RE: Wireless SSID discovery

From: Todd Towles (toddtowles_at_brookshires.com)
Date: 12/22/04

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    Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 09:46:59 -0600
To: "Aaron Drew" <amd@internode.on.net>, <pen-test@securityfocus.com>

    Well, people need to do a bit of searching on their own. You can use
    Hotspotter, Airsnort, Aircrack, WEPCrack, Void11, and I am sure they are
    tons more of Wifi tools.

    Good old Netstumbler will work in Windows with uncloaked broadcasting
    Aps.

    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: Aaron Drew [mailto:amd@internode.on.net]
    > Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2004 4:47 PM
    > To: pen-test@securityfocus.com
    > Subject: Re: Wireless SSID discovery
    >
    > I'm surprised no-one has mentioned void11.
    >
    > This tool works with prism2 cards and injects a spoofed
    > deauthentication message from the AP to the client. This
    > forces the client to reconnect. If you have 2 cards or 2
    > laptops, you can deauthenticate with one and listen for the
    > SSID with kismet on another.
    >
    > On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 06:12 am, Todd Towles wrote:
    > > Kismet doesn't need it to be broadcast to get the SSID, it looks at
    > > the packets. As you sure you have the correct key?
    > >
    > > > -----Original Message-----
    > > > From: Andrew Bagrin [mailto:abagrin@gmail.com]
    > > > Sent: Sunday, December 19, 2004 8:43 PM
    > > > To: pen-test@securityfocus.com
    > > > Subject: Wireless SSID discovery
    > > >
    > > > I'm doing a wireless pen-test and am able to use aircrack
    > to crack
    > > > the wep key, however, when I use Kismet, Cain, airdump
    > etc.. I can't
    > > > get the SSID of a the access point if the SSID broadcast has been
    > > > disabled. Does anyone know how to do this, or is there any tools
    > > > that will let you get the SSID even if its not being broadcasted.
    > > >
    > > > Thanks,
    > > >
    > > > Andrew
    >
    > --
    > - Aaron
    >
    > "Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground."
    >

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