Thanks go to sometimes hacker, C.K. Sample, III, author of PSP Hacks for contributing this how-to. So you've heard about this homebrew thing that all the cool kids have been doing, but you have already upgraded to version 2.6 of the firmware so that you could play all the latest and greatest games on the PSP. Fortunately for you, some very diligent hackers have been working round the clock to … [Read more...]
Shmoocon 2006: A Young Gentleman’s Primer on the Reading and Emulation of Magnetic Cards
January 31, 2006 By 4 Comments
If you payed attention to the comments on our story about a Magnetic stripe card emulator you would have seen Abend announce his Shmoocon talk. It was a pretty interesting talk about the basics of mag cards and some of the tricks employed by companies to obfuscate the data. To get the feel for the talk I suggest you listen to SploitCast #004 which features Abend as a guest. That combined with his … [Read more...]
RC paintball tank built from printer parts
January 30, 2006 By 15 Comments
You could spend hours exploring the R/C Tank Combat website, so we will highlight one project to get you started. Steve Tyng built this awesome model based on the Russian T34-85 tank. The body is all wood an uses stainless steel axles salvaged from a printer. The original drive system used 24-volt DC motors from dot-matrix printers, but they've since been replaced. The most tedious part of this … [Read more...]
Shmoocon 2006: Wi-Fi Trickery or How to Secure, Break and Have Fun with Wi-Fi
January 30, 2006 By 2 Comments
Franck Veysset and Laurent Butti, both from France Telecom R&D, presented several proof-of-concept tools at Shmoocon that use 802.11 raw injection. The first is Raw Fake AP. The original Fake AP is a script that generates thousands of fake access points. It is easy to spot because of tell-tale signs like the BSSID showing the AP has only been up for a couple milliseconds. Raw Fake AP tries to … [Read more...]
Robotic motion sensing using an optical mouse
January 29, 2006 By 19 Comments
We've had fun with the sensors in optical mice before, but [Mac Cody] wrote in to tell us about his legitimate application of the technology. First, he disassembled the mouse and bypassed the on-board controller. He then wired the clock and data lines to a Harris RTXEB single board computer. It's based around a Harris RTX2001A microcontroller which he programmed in Forth to talk to the Agilent … [Read more...]
Shmoocon 2006: The Church of Wi-Fi presents: An evil bastard, a rainbow and a great dane!
January 29, 2006 By 15 Comments
The Church of WiFi gave a presentation on some of their recent projects. The first was coWPAtty, a program for brute forcing WPA-PSK. To speed up the process they created a table for pre-hashed WPA-PSK. WPA-PSK is seeded using the SSID of the router, so they grabbed the top 1000 SSIDs from Wigle.net and calculated the hashes when using a 170,000 word dictionary. Now they are able to check 18,000 … [Read more...]
Shmoocon 2006: Covert crawling: a wolf among lambs
January 28, 2006 By 5 Comments
Billy Hoffman has built a site crawler that can hide its activity within normal web traffic. Crawling a website is one of the easiest ways to find exploitable pages, but the systematic nature of the crawl makes it stand out in logs. Billy set out to design a crawler that would behave like a normal web browser. It follows more popular links first (think "news", not "legal notice") and it doesn't … [Read more...]
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