While we aren’t having a party this year, we are running a mini contest and offering up some tokens of appreciation for those who complete it. A badge of honor if you will… http://www.badguywalmart.com Let’s be clear. The end objective of this game is to speak a phrase to Darren or Larry so that it […]
Two weeks ago, some of the Security Weekly crew spent a couple of days down in Maryland hanging out with all of the great CCDC crew. While Paul and Darren played Red Team for the Mid-Atlantic Collegiate Cyber Defense Challenge, I got to play “the badge man”. It was my job to design and implement […]
We’ve been asked a number of times for advice on RFID equipment that can be used to start experimenting with RFID technologies. We’ve heard your request loud and clear; I’m going to give you a rundown of what is in my current kit. Start at the Beginning The first reader that I picked up was […]
To quote Carlos “dark0perator” Perez, “shell is just the beginning”. Now that we have access to a machine, we can gather all sorts of goodies, we just need to know where to look. Some of my favorite local system information gathering techniques include grabbing Firefox stored passwords. Prior to version 3.5, (for version 3) the […]
Now that DEFCON 17 is over, we promised the solution to our party pass challenge. I knwoo that many have been waiting patiently, here it is: Remember the original post? Here is the challenge in case you forgot. As stated in the original post, everything that you needed to complete the challenge was in the […]
The invite only DEFCON Party will be held at: Saturday, August 1st The Riviera Skybox 207/208 22:00 to 03:00 This will be immediately following the Podcaster’s Meetup, where tons of prizes are being given away, so you may want to come early. NOTE: Due to Hotel and State regulations, because alcohol is being served at […]
The planning for the party is shaping up, but in traditional Security Weekly fashion, a lot of the details are coming in at the last minute. We’ll have some totally rockin’ DJs from DJ Great Scott’s crew (when when have confirmation, we’ll let you know exactly who). We’ll have adult beverages – we’re looking at […]
I’m always on the lookout for new ways to do recon during an assessment, or be aware how folks could be performing recon against an organization. Being aware of recon methods helps make recommendations to remediate potential exposure. One of the things that can be highly successful for recon on a target is wireless. I’m […]
How to create a persistent install for BackTrack 4 Pre-release (via the Informer) on an SD card (or USB thumb drive) I was excited to be able to use the new pre-release version of Backtrack 4, as I love to use it on my Asus EEE 1000HA. When it was released I was eager to […]
Here at Security Weekly we have this thing for wireless of all kinds. Wireless cards, cables, antennas, 802.11, RFID…the list goes on. We’re always on the lookout for something neat and useful. We found that in the Asus EEE line of netbooks. They are small, usually feature Atheros wireless cards, and have a huge modding […]
