Do you love free wifi? Article Explains how to ethically hack a wifi wireless internet connection using free hacking softwares, tools and commonly used default passwords.

Whenever I am travelling or move into a new vicinity I expect the usual hassles of living without a net connection. Mobile gprs can be quite crappy and slow at times, but then this is when where the genius inside me begins to start thinking. So here is a blog post explaining how to break into secured wifi networks with common sense.

How to find the wireless access points?

Keep your laptop notifications turned on, so that it keeps searching for new wireless access points

Since Wi-Fi and cell phone signals travel on the same radio frequency, the same tricks you use for getting a better mobile connection might work on your laptop. Stand near a window, since Wi-Fi signals travel better through glass than through solid walls. Try using your laptop like a compass.

Wifi networks at airports

We all love free wi-fi’s don’t we? And what can be better than seeing the name “ Airport wi-fi” on your laptop.

I remember while I was at the Bangkok airport, and waiting at the immigration section. This was when I had my first bruise with unsecured wi-fi connections. I was just dying to update my facebook status. I entered the “username” and “password” as “admin” and “admin” and it worked.

After a few minutes, when I went to the conveyor belt to collect my luggage, the same wifi network disappeared.

Most of the airports in the world, have free wi-fi networks. While some airports in the world that I have been to have security protocols. For Instance- the Hyderabad airport in India and Phuket in Thailand have premium paid secured networks which are impossible to crack because each user is assigned a username and password.

If you’re going to steal—no, let’s say borrow for a few days—your neighbour’s Wi-Fi access, you might as well as not tell him.

Pay close attention to your laptop’s orientation—rotating your machine just a few degrees could help you pick up an alien network that you couldn’t see before. Place your laptop over your head, put it flat on the floor, tilt it sideways while leaning halfway out the window—You might become famous for being some next generation- laptop yoga freak, and might get a few stares too from your neighbour but isn’t free Internet worth it?

Search for default networks named “linksys,” “default,” “Wireless,” “NETGEAR,” “belkin54g,” and “Apple Network 0273df.” If the network name is the default name of the hardware provider, chances are you have found your victim network J

Now look at the network bar – on the taskbar. It depicts the signal of the network. It should be minimum 3 bars.

If you do get prompted for a password, try “public”—that’s the default on many of Apple’s AirPort units. You can also try common username and passwords like “admin,” “password, “1234″ for Dlink networks and “Multi”, “Telnet” and “Http“ for Linksys networks.

Wifi in colleges

For college wi-fi, try putting the username as admin and password as your “college name” or vice versa. This works 70% of the time. Similar for any organization or firm, try putting the firm’s name followed by 1234.

An exhaustive list can be found here http://www.phenoelit-us.org/dpl/dpl.html

Last, but not the least there are a lot of paid tools and software available on the net which claim to hack the 802.11 wifi networks. But my experience says that they all are fake clones of some other products which do not work.

If hacking is not your cup of coffee, go to the nearest wifi

coffee shop and grab your cuppa and enjoy surfing. J

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The author Masoom blogs about Tech, SEO, Web Designing and latest web 2.0 trends. He can be followed at twitter id : @imasoom

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