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WarDriving: Drive, Detect, Defend, A Guide to Wireless Security
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by Chris Hurley, Michael Puchol, Russ Rogers, and Frank Thornton
Sales Rank: 618425
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Discount: 31 %
List Price: $49.95
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Paperback: 512 pages
Publisher: Syngress; 1 edition April 1, 2004
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1931836035
ISBN-13: 978-1931836036
Product Dimensions:
9 x 7 x 1 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
Book Description
The practice of WarDriving is a unique combination of hobby, sociological research, and security assessment. The act of driving or walking through urban areas with a wireless-equipped laptop to map both protected and un-protected wireless networks has sparked intense debate amongst lawmakers, security professionals, and the telecommunications industry. This first ever book on WarDriving is written from the inside perspective of those who have created the tools that make WarDriving possible and those who gather, analyze, and maintain data on all secured and open wireless access points in very major, metropolitan area worldwide. These insiders also provide the information to secure your wireless network before it is exploited by criminal hackers.
* Provides the essential information needed to protect and secure wireless networks
* Written from the inside perspective of those who have created the tools for WarDriving and those who gather, maintain and analyse data on wireless networks
* This is the first book to deal with the hot topic of WarDriving
Download Description
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.
--This text refers to the
Digital
edition.
Customer Reviews & Comments
The short review of this book is that if you're interested enough in the subject to buy this book, then you're unlikely to find anything - and I mean ANYTHING - new in this book. It takes two seperate chapters: one on installing the Windows utility Netstumbler (with pages and pages of screen shots, when a simple "click on the icon" would do), and one on using - not "advanced options" or anything, just using - Netstumbler. Similarly, three whole chapters are dedicated to the excruciating details of installation and use of the Linux tool Kismet, but again, nothing which couldn't be found in the README files or on the website which hosts the utility. They have a chapter on how to convert Kismet and Netstumbler logfiles to maps: if you already know about Stumbverter, WiGLE, and DiGLE (or can use Google), there's nothing new here. The authors pine on for a chapter about the wardrives that they've organized. If you've ever listened to your grandparents talk about the war, it's a lot like that. Then, they have a chapter on WiFi "attacks" - if you know how to manually set your SSID and MAC, and if you've ever even heard of Airsnort, you probably won't need this nontechnical, sub-script-kiddie, Windows screen-shot-laden chapter. If you're interested in war driving, or if you're interested in Wi-Fi security, then you're probably already conversant with the tools covered in this book. There is no real technical depth, as this book is written to a "manager's level" of technical competence. ("Click OK to continue.") Their chapter on Wi-Fi network defense essentially boils down to "change default SSID" and "use WEP"; there's a couple of pages on VPN, firewalls, and using authentication, but again, nothing to justify the purchase price of this book.
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