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Wifi Antenna Wardriving

Wardriving - The same old song and dance

It seems like its been forever since wardriving was used to map out the neighborhood wifi scene.  I remember when statistics about mass wireless networks first started to emerge.  I remember building antennas out of soup cans and a wire coat hanger.  I remember having to build GPS drivers from source so Kismet could include coordinates in its output.  I even remember cracking my first WEP network – it took me the better part of a week.  It all seems like ancient history now.

 

If that was forever ago, we must have come up with some new way to secure wireless networks.  We must all be running high-end encryption and have everything locked down right from the factory.  After all, wireless vendors know what can be done with a laptop and some free wireless utilities.  Even non-techies can tell you the dangers of WEP and running default networks.  If that's true – wardriving would probably be a waste of time these days.  That's what I thought about one weekend, so I set out to get a glimpse on the current state of wireless security. 

 

I grabbed my Eee PC, fired up Kismet, hopped in the Jeep, and tore off across the countryside.  After an hour of driving through the little beach town I live in, I had collected information on about 900 unique networks.  Once I got back to the house, I fired up a shell and got to work analyzing the data.  The spread of open, WEP, and WPA encrypted networks surprised me.  I didn't think I would find almost 300 open networks in this little town.  Add in the 345 WEP protected networks, and that's about 70% of total networks either completely open or protected with exceedingly crackable encryption. 

 

Next, I did analysis on the SSID's (the name of the network).  This was also pretty interesting.  Almost 10% of all networks had 'linksys' as their SSID.  If they didn't change the default SSID, I can imagine they changed little else.  A number of the networks had personal names as their SSID's (identity theft waiting to happen?).  A few more had their street addresses as the network name.  Some of the apartments and condos even had their apartment number worked in somehow.

 

Another interesting thing I noticed was wireless used by businesses.  Digging through the raw output – I came across a lot of networks with familiar names because they belonged to businesses in town.  A large CNC and prototyping shop in town had an open wifi network.  A few other smaller businesses had wireless networks with their name on it.  I also came across a large amount of hidden networks when I drove through industrial areas – I can only assume that some more prodding would produce more business networks.  The biggest shock to me was the local police station running WEP!  At least if I ever got arrested I could email someone for bail money.

 

It appears it's the same old sad state of wireless security out there.  I don't expect general consumers to fret over the differences between WPA1 and WPA2, or how much overhead AES encryption has – but I expect businesses to know their risk.  They should invest in a wireless penetration test or wireless security audit if they intend on rolling out wireless.  Hire a professional to assess your physical surroundings for existing wireless networks you may not know about, and then have them help plan out implementation strategies with you.  Wireless can be a great way to get some freedom from traditional networks, but all that freedom can come at paralyzing costs.  A little planning and research can help slim down attack surfaces, and can help make casual wardriving a thing of the past.

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