Today’s item comes from the August 2005 edition of Communications of the ACM.  It is a quick mention of a very detailed 8 page article on "WiFi Attack Vectors" by Hall Berghel and Jacob Uecker.

If you are seriously interested in WiFi security and how to detect your vulnerabilities then this is the article for you. Some of the tools that they reference include:

• Airsnort (airsnort.shmoo.com)
• AirCrack (www.cro.net:8040/code/network)
• chopper & chopchop (www.netstumbler.org)
• WEPwedgie (sourceforge.net/projects/wepwedgie)
• WPA Cracker (www.tinypeap.com/html/wpa_cracker.html)
• coWPATTY (new.remote-exploit.org/index.php/Codes_main)
• leap (packetstormsecurity.nl/0310-exploits/leap.tgz)
• LEAPcracker (www.thc.org/download.php?t=r@f=thc-leapcracker-0.1.tar.gz)
• asleap (asleap.sourceforge.net)
• John the Ripper (www.openwall.com/john)
• Wi-Foo (www.wi-foo.com)

The authors also really recommend Auditing Wireless Networks by SANS.org.

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