This book presents a practical approach to auditing, exploitation, and defense in Wi-Fi networks using Kali Linux as the central platform for analysis and operation. Aimed at cybersecurity professionals and students, the content demonstrates how to recognize SSIDs, BSSIDs, and clients, capture handshakes and PMKIDs, analyze 802.11 traffic, and interpret technical artifacts in real scenarios of authorized testing and security validation.
The work explores tools widely used in wireless operations, such as Aircrack-ng, Airmon-ng, Airodump-ng, and Aireplay-ng, as well as capture resources, monitor mode, PCAP analysis, and technical troubleshooting. It also covers hardware preparation, drivers, chipsets, channel synchronization, interference, capture stability, analysis of WPA, WPA2, and WPA3 encryption, techniques such as deauthentication, Evil Twin, and Rogue Access Point, as well as hardening practices and defense in wireless networks.
You will learn to:
• Configure wireless interfaces and validate monitor mode • Identify networks, clients, channels, and authentication patterns • Collect handshakes, PMKIDs, and session artifacts • Perform analysis with Aircrack-ng, Airodump-ng, and Aireplay-ng • Interpret 802.11 traffic and PCAP files • Diagnose capture failures, noise, and hardware limitations • Apply wireless defense, mitigation, and hardening techniques.
At the end, you will be able to execute complete Wi-Fi hacking workflows with Kali Linux, integrating reconnaissance, capture, analysis, troubleshooting, and defense for technical audits, penetration testing, and practical validation of wireless security.
kali linux, wifi hacking, wireless security, wifi networks, wireless pentest, aircrack-ng, airmon-ng, airodump-ng, aireplay-ng, handshake, pmkid, deauth attack, evil twin, rogue access point, wpa, wpa2, wpa3, traffic capture, 802.11, pcap, network analysis, monitor mode, packet injection, network auditing, wireless security, traffic interception, wifi password cracking, attack engineering, network defense, wireless hardening, wifi troubleshooting, cyber security, pentest, red team
Diego Rodrigues
Autore Tecnico e Ricercatore Indipendente
ORCIDE: https://orcid.org/0009-0006-
StudioD21 Smart Tech Content & Intell Systems
E-mail: studiod21portoalegre@gmail.com
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/diegoexpertai
Autore tecnico internazionale (tech writer) con focus sulla produzione strutturata di conoscenza applicata. È fondatore di StudioD21 Smart Tech Content & Intell Systems, dove guida la creazione di framework intelligenti e la pubblicazione di libri tecnici didattici e con supporto di intelligenza artificiale, come le serie Kali Linux Extreme, SMARTBOOKS D21, tra le altre.
Titolare di 46 certificazioni internazionali rilasciate da istituzioni come IBM, Google, Microsoft, AWS, Cisco, META, Ec-Council, Palo Alto e Università di Boston, opera nei campi dell’Intelligenza Artificiale, Machine Learning, Data Science, Big Data, Blockchain, Tecnologie di Connettività, Ethical Hacking e Threat Intelligence.
Dal 2003 ha sviluppato più di 200 progetti tecnici per marchi in Brasile, USA e Messico. Nel 2024 si è affermato come uno dei maggiori autori di libri tecnici della nuova generazione, con oltre 180 titoli pubblicati in sei lingue. Il suo lavoro si basa sul proprio protocollo di scrittura tecnica applicata TECHWRITE 2.3, orientato a scalabilità, precisione concettuale e applicabilità pratica in ambienti professionali.