From authentication type PSK, I can confirm that is a home network where all the clients agree to use same passphrase. The access point is broadcasting beacon frames on channel 6 and using encryption scheme WPA2 and Cipher mode is AES encryption. The -essid argument in the command is used to filter only XYCompany SSID and display on the screen. I have now used the airodump-ng tool from the aircrack-ng suite to capture the in-transit 802.11 frames and showing the beacon frames on the terminal. If you will check the mode before changing it to monitor mode, it show you Managed. Now I can see that the Mode is changed to Monitor mode. Set the wlan0 interface down, it is required to change it to the monitor mode and then change the state back to up.

We will be using wlan0 for monitoring and wlan1 for testing connection with the access point. I recommend you to first try this lab on the AttackDefense platform – įrom the following screenshot, I can see there are two WiFi cards in the system phy#3 and phy#2 with interface name wlan1 and wlan0 respectively.

In this post, I will discuss how you can bypass this using macchanger tool. Hello World! I have observed this in the majority of home networks where the owner keeps the network security set to OPEN while allowing a specific MAC address of their own personal devices to connect to the access point under the illusion that no other user (or, I would say clien) can connect to their Access Point and they don't need to remember the password.

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