Become a War Driving Pro – Hack WEP and Wifi

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If you’re unfamiliar with the term war driving, it’s the activity of driving around in a vehicle equipped with wireless gear looking for unsecured wireless networks. Hackers do it to hack and access protected Wi-Fi networks but there are amateurs too who scan the RF environment just for the fun of it to piggyback on other people’s internet connections (but beware of this neat trick).

War Driving can be a fun thing to do and quite easy if you have the right gear and the afternoon off. We’ve already shown you how easy it is to hack a WEP wireless network but this how-to video breaks War Driving into six basic steps:

Get a laptop (or notebook) with onboard Wi-Fi or use a USB Wi-Fi adapter that supports an external antenna.
Connect the external antenna to a GPS receiver for mapping the locations.
Install free Wi-Fi sniffers like NetStumbler (for Windows) or Kismet.
Place the antenna on the roof of the car, make the connections and plug-in the PC to the power adapter.
Get someone to drive you around.
Fire up the software and start scanning for unprotected Wi-Fi signals while you drive around.

WarDriving can be a blast but be mindful of the ethics of tapping into someone else’s network. Don’t forget to look into our previous posts on Wi-Fi hacks.

Note, this article is for informational purposes only.