This blog’s focuses on how to extract wireless data for use in network forensics.

There are several common wireless devices:

• AM/FM radios
• cell phones
• Bluetooth headsets
• Wi-Fi (802.11)
• WiMax

802 series includes internet , trunking and LAN based authentication

This can be used in several number of cases such as recovery of a stolen laptop by tracking on a wireless network or capture traffic in transit through Wi-Fi for flow analysis.