Introduction

Welcome to the KisMAC wiki! KisMAC is an open-source 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 devices with Intersil Prism2, Ralink rt2570 and rt73, and Realtek rtl8187 chipsets are in progress towards full support as well. All of the internal AirPort hardware is supported for scanning.

Please note: This program is not intended for novices but for professional users. Take this as your warning, the rest of this wiki assumes you are prepared for advanced topics and know what you are doing with your system.

Thanks

We would like to take this opportunity to thank the fine people at MacPirate and MMOForge for their generosity in providing us hosting as we transitioned the entire project out of Germany. Please thank and support them if possible, and update your bookmarks to our new home on the intarweb: http://kismac-ng.org !

Features

• Reveals hidden / cloaked / closed SSIDs
• Shows logged in clients (with MAC Addresses, IP addresses and signal strengths)
• Mapping and GPS support
• Can draw area maps of network coverage
• PCAP import and export
• Support for 802.11b/g
• Different attacks against encrypted networks
• Deauthentication attacks
• AppleScript-able
• Kismet drone support (capture from a Kismet drone)

Supported hardware chipsets

• Apple AirPort and AirPort Extreme (dependent upon Apple's drivers)
• Lucent Hermes I & II (Orinoco 2 and 11 Mbit)
• Intersil Prism 2, 2.5, 3 in PCMCIA and USB devices
• Cisco Aironet (with older 4.xx firmware)
• Intersil PrismGT
• Atheros PCMCIA
• Ralink rt2570 and rt73 USB devices
• Realtek RTL8187L USB (such as the Alfa AWUS036H)

Crypto support

• Bruteforce attacks against LEAP, WPA and WEP
• Weak scheduling attack against WEP
• Newsham 21-bit attack against WEP

Donations

Click here to donate! All donations go directly to hardware to assist development and to keeping this site up and running.

Wiki Highlights

Starting Points

• Please read the FAQ before doing anything else!
• KisMAC comparison: How does KisMAC compare to other stumblers?
• Driver comparison table: What are the different drivers good for? (Currently a work-in-progress.)
• Tutorials: We are working on adding a few tutorials to help you get going with KisMAC! Suggestions for other tutorials should be made in the How-to forum.
• Hardware list: Want to know what cards have supported chipsets? Look no further!

Interacting with other KisMAC users

• Our hardware: What stuff we use, and what we think of it.
• Feature requests (without a patch) belong here instead of filing tickets (see the FAQ for login info).
• The ticket system is where you should file bug reports. Questions and support requests belong in the forum or IRC channel (but please pick one or the other, not both!); tickets for support will be promptly closed. Please include all requested details.
• KisMAC forum: Questions and support requests, plus other random discussions.
• #KisMAC on irc.freenode.net for real-time chatting with others.
• The mailing list for you old-skool types.

Going Deeper

• Additional information: Some technical information on antennas and how Wi-Fi works. Please add to this.
• Some hardware notes. Tips to make things work better with KisMAC or OS X.
• External links of interest.
• RSS Stream for your favorite RSS aggregator.
• KisMAC on Twitter

Latest Binary Build

Information on downloading KisMAC's precompiled, universal binaries can be found at Downloads.

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