Archive for the ‘Hacks’ Category

iPhone SPY Data Recovery Stick

The iPhone Spy Data Recovery Stick is the ultimate recovery tool for anyone who wants to capture deleted information from any iPhone (running iOS to 3.x). The iPhone Spy Data Recovery Stick makes it easy to recover deleted text messages, contacts, call and web history, as well as photos, voice memos and calendar appointments — [...]

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Haystack: masks Iranian activist traffic as being innocuous

Haystack. The anti-censorship software is built on a sophisticated mathematical formula that conceals someone’s real online destinations inside a stream of innocuous traffic. You may be browsing an opposition Web site, but to the censors it will appear you are visiting, say, weather.com. Heap tends to hide users in content that is popular in Tehran, [...]

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Reset Windows 7 passwords

Using the method you can use the sticky keys and a repair disk to reset your password. There’s also a link to using an Ubuntu CD to reset the password. Hack the Sticky Keys Feature to Reset a Forgotten Windows Password.

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New ‘Kraken’ GSM-cracking software is released

This cracks the encryption or forces a mobile to drop the encryption much much faster than traditional methods. New ‘Kraken’ GSM-cracking software is released – Telecommunication, security, mobile, GSM Association, black hat, A5/1 Security Project – PC World.

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Turn Your Old Router into a Wi-Fi Repeater

This is a comprehensive guide to installing and setting up DD-WRT on your old wireless router. Turn Your Old Router into a Range-Boosting Wi-Fi Repeater.

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Adobe behind best selling iPad app

The Apple / Adobe Flash spat has reached a new level, with Adobe having a good laugh: The best selling iPad  App, Wired’s June Edition, it turns out, was built using Adobe’s new Adobe Digital Publishing Technologies. “Bwahaha!” says Adobe. “We Were Behind Wired’s iPad Magazine All Along!”. The Digital Publishing Platform being developed by [...]

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Social Engineering

This site has quite a few examples of social engineering as well as links to a toolkit that allows you to easily clone sites for use as harvesting mechanisms of information. Prevention of Influence, Deception, Identity Theft and Phishing Through Education.

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BackTrack Linux Pentesting suite

This distro is being distributed together with a thumbdrive / wifi USB card in China in order to easily hack into WEP / WPA protected WiFi networks. BackTrack Linux.

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Torrent users tracked easily

French researchers have found it very easy using just a normal pc and internet connection, to track exactly what IPs where seeding and downloading what files. 30% of all bittorrent traffic is generated by only around 100 IP adresses. And if you’re behind Tor, you’re not safe either. Researchers spy on BitTorrent users in real-time [...]

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Mind controlled spy robot

This guy has gone all out – he’s mapped his Emotiv headset commands to Rovio commands, which are sent out via skype to the robot. Emotiv Headset Controls Rovio Robot Via Brainwaves – Rovio emotiv hack – Gizmodo.

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GSM Locations and name / number combinations easy to get at

A pair of security researchers has discovered a number of new attack vectors that give them the ability to not only locate any GSM mobile handset anywhere in the world, but also find the name of the subscriber associated with virtually any cellular phone number, raising serious privacy and security concerns for customers of all [...]

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Using makeup to thwart face detection

A student has studied openCV for his masters thesis and determined how face detection algorythms should work. By putting dark makeup around your eyes and cheekbones, you should be able to break the  detection and make the system think you’re something else. Reverse-engineering artist busts face detection tech • The Register.

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Linux on the iPhone: Android running on iPhone!

The guy who got Linux running on the iPhone has managed to set up his iphone 2G to dual boot into iphone OS or Android. Android is still pretty alpha and he’s had to hack around a bit to handle the lack of buttons on the unit, but it works and he’s released all the [...]

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How to Hack Toy EEGs

This is a comprehensive look at how to hack into Open EEG, Force Trainer, Mind Flex and Mind Set, in order to get some more output from them than the designers intended. How to Hack Toy EEGs | Frontier Nerds.

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Dutch electronic patients database unsafe

Hardly surprisingly, it turns out that the Electronische Patienten Database is unsafe and offers unfettered access to your private details to almost anyone and their dog. Onderzoek: beveiliging EPD fundamenteel zwak | Webwereld. Fortunately you can opt out here (PDF)

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Unix Command-Line Kung Fu

This pdf has a couple of fun bash shell tricks, such as using find, replacements for the up arrow, cut, sed, awk and a few more in a very readable format. Unix_Command-Line_Kung_Fu_ SANS .pdf application/pdf Object.

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Gerald Blanchard: Masterthief

This guy started stealing at 6 and never looked back. Banks, jewelry, skimming, scamming, he’s done it all. Using high-tech gadgets and doing parachuting in or using air ducts, he got in anywhere. A gripping read of a real life Pink Panther style master thief, who made a few too many mistakes and got caught. [...]

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Foil impressioning lockpicking

The way the tool works is that you first take some aluminum foil and make a ‘U shaped’ form using the special tool to do so and make small incisions on pre-determined positions. Next thing you do is put the foil over a special blank that already has the profile of your target lock. The [...]

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US Army takes down CIA / Saudi extremist website

Showing there is little unity and policy when it comes to cyber warfare in the US, the military took down a website used to gather intelligence on extremists. In the process of doing so they took down around 300 servers around the world and pissed off all the other intelligence gathering agencies that were covertly [...]

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OSx86 Project

This wiki has guides showing you how to get OSX Snow Leopard installed on a PC using Intel or AMD chips. Main Page – OSx86.

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2010 CWE/SANS Top 25 Most Dangerous Programming Errors

CWE – 2010 CWE/SANS Top 25 Most Dangerous Programming Errors.

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Chip and PIN broken

Cambridge University security researchers have demonstrated how it might be possible to trick the card into thinking it’s doing a chip-and-signature transaction while the terminal thinks it’s authorised by chip-and-PIN. The flaw creates a means to make transactions that are “Verified by PIN” using a stolen uncancelled card without knowing the PIN number. Fraudsters would [...]

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3G GSM encryption cracked in less than two hours

GSM encryption is falling apart at the seams! Using an unoptimised implementation of a proof of concept on a PC, Israeli researchers managed to break the KASUMI system in under 2 hours. 3G GSM encryption cracked in less than two hours — Engadget.

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Predator UAV feeds unencrypted

It looks like the Iranians have found out that the video feeds  from Predator drones are in some cases unencrypted and can be tapped into using a $26,- program called Skygrabber. FOXNews.com – Iranian-Backed Insurgents Hack U.S. Drones. Now it turns out that the ROVER system, a hand held video system for infantry, also recieves [...]

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Fraunhofer cracks Bitlocker

The Fraunhofer institute has found a way to crack Bitlocker, which is the Windows Vista drive encryption mechanism. Booting from a USB stick allows you to replace the bootscreen with a fake bitlocker bootscreenafter which the PIN is stored on the harddisk for later retreival by booting with a Linux USB stick afterwards. Fraunhofer SIT [...]

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