Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Wireless security tools – Kismet, KisMac, NetStumbler, Airsnort, Aircrack

December 17, 2010 by  
Filed under Wireless scanners

Kismet This sniffer is a 802.11 based network security scanner, sniffer & intrusion detector. it is designed to work with any raw monitoring capable wireless card & can sniff the following traffic: 802.11b, 802.11a, 802.11g, & 802.11n. The Kismet scanner identifies networks passively collecting packets & detects standard named networks,... [Read more ...]

NetStumbler and Ntop – sniffing tools

December 10, 2010 by  
Filed under Sniffers

NetStumbler Netstumbler is the best known Windows instrument for finding open wireless access points (“wardriving”). they also distribute a WinCE version for PDAs and such named Ministumbler. The instrument is currently free but Windows-only and no source code is provided. It makes use of a more active approach to finding WAPs than passive... [Read more ...]

Network security scanners – Wireshark, KisMAC and Kismet

December 9, 2010 by  
Filed under Sniffers

Wireshark: Probably the best … sniffer in the world Wireshark (known as Ethereal until a trademark dispute in Summer 2006) is an fabulous open source network protocol analyzer for Unix and Windows. It allows you to examine information from a live network or from a capture file on disk. you can interactively browse the capture information, delving... [Read more ...]