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12 Best Free and Open Source Wireless Security Tools

September 14, 2026 Steve Emms Internet, Roundup, Security

Wireless security is the prevention of unauthorized access or damage to computers or data using wireless networks, which include Wi-Fi networks.

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WHAD Client – Wireless Protocol Exploration Framework

September 9, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Security

WHAD Client is a command-line framework for capturing, analysing, replaying and experimenting with traffic from supported wireless devices and protocols.

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Fluxion – Wireless Security Auditing Tool

September 8, 2026 Steve Emms Security

Fluxion is a terminal-based security auditing tool for evaluating WPA and WPA2 network exposure through controlled captive-portal testing.

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hcxtools – Analyze Wi-Fi Capture and Hash Files

September 8, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Security

hcxtools is a command-line suite for converting, filtering and analysing wireless captures and authentication hashes during authorised security assessments.

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ATK Blazing Sky F1 V3 Series Esports Wireless Mouse Review

August 26, 2026 Steve Emms Accessories, Hardware, Reviews

ATK Blazing Sky F1 V3 Ultimate+ wireless mouse, covering Linux support, 37g weight, PAW3955 sensor, 8K polling and battery life.

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FCast – wireless streaming of audio and video content

November 25, 2025 Steve Emms Internet, Multimedia

FCast is an open source protocol that enables wireless streaming of audio and video content between devices.

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iwinfo – provides wifi information about capabilities and network(s)

November 12, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

iwinfo shows information about existing wireless connections along with the result of an optional scan for wireless devices.

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Raspberry Pi 5 Desktop Mini PC: Improve Wi-Fi

July 15, 2025 Steve Emms Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

Let’s try to improve the Raspberry Pi 5’s Wi-Fi performance (transfer speed and latency) with a USB 3.0 adapter from BrosTrend.

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Wifite is a Python script for auditing wireless networks

June 10, 2025 Steve Emms Security

Wifite runs existing wireless-auditing tools for you. Stop memorizing command arguments & switches.

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Fern Wifi Cracker – wireless security auditing and attack software

November 14, 2024 Steve Emms Internet

Fern Wifi Cracker is a wireless security auditing and attack software program written using Python and the Python Qt GUI library.

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LinSSID – graphical wireless scanning

November 5, 2023 Steve Emms Security

LinSSID is a Wi-Fi network scanner. It’s graphically and functionally similar to Inssider.

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wavemon – ncurses-based monitoring for wireless network devices

November 5, 2023 Steve Emms Security

wavemon is a wireless device monitoring application. Watch signal and noise levels, packet statistics, device configuration and more.

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horst – Highly Optimized Radio Scanning Tool

November 5, 2023 Steve Emms Security

horst is a small, lightweight IEEE802.11 WLAN analyzer with a text interface.

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Kismet – networking software

November 5, 2023 Steve Emms Security

Kismet is an 802.11 layer2 wireless network detector, sniffer, and intrusion detection system. It works with wireless cards which supports raw monitoring.

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aircrack-ng – WiFi security auditing tools suite

November 5, 2023 Steve Emms Security

aircrack-ng is a complete suite of tools to assess WiFi network security.

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airgeddon – multi-use bash script for Linux systems to audit wireless networks

November 5, 2023 Steve Emms Security

airgeddon is a multi-use bash script for Linux systems to audit wireless networks. The script offers a wide range of features.

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bettercap – Swiss Army knife for 802.11, BLE, IPv4 and IPv6 networks

November 5, 2023 Steve Emms Security

bettercap is a powerful, easily extensible and portable framework for performing reconnaissance and attacking WiFi networks.

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Universal Radio Hacker – complete suite for wireless protocol investigation

November 5, 2023 Steve Emms Security

URH is a complete suite for wireless protocol investigation with native support for many common Software Defined Radios.

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BrosTrend Linux USB WiFi Adapter AC1200 AC1L Review

December 7, 2022 Steve Emms Hardware, Reviews

This review looks at the BrosTrend Linux USB WiFi Adapter AC1200. We test this USB 3 key under Ubuntu and Manjaro.

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