Wireless Security Tools

Wireless networking technologies present significant risks to an organization and highlight networking threats that have been ignored. Without a doubt, wireless technologies provide significant benefits over wired ones, but the security challenges incurred must be addressed. To try to help others understand and/or mitigate wireless security risks, I would like to list several of the tools I have found to be the most useful. If for nothing else, wireless security has been a lot of fun.

Papers

NIST Wireless Network Security
http://cs-www.ncsl.nist.gov/publications/nistpubs/800-48/NIST_SP_800-48.pdf

Cisco 802.11 Wireless LAN Security White Paper
http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/cc/pd/witc/ao1200ap/prodlit/wswpf_wp.pdf

Wireless Detection Tools

Kismet
http://www.kismetwireless.net

gKismet - GUI for Kismet
http://gkismet.sourceforge.net

Netstumbler
http://www.netstumbler.com

Wellenreiter
http://www.remote-exploit.org

Wireless Exploits

Airsnort
http://airsnort.shmoo.com

Void11
http://www.wlsec.net/void11

AirJack (wlan-jack, essid-jack, monkey-jack, kracker-jack)
http://802.11ninja.net

WepAttack
http://wepattack.sourceforge.net

Other Relevant Tools

Ethereal
http://www.ethereal.com

GPSDrive
http://gpsdrive.kraftvoll.at

Wireless Access Point Utilities for Linux
http://ap-utils.polesye.net/

Web Sites

Nutstumbler.com
http://www.netstumbler.com

Wigle.net
http://www.wigle.net

WiFiMaps.com
http://www.wifimaps.com

Drivers

Orinoco Patch for Monitor Mode
http://airsnort.shmoo.com/orinocoinfo.html

HostAP (Prism Drivers)
http://hostap.epitest.fi/

PCMCIA
http://pcmcia-cs.sourceforge.net/

Atheros ar5k 802.11a
http://team.vantronix.net/ar5k/

MadWiFi
http://sourceforge.net/projects/madwifi/

wlan-ng
http://www.linux-wlan.com/linux-wlan/

Antennas

Pringles Can Antenna (Antenna on the Cheap by Rob Flickenger)
http://www.oreillynet.com/cs/weblog/view/wlg/448

Yuban Antenna (The Essence of Community Wireless by Rob Flickenger)
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/1124

Misc

World Wide War Drive
http://www.worldwidewardrive.org/

Blackhat Briefings
http://www.blackhat.com