Wireless auditing
Posted by creining | Filed under Security
I bought some wireless components to do wireless auditing at work. It’s a bit confusing picking out exactly what you need and what works well so I wanted to make a note of what I got (from Netgate, recommended):
200mW Long Range 802.11b PCMCIA Card
9 dBi Yagi Antenna N Female
MMCX to N-Male Pigtail 18″
The card worked out well as it contains a widely supported Intersil Prism 2.5 chipset and has two external antenna leads. I was also tuned into a great bootable OS based on KNOPPIX called Auditor. It has 300 some security tools and worked well in performing wireless audits using tools like Kismet and Wellenreiter. Also, wavemon, a monitor for wireless devices, works extremely well for pinpointing the location of wireless devices. In fact, I liked Auditor so much I installed it on the hardrive of the laptop.
Here’s a picture I took of the wireless hardware.
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