Kismet 2019-05-R2 releases: wireless network detector, sniffer, intrusion detection system
Kismet is an 802.11 layer2 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 inferring the presence of nonbeaconing networks via data traffic.
Kismet supports logging to the wtapfile packet format (readable by tcpdump and ethereal) and saves detected
network informat as plaintext, CSV, and XML. kismet is capable of using any GPS supported by gpsd and logs and
plots network data.
kismet is divided into three basic programs, kismet_server kismet_client, and gpsma.
Changelog 2019-05-R2
New features
- Migrate web server to require login for all pages for a better default security stance
- WPA3 networks are now correctly reported, and wpa3 transitional networks are correctly reported
- OWE (opportunistic wireless encryption) is detected and reported
- MFP (management frame protection) reported
- KismetExternal python module now supports python3
- Expanded default VHT80 channel list
- Added downloading of rsnpmkid packets
- Filtering engine for kismetdb logs
- Ephemeral logging and log timeouts
- Support external plugins with no c++ components
- Started introducing packet tags for finding handshakes, etc
Bugfixes
- Huge fix to the core thread primitives which were completely wrong, with wide-ranging impacts for performance and general correct behavior
- Many thread lock order fixes for gps handling, data source reopening, tcp client correctness, web session handling, and more
- Handle incorrect and missing configs more elegantly
- Cleaner handling of python capture sources, missing python modules and installed python files
- Fix broken strerror handling not actually showing string errors
- Fix signal levels for min/max
- Many less significant tweaks and fixes
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