Haktip 23 – WiFi 101: Probe Requests and Responses
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Today we’re continuing our discussion on wireless management frames with probe requests and responses.
Haktip 22 – HOW TO: Unsluggify Your PC
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This time on the show we are making my PC less sluggish with some simple upgrades.
HakTip 21 – WiFi 101: Frame Analyzing
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Today we’ll be setting up an environment which will allow us to easily disect a beacon frame, as well as the other three types of management frames; probes, authentication and association. As you know we’ve covered the 3 types of wireless frames; management, control and data. Last week we went over one of the 4 types of management frames — the beacon.
HakTip 20 – Comparing Password Protection Tools
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This time on the show Shannon is comparison shopping! Which is better? KeePass or LastPass?
HakTip 19 – WiFi 101: Beacon Frames and Injection
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Today we’re following up our discussion on 802.11 frames with an investigation of beacons and a practical example using BackTrack Linux and a technique known as raw frame injection.
HakTip 18 – Re:Hak, Top 5 tips, questions and software picks
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Today we’re going over your top 5 tips, questions and software picks including performance boosters, 3d desktops and disk space analyzers for Windows.
HakTip 17 – WiFi 101: 802.11 Frames
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Today we’re diving into the do-dads that make up 802.11, or to be more specific we’ll be going over WiFi frames. It is with careful use or abuse of these frames we’re able to acomplish some pretty nifty tricks.
HakTip 16 – Debunking Wireless Generations – a Jason Rant
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Here in the US there are are 4 major carries and all of them use 3g and 4g as marketing speak for speed, but I am here to tell you it not all marketing at all. First lets cover what the G really stands for. It’s generation, so 3G is really the third generation of wireless cell technology. So, when Version says they have the largest 3g network they really mean they started building their network later than, say A&TT, who really started at 2G. So in the case of Verizon, 3G could be slower than AT&T’s 2G network because generation does not directly correlate with speed. But as we all know tech does have a tendency to get faster over time. The generational spec really dictates how the tech of a given generation uses it’s spectrum to push packets.
HakTip 15 – WiFi 101: 802.11n
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Today we’ve following up with our discussion on 802.11 standards with today’s latest and greatest, 802.11n.
HakTip 14 – Comparing Free Virtual Machine Software
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Checking out an alternative to Virtual Box called VM Ware Player.
HakTip 13 – WiFi 101: Channels and interference
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Today as we continue on our WPA cracking adventure it’s all about WiFi Channels and a little fun with a 2.4 GHz Spectrum Analyzer, BackTrack 5 Linux and a microwave.
HakTip 12 – How To Protect Your PC From Little Nooblettes!
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In this episode we’re protecting your PC from keyboard mashers, little ones, and the not so technical with some easy to use free tools.
HakTip 11 – WiFi 101: 802.11 Protocols
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Today as we continue on our WPA cracking adventure we’ll learn some more fundamentals of these ubiquitous wireless protocols including some 802.11 history, the WiFi Alliance and the lettered protocols B, A and G.
HakTip 10 – An Intro to Virtual Machines
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This time on the show I’m creating a virtual machine inside VirtualBox.
HakTip 9 – WiFi 101: The 6 Modes of Wireless
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Today we’re continuing our WiFi series with the example of cracking a WPA-Pre Shared Key. We started by diving into a PSK brute force with John the Ripper with a previously captured 4-way handshake. Sice we’ve taken a step back and covered promiscuous and monitor mode in terms of packet sniffing, and how MAC addresses come into play here. And now we’ll cover the ingredients needed for this recipe of passphrase cracking delightfulness.
HakTip 8 – Review of ADrive and LockNote
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This time on the show Shannon is showing of Adrive Cloud Storage and LockNote
HakTip 7 – Re:Hak – Top 10 Q&A including bash math, macchanger and airdriver-ng
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Darren answers the top 10 questions including calculating brute force times with a little bash calculator action, changing mac addresses the other way, loading wifi drivers in Linux and a lot more.
HakTip 6 – HOWTO: Optimize Your PC For Fastest Performance
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This time on the show we’re cracking down on my Windows PC, optimizing it for fastest performance.
HakTip 5 – Media Access Control 101: Fundamentals and Spoofing
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Continuing the fundamentals series we’re going over more then you ever needed to know about MAC addresses, OUIs and Spoofing.
HakTip 4 – HOWTO: Build a Multibootable USB Drive For Free
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I’ve done a few Bootable USB’s before but I’ve never tried out a Multiboot Installer, so today I decided to try something new. YUMI (aka Your Universal Multiboot Installer) is available at pendrivelinux.com. This tool can be used to create a Multibootable USB Flash Drive containing multiple operating systems, antivirus utilities, disc cloning, diagnostic tools, and more.
HakTip 3 – Packet Sniffing 101: Promiscuous Mode
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We’re getting promiscuous, with wireless cards! As part of our foundation series of HakTips Darren covers the fundamentals of wireless packet sniffing with a practical approach in BackTrack Linux using the Aircrack-ng suite.
HakTip 2 – Enhancing Windows with Virtual Desktops
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Virtual Desktops are a super easy way to save some money and keep yourself organized. While many operating systems like OS X and Linux support Virtual Desktops out of the box, Windows does not. Shannon covers three free programs to add this functionality and picks her favorite.
HakTip 1 – Standard Streams – Pipes with John the Ripper and Aircrack-ng
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This time on the show we’re getting a little BASH happy with Standard Streams and pipelines as we break the encryption on a WPA protected wireless access point using John the Ripper and Aircrack-ng.
HakTip – Identifying Web Servers
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In the Haktip Darren goes over a couple ways to identify web servers from the command line.
HakTip – XARP to Detecting ARP Cache Poison Attacks
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In this Haktip Darren shows how to detecting ARP Cache Poison Attacks in Windows and Linux using XARP
HakTip – Session hijacking with Firesheep
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In this haktip Shannon shows us the setup and use of the cookie steeling tool Firesheep to hijack Darren’s twitter session.
HakTip – ARP Cache Poisoning Attacks on Windows
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Shannon shows us how to perform arp cache poisoning attacks with ease.
HakTip – Crafting packets with HPING3
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Hping3 is a TCP/IP packet assembler. It’s modeled after the unix ping command