Macchanger

The GNU MAC Changer is an open source GNU/Linux utility for viewing/manipulating the MAC address of network interfaces. With this utility one can change the MAC address of the interface to a specific value as well as it provides some automatic options. With other options one can change the MAC address without changing the vendors first 3 octets, or MAC address of same kind or totally random MAC address.

Network engineers are required to change their MAC address for different reasons like debugging MAC based routes or bypassing some IP-MAC based rules etc. Macchanger will come as a handy and simple to use utility that time. With the help of macchanger hackers can also keep their identity secrete.

This video demonstrates the use of Macchanger utility with number of examples.

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Amit Vartak, 27 is working in wired and wireless security fields since last 3-4 years. His current area of interest includes IEEE 802.11 (Wi-Fi) suite of protocols, vulnerabilities in these protocols and countermeasure for those vulnerabilities. Working on cutting edge tools and technology always keeps him busy. He has contributed from concept level to final prototyping for the presentations in Defcon 2007 (The Emperor Has No Cloak - WEP Cloaking Exposed) and Toorcon 2007 (Caffe latte attack). He holds 2 patents with USPTO (current status: Patent Pending) and a few papers in IEEE journals on wireless protocol vulnerabilities. Prior to this, he was working on MEMS (Micro Electro Mechanical Systems) and has published a few papers in SPIE and ICMAT. (Yeah… kindda orthogonal fields… but technology really doesn’t limit the talent :) He did his masters in Electrical Engineering from one of the premier institutes in India, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (IIT-Bombay) and his under graduation, from University of Mumbai in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering. He is currently working with AirTight Networks Inc. as a team lead in technology group since last 3 years.You can get in touch with him at amitcv[at]gmail[dot]com