New release: 2020-03-R1
Kismet 2020-03-R1 is available! The first full release for 2020, this is primarily a bugfix release, with fixes for: RTL433 changing command line argume...
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2020
New release: 2019-12-R2
Kismet 2019-12-R2 is up! A bugfix release for Kismet 2019-12, R2 solves a number of quirks which were quite annoying: Solve a race condition in Linux wi...
2019
New release: 2019-12-R1
It’s a Kismet-mas miracle; 2019-12-R1 is out! Kismet 2019-12-R1 brings support for BTLE on the Ubertooth One, TI-CC-2540, and NRF51822 (aka Adafruit BLE sni...
New release: 2019-09-R1
Kismet 2019-09-R1 is here! This release has a handful of bug fixes, some fun improvements to the UI, but most imporantly, solves an issue where some pyModeS...
New release: 2019-08-R2
Kismet 2019-08-R2 is here! Building on some of the reports from running the new code in the Defcon environment, 2019-08-R2 has a large focus on simplifying ...
Qualcomm Extended Capabilities vulnerabilty
New Qualcomm vulnerabilities CVE-2019-10539, CVE-2019-10540, and CVE-2019-10538 have been issued as part of a new set of bugs found by Tencent; As detailed ...
New release: 2019-08-R1
Kismet 2019-08-R1 is here! Just in time for hacker summer camp, this release brings a directly-packaged kismetdb-to-kml tool (you can also use the Python to...
New release: 2019-07-R2
Kismet 2019-07-R2 is here! This release is just a bug fix for some bad behavior with IPC launching and helper process tracking which could leave helper proc...
New release: 2019-07-R1
Kismet 2019-07-R1 is here! This release contains some enhancements to the UI, but primarily contains significant fixes for stability in the threading and IP...
New release: 2019-05-R2
Kismet 2019-05-R2 is here! The second release of the new code brings a huge set of bug fixes, but also refinements and new features. What happened to 2019-...
Kismetdb logs
Kismetdb logs Kismet 2019-04 and newer use a new log format, kismetdb. The kismetdb log unifies device records, location, alerts, console messages, packets,...
A quick tour of the new Kismet UI
A new UI The new Kismet release (2019-04) brings a whole new web-based user interface. The new UI allows for the display of much more complex information, m...
New release: 2019-04-R1
The first full release of the new Kismet code is here, Kismet-2019-04-R1.
New KismetDB version
The database version for the kismetdb log has been updated to version 5. This version changes two significant things:
New release: 2019-01-Beta2
Let’s ring in the new year with a new beta!
2018
New Kismet logs
Almost since it’s inception, Kismet has had a handful of log types that are generated: nettxt, netxml, gpsxml, and so on. These logs had to be correlated - ...
New Kismet website
Kismet is migrating to a new website/developer blog based on Jekyll which can generate a much nicer version of the online documentation, and makes maintenanc...
2017
DJI DroneID
Working with Department13, Kismet now supports the DroneID UAV telemetry extensions!
Web UI plugins
Kismet Plugins - Web-only Plugins The new Kismet plugin architecture is beginning to solidify, and as part of that, the ability to create plugins which only ...