- Get your network working better with the best networking apps. If you want to track how much you're downloading, transfer or stream a video over a local network, or set up remote access to your PC.
- Next on this list of wifi analyzer tools is KisMAC — an open-source wifi analyzer application for Mac OS that can map wireless networks and lay out the info on their performance so you can easily troubleshoot. With KisMAC you can see clients and SSIDs (cloaked, hidden or closed).
Wireless tools for Linux is a collection of user-space utilities written for Linux kernel-based operating systems to support and facilitate the configuration of device drivers of wireless network interface controllers and some related aspects of networking using the Linux Wireless Extension. The Wireless tools for Linux and Linux Wireless Extension are maintained by Jean Tourrilhes.
SecTools.Org: Top 125 Network Security Tools
For more than a decade, the NmapProject has been cataloguing the network security community'sfavorite tools. In 2011 this site became much more dynamic, offeringratings, reviews, searching, sorting, and a new tool suggestion form.This site allows open source and commercial tools on any platform,except those tools that we maintain (such as the Nmap Security Scanner, Ncat network connector, and Nping packet manipulator).
We're very impressed by the collective smarts of the security community and we highly recommend reading the whole list and investigating any tools you are unfamiliar with. Click any tool name for more details on that particular application, including the chance to read (and write) reviews. Many site elements are explained by tool tips if you hover your mouse over them. Enjoy!
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(13)★★★★Aircrack (#4, 17)
Aircrack is a suite of tools for 802.11a/b/g WEP and WPA cracking. It implements the best known cracking algorithms to recover wireless keys once enough encrypted packets have been gathered. . The suite comprises over a dozen discrete tools, including airodump (an 802.11 packet capture program), aireplay (an 802.11 packet injection program), aircrack (static WEP and WPA-PSK cracking), and airdecap (decrypts WEP/WPA capture files). Read 25 reviews.
Latest release: version 1.1 on April 24, 2010 (10 years, 5 months ago).
(3)★★★★½Kismet (#11, 4)
Kismet is a console (ncurses) based 802.11 layer-2 wireless network detector, sniffer, and intrusion detection system. It identifies networks by passively sniffing (as opposed to more active tools such as NetStumbler), and can even decloak hidden (non-beaconing) networks if they are in use. It can automatically detect network IP blocks by sniffing TCP, UDP, ARP, and DHCP packets, log traffic in Wireshark/tcpdump compatible format, and even plot detected networks and estimated ranges on downloaded maps. As you might expect, this tool is commonly used for wardriving. Oh, and also warwalking, warflying, and warskating, etc. Read 3 reviews.
Latest release: version Kismet-2013-03-R1b on April 8, 2013 (7 years, 6 months ago).
(2)★★★★½NetStumbler (#25, 7)
Netstumbler is the best known Windows tool for finding open wireless access points ('wardriving'). They also distribute a WinCE version for PDAs and such named MiniStumbler. The tool is currently free but Windows-only and no source code is provided. It uses a more active approach to finding WAPs than passive sniffers such as Kismet or KisMAC. Read 3 reviews.
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Latest release: version 0.4.0 on April 1, 2004 (16 years, 6 months ago).
(6)★★★★½inSSIDer (#90, new!)
inSSIDer is a wireless network scanner for Windows, OS X, and Android. It was designed to overcome limitations of NetStumbler, namely not working well on 64-bit Windows and Windows Vista. inSSIDer can find open wireless access points, track signal strength over time, and save logs with GPS records. Read 11 reviews.
Latest release: version 4.1.0 on Jan. 22, 2015 (5 years, 8 months ago).
(1)★★★★★KisMAC (#97, 42)
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This popular wireless stumbler for Mac OS X offers many of the features of its namesake Kismet, though the codebase is entirely different. Unlike console-based Kismet, KisMAC offers a pretty GUI and was around before Kismet was ported to OS X. It also offers mapping, Pcap-format import and logging, and even some decryption and deauthentication attacks. Read 2 reviews.
Latest release: version 0.3.3 on Feb. 7, 2011 (9 years, 8 months ago).
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