War Driving | An Act of Wireless Hacking

How to map a wireless network and how to exploit by finding vulnerabilities of a wireless network this is called wireless hacking but when the hacker (attacker) is continuously moving and try to map as much wireless network as he/she can this is called war driving. We have previously discussed war driving | Wireless LAN hacking and in this article we will share a presentation on war driving that a member of ehacking.net has presented before.

War Driving

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by Malik korrich ~ lundi 20 août 2012 0 commentaires

Fern wifi Cracker- A Wireless Penetration Testing Tool

WiFi is now become the way for short distance Internet, for long distance we have WiMAX standard but WiFi is very important because you can find WiFi hot-spot everywhere like at the airport, coffee shop and at the educational places. There are so many people out there who are using WiFi at there home and at offices. Cracking a WiFi connection is a essential part of wardriving but for a penetration tester and a ethical hacker WiFi or wireless network security is an important part. 

If you are doing a job as a IT security engineer and your task is to do a pen test on the wifi network. What tools are you going to use?

Operating system for this case is usually Linux or specially Ubuntu or backtrack, backtrack 5 contain different tools for WiFi cracking like aircrack-ng but in this article I will discuss something about Fern WiFi Cracker.

What Is Fern WiFi Cracker ?

Fern wifi cracker is a wireless security auditing application that is written in python and uses python-qt4. This application uses the aircrack-ng suite of tools. It can be run on any linux distribution like Fern wifi cracker is use in ubuntu or even you can use fern wifi cracker in windows but you must have some dependencies to run fern wifi cracker on windows.

Requirements of Fern wifi Cracker:

• python
• python-qt4
• macchanger
• aircrack-ng
• xterm
• subversion

Download Fern Wifi Cracker

 Fern wifi cracker can easily be install on ubuntu and backtrack, backbox,gnackbox and other distribution.

Fern wifi Cracker Tutorial

After downloading the file locate the directory and type.

root@host:~# dpkg -i Fern-Wifi-Cracker_1.2_all.deb

Click the refresh button to display monitor interfaces:

Please Note, the scan button is a dual button, meaning, by clicking it the first time it scans for networks,then by clicking the button again, it stops any scan that was initialized (vise versa).

Fern wifi is a GUI and it can crack WEP and WPA as well.

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by Malik korrich ~ jeudi 6 octobre 2011 0 commentaires

Airsnarf - Rogue Access Point

Access points are those points that has router to spread the radio signals of a network, these type of router have antenna(s) (smart or omni directional), the main aim of using these access point is to establish a wireless (Wi-Fi) network. Wireless networks are the rising network that are currently using by the organizations, for public places and for home usage.    


Wi-Fi network has different vulnerabilities that can be exploit, as discussed before about wardriving. In wardriving you are searching for an access point to exploit but what if an access point is searching for you to exploit, strange but true and the term can be called an Inverse wardriving.


In inverse wardriving an attacker has to create a rogue access point, so the question is what is rogue access point? A rogue access point is a access point that has been installed without the permission of legitimate user (Administrator), rogue access point is a biggest threat for wireless network for large organization because it is open a way to launch man-in-the-middle attack, and it is a backdoor to enter into an Enterprise network.


It is a layer 2 attack that can be turn into layer 3 attack, here is the video demonstration that will better explain rogue access point. Thanks to the AirTightNetworks for the wonderful video.





There is another awesome video that explain rouge access point and available on securitytube.


I hope after this you have an idea about rogue access point, 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. Follow the link to learn more about Airsnarf.

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by Malik korrich ~ vendredi 22 juillet 2011 0 commentaires