Question about Wifi hacking tools

Cyber Security & Hacking
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Hi all :slight_smile:

Some background… in the early 90’s in the beginning of internet as we know it. i did some non-ethical hacking in my youth and the police nocked on my shoulder and i learned my lesson. LOL :smiley:
Back then hacking was easy as encryption and firewalls was a joke if they even existed so it was almost like browsing your own network…
anyway i started working with computers and network infrastructure in the 00’s so i know my network so to speak. Five years ago i started to learn linux, i will not say i know Linux but I’m okay on it.
almost a year ago i started to look in to cyber security a bit now and then on my free time and ethical hacking to learn something new as i was bored… that was only on the lan/ethernet side…
a week ago i started to look in on the wifi side… and here is my question to you all.

I have set up a lab wifi with some IoT devices and i have put them on a hidden network… I can easy find the hidden ssid and the router… But i cant find the IoT devices if I’m not connected to the ssid…
what tools/software/programs can detect and if possible even identify my IoT devices so i can search for exploits?

I’m using Kali as most beginners do… and i have found an old router and some old devices on my shelf that is around 15years old so i have a chance of beginner success. LOL :smiley:

Edit.
Yes my wifi card can do monitor mode, if someone wonder about the hardware. :slight_smile:

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Interesting hobby, please keep us posted on what you learn.

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Having worked with computers since the late 90’s its start to become hard to find new things that inspires me, so to speak. *lol’
I did worked on the wifi hacking for two days a couple of hours each day and found some 90’s feeling tools in Kali … (Terminal programs so to speak)… i call them 90’s programs as MS-DOS was the thing back then before win2000 started to change the world into a GUI world after the millennium :slight_smile:
Dont take me wrong, the terminal and powershell is really powerful tools… but it looks like something the cat dragged in from the 90’s :smiley: ‘LOL’

as i do this a bit now and then when i get the time over for it and have the right mood to spend my free time at the computer… it might take a long time between the updates though :slight_smile: