Today we're going to be discussing windows passwords, Wi Fi. Now, in order for you to connect to your Wi Fi network, phase one is going to be basically typing in your username and password. Your system authenticates, and you're connected to the Wi Fi and now you can browse the internet. But where exactly does your system store your password so that when you reconnect to your system, it automatically knows Hey, this guy was here before he's fine. Well, let's take a look at a place where we can not only see our Wi Fi access points, but also the credentials that was harvested. Now I'm running this on my windows 10 bucks because I want to do Wi Fi.

So I'm going to click Start. type cmd I'm going to right click and choose run as administrator. Now I'm going to type this command, net sh, W land show profiles and hit enter. Here you can see every wireless access point that I ever connected to or authenticated against. Let's go ahead and take a look and choose one of these profiles and see the access key that was used to connect. I'm going to select let's go with Red Robin.

So first I need to select that profile through net sh W LAN show profile, quotation mark, and the access point name. Key equals clear. Now basically what I'm telling the system is to report back to me the access key that was used to connect to this particular wireless access point in plain text, and I'm going to hit enter. As you can see, we have the SSID, which was the access point that we connected to. But we also have the password of that wireless access point that we connected to. Now this may not seem like a concern to you, but basically if someone were to get on your system, or you were to download, let's just say a malicious tool could extract this information and someone could basically be using your wireless access point for free.

So what can we do? Well, one of the things we can do is we can actually delete this access point. So let's do that. I want to type net sh, W land, delete profile quotation, and I'm going to do Red Robin and hit enter. As you can see, the system states that the Red Robin profile has been deleted. Let's go ahead and take another look at Our access points to make sure I want to hit the up arrow once, twice, three times that way I can see all profiles again.

As you can see, it's gone. So this was a very simple way that you can manage the access points that you connect to. That way it's not stored locally on your system and someone could just extract it. I hope you guys enjoyed this course. I will see you again in the next one.