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WiFi Hacking Tool Aircrack-ng 1.4 Released with Updated Security Features

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WiFi Hacking Tool Aircrack-ng 1.4 Released with Updated Security Features

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Aircrack-ng 1.4 released with new features and a lot of improvements with Speed, memory usage and CI/CD tweaks. Aircrack-ng contains a complete set of tools to perform a Wi-Fi network security assessment.

The tool focuses on multiple areas of WiFi security such as capturing packets, replay attacks, checking WiFi cards and driver capabilities for injection.

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Aircrack-ng 1.4

Aircrack-ng 1.4 comes with a lot of code changes and with few visible features such as

  • PMKID cracking – PMKID is the lifetime of Pairwise Master Key and a unique identifier. With PMKID users can reduce the latency of roaming clients without wasting frames reauthenticating.
  • Crack 802.11w capture files
  • Speed and memory usage improvement when loading (large) files with Aircrack-ng and Airdecap-ng.
  • Packages for Linux distributions and Windows

Some other notable changes in this release

  • Fixed building on various platforms
  • Improved and tweaked our CI/CD processes
  • Using new CI/CD tools for our buildbots and packaging, PyDeployer
  • Almost doubled the number of tests

Aircrack-ng recently added packages building to the buildbots for a bunch of different distros: Debian, Ubuntu, Mint, SLES, OpenSuse, Fedora, RHEL, CentOS, Amazon Linux, and Elementary OS. Stable release packages will be available shortly, reads Aircrack-ng release notes.

How to Install

To Download : git clone https://github.com/aircrack-ng/aircrack-ng

cd /aircrack-ng
./configure
make && make install

Gurubaran
Gurubaran
Gurubaran is a co-founder of Cyber Security News and GBHackers On Security. He has 10+ years of experience as a Security Consultant, Editor, and Analyst in cybersecurity, technology, and communications.

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