WhirlWind was previously a commercial distribution developed by Futures Inc, and now is available to private individuals as a free download.
Why do hackers love WiFi? Because wireless networks are hard to secure. Wired networks start and end inside your building; they rest safely behind your firewall. Where does your wireless network end? Which nearby wireless networks reach inside your building? Are all the wireless routers you deployed each configured correctly? These are important questions, but they can be hard to answer. Futures Inc. WhirlWind finds the answers to these questions quickly and easily.
WhirlWind puts powerful wireless security applications at your disposal in the form of an easy-to-use bootable CD-ROM that works on virtually any computer or laptop. No special skills are needed to operate WhirlWind. Simply insert the WhirlWind CD-ROM, power up your computer, and WhirlWind does the rest.
Using a combination of open source and proprietary software, WhirlWind detects, catalogues, characterizes, and maps wireless networks automatically. And WhirlWind detects all the wireless networks in your environment. “Cloaked” networks are not invisible to WhirlWind—it detects cloaked networks and reveals their hidden network names (ESSIDs). WhirlWind records the external characteristics of wireless networks (network name, hardware address, max. data rate, geographic coordinates, type of security, etc.) as well as the internal data being transmitted (source and destination IP addresses, protocols being used, and actual network data sent/received). Once collection is done, WhirlWind outputs its information to the storage device of your choosing (internal hard drive or external storage) in the form of an easy-to-understand map (viewable with Google Earth).
For those interested in analyzing the wireless network traffic collected by WhirlWind, Futures Inc. offers an add-on tool called WindTunnel, which extracts the files (pictures, web pages, MS Office documents, PDF, etc.) and summarizes the collected wireless network traffic for subsequent analysis. Are trusted insiders smuggling sensitive corporate information to a competitor through a nearby wireless connection? Are your employees circumventing corporate Internet usage policies by surfing through an open WiFi network? The combination of WhirlWind and WindTunnel can show you exactly what’s taking place in your wireless networking environment and provide you all the data files that were sent or received to prove it.
WhirlWind is currently packaged in three different versions:
- WhirlWind Silver: Discontinued. Displays and stores WiFi network information (data output includes mapping capabilities).
- WhirlWind Gold: Discontinued. Contains the functionality of the Silver edition plus stores collected traffic to a dump file.
- WhirlWind Platinum: FREE DOWNLOAD. Contains the functionality of the Gold edition plus full capabilities to utilize more than one WiFi card.
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