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Devin/Kevin question from the CWSP book
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| meijin 2003-07-08, 11:30 pm |
| I was reading on page 8 where it was talking about methods to discover "hidden" WLANs. It mentions a method of sending a spoofed Disassociate Request from an active client to an AP. It then mentions, "there are simple software tools for this". I have done a Yahoo search and come up empty. Can you mention the tool(s) that you were referencing? I'd like to add them to my security/audit toolbox.
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| Devinator 2003-07-08, 11:34 pm |
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| meijin 2003-07-08, 11:45 pm |
| Cool, thanks. I had a look at 802.11ninja.net and it looks like he is even coming out with a Win32 version.
Yeah for me!
Which leads to another question. Devin, do you have a laptop with dual boot or just Linux? With the plethra (sp?) of Linux 802.11 tools out there, I'd like to take advantage of them. Do you (or anyone) know if they will work in a VMWare situation? WinLinux? Knoppix? Just trying to find a much easier situation for my work laptop situation.
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| Devinator 2003-07-08, 11:58 pm |
| never tried wlan tools with VMware. Linux? You MUST be kidding. No Linux here. I'm a Windows guy. If it can't be done on Windows, I'll just wait until there's a Win32 version. ;-) | |
| meijin 2003-07-09, 12:27 am |
| Devin:
Well, I am a Win32 guy myself. Matter of fact, all the way back through Win v3.11 (I actually have a set of disks here some place for Windows v2.0) to DOS to CP/M. So I know what you mean. But Linux is getting more and more common place.
Anyway, I got the impression from the CWSP book that you utilized Linux of some form or fashion to test the tools you mentioned.
I guess I can shelve my questions about FakeAP....
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| EncryptoGuy 2003-07-10, 9:34 am |
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Anyway, I got the impression from the CWSP book that you utilized Linux of some form or fashion to test the tools you mentioned.
There are indeed a bunch of wireless hacking tools for Linux. There is even a free bootable CD called WARLINUX that has some of these tools pre-installed. There are some tools that are olny Linux based like WEP cracking utilities and FakeAP.
That being said.... 95% of the current wireless hacks can be performed with easy to find Windows utilities.... a lot of them or free and have much easier to use interfaces.
Also there are lots of expensive commercial WIndows software products that hvae the potential for misuse in the wirless networking world.
I'm not knocking Linux and one day befor this year is over I am going to set up one of my laptops with RedHat and a lot of these utilities. I just don't know when I will have a free six weeks to get that done. |
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