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Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010
WAR Driving is of two types:
1. Active War Driving
2. Passive War Driving
Active War Driving :
Active War Driving is detecting the Wireless Networks whose SSIDs are broadcasted or the Wireless
Networks which are shown to all the Wireless Adapters. It can be done through any Wireless Card.
Passive War Driving :
Passive War Driving is detecting the Wireless Networks whose SSIDs are not Broadcasted or the Hidden
Wireless Networks. The Wireless card should support the Monitor Mode for the Passive War Driving.
MAC spoofing
Even if WEP is enabled, MAC addresses can be easily sniffed by an attacker as they appear in the clear format, making
spoofing the MAC address also fairly easy.
MAC addresses are easily sniffed by an attacker since they must appear in the clear even when WEP is enabled. An
attacker can use those “advantages” in order to masquerade as a valid MAC address, by programming the wireless card or
using a spoofing utility, and get into the wireless network.
WEP cracking
• Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) was the first security option for 802.11 WLANs. WEP is used to encrypt data on the
WLAN and can optionally be paired with shared key authentication to authenticate WLAN clients. WEP uses an RC4 64-bit
or 128-bit encryption key.
• WEP was fairly quickly found to be crack able. WEP is vulnerable because of relatively short and weak encryption. The
security of the WEP algorithm can be compromised.
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