War: Driving. Drive, Detect, Defend

✍ Scribed by Chris Hurley, Frank Thornton, Michael Puchol and Russ Rogers (Eds.)

• Publisher: Syngress
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 495
• Edition: 1st
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The practice of WarDriving is a unique combination of hobby, sociological research, and security assessment. The act of driving or walking through urban areas with a wireless-equipped laptop to map both protected and un-protected wireless networks has sparked intense debate amongst lawmakers, security professionals, and the telecommunications industry. This first ever book on WarDriving is written from the inside perspective of those who have created the tools that make WarDriving possible and those who gather, analyze, and maintain data on all secured and open wireless access points in very major, metropolitan area worldwide. These insiders also provide the information to secure your wireless network before it is exploited by criminal hackers.

Provides the essential information needed to protect and secure wireless networks
Written from the inside perspective of those who have created the tools for WarDriving and those who gather, maintain and analyse data on wireless networks
* This is the first book to deal with the hot topic of WarDriving

✦ Table of Contents

Content:
Acknowledgments, Page v
Author, Page vii
Contributors, Pages vii-viii
Technical Editor and Contributor, Page ix
Foreword, Pages xxi-xxiii, Jeff Moss
Chapter 1 - Learning to WarDrive, Pages 1-35
Chapter 2 - NetStumbler and MiniStumbler: Overview, Pages 37-69
Chapter 3 - Operating NetStumbler and MiniStumbler, Pages 71-117
Chapter 4 - Installing Kismet in Slackware Linux 9.1, Pages 119-150
Chapter 5 - Installing Kismet in Fedora Core 1, Pages 151-178
Chapter 6 - Configuring and Using Kismet, Pages 179-213
Chapter 7 - Mapping WarDrives Using StumbVerter, Pages 215-243
Chapter 8 - Organizing WarDrives, Pages 245-313
Chapter 9 - Attacking Wireless Networks, Pages 315-353
Chapter 10 - Basic Wireless Network Security, Pages 355-393
Chapter 11 - Advanced Wireless Network Security, Pages 395-478
Index, Pages 479-495