WarDriving: Drive, Detect, Defend, A Guide to Wireless Security | 
 enlarge | Authors: Chris Hurley, Russ Rogers, Frank Thornton
Creator: Michael Puchol
Publisher: Syngress
Category: Book
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Format: Illustrated
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Edition: 1
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Pages: 512
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Dimensions (in): 9 x 7 x 1
ISBN: 1931836035
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.8
UPC: 792502360354
EAN: 9781931836036
ASIN: 1931836035
Publication Date: April 1, 2004
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Product Description
The term WarDriving originates from WarDialing, a term introduced to the public by Matthew Broderick's character, David Lightman, in the 1983 movie "WarGames." WarDialing is the practice of using a modem attached to a computer to dial an entire exchange of telephone numbers to locate any computers with modems attached to them. WarDriving employs the same concept, although it is updated to a more current technology; wireless networks. A WarDriver drives around a geographical location to determine all of the wireless access points in that area. Once these access points are discovered, a WarDriver uses a software program or Web site to map the results of his efforts. Based on these results, a statistical analysis is performed. This statistical analysis can be of one drive, one area, or a general overview of all wireless networks. WarDriving became more well known when the process was automated by Peter Shipley, a computer security consultant in Berkeley, California. During the fall of 2000, Shipley conducted an 18-month survey of wireless networks in Berkeley, California and reported his results at the annual DefCon hacker conference in July of 2001. This presentation, designed to raise awareness of the insecurity of wireless networks that were deployed at that time, laid the groundwork for the true WarDriver.
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On November 12, 2003, federal officials arrested two men for repeatedly cracking the Lowe's chain of home improvement stores' nationwide network from car parked outside a Detroit store. The men were accessing the wi-fi network in order to use the store's network to access the company's central data center and download customer credit card numbers. The topic of wireless security had gone main stream. This is the first book to deal with the topic of WarDriving.
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wardriving January 10, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Il libro contiene linee guida su come condurre attacchi per violare le reti senza fili quindi e utile per predisporre una politica di protezione di queste reti. Ha il limite di poter essere completamente utilizzato solo da utenti che usano linux perche la quasi totalita dei programmi illustrati lo utilizza come sistema operativo .
 Interesting but not Secure February 19, 2006
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Wardriving is an interesting "how to" book on detecting and locating wireless communication systems. It points out their vulnerabilities and describes methods to secure them. Fairly basic stuff, but it takes several chapters to get to the good stuff. Although not for the novice, any amateur geek can buy or build the necessary equipment for a simple set up.
The book details how easy it is to legally detect and locate wireless nodes - and how easy it could be to illegally intercept wireless communications. It goes into way more technical detail than I wanted or needed to know, but provides even the expert with good reading. I found the contests and competitions interesting, reminding me of cyber or geo caching. It shows how unaware we are of the insecurity of our communications that we depend on daily. The security aspects are welcome but insufficient for complete protection. With the public concern over monitoring US communications in the news lately, this book will be timely to add to the confusion.
Although a helpful and interesting guide from Syngress, much more could be added to secure wireless systems.
 Full, Complete and Up-to-date Guide January 31, 2006
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
This guide to wireless security is very well written. I highly recommend it for anyone who needs to get up to speed on the wireless technology for implementation, use and security. This is top notch.
G. A. Grant
UW Net Admin
Saddle Up and Head Out December 10, 2004
5 out of 10 found this review helpful
Even to the casual observer this is good stuff but if you're a true sniffhead then you're in for some incredibly geeky fun. The whole book* is a good but I found chapters 9-11 the most fascinating. You can't go wrong with this material.
*Refers to eBook version
The Guide that I needed September 16, 2004
11 out of 18 found this review helpful
I purchased this book based on the recommendation from a friend in my DC Group. This book was exactly what I was looking for. I have been trying to find a book that had enough technical information that I wasn't bored, but that presented it in an easy to read, step by step manner. WarDriving delivered.
The book begins by giving a pretty cool history of WarDriving and then moves into two chapters on NetStumbler. I skipped these since I knew how to use NetStumbler and won't comment on them.
The next two chapters were a goldmine. Particularly Chapter 5. These two chapters walk you through setup of Kismet on Slackware and Fedora Linux. I don't use Slackware, so I skimmed this chapter, but the Fedora chapter was exactly what I needed. The instructions for installing Kismet on Fedora were worth the purchase price all by itself.
The next chapter details how to actually configure and use Kismet. This chapter was perfect. In less than an hour I was running Kismet and detecting access points all over my neighborhood.
Chapter 7 was about mapping. I don't have a GPS yet so I skipped most of this one too.
Chapter 8 was a really interesting history of organized WarDriving. I had never even heard of a Worldwide WarDrive, but I am definitely going to do it next time. It sounds awesome.
Chapter 9 was about attacking networks. I had no idea it was so easy to do. This really scared me, but Chapter 10 told me how to configure my home wireless network to protect against a lot of these attacks.
I skimmed chapter 11 since it was more geared toward businesses so I will not comment on it either.
This book delivered for me, and I would recommend it to anyone that wants to eather learn to WarDrive or secure their home network.
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