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How To Know The Wi-Fi Password Without Cracking By Using Wifiphisher December 25, 2016 Neo 457 Views 0 Comment WiFiPhisher today we are going to show you How to Hack WiFi using wifiphisher – WPA | WPA2.WiFiphisher is fast attack and reveals password within plenty of time, doesn’t matter how much password is long or complex.No need of any dictionaries, no more brute force .wifiphisher technique is really fast, so let’s get started. What is WiFiphisher?Wifiphisher is a security tool that mounts automated phishing attacks against WiFi networks in order to obtain secret passphrases or other credentials. It is a social engineering attack that unlike other methods it does not include any brute forcing. It is an easy way for obtaining credentials from captive portals and third party login pages or WPA/WPA2 secret passphrases. How does it work? WiFiphisher creates an evil twin AP, then DoS all user from AP and when users re-authenticate, they redirected to fake AP with the same SS...

Wi-Fi can be turned into IMSI Catcher to Track Cell Phone Users Everywhere Here's a new danger to your smartphone security: Your mobile device can be hijacked and tracked without your knowledge. Remember  Stingrays ? The controversial cell phone spying tool, also known as " IMSI catchers ," has long been used by law enforcement to track and monitor mobile users by mimicking a cellphone tower and tricking their devices to connect to them. Sometimes it even intercepts calls and Internet traffic, sends fake texts, and installs spyware on a victim's phone. Setting up such Stingrays-type  surveillance devices , of course, is expensive and needs a lot of efforts, but researchers have now found a new, cheapest way to do the same thing with a simple Wi-Fi hotspot. Yes, Wi-Fi network can capture IMSI numbers from nearby smartphones, allowing almost anyone to track and monitor people wirelessly. IMSI or international mobile subscriber identity is a unique 15-digit number used f...