From the monthly archives: February 2010
Aircrack-ng on Ubuntu
By Chris On February 25, 2010 · 3 Comments · In General, Internet Privacy, Technology Politics, Wireless Security
I’ve seen and read about all the cool things that someone can do with aircrack-ng to do cracking/pentesting of your own wireless network. I knew that it was fairly easy to do all of this, but I never had a wireless card with an Atheros chipset, or at least a chipset that you [...]
I wanted to see the Bob Costas/Stephen Colbert interview from Vancouver, but the NBC Olympics website required Microsoft’s Silverlight in order to watch the videos. Well, I don’t use Windows as my regular desktop, I use Linux. A friend showed me how to use Moonlight, which is [...]
Back in 2006, I saw an article on Security Focus that briefly discussed how Botnets are becoming more difficult to track because Botnet operators have been switching from IRC to HTTP as their means of communication to and from the Botnets (article link). When a Botnet operator uses IRC, it makes blocking of [...]
Today, there was an Ask Slashdot Story called: “Did We Lose the Privacy War?” In the story, the user was trying to do things like use NoScript and block Google Analytics, disabling third party cookies, and encrypting IM “to keep data-miners at bay”. While I think some [...]
After applying the new Zipit Z2 Userland image created by soundguy, I became interested in trying to get Apache2 running on the Zipit again. I attempted to install apache2 from apt and received this error again: apache2 emerg function not implemented. After some searching, I found out here that this error is related [...]
After the issues with Apache beat me into submission, I put my Zipit on the shelf for a while to do some other projects. A friend pointed out that Hunter Davis had posted a link to a new Userland image for the Zipit. The pictures impressed me so I took the Zipit off [...]
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