Top 6 Wireless Network hacking/monitoring tools

The tools used to hack the network is used either for the

• purpose of sniffing the network : as is the case of network admins and
• cracking the password: used by programmers to rectify the trouble shooting and by the people who want to use internet free of cost. It has been seen that based on this concept there are around 10 tools together which can be understood to hack wireless LAN.

• 1. Aircrack : Most popular wireless password cracking tool, it attacks 802.11a/b/g WEP and WPA. This tool manufacturers also provides tutorial for installation of the tool and its usage for cracking the password.
• 2. Cain & Able: This tool intercepts the network traffic and cracks the passwords forcibly using crypt-analysis attack methods.
• 3. WireShark : This is network protocol analyzer. So again good for the network admins to keep a check on the traffic. Basic requirement is that the user should have a good knowledge of the network protocol only then they can use this tool. 
• 4. CoWPAtty : This tool is an automated dictionary attack tool for WPA-PSK. CoWPatty is simple to use however it is slow as tool uses the password dictionary for generating hack for each word contained in the dictionary by using the SSID.
• 5. OmniPeek : network analyzer tool working only on Windows OS. This tools captures and analyzes the network traffic.
• 6. CloudCracker :This is online password cracking for WPA protected WiFi networks. It is used to crack the passwords by using a dictionary of around 300 million words. 

For the network admins and the professional programmers these tools should be more helpful for understanding the cracking of password and hence helping them professionally.