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Hack a Day
[Alex George] has been collecting miniatures of Main Street, USA in Disney Land hand crafted by artist [Robert Olszewski]. These models are incredibly accurate, but sadly static. [Alex] has some of the floats from the Main Street Electrical Parade that light up with the help of a few LEDs. One day, [Alex] found himself wishing he could watch [...]
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[Alex] has been working on a diesel motorcycle project for a few months now, and the project is finally bearing fruit. It’s quite an accomplishment for something [Alex] describes as an industrial Chinese engine, a modded Honda Superdream, and a few Royal Enfield parts thrown in for good measure. [Alex] bought his Honda CB400 from someone [...]
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[Alex] built an add-on board for his TI launchpad that lets him use it as a wireless controller for an RGB lamp (translated). As you can see above, the board has a pair of female pin-headers which make it easy to install or remove the board. This way you can use it for other projects without [...]
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Let’s get this straight, [Alex] is going to show us how to make controllers like this one? Where do we sign up? Even without seeing it in action we want one, but the urge to build is even greater after he shows it off (check the clip after the break). He’s a design student who [...]
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Hack a Day
In the hopes of getting a heads up on when the aurora borealis will be visible from his back yard, [Alex] built a magnetometer to measure disruptions in Earth’s magnetic field. The build is extremely simple, too. It’s amazing what you can build with a few components and a trip to the dollar store. The design or [...]
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Hack a Day
[Alex] got his hands on an Epiloge laser cutter the easy way — the company he works for bought one. We’re sure he’s not trying to rub it in, but he really does make the tool look and sound cool in the post he wrote purely to show off the new toy hardware. This model is [...]
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Hack a Day
Meet Boxie. He’s a robot videographer with levels of interaction we haven’t seen outside an episode of Dora the Explorer. The project was conceived by [Alex] as his MIT thesis project to see if robots can use humans to make themselves more useful. All we know is Boxie is freaking adorable, as evidenced by this video. The [...]
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Hack a Day
[Alex] was digging through his closet and came upon an old PS2 game pad for Dance Dance Revolution. He hated the idea of throwing it out just slightly more than the idea of playing DDR again, so he decided to find a way to reuse it. He was a big fan of the game Simon [...]
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Hack a Day
Those of us with 3D printers have had two major choices when selecting a material to print with – ABS, a very hard plastic, and PLA, a more brittle plastic with a lower melting point. [Alex] and [Luke] have been experimenting with printing polycarbonate and creating clear crystalline objects on a standard 3D printer. The first foray [...]
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Hack a Day
[Alex] sent in a neat Ikea DIODER build that controls strings of RGB LEDs with HTTP requests. We’ve seen Ikea DIODERs controlled wirelessly and over USB, but using the Internet with a DIODER is new to us. For his build, [Alex] used a Nanode, a small Arduino-like board that has built-in web connectivity. The hardware [...]
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Hack a Day
In 1966, [Gene Roddenberry] introduced fully manual doors powered by a stagehand on Star Trek. The fwoosh sound of the door was later dubbed into each show, but progress marches on, and now [Alex] created his own Star Trek-style automatic doors for his house. The build includes a ‘control panel’, and [Alex]‘s door operates in [...]
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Hack a Day
[Alex] wrote in to let us know he just completed a pretty major upgrade to his PopCARD RFID vending machine system. You may remember that earlier this year he added an Arduino based RFID reader to a soda machine so that thirsty patrons could pay with plastic instead of cold hard cash. That system worked, [...]
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Hack a Day
[Alex], aka [Grovenstien] turned 30 this weekend. After a conversation with his sister, where she asked: “what was that website with the skull that you always look at?”, he thought maybe he’d get a sticker or a shirt. She surprised him with this totally awesome birthday cake! There really aren’t any build details, but you [...]
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Hack a Day
[Alex] wanted to play video games with an arcade stick and buttons, but got sticker shock after seeing the price of commercially available controllers that connect to a computer via USB. He set out to build his own and ended up with the controller-in-a box that you see above. At first he tried using an [...]
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Hack a Day
Normally when we see an R/C transmitter used in a build we’re prepared for robots, quadcopters, or UAVs. [Alex] found a new use for his Futaba radio – hooking it up to his Super Nintendo. We’ve seen a lot of builds using game controllers as interfaces to other hardware. The N64 media remote comes to [...]
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Last year, when [Alex] was asked by his friend [Martin] to help him out with building some LED POV modules for a race car, his response was a enthusiastic “YES!” [Martin’s] goal was to involve fans more deeply in the race, so he decided that the POV modules would carry messages from fans on-board, printing [...]
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Hack a Day
[Alex] tiped us off about the evil sounding noises coming from http://www.thedarkknightrises.com/. when you go there your pretty much greeted with a wav file and if you have a quick eye on the status bar its pretty easy to get the direct link to the file and download it. Thats all great, but why would you [...]
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Hack a Day
[Alex] has reduced the resolution of his timepiece as a trade-off for speedy-readability. At least that’s what he claims when describing his color-changing clock. It uses a ShiftBrite to slowly alter the hue of the clock based on the current time. The concept is interesting: 12:00 starts off at white and slowly fades to green [...]
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Carnal0wnage
So first a disclaimer, i didnt listen to the referenced podcast, this is based solely of this blog post:
http://newschoolsecurity.com/2011/04/data-driven-pen-testsSo I’m listening to the “Larry, Larry, Larry” episode of the Risk Hose podcast, and Alex is talking about data-driven pen tests. I want to posit that pen tests are already empirical. Pen testers know what techniques work for them, and start with those techniques.
What we could use are data-driven pen test reports. “We tried X, which works in 78% of attempts, and it failed.”
We could also use more shared data about what tests tend to work.
Thoughts?
Dre's response to the post was surprising to me, he listed a bunch of tools that seem to do correlating of pentest results into a portal so you can trend over time. Cool idea, i'll give the people that. But to me when we start jumping into repeatable metrics driven stuff we are in Vulnerability Assessment land, not pentesting land.
Here is the comment I left:
I like the idea and i think it could be useful.However, they need to drop the pentest part. you are solidly into the vulnerability assessment part of things when you are talking about “ok, i tried 1,2,3,4,5 and 1 & 3 worked” ok on to the next set of tests… thats vulnerability assessment (with exploitation if you want to get technical) and not pentesting.
pentesting is about that human looking at the problem and figuring out how to break it, not some scanner, thats going to be very hard to standardize and put hard numbers on and i dont think its going to be possible without tying up your tester’s time with bullshit.
I'm all for "repeatable" pentests. You should have a methodology for each type of test, but when you are paying for human's time you should be paying for them to go after the site like a human would and not how a scanner would or not in a way where i'm worried about religiously following some checklist because if i don't the metrics get all fucked up. Your pentest should come after you have thrown the kitchen sink at it scanner wise.
as an added bonus this post was right below the new school post in my Google reader:
http://coding-insecurity.blogspot.com/2011/04/developing-good-methodology-part-3.htmlThis post and really any methodology document you will ever read or write will have gaps, because no document on this subject can ever really be 100% all inclusive of every vulnerability and the myriad of variations that exist for many of these.
I think it drives the point home as well.
-CG
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Hack a Day
This image was not made in post production, but captured during a long camera exposure. The method uses stencils to add components to a picture. [Alex] built a jig for his camera from a cardboard box. This jig positions a large frame in front of the camera lens where a printed stencil can be inserted. [...]
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Hack a Day
[Alex] collects retro gaming consoles. One day while playing a SNES title, his save games got wiped when he powered off the system. It turned out that the battery inside the game cartridge got disconnected somehow, and it got him thinking. He decided he wanted to find a way to back up his save games [...]
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Hack a Day
[Alex] knows his strippers. By his estimation, he has stripped millions of wires over the years, and he has seen his fair share of wire strippers come and go. That cheap set of wire strippers you have with the graduated holes, or that adjustable stripper you squeeze as you pull the wire through? They just [...]
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Hack a Day
[Alex] ramped up the precision of his timepiece by adding a ChronoDot to the Ice Tube Clock. These two items are among our favorites; the Ice Tube Clock for its old-style multi-digit display, and the ChronoDot for combining a DS3231, battery, and components into a nice small package. There is a schematic link at the [...]
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Hack a Day
[Alex] wrote in to let us know about this Kinect controlled LED wall that was whipped up at the Tetalab hackerspace in Toulouse, France. The wall, which was built earlier in the year, uses some MAX7313 LED intensity controlling shift registers. Each gets its own board and controls the intensity of sixteen different red LEDs. They’re [...]
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Hack a Day
We couldn’t help but poke a little fun in the headline. This is [Alex Miller], a twelve year old who claimed a $3000 bounty from Mozilla. See, [Alex] is a self-taught security guru. When Mozilla upped the reward for discovering and reporting critical security flaws in their software he went to work searching for one. [...]
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Hack a Day
[Alex] had an old FM radio tuner card come his way. It used an ISA connector, a standard that went the way of the dodo in the mid-nineties. With the challenge of implementing an ISA-bus to configure the card he set out on his mission. What he came up with is a working radio using [...]
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Hack a Day
[Alex] bought a hang on tank filter for his aquarium. Unfortunately it was made for a different water level than he was using and didn’t have the ability to adjust that he needed. Add to that the non-standard pipe sizing which compounded the problem by making it difficult to extend the intake and output tubes. [...]
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remote-exploit & backtrack
Hi,
I have a general question about making a Soft AP/Fake AP. If a client A is connected with an AP B, and the connection between them is using WPA2 (preshared key). Is it possible for me to act as AP B (with the mac and SSID belonging to AP B) and downgrade the connection in somehow?
With downgrade I mean making the connection use no encryption at all or using a weaker form of encryption.
Let's assume that I can use airdrop-ng to eliminate AP B.
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/ Alex
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remote-exploit & backtrack
Hello,
Before I'm losing my mind completely, I thought I should ask you about suggestions.
I'm trying to set up an soft AP with my Alfa AWUS036H
I'll start with a short description and we will see if someone already can pinpoint the problem from there. Otherwise I'm going to be more specific:
- I put my Alfa-interace in monitor mode with airmon-ng
- I start airbase-ng on the monitor interface
- I have configured my dhcpd.conf file and told the dhcp-deamon to work on the tap interface which is newly created with command airbase
- I set the IP on the tap interface (at0) to map to the correct IP which also is specified in dhcpd.conf as router and set the mtu to 1400 and bring up the at0-interface.
- I add the correct route to the specified net with the gateway set to the same IP as I specified on at0.
- I start the dhcpd and everything seems OK.
("Wrote 0 leases to leases file")
From my other laptop I'm able to see the newly created AP and I can connect to it but I don't get an IP from dhcpd.
If I run tcpdump on at0 the only thing I see is:
"12:24.069960 TheClient'sMAC (oui Unknown) Null > Broadcast Unknown DSAP 0x08 Supervisory, Receiver not Ready, rcv seq 0, Flags [Command], length 330"
What the h am I doing wrong? I am also able to see the client's request coming in:
"12:24 Client TheClient'sMAC associated (unencrypted) to ESSID: "secret"
I'm happy to give away all the conf-files and detailed descriptions, but I thought that I'll start with this light description and see if someone comes up with the solution or ideas.
Thanks / Alex
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Hack a Day
A diode allows current to travel in only one direction. With that in mind, [Alex] built a mechanical diode that will only allow gear rotation in one direction to be transmitted through the system. But wait, by connecting two of these devices together he’s built something of a mechanical rectifier. An electrical rectifier converts alternating [...]
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