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WEP Cracking for Mac OS X

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the holiday-hacking dept.

Randar the Lava Liza writes "Finally there is a tool to put default Apple AirPort hardware into monitoring mode for wireless security analysis. KisMAC is a variant of Kismet that runs natively on Mac OS X. It requires a special driver to be installed to run the AirPort hardware in monitoring mode, and has built-in WEP cracking tools once enough weak packets have been sniffed."

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  1. Re:Great by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    One of the reasons why after a vulnerability has been discussed an easy to use exploit is a good thing is the tendency of higher-ups to disregard security risks which are only exploitable by a select few. WEP is not what its name suggests, but it is still the only line of defense in many wireless networks because the risk of being attacked still appears to be low. That has got to change.