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Hacking WEP using Kismac

January 30, 2007 by in Apple,AV,Geeky with 18 Comments

There are so many tools to crack WEP with on the PC, but here is a video tutorial for the Mac. You may want to turn down the sound on your computer.

KisMAC allows you to put your wireless card (So long as it is Orinoco and PrismII chipsets, as well as Cisco Aironet cards or the original Airport card) into the monitor mode.


  • Cynic821

    huh?

  • http://fernyb.net FernyB

    seen it done it!

  • blot0

    its only really that useful if it works with the inbuilt wifi cards in macbooks that are around these days.
    and i’m pretty sure it doesnt

  • http://paulstamatiou.com Paul Stamatiou

    I remember seeing that video last year I think it was. I tried doing it on my Mac Mini back then but Kismac didn’t have drivers for my wifi card. But maybe I’ll try it now on my iMac.

  • http://is.derekpunsalan.com Derek

    The built-in cards do not support this type of activity. You’ll need to pick up an external USB wifi adapter.

  • Dogcow

    The broadcom chipset is compatible with kismet. So if you have any g4 laptops laying around…

  • Dogcow

    Broadcom is the chipset that was (is?) used for airport extreme.

  • http://www.uneasysilence.com Dan

    DogCow – I believe so.

  • http://is.derekpunsalan.com Derek

    Well someone walk me through… I’ve got an Airport Extreme and there were no drivers to scan.

  • http://coax.free.fr/ CoAX

    How about a video of this being done on Win XP with some other software? I am interested

  • http://123 shef

    Hi,

    Can u pls tell me how to hack wep.I have xp windows.Pls advise.

    Regards

    Shef

  • Dee

    heck, all the window programs out there and they on a mac site for wep hacking asking for help, lmao

  • DOMy

    Hey Everyone,
    I have a complicated Q: I emulate with vmware on my Intel PC MAC OS X TIGER.
    I downloaded, and unzipped the kismac installer.
    I clicked on KisMAC Intsaller.dmg. I got a window, shows 3 icons: I clicked onto the “KisMAC Installer” icon, but nothing happens. On the “tray” I saw the icon of the installer, but it disappeared….and the console not shows anything….

    For the WinXP crackers: I think, that’s not a good idea, to crack on Win.
    The best solution, what I’ve found: use BackTRACK Live cd (remote-exploit.org), and emulate it with vmware, or burn it, and boot from it. The backtrack live cd has all of wifi crack tools, what you need. And on the net is a lot of video tutorials, howto use backtrack, step by step.
    That’s the solution.
    THX!
    DOMy

  • Rufus

    Does this work with an Airport Extreme card because you can’t select or change anything in the devices section if you select it and then if you just select it and click scan it just comes up with an error message saying “KisMAC is not able to load the Apple Airport driver, if you killed it by loading the Viha driver. Try restarting KisMAC.” by the way im on a macbook using the original card that came with it. Could someone help me!!???

  • Mio

    I have the same problem, there are 5 options for the wireless. 1 is with “active” the other 4 are with Passive. If I press active, I cant scan or mark the channels. And if i try with the second one which is passive, it comes with the error message as the above.

  • Rufus

    Are there any other applications like this because I can’t find any more for mac they only ever work on pc.

  • kieranajp

    Pulled from System Information under Built-In Airport on a 20″ Core 2 Duo Aluminium iMac.

    Wireless Card Type: AirPort Extreme ([deleted])
    Wireless Card Locale: Worldwide
    Wireless Card Firmware Version: Broadcom BCM43xx 1.0 (5.10.38.9)

    So Broadcom still are the guys who make the Airport chips.

    –K

  • kieranajp

    Sorry for double post.

    The setting you use is ‘Apple Airport Extreme Card, Passive mode’ if you’re using the built-in card.

    –K

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