I don’t like pirated software, but my hand was forced.

I don’t like pirated software, but my hand was forced. My motherboard fried and had to be replaced, pain. Reinstalled everything hardware and software, pain pain. Windows activation? Ah yeah go ahead …Error: multiple installations limit detected. Click to activate by phone, leads to blank page. Let’s try this a different way, blank page blank…

Read more I don’t like pirated software, but my hand was forced.

Web Spider

Grab a website with all links. First get GNU’s wget if you don’t have it installed already.I used this to grab a copy of my router’s GUI: wget –http-user=”” –http-password=”1234″ –recursive –convert-links -e robots=off 192.168.1.1 Obviously replace usr/pwd and URL where necessary. This grabs all pages and links that 192.168.1.1 leads to. For websites with…

Read more Web Spider

Chinese Hackers

I opened up an FTP server recently on my home PC. Being security conscious I used implicit FTPS and daily logging. Day one of opening the port I have an attempted log on from an IP address originating in China 61.160.207.123. No other unknown logins/attempts. Harro harro! What you want china? I wonder if this…

Read more Chinese Hackers

Stanton Final Scratch 2

have had the stanton box, timecode records, and a zillion leads sitting in it’s box for nearly 3 years. just got the correct firewire lead for it, *and* ditched trying to get the software that came with it to work. i don’t like using illegal software, but in this case it was actually the only…

Read more Stanton Final Scratch 2

US Drones “Hacked” By Iraqi Insuregents

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/dec/17/skygrabber-american-drones-hacked Pretty amazing what the US military counts as “hacking”. OK I think a lot of people know that what the media calls hacking is actually “cracking” -circumventing security systems. The US military it would seem have another view entirely. A method one could use to “hack” the military drones is to tune in a…

Read more US Drones “Hacked” By Iraqi Insuregents

UPC password cracking

just did a litttle research there. UPC WPA keys consist of 8 random capital letters.even with this restriction, that leaves 208,827,064,576 possible combinations (26^8),that's a wordlist of 208GB using ASCII encoding. using aircrack-ng it would take my new system, which is checking roughly 3,000 keys a second, 2.2 years to go thru every possible combination.…

Read more UPC password cracking