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For a long time it was nearly impossible to tell who owned a cell phone because it didn’t provide a name on the caller ID. Recently tnid.us has came to the attention of the security community and is giving out that information for free. I am not exactly sure how they do it but out … Read more

QR codes are pretty awesome right?  They are the new cool thing to stick on websites, menus, billboards, real estate signs, shirts, etc. I mean you hold your phone up to them and they can give you a secret message, they can send txt messages from your phone, or give you a URL to visit.  … Read more

One Saturday a month I get up and drive nearly 100 miles round trip to go and purchase some of the best meat in Missouri. About 5 miles south of Freeburg Missouri is The Butcher Shop LLC Even with gas at $3.60 a gallon it is worth the gas money and the time investment. What … Read more

I really wanted an HDTV for my office for the last couple of months and after talking to my buddies I rigged together this setup for my office. Supplies:AccuSync LCD71V LCD Monitor (I bought in 2004)KWORLD 1440 external TV tuner (my buddy had sitting around).RCA DTA800 (Free from the government during the HD conversion)  Some … Read more

I will be giving a talk at Secureworld Expo in St.Louis on September 13th on the topic: What we can learn from LULZSEC (Yes I am trying to get the picture changed). I really think there are a ton of lessons the average security professional can take from the mayhem they caused that they shouldn’t … Read more

Do you 2FA? No its not a cool new dance. It stands for two factor authentication and its a great way to secure your accounts. If you have a smart phone you have no good excuse not to take advantage of the extra security banks, email providers and social networks are building into their websites. … Read more

Landon happened to see my old NES and Zapper in my bedroom the other day and just had to play it. So after it getting it all hooked up and blasting ducks for a couple hours the kid was hooked. After spending most of the last week blasting ducks (although I didnt get to level … Read more

With both Facebook and Google Hangouts for the first time making a webcam a “must have” for good online communications I went out and found these 720P webcams on Amazon $30 so I bought 3 of them. Microsoft LifeCam HD-5000 720p HD Webcam They work awesome in Windows 7 and (surprisingly) Ubuntu.

1. Login to Voice Mail.2. Press 4 for “Personal Options from the Main Menu.3. Press 2 for Adminstrative Options.4. Press 1 for Password Options.5. Press 1 to Establish a Password. Enter it twice, each time followed by #. If you go back to Password Options, you can press 2 to Turn Password On or Off. … Read more

In light of the voice mail hacking story in the UK by newspapers Brian Krebs has a great article on his blog from this weekend about how easy it is to “hack” into ATT voicemail using a caller ID spoofing service like spooftel.com. Even with a password set on your ATT voice mail someone can … Read more