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pop aircrack

"aircrack is an 802.11 WEP cracking program that can recover a 40-bit or 104-bit WEP key once enough encrypted packets have been gathered. It implements the standard FMS attack along with some optimizations, thus making the attack much faster compared to other WEP cracking tools."

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pop AirSnort

"AirSnort is a wireless LAN (WLAN) tool which recovers encryption keys. AirSnort operates by passively monitoring transmissions, computing the encryption key when enough packets have been gathered." Free. Runs on Linux.

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pop Network Stumbler

Software to detect wireless access points and determine whether they have WEP turned on or not (Mini Stumbler, available at the same URL, is similar software for Pocket PC PDAs).

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pop WEPCrack

Open-source tool for breaking 802.11 WEP secret keys.

Platform(s): Perl on Unix or Linux.

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pop WPA Cracker

Tool that uses a dictionary attack to attempt to learn WPA encryption keys.

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Aerosol

Wardriving utility for finding wireless networks. Free.

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AirIDS

"AirIDS is a package containing a number of tools, most notably is the wireless network IDS. This is similar to many other network IDS's but is geared towards 802.11(b). As of AirIDS release 0.3.1 we support multiple front ends, and a large number of actions (see rules.txt in the docs section). The filtering is controled by a robust and powerful rules file, so everything is user definable. This expands the capabilities of the AirIDS system a great deal.

The other parts of AirIDS includes active defenses against malicious 802.11(b) activities. Using a specially modified driver we are able to forge frames with custom 802.11 headers. This means we are able to inject chaff into the stream that will confuse many WEP crackers, and give too much information to be useful for stumblers."

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Platform(s): Linux on x86.

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Airsnarf

"Airsnarf is a simple rogue wireless access point setup utility designed to demonstrate how a rogue AP can steal usernames and passwords from public wireless hotspots. Airsnarf was developed and released to demonstrate an inherent vulnerability of public 802.11b hotspots--snarfing usernames and passwords by confusing users with DNS and HTTP redirects from a competing AP."

Platform(s): Red Hat Linux.

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AirTraf

"This open-source program tracks and identifies legitimate and rogue access points, keeps performance statistics on a by-user and by-protocol basis, measures the signal strength of network components, and more."

Platform(s): Linux.

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Fake AP

"Black Alchemy's Fake AP generates thousands of counterfeit 802.11b access points. Hide in plain sight amongst Fake AP's cacophony of beacon frames. As part of a honeypot or as an instrument of your site security plan, Fake AP confuses Wardrivers, NetStumblers, Script Kiddies, and other undesirables."

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Platform(s): Perl on Linux.

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Garuda

"Garuda is an intrusion detection system against wireless threats. It is a progressive proof of concept project to ward off wireless threats such as war-drivers, rogue AP, wifi DoS and MAC spoofing attacks."

Open source.

Platform(s): Unix, Linux.

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Kismet

802.11b wireless sniffer (802.11a available in the Linux version). "Kismet works with any wireless card which is capable of reporting raw packets (rfmon support), which include any prism2 based card (Linksys, D-Link, Rangelan, etc), Cisco Aironet cards, and Orinoco based cards. Kismet also supports the WSP100 remote sensor by Network Chemistry." Open source.

Platform(s): Linux, BSD, Mac OS X, Windows (with Cygwin).

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Microsoft Solution for Securing Wireless LANs

"The Securing Wireless LANs solution provides Planning, Implementation, Operations and Test guides, as well as additional resources including installation scripts, security templates, monitoring scripts, and implementation planning resources."

Platform(s): Windows Server 2003.

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Prismstumbler

"Prismstumbler is a wireless LAN (WLAN) discovery tool which scans for beaconframes from accesspoints. Prismstumbler operates by constantly switching channels and monitors any frames recived on the currently selected channel."

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Snort-Wireless

"The Snort-Wireless project is an attempt to make a scalable (and free!) 802.11 intrusion detection system that is easily integratable into an IDS infrastructure. It is completely backwards compatible with Snort 2.0.x and adds several additional features. Currently it allows for 802.11 specific detection rules through the new 'wifi' rule protocol, as well as rogue AP, AdHoc network, and Netstumbler detection."

Open source.

Platform(s): Linux.

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WaveStumbler

"WaveStumbler is console based 802.11 network mapper for Linux. It reports the basic AP stuff like channel, WEP, ESSID, MAC etc. It has support for Hermes based cards (Compaq, Lucent/Agere, ... ) It still in development but tends to be stable."

Platform(s): Linux.

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