This time on the show, Cookies beware! It’s Session Hijacking time. Darren reports from Automate 2011 with a 28 foot multi-touch bar. Plus, websites made easy with Kompozer, a Backtrack vs Blackbuntu review and a whole lot more.

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Hacker Headlines

SSL provider Comodo was hacked allowing attackers to obtain secure certificates for Google, Yahoo, Skype and others. comodo is claiming that the sophisticated attack against its European partner must have been “state-driven.” Comodo’s own incident reportpoints out IP addresses from Iran responsible for the attack. While simply obtaining these certificates, which have since been disabled, wouldn’t make those sites vulnerable — it would allow passwords and emails to be snooped using man-in-the-middle attacks to impersonate the legitimate sites. That would be pretty trivial to do if, say, you were Iran, which controls the nations telecommunications infrastructure.

The RSA’s SecurID systems has been hacked! The SecurID is a tool that authenticates by having you key in a password but also a series of random numbers. A few days ago the tool sent out an email to it’s users saying it was a victim of a hack that extracted certain data from the RSA’s system. Data that was directly related to their SecurID two-factor authentication tools. The RSA says it isn’t that bad, but make sure you beef up security at your company, i.e. make stronger passwords. Like that’s really going to get people to change their passwords.

Say you wanted to write your own Stuxnet like worm to attack SCADA systems? Well your job just got a lot easier. Security researcher Luigi Auriemma released proof of concept code for 34 vulnerabilities affecting SCADA systems from Siemens, Iconics, 7-Technologies and DATAC. The code, released on the bugtraq mailing list, doesn’t affect the backend systems, merely the operator platforms, however they would allow attackers to potentially crash systems, retrieve sensitive data or dig deeper into the network.

Check out those sweet Nintendo 3DS’s at your local retailer! Demo units have been available to play in stores, but they won’t let you check out the menu or the specs underneath the games that autoplay on the devices. Luckily, there is now a nice little hack to let you get into the main menu and see what lies beneath inside these awesome new toys. Check the link and give it a try.

Is your government or ISP messing with your data? In the wake of the Internet blackouts of Egypt and Libya, Google is announcing awards of at least a million dollars to Georgia Tech researchers working on tools for web users, as well as smartphones and tablets, which detect whether ISPs are adhering to service level agreements and if data is meing tampered with.

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HakTip: Session hijacking with Firesheep

This week’s Hak Tip comes to us from Gary. Websites always make you login with a username and password, but when you’re on their page all cozy and logged in, you’re browsing insecurely on a regular old HTTP site. HTTP session hacking (called sidejacking) happens when an attacker gets the users cookie which you were transmitted when you first logged in, and they can use it to do anything you would normally do. The only way to really protect yourself from this is through SSL or HTTPS like what you see on your banking websites.

Firesheep, by Eric Butler, demonstrates how vunerable your login is. It’s a man in the middle attack firefox extension that anyone has the ability to use.

To use Firesheep, first make sure to download winpcap. Then download the browser extension and open it using firefox by dragging it into your list of extensions and add-ons. You may need to restart Firefox. Go to View–>Sidebar–>Firesheep and enable it. Now, simply click start capturing and you’ll be able to see the username and photo of anyone on your network that logs into one of the specific sites that Firesheep uses. Click on the name or photo of anyone on the list, and you are now logged in as them, with the ability to do whatever you want as them on that site. Scary huh? Luckily Twitter and Facebook have caught on to this and have enabled the ability to use HTTPS secure logins on their sites. So if you haven’t updated your settings, do it now!

Got a tip you want to share? Email them to tips@hak5.org and we’ll show them off!

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The 28 foot multi-touch bar!

Darren reports from the Automate 2011 conference in Chicago checking out the mtBar from Crunchy Logistics and Imaging Source. This 28 foot rear diffused illumination multi-touch bar surface sports unlimited tracking of fingers and objects at 120 FPS. Darren gets the juicy details from Niel Dufva, Aaron Bitler and Brandon Hill from Crunchy Logistics, as well as John Berryman from Imaging Source.

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Trivia!

Last week’s question was: In Season 5 of X Files, Esther Nairn is the creator of what ‘narly’ entertainment software? The answer is: Autonomous Bots in Ninjitsu Princess. This weeks question is: In what episode of the X Files can the Lone Gunmen be seen attending DefCon in Vegas? Answer at hak5.org/trivia for your chance to grab up some swag!

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Snubs Report: Kompozer

Shannon checks out the easy web authoring tool Kompozer. Here are some of her favorite features:

• Web authoring tool
• No HTML or coding needed
• FTP Site Manager- browseable side bar and tree view (kind of like Explorer’s folder pane)
• Color Picker- Easy to use color swap, just click with your mouse.
• Tabs- Can edit several docs at once
• CSS Editor- Easy to create stylesheets
• Styler- Toolbar lets you change style instantly
• Customize toolbars
• Forms- XUL-based UI to edit forms
• Cleaner- get rid of annoying
  ‘s- make valid documents
• XFN- Can add XHTML info saying you know and trust an external link
• Visible Marks- can view carriage returns and block borders.
• Table/ Cell resizing rulers- Adjust rows and columns easily
• Automated Spellchecker

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Road Test: Corsair Force SSD

In the words of Mr Horse: “No sir, I don’t like it”

While the Corsair Force SSD has great performance numbers, a few major annoyances are harshing on my technolust.

No SSD should BSOD Windows on S3 resume. Nor should it report “No bootable device” upon cold boot.

Sorry Corsair, I gave it a fair chance for just about a month and even with the latest firmware this thing’s a dud.

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Emails: Computer models and Blackbuntu vs Backtrack

Victor writes: I was wondering whats the computer that you usually have in the show cause it looks really good i think i might want to get one but i don’t know the model or manufacturer.

Darren and Shannon have both recently upgraded to the 11.6″ Acer Aspire TimelineX 1830T. Darren has the Intel Core i7 version while Shannon has opted for the i3.

Prior to these Shannon was using the 9″ Acer Aspire One and the 10″ Nokia Booklet 3G while Darren has had the 7″ ASUS eee PC 701, 9″ Acer Aspire One and 15″ ASUS N53J.

Juan writes: I was watching episode 903 and at the end you mention Blackbuntu. I have use Backtrack before but have never herd of Blackbuntu I start it to poking around the internet and found not only Blackbuntu but GnackTrack too both are sort of the same idea both are base on ubuntu both use gnome and both have the standard Backtrack program suit so I was think all tree of them make for a good head to head battle or just for a review

Darren has been playing with Blackbuntu for about a week now. Prior to that he’s been using BackTrack since 3.0, but never as a primary OS. Here are some of his initial observations:

• Blackbuntu is based on ubuntu 10.10 using Gnome as the window manager and contains a similar feature set to BackTrack.
• BackTrack is more established, while Blackbuntu is on version 0.2 it’s counterpart BackTrack is nearing beta of version 5.
• BackTrack is the basis for the Offensive Security courses and certifications, which teach all sorts of pentesting and wireless attacks in both live-in-person and online learning scenarios
• In comparison to BackTrack, Blackbuntu doesn’t have much of a community. You’re more likely to find tutorials and help for BackTrack
• That said, most of what you’d do with BackTrack will run very similarly on Blackbuntu.
• The biggest strong point Blackbuntu has in my book is the fact that it’s a highly customized version of Ubuntu with Gnome, which I’m already familiar with, and to me is better suited as a primary Linux OS.
• Then again I’ve run into stability issues with Blackbuntu that have me, for the time being, switching back to Backtrack 4r2
• I’ll reassess these in the near future when BackTrack 5 debuts, which will be both 32 and 64 bit compatible, running on Ubuntu 10.04 with official support for KDE, Gnome and Fluxbox

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Never again have your curious Google searching or social networking adventures be thwarted by your school or office firewall. Darren show off free and easy ways to bypass the filters using SSH or your own homegrown web proxy.

SSH Tunneling isn’t new to the show, we’ve done it before over DNS or in conjunction with VNC. Today we’re looking at two SSH tricks for tunneling just about any traffic.

First up, ssh -D. The -D option specified a local "e;Dynamic"e; application-level port forwarding. Any connection made to the specified port goes through the tunnel as a SOCKS4 or SOCKS5 proxy. Perfect for secure web browsing as demonstrated with Firefox in this segment.

Usage

ssh -D 8080 user@server

Second, ssh -L. The -L option enables port forwarding. Using this option tells the SSH client to listen to traffic on a specified port and forward it along through the tunnel. The server receives this data and points it to the specified destination, whether it be on the destination network or otherwise. In our example we use the -L option to securely connect to an open IRC server.

Usage

ssh user@server -L local-listen-port:destination-ip:destination-port

For more SSH-fu check out the ssh man page or Linux Journal’s interesting series on 101 uses of openssh.

Got a restrictive firewall blocking sites at school or work? Evade ‘em easily with your own private web proxy. Want to securely tunnel any port through an SSH session? Darren’s got just the trick. Wondering how to properly use Asleap to crack MS-CHAPv2 PPTP VPN handshakes & LM Hashes? Interested in trying out neat free enterprise applications but don’t feel like spending hours in a terminal? Try deploying a virtual appliance in minutes, the free and open source way.

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Port Tunneling and Socks5 Proxies with a Secure Shell (SSH)

SSH Tunneling isn’t new to the show, we’ve done it before over DNS or in conjunction with VNC. Today we’re looking at two SSH tricks for tunneling just about any traffic.

First up, ssh -D. The -D option specified a local "e;Dynamic"e; application-level port forwarding. Any connection made to the specified port goes through the tunnel as a SOCKS4 or SOCKS5 proxy. Perfect for secure web browsing as demonstrated with Firefox in this segment.

Usage

ssh -D 8080 user@server

Second, ssh -L. The -L option enables port forwarding. Using this option tells the SSH client to listen to traffic on a specified port and forward it along through the tunnel. The server receives this data and points it to the specified destination, whether it be on the destination network or otherwise. In our example we use the -L option to securely connect to an open IRC server.

Usage

ssh user@server -L local-listen-port:destination-ip:destination-port

For more SSH-fu check out the ssh man page or Linux Journal’s interesting series on 101 uses of openssh.

Bypassing site-blocking firewalls with your own private web proxy

The age old scheme for bypassing restrictive firewalls, like those that block sites at school or work, has been to use a web proxy. Of course this is followed up by the network administrator blocking all mainstream proxies. But what if you could run your own? Well, you can and it’s really freaking easy. In this segment Darren demonstrates PHProxy

Cracking MS-CHAPv2 PPTP VPN handshakes & LM Hashes Followup from 6×12

On episode 612 we demonstrated a tool, asleap, designed to crack MS-CHAPv2, the authentication protocol commonly found in Microsoft PPTP VPNs. The final demo was unsuccessful due to the encoding of the handshake and response sniffed by Wireshark. Viewer Sc00bz was kind enough to post a PHP script that accepts the challenge, response and username and provides you with the proper asleap command to run with the properly encoded byte sequences. Sc00bz has well documented the code, which lives now on this Hak5 forum thread. Thanks Sc00bz!

Deploying Virtual Appliances in minutes the open source way

A Virtual Appliance can be though of as a software image containing a supporting stack designed to run inside a virtual machine. A quick look at vmware’s virtual appliance directory shows that there are hundreds of applications that can be quickly and easily deployed. In this segment I take the Dimdim open source virtual appliance, designed for vmware, and deploy it with VirtualBox (just becasue I can).

Eighty of Dual Core comes down to the HakHouse to share with us a technique for extracting Windows executables from packet captures. Darren’s featuring some of the Gmail badge submissions and a walkthrough of the Easter Egg hunt. Plus be sure to stick around as Eighty treats us to a live performance off his upcoming album.

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Show Notes

While Matt’s away on business Eighty of Dual Core fills in with an awesome segment on extracting Windows executables from packet captures using tcpxtract.

Darren’s features some of the Gmail Badges from our recent Code Challenge.

Plus we’ve got a walk-through on winning the Easter Egg Hunt. Only *four* of over 300 submissions completed the puzzle. We’ve learned a bunch of lessons from this first hunt and will be sure to put together an even more in-depth hunt next time.

In this episode Shannon hacks the Wii and shares her favorite homebrew with us. Matt connects 3CX to the PSTN and Darren sets up a network monkey client in Linux.

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Show Notes

Twilight Hack

Wii Homebrew

You need a few things:

• wii
• wii mote controller
• computer
• internet access
• small sd card formatted as FAT.
• Zelda Twilight Princess for Wii

The Wii Brew Wiki
Homebrew Channel

How to install the Wii Homebrew Channel on your Wii using the Twilight Hack.

Download the Twilight Hack. There are two versions, one for Wii system 3.3, and one for 3.4. I haven’t updated mine, so I’m still on 3.3.

Download the Homebrew Channel zip file.

Also, if you want, go ahead and download some apps from the HackMii website. I suggest the Homebrew Browser so you dont have to copy apps to the SD card every time you wanna download something new.

You’ll need a small SD card 2 gig or smaller. Make sure to format your SD card as FAT. Do to this, right click on the SD card, and choose format. Simple!

Put the SD card in your Wii, then turn it on. Go to the Wii Options–>Data management–>Save Data–>Wii section of the menu. Find your Zelda: Twilight Princess saved file, and copy it. If you havent played it yet, you might not have a saved file, so go ahead and play a bit. Put your SD card in your computer and copy the “Private” folder from the card to your comp, just in case you may need it in the future.

Move the homebrew executable that you extract from the zip file to your SD card root directory and save it as boot.dol or boot.elf.

Also, save the Twilight Hack Private folder from the extracted zip file to your SD card.

Now, check out your Twilight Princess game CD. It should have some hard to read serial numbers inscribed on the inner circle. Match this serial with the corresponding “Save slot”.

RVL-RZDE-0A-0 JPN/private/wii/title/rzde/data.binTwilightHack0RVL-RZDE-0A-0 USA/private/wii/title/rzde/data.binTwilightHack0RVL-RZDE-0A-2 USA/private/wii/title/rzde/data.binTwilightHack2

Region	Inner circle text	File	Save slot
Europe/Australia	RVL-RZDP-0A-0 JPN	/private/wii/title/rzdp/data.bin	Twilight Hack
Asia (JPN)	RVL-RZDJ-0A-0 JPN	/private/wii/title/rzdj/data.bin	Twilight Hack
America (USA)
America (USA)
America (USA)

Inside the private–>wii–>title folder are 3 folders with letters corresponding to the serials. Delete the two that don’t match your cd.

Put your SD card back in the Wii. Go to Wii Options–>Data management–>Save Data–>Wii and erase the Zelda save now. Open the SD card menu and choose Twilight Hack. Copy to the Wii.

Stick your game CD in your Wii and boot up Zelda! Choose the save slot that corresponds with your serial. Mine was TwilightHack0. Go ahead and skip the intro, it doesn’t hurt the hack. Once you see Link as a playable character, either walk backwards or talk to the guy in front of you. This will start up the hack install process, so just choose “Agree” to everything.

You’re done! Now you can play on the homebrew channel. Yay!

Get the homebrew browser so you can download apps straight from the channel instead of shuffling your SD card around.

To do that, simply stick the sd in your computer and create a folder called apps. Copy the homebrew browser folder and its contents over to the sd and back it goes to your wii!

If you have some cool homebrew for the Wii, tell me about it or ask me any questions at Snubs@hak5.org.

Don’t forget to submit your questions@hak5.org and feedback@hak5.org and thanks for your contributions.

The perfect primate for pen testers is none other than network monkey. Introducing Robin Wood’s Interceptor — on this episode we hack the Fon+ and turn it into a network tap and rogue wireless access point. Sniff the LAN from across the street or hack the network from the inside out! Learn how Network Monkey Pirates your Packets today!

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Show Notes

Our friend digininja is at it again. On this episode we feature Robin Wood‘s latest hack based on none other than the Fon+ wireless router.

Interceptor is a wireless wired network tap. Simply put you place it in line on an ethernet cable, then connect to it via a special wireless access point. Once connected and running the Interceptor scripts you’ll be able to sniff all of the traffic passing across the wire.

Interceptor doesn’t affect TTL and adds minimal latency to packets. It doesn’t associate to the target network so discovering an active Interceptor on your LAN isn’t trivial.

This tool is perfect for pen testers. The device inexpensive, based on the Fon+ router and using open source software. It is small enough to fit behind a network wall plate, inside a plush monkey, or even inside a network switch or other gear.

In this episode we demonstrate the usage, illustrate the installation and speak with the developer Robin Wood.

You can download the software and play with it yourself from digininja.org/interceptor and find support and discussion at the Hak5 Interceptor Forum.

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We return next week with a regular format show. Don’t forget to submit your questions@hak5.org and feedback@hak5.org and trust your technolust!

We head out to DC for Shmoocon, our favorite hacker conference on the east coast, to talk to some of the brightest minds in security. Dave Kennedy on his project FastTrack. Michael Ossmann about sniffing bluetooth. Joshua Abraham on his software GIS-Kismet. Mister X, author of Aircrack-ng and Johnny Long, author and security guru on Hackers for Charity.

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Show Notes

Dave Kennedy talks about Fast Track, a python based open-source project aimed at helping Penetration Testers in an effort to identify, exploit, and further penetrate a network.

Michael Ossmann and Dominic Spill presented on Building an All-Channel Bluetooth Monitor using the USRP and a lot of awesome code. It turns out listening to 79 channels at once is harder than you think.

Joshua Abraham spoke to us about wireless network mapping with his tool GIS Kismet

Mister X, author of Aircrack-ng shares with us a glimpse of the future of wireless network cracking.

Johnny Long, security expert and author, talks to us about Hackers for Charity

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