Curiosity in Practice
Letsencrypt.org is a new project that offers free TLS certificates to allow people to encrypt their traffic. The project is in a limited beta so I decided that a good test would be to install one of their certificates on to a Nessus scanner I host in AWS. The install wasn’t complicated and only took about 15 … Read more
I have been working on a Bluetooth hacking project recently and couldn’t really find a good bluetooth recon tool so I wrote btrecon to do what I need done. Here is a quick demo: I still have some work to do on this project as I would like to add some logging and menus but it isnt … Read more
I wrote nocommonsssids to quickly remove the top ssids (from wigle.net) from the preferred network list in OSX so that it does not auto connect to them. Running this will help stop you from being caught by an EvilAP attack along the line of the Mana Common demo I put together earlier this month. You … Read more
I had the opportunity to speak at a “micro- conference” yesterday for the Midwest Cyber Security Alliance with the state auditor Nicole Galloway. I wanted to use this opportunity to make a bold statement since I knew there would be influential people in the audience who wanted to listen Nicole talk about her new cyber security auditing initiative. … Read more
I am getting ready to teach a “Building Your Own Security Lab” series of classes and I really needed a safe place for people to try their hand at wireless hacking. I built HackAPie that uses a RaspberryPI (this canakit) and openwrt that broadcasts 5 unique wireless networks to crack using tools like wifite and kali. There are … Read more
My mentor and I are in the middle of spinning up an information sharing group with local security professionals and next Friday is our first “working session” and we are discussing what building a security lab* looks like and costs. We really hope to start walking through the tools in future meetings but here is … Read more
If you do not have unlimited data on your iOS device you will want to turn off Wi-Fi Assist in iOS9. Wi-fi Assist uses your data connection when you are on a slow Wi-Fi network. To turn it off go to Settings > Cellular > Wi-Fi Assist > Off.
I have been looking for sometime to get a few security cameras setup around my house. I have thought about the dropcam and oco options but they were both fairly expensive and didn’t have the options that I wanted. What I did have was a raspberry pi 2, two old web cameras and a 6 year … Read more