How secure you are when a weak password secures your hotspot? Well, you aren’t secure at all! In fact, it can be extremely dangerous!

Last time I explained how important it is to use secured Wi-Fi networks. You can find the whole article here -> “Take care of the security of your data! How easy it is to eavesdrop on a Wi-Fi transmission”. But does it mean that any password-protected network is safe? How important is the strength of the password picked for securing access? Let’s check it by gaining unauthorized access to the test networks.

Important note: This article is for lifting public awareness of internet threats. Knowledge shared there shouldn’t be used in any offensive manner. Everyone takes responsibility for their actions.

Tools I will be using during the demo.

For our test, I’ve prepared an environment the same as I did for the previous article, so you are ready if you went through it. If not, let me describe it once again. My sandbox environment consists of the following elements (feel free to use equivalents):

• Laptop (Dell Latitude 7390) with Linux Ubuntu 20.4 installed. You can use different hardware as well as different Linux distribution or even different OS. Usually, I use a Linux virtual machine, but we have to have direct access to the…