Learn Ethical Hacking from Scratch

The netdiscover tool

The first thing we're going to talk about in this section is gathering information. Gathering information about the connected clients and the router is very important because it will help us know what their IP and MAC addresses are and the operating system that they're running, as well as the ports that they have open in their devices. As for the router, we'll be able to know the manufacturer of the router, and then we'll be able to look for exploits and vulnerabilities that we can use against the router or against the clients if we are trying to hack them.

In Chapter 4, Network Penetration Testing, we saw how we can use airodump-ng to discover connected clients. In the second part of the airodump-ng output, we learned ...