Book details of 'WarDriving: Drive, Detect, Defend, A Guide to Wireless Security'

Title	WarDriving: Drive, Detect, Defend, A Guide to Wireless Security
Author(s)	Chris Hurley, Michael Puchol, Russ Rogers, Frank Thornton
ISBN	1931836035
Language	English
Published	April 2004
Publisher	Syngress

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Reviewer Rob Slade wrote:
Chapter one is an introduction to the concept, with a discussion of required components, and the relevant characteristics thereof. Installing NetStumbler is described in chapter two, with operating instructions in three (which also repeats some of the earlier advice on component choice). Kismet installation is detailed for Slackware in chapter four, Fedora in five, and the operations are listed in six. Screenshots of using StumbVerter (and Microsoft MapPoint) or DiGLE to produce maps with the data previously obtained are shown in chapter seven. Chapter eight describes, in detail, how to organize your own wardriving contest (including an eight page Perl script for scoring results). Simple means of attacking and connecting to wireless networks are given in chapter nine. Screenshots of dialogue boxes for enabling basic security features on the major wireless routers are listed in chapter ten. Some features providing more advanced security are discussed in chapter eleven. The material provided in the book is clear, and will provide you with enough information to start wardriving and connecting to other networks. The content is fairly rudimentary, though, without the background information of a work like "Wireless Hacks" (see reviews), by Rob Flickenger, which would allow the reader to go further in both understanding the technology and defending wireless networks. copyright Robert M. Slade, 2004
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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.