Episode 22 - Hacking Wireless Using Grim Wepa

Happy Memorial Day everyone! I hope you are all enjoying the long weekend. I also hope that you all have taken a moment to think about those who have fallen in the defense of this great country of ours! As a Navy veteran I can tell you first hand that it is not easy being in the military and being far away from home while defending the freedoms of the people you left behind. I couldn't imagine what it is like for those left behind who have had their loved one die in combat. Today is about remembering the ones who have died, and their families left to carry on.With that said, today is a great memorial Day because Episode 22 released today! In this episode I show you how to hack WEP encrypted wireless access points using a GUI program in Linux called Grim Wepa. For this demo I setup an access...

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How To Hack Your MagicJack Part 4 – Using MagicJack as a SIP Trunk

Okay, this is going to be my last post on hacking your Magicjack, as all my messing around is seriously pissing my wife and colleagues at work off. It takes a little finagling to get this working. If you have a heavy duty firewall like a Cisco ASA, then you will have to modify this setup a bit which I will cover later. The reason is that enterprise Firewalls may consider my setup as a possible LAND Attack and will drop packets. However, if you can afford a Cisco ASA, then you probably can afford a real telephone solution anyway. No, this post is more geared for the SOHO network using a simple Linksys or D-Link type router. This is more of an ideal solution, as that is how Magicjack is designed. I will still give you a tip on how to get it working...

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How To Hack Your MagicJack To Make Calls From Any SIP Enabled Softphone in Windows and Linux Part 3 – Using Your MagicJack info in Linux

Okay, if you have been following along all week I have showed you how to obtain your Magicjack username and password by doing a memory dump, and I showed you how to use that information to connect a softphone in Windows. What about you Linux users? Well, I am a Linux user myself, so I will show you guys how to do it too. Like I said before, using other methods to connect to you Magicjack service other than the way magicjack wants you to (USB dongle in Windows) violates their TOS. I accept no responsibility if you lose your account because you want to hack your Magicjack. The following is for educational purposes only, and if you do this, you do so at your own risk. Ok, lets get what we need: Magicjack username and password Twinkle softphone...

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How To Hack Your MagicJack To Make Calls From Any SIP Enabled Softphone in Windows and Linux Part 2 – Using Your MagicJack info in Windows

Yesterday I wrote about how to obtain your Magicjack password by doing a memory dump in Windows. Well what good is that information if you don’t know how to use it? I’ll tell you, it isn’t any good at all! So in the post, I will tell you how to setup a softphone in Windows so you can make inbound and outbound calls using your Magicjack number without having to use the USB dongle! Not to mention, you can set this up on multiple computers! Once again I want to re-iterate that this violates Magicjack’s TOS. This article is purely for informational purposes, and I accept no liability if you get your Magicjack account pulled because you want to screw the man! With that little bit of legal mumbo jumbo out of the way, lets get together the stuff you...

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How To Hack Your MagicJack To Make Calls From Any SIP Enabled Softphone in Windows and Linux Part 1 – Getting Your Magicjack Password

Over the last few days I decided I was going to figure out how to hack my Magicjack so I could make calls using the SIP information no matter where I was without having to carry around my Magicjack USB dongle. Also, I wanted to be able to make calls in Linux and Windows. Before I could do any of that though I needed the SIP information for my Magicjack! You see, Magicjack is really a simple device that uses the standard SIP protocol to make inbound and outbound calls. If you are not familiar with SIP, here is an explanation from Wikipedia: The Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) is an IETF-defined signaling protocol, widely used for controlling multimedia communication sessions such as voice and video calls over Internet Protocol (IP). The...

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Changing The Login For Ubuntu Is Even Easier!

Back in Ubuntu 9.10, the good ol' folks over at Canonical decided to use a different style of login than in previous versions. Before karmic Koala, you could download really cool themes to skin out your GDM login page, and make it look really cool. You could find skins and themes that matched your personality, and make a custom look that was an expression of you! When 9.10 came out, things changed a bit.I wrote about one way to change the look of your login page back when 9.10 came out. It basically consisted of a command to run as root so you could change your wallpaper, icons, and theme. What was the big change? Well, they did away with the GDM login and went with a faster loading X11 login. Their goal was to decrease boot times at the expense...

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Goodbye Google Apps Start Page! You Will Be Missed!

I have been an avid Google Apps user for a while now, and have even blogged about it in the past. I use Google Apps for hosting my personal Bauer-Power email even. Though they have made it harder to find on their page, Google is still making a free version of Google Apps called Google Apps Standard Edition so you can take advantage of that too. Overall, I have been very happy with the service… Until now! You see, on May 13th I received an email stating that they are doing away with the Google Start page service do to requests to make it more like iGoogle. Their response? Do away with it altogether, and replace it with iGoogle. What does that mean for people like me who use it? All my customizations go away! Nice! For you Bauer-Puntu users...

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How-to really get your Wii to play Backed up games.

So you may or may not have heard of WiiBrew but if you have a Wii you should have. For me it’s been the best app ever for the Wii. It will let you run free Homebrew games and run apps like an FTP server, website manager, emulators for SNES, NES, Sega, PSX, even run Linux on your Wii. I think I wrote an article similar to this before but no doubt the downloads don’t work. Since there is new apps and info about WiiBrew I figure it’d need a new post. So below are a list of links for how to get it all setup. I’ve done this with all the links provided and it all worked good. The only application you really need at first from WiiBrew.org is the Homebrew Browser. It’ll allow you to navigate through a huge list of Homebrew apps and games right on your Wii. What is WiiBrew: http://wiibrew.org/wiki/Main_Page...

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How To Sync Exchange Calendar With Thunderbird and Lightning

Yesterday I posted about setting up a PGP key server in Ubuntu for use at work. That is one piece of the puzzle. The second piece of the PGP puzzle is integrating PGP with your email client so that you can easily send and receive encrypted messages. I always recommend gpg4win for Windows users looking for a free OpenPGP solution in Windows. In Linux, GPG is built in, but in Windows you have to find 3rd party software to get the job done. In Microsoft Outlook 2003 and 2007, the Outlook plug-in that comes with gpg4win works great. The problem? We are now using Outlook 2010 in the office. Sometimes it sucks to be bleeding edge because old software isn’t always compatible. You know what works well for PGP/GPG though? Mozilla Thunderbird with...

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How To Setup A Free PGP Key Server in Ubuntu

Happy Tuesday everybody! Thought I would sit down and jot a little something about one of my little pet projects I decided to do at work. Every once in a while I get a wild hair to try something out for experience and it turns out to be useful for work too. I did it at my last company with Openfire, which according to friends that still work there, they still use! This time I got the idea that we as an IT department should have the option to send each other encrypted email because due to the nature of our business, we often deal with sensitive data. Sometimes we deal with data that if it were to fall into the wrong hands could cost our company millions of dollars. Data like that needs to be protected. One of the first blog articles I wrote...

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Download Portal Free

That’s right Till May 24th it’s totally free.  Now you have no reason not to try Portal. Some of you are probably yelling, “WTF I own a Mac!!" For you folk, it’s now available for the MAC. "Capital news! But the excellent puzzle adventure Portal won over 40 Game of the Year awards; Surely it must cost at least five or six hundred dollars." You'd think that, especially since it actually won over 70 Game of the Year Awards. But, like we keep saying, Portal is free. Free on the Mac. Free on the PC. But only until May 24th. So you only have a few days to decide if you want your free copy of Portal.   All you have to do is Click on the red “Get Portal Now” button on the site. http://store.steampowered.com/freeportal/ by FreedomChicken...

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Alternative To gtk-RecordMyDesktop in Ubuntu

I felt that I had to write this up being as how I spent the last few days racking my brain trying to find a way to record my Linux environment in Bauer-Puntu 10.04 using gtk-RecordMyDesktop. You see, that is my software of choice in Linux to record my desktop, but the problem is that on my Dell Latitude D420, the hardware can’t handle it and I end up getting a crap load of frames dropped. When you have a lot of dropped frames, it makes it look like the video is going really friggin’ fast! I tried some other programs like Istanbul and XVidCap, but Istanbul hung up after I pressed record and wouldn’t stop, and XVidCap gave me the same results as gtk-RecordMyDesktop which was crazy fast video. The only thing I could do to make these programs...

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Removing a column from a Document Library in SharePoint 2007

Now I may not have done this the right way or what not, but I could not find the “proper” way to remove a column. I’m a bit of a noob to SP 2007 but apparently I’m the new SharePoint “go-to” guy. I was then tasked to find a way to remove a column from one of our document libraries. So I went into SP, loaded the document library found the list of columns there and clicked on the one I wanted to edit. Then what’s this there is no delete or remove button. So I canceled out, tried to google how to remove it. Still no help. This really can’t be as hard as it seems. So after a while of trying things that made since I figured I’d just start trying random stuff. After hours of trying random stuff it all worked out. So I figure if anyone else has this issue I’ll post it here to hopefully help any...

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Need an SSL Certificate? Can You Afford FREE?

So I get an email from Disqus the other day like I always do when someone comments on a blog post. Often times if someone posts a link in the comment I get an approval email from Disqus. Most of the time if there is a link it is spam and I mark it as spam via email and I’m on my way, but occasionally someone will post a comment to something very useful, and that is how this article begins! I received a comment from a reader by the name of Tony Jobson on my article on how to setup SSTP VPN in Windows server 2008. In that article I mentioned how you can get an SSL certificate from GoDaddy for $12.99. I thought that was the best deal in town, but I was wrong! You can get a FREE, fully functional SSL certificate from StartSSL! Yes, I said free,...

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Music From Windows XP and 98

I saw this in my Internet travels the other night, and thought I would repost it here. I mean it had to go up on Bauer-Power for the pure geekiness of it! In the video below a guy takes only sound files from Windows XP and Windows 98 and turns them from their annoying sounds to sweet ass geeky music! Seriously, iIthink I have found my new ring tone! I am not sure what software the guy used to make this masterpiece. If you know, please let me know what it is in the comments.EDIT: Not sure how I missed it, but at the end they say what software it is. The software is called MODPlug Tracker, and it is free! Thanks for the comments! What did you think of it? Pretty cool right? the extended MP3 version can be downloaded from here: (Windows Music Mix) Technorati Tags: windows,xp,98,...

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Clean Disk Space In Ubuntu With FSLint

I suppose I will start off by telling a story. About a week ago, give or take a few days, Ubuntu 10.04 LTS released. As usual I started working on creating my personal Ubuntu based distro called Bauer-Puntu. For those of you following the blog, you may know that I use Remastersys to create my live cd. The only problem with Remastersys is that if you leave all of the default applications that comes with Ubuntu, your live cd will be well over 1GB! Well, the trick is removing packages and other junk you never use, and you know you will never need! Sure you can go through Synaptic and pick and choose applications to remove, but what about temp files? What about bad symlinks? What about packages you didn’t know you had?! Well I found a tool that...

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Bauer-Puntu 10.04 Released!

Just last week, Ubuntu released their latest Long Term Support (LTS) release version 10.04 Lucid Lynx. Well, you of course know what that means right? Yup, I had to quickly put together Bauer-Puntu 10.04! Due to the extreme popularity of Bauer-Puntu 9.10R2, I decided to not make too many drastic changes. This way you can keep using Bauer-Puntu as your daily IT toolkit without interruption.That being said, I did make some changes. Some of it was for ease of making the distro, and also because this version of Ubuntu is pretty friggin' awesome on it's own, and doesn't need a lot of customization. I mean seriously, they finally got rid of the shit brown! That was one of the main reasons I started Bauer-Puntu! They did however move to a Gentoo like...

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Episode 21 – How To Write IMG Files to USB

Another month, another episode of Bauer-Power! In this episode I decided it was time to address some emails I had been receiving ever since episode 19 where I showed you all how to use Bauer-Puntu to hack Windows passwords. It turns out there were a lot of n00bs out there who didn’t know how to put my Linux awesomeness onto a USB stick. Here I was thinking everyone knew of how to do it, but I guess I was wrong. I decided to do this video for the n00bs! In this video not only will I show you how to write my USB image to your USB drive in Windows, I will show you a way of doing it in Linux too. So grab some popcorn, and crack open a beer, because here is episode 21!     Once again, the tools I used were: Roadkil’s Disk Image -  Windows Ubuntu ImageWriter – Linux Any other...

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