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Continue reading →: Media-Motor only with Yahoo Sniffer
Talk about an insidious threat, Media Motor hijacks web addresses like “alexa.com”:http://alexa.com by installing as a domain thingy in the registry. It is very hard to find. Ad Aware didn’t find it, Spybot doesn’t find it. Only Yahoo’s toolbar (which is Webroot) found it. The behavious is strange, it gives…
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Continue reading →: LAN sniffing and password recovery
When you are a support guy trying to figure out an unfamiliar LAN that the last guy didn’t document, hyou need some sniffing tools to figure out what is going on: Here are some from “What is the best LAN sniffer?”:http://www.governmentsecurity.org/archive/t7343.html and they recommend: * “Ettercap”:http://ettercap.sourceforge.net/ is a network sniffer…
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Continue reading →: Linksysinfo on Linksys firmware projects
“Linksysinfo”:http://www.linksysinfo.org/portal/forums/forumdisplay.php seems to be the place where all the various firmware projects are discussed. I’ve used DD-WRT and it worked OK, but when I upgraded our WRT54G to HyperWRT Beta 21, it completely bricked it, so beware. Other projects I haven’t tried include Svearsoft, EWRT, HyperWAP. Also there is the…
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Continue reading →: Link WAP54G V3
We have a bunch of these APs Linksys.com – Support/Technical Support/Downloads WAP54G – Wireless-G Access Point . One thing is the use of “hyperwap”:http://www.hyperwap.org/forum/viewtopic.php?id=53 on it to give it more features. This is a version of Hyperwap based on the 3.04 firmware that is the latest from linksys. Apparently the…
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Continue reading →: Think Secret
“Think Secret”:http://www.thinksecret.com/ is the top site according to google for Mac rumors. There are a bunch of things happening: * This tuesday, we should see the 2nd generation nano and a wide screen iPod coming out. Wahoo! * “24 inch iMac”:http://www.thinksecret.com/news/0609newimac.html In case you missed it a 24″ iMac is…
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Continue reading →: Transaction error – Decryption Error
Connie has exactly this problem right now. In reading this long thread, it looks like the keys are somehow out of sync. Folks have tried installing a new version of the desktop manager, deleting all the service books and reregistering and sometimes that fixes it. Others have just tried regenerating…
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Continue reading →: popsugar
!>http://popsugar.com/files/images/heather_locklear2_1.jpg!:http://popsugar.com Simon and I had a great conversation abourt where the web is headed. There are an amazing number of vertical sites now like POPSUGAR | Insanely Addictive. Heather and David have been hanging out all summer, and with the end of the summer comes the end of this romance.…
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Continue reading →: D-link DI-624 Rev C Firmware
I’ve been using v2.70 for a while, but it doesn’t work with the more advanced encryption schemes. In particularly, it really only works with WEP 128 bit. However, there have been some releases since then so that now with “2.75”:http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16808179~mode=flat I’ve been able to get WPA with AES working. This…


