2. Pre Connection Attacks I am assuming you already did this: >>you need to prepare your network card like here<< Scan Networks airodump-ng wlan0 You should see something like this: let's break this down: BSSID Is the MAC Address of the Network PWR Is the signal strenght or power. The higher the number, the better signal we have Beacons Are the frames send from the Network to broadcast it's existance. Every Network, even if it's hidden, sends this frames to tell the wireless devices that it exists and it's MAC Address, it's channel, it's encryption and it's name Data This are the data packages or data frames. They are the packages which get interesting when it comes to wireless hacking #/s Are the packages which were collected the last 10 seconds CH Is the wireless Channel of the Network MB Is the Maxinum Speed supported ENC Is the Encryption used CIPHER Cipher used in the Network Auth is the authentications used in this network. For example PSK (Pre shared key) or MGT ESSID Is the Network Name Don't worry just jet about ENC, CIPHER and Auth just yet, it will be a part in the gaining Access part of this Wiki