[lugm.org] kismet on backtrack 4

[kowlessur bhavish singh]

thanks loads for your help guys!!:-)
Bhavish

On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 3:00 PM, Daniel Shaw <daniel.shaw at point-oh.net>wrote:

> On 17 August 2010 04:02, kowlessur bhavish singh <arunmoi at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > "One of the wireless points has been encrypted with WEP keys.  At one end
> > one of the hackers are using aircrack-ng tools to hack the wep keys.
> > How can I use tools from kismet to audit it and stop the retrieval of the
> WEP key??"
>
> You can't. As has already been pointed out this is not what Kismet
> does and not what it's meant to do. At least not in the sense of
> stopping someone already in progress cracking a WEP key. Kismet is an
> auditing tool. There is no tool that can magically intercept when
> someone is trying to crack something and kick them off the air.
>
> You can't intervene with that they are doing, but I guess that if you
> used Kismet as an audit tool to survey your Wifi, you'd "notice" that
> you are using WEP (weak) and then could go and reconfigure the APs to
> use WPA. If we suppose that you made this change on the AP before this
> mythical "hacker" completed getting a valid WEP key then you could I
> suppose say  you used Kismet to stop this.
>
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KOWLESSUR Bhavish Singh
BScience (Hons) Information Systems, University of Mauritius
Dual dip. Networking and Sys.Admin
Chisholm TAFE, Melbourne
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