Archive for the 'Wireless' Category
I was syncing my iPhone this evening and decided to check for an update. I have been anxiously awaiting the firmware update that allows the iPhone access to the iTunes WiFi Store. Guess what?! It was available!
I downloaded and installed it just now but haven’t had a chance to play with the new store yet. I was too excited and just had to blog about it. Anyway, it’s available. It may have been available, who knows… Obviously, I didn’t. I have it, am gonna play with it, and will report back later to tell you how great it is. Yes, I sad great… I mean, come on, it’s by Apple, it has to be good!
Until next time…
UPDATE: Apple has also changed the appearance of the Calculator application’s icon. Why?! Who knows…
Lately, Chris and I have been rekindling our love of wireless technologies. We’ve been doing some wardriving and have also been messing around with WEP and WPA cracking again (See the notice at the bottom of this page). Chris has been able to successfully crack his WEP keys before using the tools available in the Aircrack Suite on Linux, Debian to be more specific. Now, me on the other hand, I’ve never been able to crack my WEP key.
My first attempts were flawed because I was never able to successfully patch the drivers for my ORiNOCO Classic Gold PCMCIA card under Fedora Core Linux. I needed to patch my drivers so I could put my card into monitor mode for use with Kismet or the Aircrack Suite.
Once I came back to the *NIX (Unix/Linux) world and reentered the game with FreeBSD, my Orinoco Classic Gold card was fully supported. I could put the card into monitor mode and what not but for some reason I could never get it working with Kismet. I then moved to a Linksys WPC55AG ver. 1.1 PC Card which uses an Atheros chipset and therefore was supported with the the ath driver under FreeBSD. Now Kismet was happy, but guess what?! The full set of tools included in the Aircrack Suite wasn’t completely ported to FreeBSD… Tough break!
Here it is 2007 and I’m sporting a 13″ Apple MacBook. The best commercially supported Unix on the market, in my opinion. I’ve blogged about it before and I’ll reiterate it here again that KisMAC is an extremely nice application for keeping your eye on wireless activities. Well, I recently found out that its also an extremely powerful tool for attempting to crack WEP keys and that it also supports my newly acquired D-Link DWL-122 wireless USB stick for performing such tasks.
I have made two attempts to crack my APs WEP key and both have failed miserably. I’m not sure what is happening, but once I have gathered almost 30k packets and am injecting weak IV packets back into the mix, the application kind of locks up. It doesn’t lock up completely as it is still capturing data and injecting packets, but every option in the drop down menus of the application become disabled/grayed out. It makes it kind of hard to do anything else with the application since your hands are tied and you can’t even save your data, attempt a crack of some sort, or even exit the application properly.
So, I have ordered another KisMAC supported USB wireless NIC. I purchased 4 (I couldn’t pass up the price they were being sold at on eBay and they’re supported on Linux as well as Macintosh) Ashton Digital WRUB 2011i NICs. I only bought two items off of eBay but there are two NICs in each box. Hopefully, this is better supported in KisMAC as I read some documentation about some issues with the DWL-122… after I bought it of course.
Hopefully, once these new NICs arrive I will finally be able to crack my WEP key for the first time. I look forward to the day when I am able to do this on a platform of my choice and I don’t have to break down and run Debian like Chris just to be cool and crack my WEP key! Of course, there’s always virtual machines… Maybe I could run Debian in Parallels on my MacBook and crack WEP that way… It’d still be done “from a Mac”, right?!
Until next time…
Notice: No, we’re not trying to crack our WEP keys so we can learn to do something malicious to anyone else’s network. We’re merely interested in the technologies involved in cracking such keys and the fact that the “security” vendors are selling us is so easily penetrable. Its research ladies and gentlemen. That’s it!
Chris and I have done a couple of more wardrives since our last journey and found a lot of networks on both trips. I hope to create a script/application soon that will let me know how many unique networks we are locating based on the BSSID, or MAC address in some circles, of the APs. Until then, enjoy the following images of some Google Earth maps from the date I exported from KisMAC.
March 30th, 2007 - 545 WLANs
March 31st, 2007 - 543 WLANs
Until next time…
Ok, so I blogged a while back in November of 2006 about being back in the wardriving game. Well, it turns out, that wasn’t entirely true. See, after I posted that entry on averageadmins.com, I never really did any wardriving. When I finally got ready to get back in the game and make some maps and what not using KisMAC and Google Earth, my MacBook’s built-in wireless NIC wasn’t 100% compatible with KisMAC. It seems that the 2nd generation of MacBooks changed their wireless chipsets and the new chipset isn’t 100% compatible with KisMAC. So, according to this document on the KisMAC developer WiKi, my best bet was to get a USB wireless NIC with a Prism2 chipset. So I did…
The bad thing about having to get this type of hardware is a) most of the devices with these chipsets are older wireless cards and kind of hard to locate, or b) the newer cards that are still manufactured with this chipset are pretty pricey. Well, I did a little eBaying and found a D-Link DWL-122 for around $60 with shipping and insurance. This was a great find as this device was still new in the box and the price wasn’t that bad considering I had to locate an affordable wireless card with a specific chipset. I placed my order on the 20th of this month and got it in yesterday… Guess what?! That’s right kids! I’ve already put it to use.
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