John works as a professional Ethical Hacker. He has been assigned the project of testing the description of the tool is as follows: Which of the following tools is John using to crack the wireless…

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Options

• APsPasswd
• BKismet
• CAirSnort
• DCain

• A
  6% (2)
• C
  90% (28)
• D
  3% (1)

Explanation

AirSnort (C) is a dedicated wireless LAN tool designed specifically to crack WEP encryption keys by passively monitoring 802.11b transmissions and computing the key once enough packets have been captured - making it the direct match for cracking wireless encryption.

Why the distractors are wrong:

• A. PsPasswd is a Sysinternals Windows utility for changing local or remote account passwords - entirely unrelated to wireless networks.
• B. Kismet is a wireless network detector and packet sniffer/IDS; it discovers and monitors wireless networks but does not crack encryption keys.
• D. Cain (& Abel) is a powerful Windows password recovery and sniffing tool, but it targets Windows credentials, hashes, and VoIP - not wireless encryption keys specifically.

Memory tip: Think of AirSnort - the "Air" prefix signals it works on the airwaves (Wi-Fi). If the question involves cracking wireless keys, the answer with "Air" in the name is your signal.

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