Unveiling the WiFi Password
WARNING!!!
This article is intended to educate rather than to intrude on or obscure the personality of any entity or organization.
Mastering CLI has been fun, and improving it by performing some unique techniques energizes your ability as a cybersecurity analyst. The cyberspace is a vast world into which you can delve and learn skills such as penetration testing, SOC analysis, incident response, and GRC analysis, among others.There are also various security breach events, cyber espionage, and sabotage crises.
When we visit friends or on our first day at work, we think about how we want to access the WiFi password. This is reality.
We have different ways of revealing the WiFi password without stress, and some tools do fun stuff to reveal the password.
Keywords to be used in performing this attack:-
1. Netsh
2. Wlan
3. show profile
4. Key = clear
5. Exit
1. Network Shell (Netsh): This is a networking command line utility that can be used to configure and display the status of various networks connected. A window-based tool that can also be used in batch files and scripting.
2. Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) : It is a wireless connection that connects two or more devices in LAN. Its coverage is a limited area such as Homes, offices, Campuses, Schools, and buildings.
3. Show profile:- It is netsh supportive command that lists all the wireless networks connected to the computer recently or before.
show profile is nothing but a database that retains wireless network records connected.
4. Key = clear:- Two commands is involved;
The key is the password used by the wireless user that’s used to secure its network from the end users.
= :- this is an assignment operator that’s used to assign value to operands.
Clear:- this word has already given us a checkpoint of our arrival to unveil the security key.
5. Exit:- This is to terminate the execution of the netsh or exit command line interface.
PRACTICAL SECTION
Step 1: Click on start button type cmd then press enter. Type “netsh” in the prompt, hit enter.
Step 2: Type “wlan” then hit enter.
Step 3: Type “show profile” then hit enter.
Step 4: Type “show profile [wireless name]”, hit enter.
Step 5: Type show profile [Wireless name] key=clear, hit enter.
1. Minimal Access Control: How frequently does the person who has access to systems get access to them? Which legal or security frameworks comply with it? What application are they using?
2. Shutting Down: The computer should be shut down while not in use because this is less secure from attacks. It is also referred to as “data at rest” (inactive data), and even though it can still be tampered with, a strong full disk encryption method should be used. DLPs: a set of tools and processes used to ensure that sensitive data is not lost, misused, or accessed by unauthorized users while at rest.
3. Deletion of Network Profile Name: The network profile name should be deleted after the use of the networks. Ensure that the networks to which you are connected have been deleted, whether via Mi-Fi, mobile hotspots, or otherwise. Remember to delete it after use; use the command below to do so.
Netsh wlan delete profile name = [“networkprofilename”]
Usage: To assist the help desk in recovering the forgotten wifi password and to impress your friends and coworkers with your abilities. I will be dropping the USB toolkit version and revealing any logins on browsers soon.
Further Resources:
· Interested in Mastering Netsh I recommend you to lay hands on this course with Microsoft learn.
