Beginners guide to LinSSID

Hello, aspiring ethical hackers. In our previous blogpost on wifi hacking, you learnt everything about wireless networks, their security and different types of attacks. In this article, you will learn about a tool named LinSSID.

LinSSID is a simple graphical tool that can be used to scan and find all the available wireless networks in the vicinity. Let’s see how this tool works. For this, we will be using Kali Linux, as this tool is available by default in its repositories. We will also be needing a wireless adapter that can monitor wireless packets. I am using ALFA AWVS036NHA adapter for this article.

Make sure that you don’t enable monitor mode on the wireless adapter.

When the GUI of LinSSID opens, start scanning by clicking on “Run” button.

Very soon LinSSID will display all the wireless access points available along with their MAC addresses, channel on which they are operatng, type of security they use used and the strength of their signal.

You can also see whether wifi access points are running on 2.4ghz and 5ghz.

From the “view” menu, you can also decide what information about the wifi access point you want to see.

After detecting the available wireless networks, the information can be used to select the wireless access point whose security you want to audit. You can audit its password strength using tools like aircrack, Fern wifi cracker, Besside or wifite. If you want to create a rogue access point or an evil twin, learn how to do them with wifipumpkin or wifi phisher.

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