Skip to main content

Wireless Tools

Wireless Security Products

This page contains a multitude of differing wireless security products, as we find time we will try and categorise them further and also provide a product listing at the top of this page. This has been accomplished in part by breaking out the Wireless Intrusion Detection Systems

 

If you are fairly new to using wireless you are probably aware of how important it is to secure, otherwise you wouldn't be here, therefore you may be interested in the Wireless Security Training Courses on offer.

dragorn@kismetwireless.net

Kismet is a 802.11b wireless network sniffer. It is capable of sniffing using almost any wireless card supported in Linux, including Prism2 based cards supported by the Wlan-NG project (Linksys, Dlink, Rangelan, etc), cards which support standard packet c ...

WEPCrack is an open source tool for breaking 802.11 WEP secret keys

NetStumbler is a Windows utility for 802.11b based wireless network auditing

Open-source wardriving app to netstumble, display and map found wireless networks and cell towers anywhere in the world, easily uploading to the http://wigle.net database. WiGLE was started in 2001 and now has over 150 million wifi networks worldwide. ...

Wigle WiFi Wardriving
Farproc Tools

Wifi Analyzer is a free Android app you can use for finding APs on your Android-based smartphone or tablet. It lists the basic details for APs on the 2.4-GHz band, and on supported devices on the 5-GHz band as well. You can export the AP list (in XML form ...

Wifi Analyzer

Vistumbler is an open source Windows application that finds Wireless access points - Uses the Vista command 'netsh wlan show networks mode=bssid' to get wireless information.  It displays the basic AP details, including the exact authentication and e ...

Vistumbler
Elcomsoft Co. Ltd

Elcomsoft Wireless Security Auditor examines the security of your wireless network by attempting to break into the network from outside or inside. Elcomsoft Wireless Security Auditor works completely in off-line, undetectable by the Wi-Fi network being pr ...

Wireless Security Auditor
Lan-Secure Company

Wireless Protector is windows software that automatically disables wireless 802.11 / Broadband devices on computers that connected to the network LAN and re-enable the devices when the LAN cable is disconnected from the protected compu ...

Wireless Protector

Wireless Scanner for Windows Mobile OS. [administrator's note: development on PeekPocket ended 5/2008]

WLAN Expert is a wireless client utility designed to work with the PRISM chipset by Intersil. The Linksys WPC11 is the only client card I've tested, although many manufacturers use this silicon. Intersil counts Alcatel, Cisco, Compaq, Nokia, Nortel, Samsu ...

Just an another passive 802.11b scanner

AirMagnet Popular

From planning and deployment to ongoing network troubleshooting, the AirMagnet network tools span the entire WLAN lifecycle.

AirMagnet

AirTraf is a package with many features. It is enabled to operate as a standard real-time data gathering tool for solving location specific problems, as well as operating as a long-term data gathering tool for your wireless networked organization.

WaveMon Popular

wavemon is an ncurses-based monitoring application for wireless network devices on Linux.

Marius Milner

MiniStumbler is a tool for Windows CE that allows you to detect Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs) using 802.11b, 802.11a and 802.11g. It has many uses: * Verify that your network is set up the way you intended. * Find locations with poor co ...

This is a Linux driver for wireless LAN cards based on Intersil's Prism2/2.5/3 chipset. The driver supports a so called Host AP mode, i.e., it takes care of IEEE 802.11 management functions in the host computer and acts as an access point. This does not r ...

Wellenreiter is a wireless network discovery and auditing tool. Prism2, Lucent, and Cisco based cards are supported. It is the easiest to use Linux scanning tool. No card configuration has to be done anymore. The whole look and feel is pretty self-explain ...