Killing Time...
Ok, I'm just killing time here so I decided to blog since I haven't posted anything recently.
Underwent something major in my lovelife. My girlfriend and I almost broke up. We made up but it was pretty emotional for a while. =)
Ok, on to hacking... (what a segue =) )
What's the best portable hacking device? For me it would be the asus eee, the ones with the atheros card for wep cracking. (Cheap too, best criteria =) )
But the problem is, if you're going to hack a specific target, presumably something corporate, you just couldn't walk into the building, pull out your laptop and start hacking in the hallway (And for pete's sake, change the backtrack logo. I've seen you booting it, dead giveaway). Yes, you could probably use a directional antenna, blah blah blah, but the typical scenario in the philippines is, your target just leases a room or a whole floor inside a building in makati. What if it was on the twenty second floor? Also what if the signal strength was just strong enough NOT to be detected outside the building?
So you have to come in close, come in corporate attire (ditch the faded denim pants, black shirt, and backpack), and try to find an inconspicious place to hack out of (the comfort rooms usually found on both ends of the floor is usually sufficient).
But what if the comfort rooms was locked or too far away? (sucks if you really do have to take a piss). You have to go to their receiving area and try to social engineer your way into staying a bit (they may even have free coffee =) ). And again the problem is you just can't pull out your laptop and start hacking there ("Bos, hindi po ito starbaks..."). So the best thing you can do is turn on your laptop beforehand, set up an ad-hoc wifi with broadcasting disabled, put it back inside your bag before you enter the room, and then use your ipod touch, iphone, or even your wifi enabled nokia cellphone to ssh into your laptop. Simple ain't it? =)
Well, there's been a talk about using an ipod touch for mobile hacking, but it's too underpowered compared to a laptop. I hear installing all the right tools can be a bitch too.
Ok, and uhm, about the creepbox (creeper box). It's a gadget you typically leave unseen connected into the target network either through wifi or through an unused lan port (there's probably a creepbox stucked behind your server rack hehe). They're to provide a (usually wifi ap) backdoor to the target network because some targets are offline networks, and some targets really really monitor internet connections (and some targets, in an effort to thwart porn left downloading in the night, disconnect from the internet at night, at least that's what I think their reason is =) ) . These are usually home made kits (soekris) or made from ripped apart netbooks (you could buy a used eee pc 2g for around Php 6k on tipidpc). You could also use an ipod touch (finders keepers), the problem is it's wifi only. I've also toyed with the idea of using linksys wifi routers (they can boot linux). Oh, and on the Stealing The Network series they had one with a gsm modem and set up so it would basically phone home.
So, uhm, what else? Oh, and the hacking stuff above? I haven't done any of it. It's fiction based on some ideas I had =)
I guess that's it...
Underwent something major in my lovelife. My girlfriend and I almost broke up. We made up but it was pretty emotional for a while. =)
Ok, on to hacking... (what a segue =) )
What's the best portable hacking device? For me it would be the asus eee, the ones with the atheros card for wep cracking. (Cheap too, best criteria =) )
But the problem is, if you're going to hack a specific target, presumably something corporate, you just couldn't walk into the building, pull out your laptop and start hacking in the hallway (And for pete's sake, change the backtrack logo. I've seen you booting it, dead giveaway). Yes, you could probably use a directional antenna, blah blah blah, but the typical scenario in the philippines is, your target just leases a room or a whole floor inside a building in makati. What if it was on the twenty second floor? Also what if the signal strength was just strong enough NOT to be detected outside the building?
So you have to come in close, come in corporate attire (ditch the faded denim pants, black shirt, and backpack), and try to find an inconspicious place to hack out of (the comfort rooms usually found on both ends of the floor is usually sufficient).
But what if the comfort rooms was locked or too far away? (sucks if you really do have to take a piss). You have to go to their receiving area and try to social engineer your way into staying a bit (they may even have free coffee =) ). And again the problem is you just can't pull out your laptop and start hacking there ("Bos, hindi po ito starbaks..."). So the best thing you can do is turn on your laptop beforehand, set up an ad-hoc wifi with broadcasting disabled, put it back inside your bag before you enter the room, and then use your ipod touch, iphone, or even your wifi enabled nokia cellphone to ssh into your laptop. Simple ain't it? =)
Well, there's been a talk about using an ipod touch for mobile hacking, but it's too underpowered compared to a laptop. I hear installing all the right tools can be a bitch too.
Ok, and uhm, about the creepbox (creeper box). It's a gadget you typically leave unseen connected into the target network either through wifi or through an unused lan port (there's probably a creepbox stucked behind your server rack hehe). They're to provide a (usually wifi ap) backdoor to the target network because some targets are offline networks, and some targets really really monitor internet connections (and some targets, in an effort to thwart porn left downloading in the night, disconnect from the internet at night, at least that's what I think their reason is =) ) . These are usually home made kits (soekris) or made from ripped apart netbooks (you could buy a used eee pc 2g for around Php 6k on tipidpc). You could also use an ipod touch (finders keepers), the problem is it's wifi only. I've also toyed with the idea of using linksys wifi routers (they can boot linux). Oh, and on the Stealing The Network series they had one with a gsm modem and set up so it would basically phone home.
So, uhm, what else? Oh, and the hacking stuff above? I haven't done any of it. It's fiction based on some ideas I had =)
I guess that's it...
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