Uncovering Hidden SSIDs Using Wireshark

Posted by cybersecurity on Sunday June 14, 2015 @10:59AM
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Re:Uncovering Hidden SSIDs Using Wireshark by freshbreath on Sunday June 14, 2015 @01:54PM (#9715741)

If there are no associated clients, you can brute-force the SSID with MDK3 http://www.backtrack-linux.org/forums/showthread.php?t=12360

And mahouse is correct: airodump-ng automatically detects when the SSID is broadcasted and displays it.

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Re:Uncovering Hidden SSIDs Using Wireshark by mahouse on Sunday June 14, 2015 @01:34PM (#9715673)

Doesn't airodump-ng do this by default?

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Re:Uncovering Hidden SSIDs Using Wireshark by TD-Linux on Sunday June 14, 2015 @05:13PM (#9716355)

Yes it does, even with a neat curses based interface IIRC. No need for wireshark at all.

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Re:Uncovering Hidden SSIDs Using Wireshark by therein on Sunday June 14, 2015 @11:31PM (#9717369)

I just wish airodump-ng's curses interface paid attention to the height of my terminal or provided a way to scroll.

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Re:Uncovering Hidden SSIDs Using Wireshark by nan_warrior on Sunday June 14, 2015 @06:27PM (#9716554)

Neat, but you can do the equivalent with tcpdump and grep, right?

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