1. WarDriving 101

2. THE HISTORY Society would not coin the term WarDriving until the year 2000 when a Berkeley computer consultant, Peter Shipley, presented an 18 month wireless network survey at the DefCon hacker’s conference. Derived from the term WARDIALING.

3. HARDWARE A laptop computer. A wireless NIC Card. An external antenna!!!!!!!!!!!! A pigtail to connect the external antenna to the wireless NIC. A handheld global positioning system (GPS) unit. A GPS data cable. A WarDriving software program. A cigarette lighter or AC adapter power inverter.

4. HARDWARE

5. SOFTWARE Windows-NETSTUMBLER (active) Linux-KISMET (passive)

6. NetStumbler

7. KISMET

8. Wigle

9. WARDRIVING for SPORT

10. DEFENCE Changing the defaults on wireless devices. Running Kismet to detect malicious WarDrivers. Installing protective software. i.e. firewall, wireless scanner, and monitors.

11. References http://www.syngress.com/book_catalog/29 1_WarDriving/sample.pdfhttp://www.syngress.com/book_catalog/29 1_WarDriving/sample.pdf http://www.defcon.org/ http://www.netstumbler.org http://www.stumbler.net/ http://www.kismetwireless.net/ http://www.wigle.net/