Essential Wireless Hacking Tools

Most of my posts in the recent times have been
about hacking and different aspects of it. The sole
reason for this that I am seriously fascinated by it,
and the thought of learning more about it always
crosses my mind. I know that I am not the only
one of this kind, there are several such
hackaholics in this world. So for all those
hackaholics here is my next post about Wireless
Hacking Tools.
Wireless hacking is becoming more and more
popular day by day as more number of wireless
servers and clients are coming into place. So in
this post I will tell you about different wireless
hacking tools that are worth having in your tool
kit. This post is not comprehensive in nature but
the main moto is to provide you information.
There are three steps involved in this:
1. Finding the wireless networks
2. Getting connected to the found network
3. Sniffing the network
Finding the Network
I am going to recommend 2 softwares which are
very helpful in finding the wireless networks in
your radar.
NetStumbler
This is a must have for the windows users. This
provides you the facilty of finding the wireless
signals within your range and it also detects the
signal/noise info which can be used for site
surveys.
Kismet
This software provides you an extra facility which
is missing in NetStumbler , this tools detects
those wireless networks also which doesn’t
broadcast their SSID ( you should realize that this
info is broadcasted by the access points but are
not read or cracked). Kismet will crack the SSIDs
which are not broadcasted and will display them ,
as this is very crutial for detecting ireless
networks.
kismet Essential Wireless Hacking Tools
Getting connected to the Network
If the wireless network is not authenticated or
encrypted then it very easy to connect with the
network by directly connecting to the SSID. If the
SSID is not bing broadcasted then you need to
use Kismet to detect the SSSIDs and then get
connected. If the network is authenticated or
encrypted then you need to use these tools.
CowPatty
This is a very good tool for cracking the WEP-
PSK , you can use the “New WEP” for the home
wireless security. This tols uses permutation and
combination of different from its dictionary to see
if any option matches or not. This is defined as
Pre- Shared Key.
ASLeap
This tool serves very well, if you want to gather
the authentication data in a network It sniffs the
data passing across the network and can crack
them. LEAP ca be broken because of the fact that
it doesn’t protect the authentication like various
other real EAP types.
Snifffing The Network
Dosen;t matter if you are connected to a network
or not but shill if there is some wireless network in
your range then there is information flying in the
air. So in order to read that data you would
require this software.
Wireshark
This tool is very essential for sniffing data in the
network. This tool can scan wireless data as well
as ethernet data and it is provide to you with
powerful filtering capabilities. This can also be
used to sniff different 802.11 management
probes and beacons. And with the help of this
tool you can also detect the non-broadcasting
SSIDs.
The above mentioned tools are very useful for the
detection of vulnerabilities of wireless networks
and are a must haves for every wireless security
expert. The best way to get familiar is to use
them in controlled lab environment. So njoy as
these tools are free of cost over the internet.