.

[blasted]

Hackers are always trying to find ways to crack passwords for a huge variety of sites and devices.All i recommend is make sure your password has a variety of numbers, letters, and other complex punctuation.This way if they do try scanning your username against loads of different words they won't think to use numbers and dashes.