Windows Mobile 6

Posted by: Owen on Monday, 23rd Jul, 2007

I’ve finally got Windows Mobile 6 running on my XDA Orbit (HTC P3300/Artemis), which really wasn’t as hard as I thought it would be. I went with the Black & Blue ROM by Tom Codon which comes ready packaged with a number of utilities and toys and a great little theme.
Installing it was a bit [...]

Cracking WEP now takes less than 1 minute

Posted by: Owen on Thursday, 5th Apr, 2007

It seems like WEP has gone the way of the dodo. According to this paper it is now possible to crack 104-bit WEP in under a minute. Here’s a synopsis.
We were able to extend Klein’s attack and optimize it for usage against WEP. Using our version, it is possible to recover a 104 bit WEP [...]

Using Honeypots to learn about HTTP-based attacks

Posted by: Owen on Wednesday, 28th Feb, 2007

Excellent article about using Honeypots to learn about the sort of application threats that are prevalent today. The authors go into detail about how they conducted the study and walk the reader through the results. They cover the following set of topics:

Code Injection
Remote Code-Inclusion
SQL Injection
Cross-site Scripting
Spam
Blog Comment Spam
Defacements
Scanning Tools
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