No WiFi Security: SSID-Hiding

This is just a really short video showing that SSID hiding is nothing useful in practice when it comes to secure your Wireless-LAN network. As you can see, as soon as a valid client connects the hidden information (name of the network) is revealed.
- Only for educational purposes. -

Category:

Education

Tags:

• wireless
• lan
• ethical hacking
• ssid hiding
• hidden ssid
• wifi
• backtrack
• ethical
• hacking
• hack
• hacker
• wlan
• airdump
• airdump-ng
• ssid

[abvmoose87]

So there really is no way of hiding my wireless network?

[EthicalHackingHu]

@abvmoose87 That is the case, yes.

[cataha]

hiding means: i'm a beginner and like to be hacked! simple way of explaining it

[palita007]

@CodPoison: if you are not getting a mon0 interfaxe created then peobably your WLAN card is not supported. What is the type of your card (what driver does airmon ouput)? Also you can try to use the latest Backtrack (BT5R1) and kill the processes airmon tells you about like that:

killall PROCESSNAME

I hope this helps, good luck.

[palita007]

@kalo522 Well, assuming your school has one network of AccessPoints, and they are configured the same and mainly used only to cover the whole area but not to create different networks you can pretty much follow the video. If you are sniffing on a network with SSID-hiding enabled with airodump-ng and someone connects to that network you will get the SSID immediately as seen on the video.

Keep in mind that sniffing on a live network without its owner's permission is strictly prohibited!

[kalo522]

btw question: Let suppose I am sniffing their network right like my school for instance they have there SSID hidden how do ino this/? because their routers are placed at 8 different locations in the school Plus my principle be walking around the hallways with a lil mini laptop looking at the cameras in the school! So point is how do I Find out what their SSID is? Running BACKTRACK5 -KDE Plz help I've been yearning to connect!

[yeahwellimbored]

Great videos so far! keep them coming :)