Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai

2010

WAR Driving is of two types:

1. Active War Driving2. Passive War Driving

Active War Driving :

Active War Driving is detecting the Wireless Networks whose SSIDs are broadcasted or the WirelessNetworks which are shown to all the Wireless Adapters. It can be done through any Wireless Card.

Passive War Driving :

Passive War Driving is detecting the Wireless Networks whose SSIDs are not Broadcasted or the HiddenWireless Networks. The Wireless card should support the Monitor Mode for the Passive War Driving.

MAC spoofing

Even if WEP is enabled, MAC addresses can be easily sniffed by an attacker as they appear in the clear format, makingspoofing the MAC address also fairly easy.

MAC addresses are easily sniffed by an attacker since they must appear in the clear even when WEP is enabled. Anattacker can use those “advantages” in order to masquerade as a valid MAC address, by programming the wireless card orusing a spoofing utility, and get into the wireless network.

WEP cracking

• Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) was the first security option WLANs. WEP is used to encrypt data on theWLAN and can optionally be paired with shared key authentication authenticate WLAN clients. WEP uses an RC4 64-bitor 128-bit encryption key.

• WEP was fairly quickly found to be crack able. WEP is vulnerable because of relatively short and weak encryption. Thesecurity of the WEP algorithm can be compromised.

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