Brief introduction of software involved

Generally, there are three pieces of software involved in this project, namely Backtrack, Kali Linux and Kismet.

1.Backtrack

Backtrack is a professional set of security Linux distribution based on Linux which is widely used in the fields of digital forensics and penetration testing use, short for BT. It is released by Offensive Security Ltd. Now, Backtrack has been replaced by Kali Linux and will be no longer maintained.

Backtrack is not used only for WarDriving, but also provides users with over 200 security-related tools. In addition, support for Live CD and Live USB is a bright spot.

The newest version of Backtrack is BT5R3, and we used this to decrypt wireless network with WEP and WPA encryption modes.

There are 12 categories of tools in BT5:

◆Information Gathering

◆Vulnerability Assessment

◆Exploitation Tools

◆Privilege Escalation

◆Maintaining Access

◆Reverse Engineering

◆RFID Tools

◆Stress Testing

◆Forensics

◆Reporting Tools

◆Services

◆Miscellaneous

◆Mislamjan

Useful links：
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BackTrack
http://www.backtrack-linux.org/

2.Kali Linux

Kali Linux is a newly developed Linux distribution maintained and funded by Offensive Security Ltd, which can be regarded as the advanced version of Backtrack. Contents and functions are quite similar to Backtrack, so we skip the detailed description here.

Useful links：
http://www.kali.org/
http://docs.kali.org/introduction/what-is-kali-linux

3.Kismet

Kismet is free software aiming to detect networks, sniff packets which can be built into an intrusion detection system for 802.11 WLANs. All 802.11 traffic (a/b/g/n) can be sniffed by a wireless card. This program which is written in C++ often runs under Linux, however, the client can also run on Microsoft Windows.

Kismet can detect and associate wireless APs (access points) and clients. Moreover, Kismet can detect wireless network attacks (mainly used in our project). To find networks as many as possible, Kismet continually change channels from one to another at random. Thus, Kismet is able to obtain more packets.

Useful links：
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kismet_(software)
http://www.kismetwireless.net/
http://www.wi-fiplanet.com/tutorials/article.php/3595531