Wireless Security

[Pointblank5600]

Hey all,

According to this site i found (http://www.wardrive.net/), its a good idea to test your network using tools that hackers would use, to see how good the security is. Its number ten in the right hand box:

Regularly TEST the security of your wireless network, using the latest Wardriving Tools (the same tools the attacker will use).

Is this a good idea and worth it? Are the programs legal? Or is not worth the bother?

[renegade600]

personally I do not see a need for it for home usage. I have wireless and use micro trends internet security for my antivirus and firewall. It also has a feature where it checks for connections to my wireless and if theres any unauthorized connections, it will alert me.

[Pointblank5600]

alright thanks, would the programs still be illegal to download in case they were used against other peoples networks?

Also are there any free programs that can monitor a network for intrusions and stuff that are worthy of mentioning?

Thanks:D

[bAdWaYz]

Network auditing software isn't illegal. Most of it can be used for either good or bad so its not the software that gets folks in trouble its what they do with it that can. There are tons of tools out there but for the most part if your router has a firewall "most all new ones do" and it logs all incoming and outgoing traffic you can tell alot by looking at the logs. You can see what traffic is coming into and going out of your network as well as what type traffic it is. It will show you the ports its running over where its going and where it came from.

[Pointblank5600]

My router is quite old now, I have had it nearly 3 years. Its a linksys wireless B broadband router, cant find any of my documentation on it anywhere at the moment, will i be able to just enable logging on it and view it on the computer it is connected too?

I can get model if need be

Thanks for reply

[G_Dem]

Just to add, alot of the tools are linux based.

[Pointblank5600]

Just to add, alot of the tools are linux based.

Yeah ive got linux aswell, i probably wont download any of that software, i was just wondering

[bAdWaYz]

If the router does in fact have a logging option then if you enable it, let if run for a while then log back into the router and look over the logs.

[Pointblank5600]

Ive enabled logging and it says it can send them to the computer so that they can be read by a logviewing program, i cant find any decent programs on google, does anyone know one?

Thanks

[renegade600]

Ive enabled logging and it says it can send them to the computer so that they can be read by a logviewing program, i cant find any decent programs on google, does anyone know one?

Thanks

most logs can be read by your windows notepad.

[Snurfen]

PSPAD from www.pspad.com is free and very useful little tool for manipulating text - ideal for reviewing large logs.