Author: Eliot

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TC7 Day 1 – Bastille Hardening Assessment Tool

September 17, 2005 by 3 Comments

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UPDATE: Slides

Bastille is an OS hardening tool for Linux. Jay Beale gave a presentation on how to “lock down” a system using it. Bastille can analyze your current setup and give you a rating based on how secure your system is. The program asks you questions based on your configuration (“Do you want to turn off ### service?”). It explains the possible consequences of taking the suggested actions. The process can be very educational. The system is modular so you can add your own modules by writing a few lines of Perl. Bastille can also generate configurations that can be deployed across multiple machines.

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Individual Throttle Body Setup

September 16, 2005 by 19 Comments

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Homemadeturbo.com is dedicated to scratch building turbo systems using salvaged parts. That’s pretty cool, but this project really caught my eye: building an individual throttle body manifold for a Honda engine. Jeff picked up a  set of throttle bodies from a 2001 gixxer on eBay for $50. He then cut down the stock manifold and added extensions to attach the throttle bodies using silicon couplers. The velocity stacks also came from eBay for $35. The only really difficult part seems to be attaching the throttle position sensor. It is definitely a great looking set up and much cheaper than it would ever be off the shelf.

[thanks bodiby]

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Mac MAME Cabinets

September 15, 2005 by 13 Comments

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[calhoun] has been scratch building some great mac based MAME cabinets. His first one was a cocktail (pictured above) built from a Powerbook and using an I-PAC to interface with the arcade controls. The motherboard and hard drive are mounted to a fold down plexiglass tray. The speakers come from the Apple “globe” speakers. This is just the first model, he’s built several bar-top cabinets and is constantly trying to improve the design.

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Hackaday Lazy Afternoons

September 15, 2005 by 6 Comments

Lazy Afternoons

You probably thought we had lost that banner. I wasn’t actually planning this for today, but I had a couple projects come in that seemed pretty easy to do.

Aircraft pokia This project is from [Dave Seltzer]. He modified an Avcomm aviation headset so that he could use it with his cellphone. Aviation headsets have odd sized plugs and are wired kinda weird, but the the hack is pretty clear since everything is annotated

Hacking Network Printers

September 14, 2005 by 16 Comments

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[Irongeek] has assembled a good starting point for hacking network printers. It starts with a discussion of stock passwords and how to administrate printers using telnet. Next is finding printers using NMAP. You can actually use the JetDirect boxes as idle scan zombies to scan other systems without exposing yourself. Other topics include setting up direct IP printing, changing the display, and using Hijetter from the Phenoelit crew. The ability to capture and replay print jobs really demonstrates how insecure network printing is.

[Irongeek] is also a great source for making the most of your Zaurus and has video demos of other hacking topics.

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