Now this is an oldskool topic, wardialling! Some people still ask me about wardialling tools though, so here’s one I found recently written in Python.
PAW / PAWS is a wardialing software in python. It is designed to scan for ISDN (PAWS only) and “modern” analog modems (running at 9.6kbit/s or higher). Wardialing tools are - [...]
It just goes to show, having an aluminium lined wallet could really be useful! Hackers in the Netherlands found they could clone an access card using the Mifare chip, after that they traveled to London to try their technique out on the Oyster card (used on the London Underground), which uses the same chip.
It just [...]
Another new development in the malware arena, this new version of Zlob will actually log onto your router and change the DNS settings to hijack your traffic.
Pretty interesting approach and it will work because 99% of people won’t change the default password on their routers. Let’s face it, have you changed it?
A new Trojan horse [...]
Well this is quite scary as biometrics are touted as the ultimate in security and two factor authentication with biometrics is about as ‘heavy’ as most places get.
The fact that the biometric data can be ’sniffed’ reconstructed and re-used…is worrying to say the least. Do any of you have biometric measures in your workplace?
A British [...]
Ah it seems some companies are having the same idea as me, consoles might well be the next infection vector for zombie style botnets, they have good processing power, the current generation has ample hard-drive space and they are network connected.
The difference with consoles is they tend to be turned off when not in use [...]
Interesting research from Elcomsoft, using the parallel processing capacity of graphics cards to speed up the password cracking process.
Pretty inventive thinking, as graphics cards get more and more powerful, and they are created to do massive parallel tasks for all the latest and greatest games, why not apply it to password cracking!
A technique for cracking [...]
Seen as though we get a lot of searches for PSP firmware updates and information about homebrew, I thought I’d post about this which popped up a few months ago.
In what undoubtedly will be remembered as a historic and life-changing event for PSP enthusiasts everywhere, a group of coders (Noobz and [...]
The US Congress recently approved a bill that will make it illegal to spoof Caller ID in the USA.
A while back the FCC announced the wanted to crack down on Caller ID spoofing as it was still too easy.
The amount of the forfeiture penalty (…) shall not exceed $10,000 for each violation, or 3 times [...]
So the latest news is that the RFID chips in electronically enabled passports are NOT encrypted, which bright spark came up with that idea?
Ok so you implement ‘more secure’ RFID passports, and leave all the data in plain text for anyone to tamper with - nice!
So what do you think they are gonna do about [...]
The scariest type of all, hardware vulnerabilities. Security guru and creator of OpenBSD Theo de Raadt recently announced he had found some fairly serious bugs in the hardware architecture of Intel Core 2 Duo processors.
He goes as far as saying avoid buying a C2D processor until these problems are fixed.
A prominent software developer with a [...]
As with the UK, many phones in the US are sold under contract and are given at very discounted rates or even free in some cases if you sign a contract for year withe service provider.
Before that it was illegal to unlock your phone but finally in November 2006 it came out in court [...]
This is a bit of hacking in the original sense of the word, taking a $60 router and giving it the capabilities of something costing in the hundreds or thousands (enterprise level).
Of all the great DIY projects at this year’s Maker Faire, the one project that really caught my eye involved converting a regular old [...]
This is an excellent article you might find useful covering the use of the capture command in Cisco PIX firewalls.
A vital tool to use when troubleshooting computer networking problems and monitoring computer networks is a packet sniffer. That being said, one of the best methods to use when troubleshooting connection problems or monitoring suspicious network [...]
QJ.net forums have been abuzz lately with the talk of a possible new exploit centered around a libtiff vulnerability. NOPx86 stating that he’d managed to crash the PSP using this method. As those of you who follow these things know, a crash doesn’t always mean an open door to an exploit.
But after a cumulative 60 [...]
Ah, so finally they got it back, from a street corner of all places.
Let’s hope they shall be a little more careful in the future yah?
The missing laptop and hard drive that contained veterans’ personal information has been found, Veterans Administration Chief Jim Nicholson announced Thursday.
The announcement came at the beginning of a hearing [...]
Another HUGE information leak from the US government, seems they can’t help themselves.
Or perhaps people are just ramping up the efforts against them..
The Navy has begun a criminal investigation after Social Security numbers and other personal data for 28,000 sailors and family members were found on a civilian website.
The Navy said Friday the information was [...]
Ah another way to exploit wifi, what a surprise!
Security researchers have found a way to seize control of a laptop computer by manipulating buggy code in the system’s wireless device driver.
The hack will be demonstrated at the upcoming Black Hat USA 2006 conference during a presentation by David Maynor, a research engineer with Internet Security [...]
I have to agree with their sentiment, I’m all for open hardware standards.
Even if you don’t open it, people will copy it anyway (See the mass of Cisco knock-offs in China for a fraction of the price with almost exactly the same functions and IOS).
So why not open it, let us play with it.
At least [...]
This a very interesting read, the tale of an RFID hacker.
I was always sceptical about RFID I have to say, when everything is tagged, criminals can just drive by your house and scan everything, see what TV you have, which DVD player, how many high value electrical goods, and choose which houses they want to [...]
It’s gone round and round and round, now cars have Bluetooth, that they can get viruses like Cabir, I’m sorry but if an Anti-virus company like F-Secure can’t infect a car with a virus, I don’t have much hope for the others. The rumours came from a Lexus story in SCMagazine (The story is no [...]
Hacking cars, what next? I have fears for the IPv6 generation (if it every happens), when every toaster and light bulb has an IP address, yeah…I’m gonna hack your house then and make your lights blink.
High-tech thieves are becoming increasingly savvy when it comes to stealing automobiles equipped with keyless entry and ignition systems. While [...]
This is old news to those who already knows about it (Found out about it last year and tested it till now). But i just had to try it before actually posting it up.
Do you get tired of being in an elevator and someone else gets on every other floor in between the floors [...]
This is a tutorial web book. All 152 pages of the large paperback book with 96 diagrams are on 38 web pages here.
Even if you know nothing about electronics, you have come to the right place.
If you are wondering how microprocessors work, you have come to the right place. A microprocessor is a small processor.
If [...]
