• VIDEO: SHODAN a Search Engine for Penetration Testers (The Next HOPE)

     Posted by at 21:14  Events, Hacking, Internet, Technology, Video  Comments Off
    Jul 192010
     

    This weekend at The Next HOPE conference Michael “theprez98” Schearer, a security researcher, gave a very interesting talk about SHODAN. SHODAN is a search engine which searches “banners” of systems. This means it’s basically a search engine of services on the internet. For example, with SHODAN you can find all servers running a specific version of Apache in a specific country. You also have the ability to export results in XML for a nominal fee. Check out the video of theprez98′s talk below. You can also find the slide-deck for theprez’s talk here. Please check your ethics before misusing SHODAN.

    SHODAN for Penetration Testers (The Next Hope) from theprez98 on Vimeo.

    Tutorial: Cracking WEP Using Backtrack 3

     Posted by at 17:07  Featured, Hacking, Internet, Mobile, Technology, the w0rd  87 Responses »
    Aug 192008
     

    Standard Disclaimer: This article is provided for informational purposes only. thew0rd.com and its affiliates accept no liability for providing this information. Please only use to test configurations on your own equipment. Accessing WIFI networks that do not belong to you is ILLEGAL.

    This article will explan how to crack 64bit and 128bit WEP on many WIFI access points and routers using Backtrack, a live linux distribution. Your mileage may very. The basic theory is that we want to connect to an Access Point using WEP Encryption, but we do not know the key. We will attack the wifi router, making it generate packets for our cracking effort, finally cracking the WEP key. I have tested this technique on an IBM Thinkpad x60 and Acer 5672 and the WIFI Chipset in those machines work for sure.

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