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wireless technology encourages digital eavesdropping. The World Wide Wardrive
( http://www.worldwidewardrive.org ) and Wigle ( http://www.wigle.net ) Websites are
obvious illustrations. Wigle maintains a database of nearly four million active wire-
less networks in its online database. The World Wide Wardrives are network discov-
ery contests.
In this chapter we have sought to identify some of the wireless insecurities that
loom largest in today's increasingly wireless world. To the inattentive, the deploy-
ment of wireless can create the loss of trade secrets, the loss of personal privacy, theft
of services, and unwitting participation in information warfare. For the attentive, the
watch phrase must be “danger lurks within.”

Appendix A: Wireless Security Utilities by Operating
System and Function

Utility name OS Use

WEPcrack Any platform (if Perl is available) Finding WEP keys

AirSnort Linux, Windows Finding WEP keys

dwepcrack BSD Finding WEP keys

reinj BSD Packet Injection tool

WEPWedgie Linux Packet Injection tool

wep_tools Linux Finding WEP keys

asleap Linux, Windows Finding LEAP passwords

Leapcrack Any platform (if Perl is available) Finding LEAP passwords

leap Linux Finding LEAP passwords

L0phtcrack Windows Password cracking

ettercap Linux

fata_jack Linux Denial of service

macfld.pl Linux Denial of service

dinject Linux Denial of service

airjack Linux Drivers for MITM, DoS, etc.

File2air Linux Denial of service

Void11 Linux Denial of service

omerta Linux Denial of service

HostAP Linux Software Access Point

HermesAP patch Linux Software Access Point

WPA Cracker Linux WPA-PSK password cracking

FakeAP Linux, BSD Random AP frame generation

WepAttack Linux Enhanced WEP cracking

aircrack Linux Enhanced WEP cracking

chopchop Linux Packet by packet decryption

chopper Linux POC WEP cracker

coWPAtty Linux WPA cracker