Capturing the spectrum of wireless packets
2026-07-23 , Room 2

There is a veritable avalanche of wireless devices, from Wi-Fi and Bluetooth to Zigbee, aircraft, thermometers, door sensors, Lora mesh, and more. If you can't see it, you can't analyze it or debug it; we'll talk about ways to capture as many protocols flying around in the air as we can, and what the most affordable hardware to do it is.

Mike is the author of Kismet, an open-source Wi-Fi and general radio sniffer and IDS tool, and works for Hak5 developing the WiFi Pineapple and other security related tools.