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Capturing wireless packets with Acrylic Analyzer

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From the course: Ethical Hacking: Wireless Networks

Capturing wireless packets with Acrylic Analyzer

- Acrylic Analyzer is a tool to detect and enable testing of wireless networks. A free version is available and can be downloaded from the website shown. The professional version is reasonably priced and has a lot of features. I'll be using that one in this demonstration. Acrylic Analyzer can be used for detecting wireless networks and for identifying network strengths during a walk around or war drive and for identifying clients associated with the access points. It also provides wireless network, packet capture and testing of passwords and pins. On starting Acrylic Analyzer the main screen comes up in the access point view, the WiFi symbol at the top. I can press the play button to start detecting networks. The main pane shows the SSID, the BSSID, the receive signal strength, the channel, some quality of security information and if we slide across we can see the vendor information and details of the type of access…

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