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Kismet

Kismet is a powerful wireless sniffer that offers excellent passive reconnaissance of wireless networks. It requires a wireless card that supports rfmon (monitor) mode and runs on linux. It is available as a standalone application and is also found on the Backtrack CD compilation. Kismet – [kismetwireless.net] What is Kismet? Kismet is an 802.11 layer2 [...]

Cain and Abel

Cain & Abel A suprisingly robust suite of tools, Cain and Able is often simply characterized as a password recovery/cracking tool, but if you take a look at the list of features below, you’ll see it is much more than that. The sniffing component of Cain collects a LOT of information and any password hashes [...]