What is kismac?
KisMAC is an opensource 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 Prism2 is supported as well, and USB Ralink support is in development. All of the internal AirPort hardware is supported as well.
Please note: This program is not intended for novices, but for professional users. Take this as a warning
Features

System Requirements

  • Mac OS 10.4
  • A Mac with a supported PCMCIA, USB or internal AirPort

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,n
  • different attacks against encrypted networks
  • deauthentication attacks
  • AppleScript-able
  • Kismet drone support (capture from a Kismet drone)

Supported hardware chipsets

  • Apple Airport, AirPort Extreme, AirPort Extreme Atheros
  • Lucent Hermes I & II (Orinoco 2 and 11MBit)
  • Intersil Prism 2, 2.5, 3 in PCMCIA and USB devices
  • Cisco Aironet (with older 4.xx firmware)
  • Intersil PrismGT
  • Atheros PCMCIA
  • Ralink USB (usb-drivers branch only)

Crypto support

  • bruteforce attacks against LEAP, WPA and WEP
  • weak scheduling attack against WEP
  • Newsham 21-bit attack against WEP