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Google Instant
by Josh Houston on Sep.12, 2010, under Uncategorized
Google Instant is a new search enhancement that shows results as you type. We are pushing the limits of our technology and infrastructure to help you get better search results, faster. Our key technical insight was that people type slowly, but read quickly, typically taking 300 milliseconds between keystrokes, but only 30 milliseconds (a tenth of the time!) to glance at another part of the page. This means that you can scan a results page while you type.
The most obvious change is that you get to the right content much faster than before because you don’t have to finish typing your full search term, or even press “search.” Another shift is that seeing results as you type helps you formulate a better search term by providing instant feedback. You can now adapt your search on the fly until the results match exactly what you want. In time, we may wonder how search ever worked in any other way.
Benefits
Faster Searches: By predicting your search and showing results before you finish typing, Google Instant can save 2-5 seconds per search.
Smarter Predictions: Even when you don’t know exactly what you’re looking for, predictions help guide your search. The top prediction is shown in grey text directly in the search box, so you can stop typing as soon as you see what you need.
Instant Results: Start typing and results appear right before your eyes. Until now, you had to type a full search term, hit return, and hope for the right results. Now results appear instantly as you type, helping you see where you’re headed, every step of the way.
via Google Instant.
WPA Wireless Hacking
by Josh Houston on Mar.11, 2010, under Hacking, Security, Tips & Tricks, Uncategorized, Wireless
In this Video Tutorial, I show you how to crack a wireless network secured with WPA encryption. Although it may sound hard, it is actually quite easier than you may think. I also have provided a Written tutorial for you to save, and the video is also available for download. The following are links to an outside website (mediafire) providing hosting for the videos. Video
- Type in “airmon-ng” to see wireless adaptors on your computer.
- You should see a listing come up. Mine showed wlan0. Yours may be different, such a rausb0.
Type in “airmon-ng start wlan0” to start your wireless device. Replace the “wlan0” with whatever yours showed to be. This will create a new “virtual” device, and will show the name. The name for mine was “mon0“ - Open a new terminal window, and type “airodump mon0” again, replacing “mon0” with your new virtual devices name.
You will begin to see a listing of different APs (access points). Find the one you want and press Control + C. Pressing Control + C will cancel the current program running in terminal. The name of the networks found is under the ESSID column. You may not see anything there, which is fine, some of them are invisible. Home.net is the name of my network, which is the ESSID. - This is what I typed after that, “airodump-ng -c 6 -w Home.netWPA –output-format ivs mon0” This is all real easy stuff, so I’ll just explain it to you right quick. airodump-ng is a program which will capture the WPA handshake, which we will need in order to use a dictionary attack on. Here goes!
- Type “airodump-ng”
- Add a space and type “–channel 6″ replacing the number 6 with the number of the channel of your Network (although 6 is VERY common, so don’t be surprised if that is it)
- Add a space and type “-w Home.netWPA“ replacing Home.netWPA with the name of your network, or something you can remember.
- Add a space and type “–output-format ivs”. This will tell airodump-ng to save our file in the ivs format, which we will use later for cracking.
- The “mon0″ at the end, simply defines which device to use.
- Open a New Terminal Window. In it, type “aireplay-ng -0 1 -e Home.net mon0″
- aireplay-ng is the tool that is going to allow us to perform the deauthentication attack, which will be needed in order to successfully crack the password.
- The “-0 1″ flag tells the program to perform the deauthenication attack on a station, rather than all clients, which can really slow down progress.
- The “-e Home.net” tells which address to attack. The -e stands for essid which is the address of your network. So you will have to replace Home.net with the address of your network (the one that I recommended you write down or copy earlier).
- The “mon0″ at the end, again just defines which device to use.
- In our airodump-ng window, if you have not already, press Control + C, and type: “aircrack-ng -w list.lst Home.netWPA-01.ivs″.
This is our last step in our attack, cracking the password against our Dictionary list, here goes:- aircrack-ng is going to allow us to take the WPA captured passphrase, and will use our ESSID along with every entry in our Dictionary list, to try and “guess” the password.
- The “-w list.lst” tells aircrack-ng which dictionary file to use. If you are using Backtrack 4, then you can just place the dictionary list on your desktop, and replace list.lst with your file name.
- And lastly, “Home.netWPA-01.ivs” instructs aircrack-ng to attempt to crack this file.
- If all goes well, the password was in your password list, and you now have the password to your network! Congratulations! Now…. Go make a password that isn’t in a dictionary….
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Conficker butters Toast?
by Josh Houston on Apr.01, 2009, under Uncategorized
In light of recent activity, or the lack thereof..
We have concluded that the most probable cause of the Conficker worm not taking any threatening action, is because the developer wants his worm to not only have a have infection rate, but to also have the first worm in history that is able to butter toast.
Buttered Toast
Although clueless as to why this undoubtly unique feature is desired, it would be the very virus that is also destructive to our health.
