Applied Network Security

Why should we crack our own Wi-Fi?

Would it not be better knowing you hacked your own wireless network rather than some stranger or possibly someone who's wardriving around grabbing passwords to sell? Why not test for any vulnerability yourself to see if it's strong enough against the most common Wi-Fi password attacks. What we are going to be doing is simply perform a brute-force attack to obtain a hash. We will then run that hash against either a password list that you may have downloaded or you can run it through an online cloud of passwords. Kali Linux has several good password lists that come prebuilt into the distro. These password lists can be found in the following Kali Linux directory path: /usr/share/wordlists.