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

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.

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

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