Recommended WiFi softwares

Socket Mobile, Inc.

Socket Mobile offers a fully integrated, flexible, and easy-to-optimize premium platform with all the essential scanning and connectivity peripherals. The Socket system brings just the right mobile business functions to today's vast diverse marketplace - easily customized to meet a range of deployment needs.

Working collaboratively with integrators, 3rd party software developers and OEMs, Socket products drive operational efficiencies, increase mobile workforce productivity, boost corporate performance and improve customer satisfaction.

With over 14 years of providing mobile peripheral devices to business, working with the world leaders in mobile computing, Socket Mobile has the knowledge and experience to make your mobile deployment a success.

Elcomsoft Wireless Security Auditor: GPU-accelerated wireless network security audit tool

Elcomsoft Wireless Security Auditor allows network administrators to verify how secure a company's wireless network is by executing an audit of accessible wireless networks. Featuring patent-pending cost-efficient GPU acceleration technologies, Elcomsoft Wireless Security Auditor attempts to recover the original WPA/WPA2-PSK text passwords in order to test how secure your wireless environment is.

Devicescape - Connect all your wi-fi devices to any hotspot or wifi network - automatically!

Devicescape provides software and services that make it easy, fast and inexpensive or even free for consumers to access the web via their wireless devices. We aim to extend the rich variety of PC oriented web services and content to all manner of digital devices, no matter where they may be used - at home, in the office, or on the go at a hotspot or on a municipal network.

WiFi-Owl is now available on the site for free

The freeware latest version WiFi-Owl 3.0 can help you to get awesome reports for Security Audits and Compliance to monitor and report on the security of your wireless Cisco Access Points. The reports test compliance with PCI DSS requirements:
- 11.1 Detects rogue APs
- 3.4 Shows encryption used in APs
- 4.1.1 Shows dates of last encryption keys
- 2.1.1 Finds APs that broadcast their SSID
- 2.1.1 Shows APs with Default Admin ID
- 2.1.1 Identifies APs with default passwords
- 2.1.1 Find APs with community string=public
- 1.1.7 Shows AP's with FTP Enabled
- 10.5.4 Monitors Access Point Event Logs
If you are interested in, please register for getting a free license key here http://www.wifi-owl.com/register.asp or email us at support@wifi-owl.com

inSSIDer, MetaGeek

InSSIDer is a free Wi-Fi network scanner for Windows Vista and windows XP. Because NetStumbler doesn't work well with Windows Vista and 64-bit Windows XP, we decided to build an open-source Wi-Fi network scanner designed for the current generation of Windows operating systems.

KisMAC

KisMAC is an opensource and free stumbler/scanner application for Mac OS X. It has an advantage over MacStumbler/iStumbler/NetStumbler in that it uses monitor mode and passive scanning.
KisMAC supports several third party PCMCIA cards - Orinoco, PrismII, Cisco Aironet, Atheros and PrismGT. USB Prism2 is supported as well, and USB Ralink support is in development. All of the internal AirPort hardware is supported as well.
Please note: This program is not intended for novices, but for professional users. Take this as a warning.

AirRadar - Advanced Wireless Network Scanner

Scanning for wireless networks is now easier and more personalized! AirRadar allows you to scan for open networks and tag them as favourites or filter them out. View detailed network information, graph network signal strength, and automatically join the best open network in range.

Data-Linc Group

Manufacturer of industrial wire and wireless 900MHz, 2.4GHz, 802.11x modems, data communications peripherals and I/O extenders/multiplexers for extreme environments including Class 1 Div 2 that interface seamlessly with PLCs, PCs and RTUs - preconfigured for easy installation and reliability worldwide.

ThinkGeek, Wi-Fi Detector Shirt

Wi-Fi Detector Shirt - Glowing animated shirt dynamically displays the current wi-fi signal strength.

Aircrack-ng

Aircrack-ng is a WEP and WPA-PSK key cracking program for use on 802.11 networks. The primary purpose for the program is to recover a lost or unknown key once enough data is captured.

KNSGEM II

KNSGEM II is a program that takes the survey logs produced by NetStumbler, Kismet, or WiFiHopper and compiles the data with data google earth to provide colorized 3D coverage maps.

NetStumbler

NetStumbler is a Wi-Fi tool for Windows that allows you to detect Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs) using 802.11b, 802.11a and 802.11g. It has many uses:

- Verify that your network is set up the way you intended.
- Find locations with poor coverage in your WLAN.
- Detect other networks that may be causing interference on your network.
- Detect unauthorized "rogue" access points in your workplace.
- Help aim directional antennas for long-haul WLAN links.
- Use it recreationally for WarDriving.

OmniPeek

Omnipeek is the next generation version of commercial wireless analysis software from wildpackets which combines the legacy applications AiroPeek and EtherPeek.

Features of OmniPeek include the ability to:
- Analyze any network interface, including 10Gigabit, Gigabit, and WAN adapters
- Analyze media and data traffic simultaneously
- View results in normal document formats such as PDF, HTML or just through email or IM clients
- View high level details of traffic in a dashboard, or drill down into the individual packet payloads
- View local, remote, or previously stored captures, including view multiple active captures at once.
- View capture details by conversation pairs to quickly identify useful or problematic events;
- Change capture filters at will without restarting the capture sequence.

Stumbverter

StumbVerter is a standalone application which allows you to import Network Stumbler's summary files into Microsoft's MapPoint 2004 maps. The logged WAPs will be shown with small icons, their colour and shape relating to WEP mode and signal strength.

As the AP icons are created as MapPoint pushpins, the balloons contain other information, such as MAC address, signal strength, mode, etc. This balloon can also be used to write down useful information about the AP.

Lucent/Orinoco Registry Encryption/Decryption

Lucent Orinoco Client Manager stores WEP keys in the Windows registry under a certain encryption/obfuscation. This wi-fi tool can be used to encrypt WEP keys into a registry value or to decrypt registry values into WEP keys.

APTools

APTools is a utility that queries ARP Tables and Content-Addressable Memory (CAM) for MAC Address ranges associated with 802.11b Access Points. It will also utilize Cisco Discovery Protocol (CDP) if available. If an Access Point that is web managed is identified, the security configuration of the Access Point is audited via HTML parsing.

Aircrack

Aircrack is a unix static WEP and WPA-PSK key cracking utility. Aircrack isn't under development anymore, and has been replaced by Aircrack-ng. Although functional, you probably want to get aircrack-ng unless you have a specific reason to use aircrack. (FOR LINUX)

Aircrack-ptw

Aircrack-ptw was a proof of concept software release showcasing the performance gains you can receive by implementing a new cracking algorithm. The focus of this toolset is on the WEP security algorithm. Aircrack-ptw is implemented in Aircrack-ng, which is a much more robust and complete package. (FOR LINUX)

AirSnort

AirSnort is a wireless LAN (WLAN) tool which cracks encryption keys on 802.11b WEP networks. AirSnort operates by passively monitoring transmissions, computing the encryption key when enough packets have been gathered. (FOR LINUX)

CoWPAtty

CoWPAtty is a program that utilized look up tables to optmize brute force key cracking for shortest time. The hash tables provides include 100,000 dictionary and common key words with the top 1000 most common WiFi SSIDs. The focus for cracking is on the WPA1 and WPA2 protocols. If you need to crack a WEP key, try Aircrack-ng. (FOR LINUX)

Karma

Karma is a set of wireless client assessment tools compiled into a single package release. The intent of the package is to indentify and take advantage of methods operating systems use to connect to access points. Although no exploit codes are provided with the code release, the suite has been tested with multiple exploit releases. (FOR LINUX)

Kismet

Kismet is an 802.11 Layer 2 wireless network detector, sniffer, and Intrusion Detection System. Kismet will work with any wireless card which supports raw monitoring (rfmon) mode, and can sniff 802.11b, 802.11a, and 802.11g traffic.

Kismet identifies networks by passively collecting packets and detecting standard named networks, detecting (and given time, decloaking) hidden networks, and infering the presence of nonbeaconing networks via data traffic. (FOR LINUX)

Wellenreiter

Wellenreiter, by Max Moser, is a GTK/Perl program that makes the discovery and auditing of 802.11b Wi-Fi wireless networks much easier. All three major wireless cards (Prism2, Lucent, and Cisco) are supported. It has an embedded statistics engine for the common parameters provided by wireless drivers. Its scanner window can be used to discover access-points, networks, and ad-hoc cards. It detects SSID broadcasting or non-broadcasting networks in every channel. The manufacturer and WEP is automaticly detected. A flexible sound event configuration lets you work in unattended environments. An ethereal / tcpdump-compatible dumpfile can be created for the whole session. GPS is used to track the location of the discovered networks immediately. Automatic associating is possible with randomly generated MAC addreses.
Wellenreiter can reside on low-resolution devices that can run GTK/Perl and Linux/BSD (such as iPaqs). Uniq Essod-bruteforcer is now included too. (FOR LINUX)

Airsnarf

Airsnarf is a simple rogue wireless access point setup utility designed to demonstrate how a rogue AP can steal usernames and passwords from public Wi-Fi hotspots. Airsnarf was developed and released to demonstrate an inherent vulnerability of public 802.11b hotspots--snarfing usernames and passwords by confusing users with DNS and HTTP redirects from a competing AP. (FOR LINUX)

Hotspotter

Hotspotter passively monitors Wi-Fi networks for probe request frames to identify the preferred networks of Windows XP clients, and will compare it to a supplied list of common hotspot network names. If the probed network name matches a common hotspot name, Hotspotter will act as an access point to allow the client to authenticate and associate. Once associated, Hotspotter can be configured to run a command, possibly a script to kick off a DHCP daemon and other scanning against the new victim. (FOR LINUX)

BSD-Airtools

BSD-Airtools is a package that provides a complete toolset for wireless 802.11b auditing. Namely, it currently contains a bsd-based wep cracking application, called dweputils (as well as kernel patches for NetBSD, OpenBSD, and FreeBSD). It also contains a curses based ap detection application similar to netstumbler (dstumbler) that can be used to detect wireless access points and connected nodes, view signal to noise graphs, and interactively scroll through scanned ap's and view statistics for each. It also includes a couple other tools to provide a complete toolset for making use of all 14 of the prism2 debug modes as well as do basic analysis of the hardware-based link-layer protocols provided by prism2's monitor debug mode. (FOR LINUX)

WaveStumbler

WaveStumbler is console based 802.11 network mapper for Linux.

WEPCrack

WEPCrack is a tool that cracks 802.11 WEP encryption keys by exploiting the weaknesses of RC4 key scheduling.

AirFart

AirFart is a wireless tool created to detect Wi-Fi devices, calculate their signal strengths, and present them to the user in an easy-to-understand fashion. It is written in C/C++ with a GTK front end. Airfart supports all wireless network cards supported by the linux-wlan-ng Prism2 driver that provide hardware signal strength information in the "raw signal" format (ssi_type 3). Airfart implements a modular n-tier architecture with the data collection at the bottom tier and a graphical user interface at the top. (FOR LINUX)

AP Hunter

AP Hunter (Access Point Hunter) can find and automatically connect to whatever wireless network is within range. AP Hunter can be used for site surveys, writing the results in a file. (FOR LINUX)