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"Wardriving has brought some of the top people in the wireless industry together to put together a truly informative book on what wardriving is and the tools that should be part of any IT department's arsenal that either has wireless or is looking to deploy it."

-John Kleinschmidt, Founder of Michiganwireless.org

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.

Wireless networks have become a way of life in the past two years. As more wireless networks are deployed the need to secure them increases. This book educates users of wireless networks as well as those who run the networks about the insecurities associated with wireless networking. This effort is called WarDriving. In order to successfully WarDrive there are hardware and software tool required. This book covers those tools, along with cost estimates and recommendations. Since there are hundreds of possible configurations that can be used for WarDriving, some of the most popular are presented to help readers decide what to buy for their own WarDriving setup. Many of the tools that a WarDriver uses are the same tools that could be used by an attacker to gain unauthorized access to a wireless network. Since this is not the goal of a WarDriver, the methodology that users can use to ethically WarDrive is presented. In addition, complete coverage of WarDriving applications, such as NetStumbler, MiniStumbler; and Kismet, are covered.

Table of Contents

• 1: Learning to WarDrive
• 2: NetStumbler and MiniStumbler: An Overview
• 3: Operating NetStumbler and MiniStumbler
• 4: Installing Kismet in Slackware Linux 9.1
• 5: Installing Kismet in Fedora Core 1 Linux 9.0
• 6: Configuring and Using Kismet
• 7: Mapping WarDrives Using Stumbverter
• 8: Organizing WarDrives
• 9: Attacking Wireless Networks
• 10: Basic Wireless Network Security
• 11: Advanced Wireless Network Security
• 12: Fast Track Index

About the Authors

Chris Hurley(Roamer) is a Principal Information Security Engineer working in Washington DC on vulnerability assessments, penetration testing, forensics, and incident response on both wired and wireless networks. He is the organizer of the WorldWide WarDrive and has been the subject of several interviews and stories regarding the WWWD. Chris is a primary organizer of DefCon and the DefCon WarDriving Contest.

Michael Puchol (Mother) is a WarDriving pioneer and is creator of the widely used StumbVerter mapping software.

Jack Thorton (Thorn) runs his own consulting firm, Blackthorn Systems and as a detective and forensics expert has investigated over 100 homicides and thousands of other crime scenes.He is a co-author of RFID Security(Syngress Publishing, ISBN 1-59749-047-4) and Game Console Hacking(Syngress Publishing, ISBN 1-931836-31-0)

Technical Editior Russ Rogers is the President and co-founder of Security Horizon, Inc and a primary organizer of DefCon.

Apr 29, 2004     VG from Texas
An outstanding WarDriving reference
This book has something for everyone! The book starts at an "introductory" level and works it's way forward to advanced.

Starting with history of WarDriving, the authors explain what WarDriving is, the legality and the history. They them move into installation and configuration of the two main WarDriving tools, NetStumbler and Kismet.

A chapter on mapping out drives gives good information on Stumbverter. Some info on Linux mapping tools would have been good. This is my only complaint with the book.

Organizing WarDrives was a very interesting chapter to read. It provides a real "behind the scenes" view of some of the major WarDriving events.

The attacking chapter was an interesting read. As a system administrator, it provided me with some info to use when testing my own network.

The authors finish with information on securing wireless networks. One chapter for the home user (heavily weighted toward Linksys products) and one for the small business user.

There are plenty of step by step configuration instructions and screenshots. These will be particularly beneficial to readers that are interested in setting up a WarDriving rig, or securiing their home network but don't have the background.

Overall an outstanding book.

Apr 20, 2004     Mark from Chicago
I can hack the Starbucks Wifi network!
Just kidding! Ever since I learned about Starbucks having wireless networks, I've been interested in this topic. This book is really cool and tells the whole story of wardriving--where people walk or drive around an area mapping wireless access points and then point out security issues. It shows how to wardrive, how to build/configure the tools you need to wardrive, and covers wireless security too.

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