Aircrack-ng is a suite of tools that allow penetration testers to test the security of wireless networks. The suite includes tools that perform the following tasks related to wireless penetration testing:
- Monitoring: These are tools designed specifically to capture traffic for later analysis. We will see in greater depth the ability of the Aircrack-ng tools to capture wireless traffic that we can use on other third-party software, such as Wireshark, to examine.
- Attacking: These tools are available to attack target networks. They include tools that allow for de-authentication attacks and replay attacks that take advantage of Aircrack-ng's ability to conduct packet injections, whereby Aircrack-ng actually sends packets into the ...