haines - kismet hacking

[...]... (www.pygps.org/gspd/downloads) Installing Kismet In this section, we’ll provide a brief introduction to installing Kismet See Chapter 2 for complete installation instructions Kismet installation is a very straightforward process Simply download the latest release of Kismet from www.kismetwireless.net/ download.shtml and save it in a directory of your choice (Older versions of Kismet can be retrieved from www.kismetwireless.net/code.)... installed Kismet and GPSD, you need to edit the Kismet configuration files so that Kismet will function properly on your system Unless you www.syngress.com Introduction to Wireless Networking, Wardriving, and Kismet • Chapter 1 25 (or your package manager) have changed the location, the configuration files are put in /usr/local/etc There are two files you need to edit: kismet. conf and kismet_ ui.conf The kismet_ ui.conf... penetration testing of WiFi Protected Access (WPA)-encrypted networks Next, you need to configure your kernel to support your Wireless Fidelity (WiFi) card Regardless of your type of card, you need the following options: Device Drivers -> Network device support -> [*] Network device support Wireless LAN (non-hamradio) -> [*] Wireless LAN drivers (non-hamradio) & Wireless Extensions Next you need to... IEEE 802.11 Networking Stack, IEEE 802.11 Wireless Encryption Protocol (WEP) encryption (802.1x), IEEE 802.11i Counter-Mode/CBC-Mac Protocol (CCMP) support, and IEEE 802.11i Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP) encryption: Networking -> - Networking support Networking options -> Generic IEEE 802.11 Networking Stack IEEE 802.11  WEP encryption (802.1x) IEEE 802.11i CCMP support... chapter and unless otherwise noted, “compile the program” refers to these three steps This installs Kismet in the default directory (/usr/local/bin /kismet) and the Kismet configuration files in (/usr/local/etc /kismet) www.syngress.com 24 Chapter 1 • Introduction to Wireless Networking, Wardriving, and Kismet Compiling from Source or Packages The compilation examples in this chapter show how to compile... Companies such as Linksys and D-Link have been very successful at making these new technologies easy for end users to set up and use To do otherwise would alienate a large part of their target market (See Chapter 10 for a step-by-step guide to enabling the built-in security features of these access points.) www.syngress.com Introduction to Wireless Networking, Wardriving, and Kismet • Chapter 1 The Legality... kismet_ ui.conf file controls the user interface options of Kismet For the most part, you can leave these options at their default, unless you want to tweak the appearance of the interface Kismet does have a Welcome window that displays every time you start Kismet (see Figure 1.4) Figure 1.4 The Kismet Welcome Window To get rid of the Welcome window when Kismet starts, change the showintro option to false:... Wardriving, and Kismet • Chapter 1 modules In many cases, this is a personal choice For the purpose of this book, we’ll compile the drivers as modules Two of the most popular cards for Wardriving are the Hermes chipset-based Orinoco Gold Classic card and the Prism 2.5-based Senao NL 2511 EXT 2 Adding support for these cards is simply a matter of telling the kernel to compile the module: Device Drivers -> Network... directory and issue the make menuconfig command Then select the appropriate driver for your USB serial converter: Device Drivers USB support -> -> www.syngress.com 22 Chapter 1 • Introduction to Wireless Networking, Wardriving, and Kismet USB Serial Converter support -> USB Serial Converter support [*] USB Generic Serial Driver USB Prolific 2303 Single Port Serial Driver The Prolific 2303 driver... nothing to do with hacking or wardriving www.syngress.com 15 16 Chapter 1 • Introduction to Wireless Networking, Wardriving, and Kismet In an effort to generate ratings and increase viewership, the news media, has sensationalized wardriving Almost every local television news outlet has done a story on “wireless hackers armed with laptops” or “drive-by hackers” that are reading your e-mail or using your . Standard “ANSI/NIST-CSL 1-1 993 Data Format for the Interchange of Fingerprint Information.” He co-au- thored RFID Security (Syngress Publishing, ISBN: 1597490474), WarDriv- ing: Drive, Detect,. for publication. Printed in the United States of America 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 ISBN 13: 97 8-1 -5 974 9-1 1 7-4 Page Layout and Art: SPi Publishing Services Copy Editor: Judy Eby For information on rights,. Wardriving, and Kismet precious frequencies allotted to them, AT&T developed an idea to replace the single high-powered transmitter approach with several smaller and lower-powered transmit- ters