152 Managing Network Vulnerability Assessment
OS: Linux
Vendor’s comments: WEPCrack is an open source tool for breaking 802.11
WEP secret keys. This tool is an implementation of the attack described
by Fluhrer, Mantin, and Shamir in their article “Weaknesses in the Key
Scheduling Algorithm of RC4” at http://www.eyetap.org/~rguerra/
toronto2001/rc4_ksaproc.pdf.
Air Snort
URL: http://airsnort.shmoo.com/
Price: Free
OS: Linux
Network Sniffers
These products monitor network segments for traffic. There is a discussion of
network sniffing in the “Site Survey” section.
Ethereal for Linux or Windows
URL: http://www.ethereal.com
Price: Free
Vendor’s comments: Ethereal is a free network protocol analyzer for UNIX
and Windows. It allows you to examine data from a live network ...