Digital Rogue

War Driving with Network Stumbler!

 
If you live in any major city then you are literally surrounded by thousands of wireless networks. From individual homes to small businesses to large corporations. And the surprising thing is that more that 50% of those are not secure. In this post I'm going to tell you how you can sniff these wireless networks down and get into its router config page. And I'll tell you a way that if it is secured using WEP or any other popular encryption system how to break that password and get in. But that will be the next post. Now, I must say that this information is purely for your knowledge in order for you to better secure you network. What ever you do with this information is entirely on you!

    OK, now the first thing that you will need to do is to download a program of the web. Network Stumbler is a free program that will allow you to find these wireless networks. You can find the download  HERE  .  Once you install it, all you need is a wireless card and a laptop. Pretty much any wireless card will work but if you really want to do it right you may want to get a card that will allow you to attach an external antenna up to it to improve your range. One of the best wireless cards for this is an the pro Orinoco Card. You can get these at buy.com . All you need to do is start the program up and presto, that's it! In my experience's, I started the program up, hopped in my car and drove about 5 blocks. And since I'm in Chicago, in just that little time I'd say about 15-20 wireless networks for detected and most of them were unsecured. Whats nice about this program is that it gives you so much information about any given network such as the IP address, type of router, if  it's secure or not, it's SSID, signal strength and so forth.

    Now when you find yourself a unsecured wireless network, you can go ahead and tap into it and use the Internet or if they have a network setup you can see what is on there network. And chances are that the SSID is going to be set on the default, and if the user hasn't changed the SSID  then they most likely are going to have the default user name and password to get into there router config. For example, If it is a linksys router, the user name will be admin and password will be admin. And once you can get into the router config page, you can pretty much do anything you wish.
   
    Most wireless routers are ready to go right out of the box. You can just plug them in and your set. But with this convenience comes insecurities. You see, for manufacturers to supply the routers like this, the routers have to have most if not all of there security features disabled. That is why you can find SO many unsecured wireless networks. Because of ignorance.  So, if you are new to the wireless scene then maybe this will give you a few ideas on how to make your network secure. And if your familiar with it well then this is an exciting little program to mess around with.

    My next post will show you a program that can break a password for most wireless networks so make sure you come back for that post. Till then, have fun.

Zimer

   

Ticketmasters Tickethack

    "LIKE...OH MY GOD BECKY! Usher is coming to town to do a show, but where should we get the tickets? Ticketmaster?"
    " NO Jaqueesha!... MAN GIRLLLLL, unless we have money like usher, we ain't buying no tickets from Ticketmaster!"
    "But Becky...."
    "Look girl, this money is for my nails!"

    Have you had conversations like this? OK, maybe not exactly like this, but something like that. Well, I've got a hack for Ticketmaster that will let you upgrade your seats and, or, get you or your friends in for free.

   Ticketmaster charges crazy fees for having to print tickets and drop them in the mail slot to send to you. But recently,Ticketmaster started offering something called ticketfast (which I like to call tickethack).This allows the customer to buy tickets for events on the Ticketmaster website, then they email a digital image of the ticket to you and all you have to do is print the image out and go to the event.

    Well, what stops you from printing more tickets from the same image? There isn't anything. You can print as many copies of the ticket as you want. However, the ticket has a unique bar code on it that corresponds to a specific seat. Now, when you go to the event, using a custom PalmOS device they scan your ticket and that particular bar code becomes "used" after that. So, if someone has a second or third copy of your ticket, they'll be turned away.

    What about the hack? Well, when they email your tickets to you they are formatted as a PDF file. Therefore, it is quite simple to manipulate them with Photoshop. You can change the Row # and the seat # but that still leaves you with the barcode problem. Now when you buy your tickets, you have the option of how close you want to be to the stage, with the closer tickets selling for more. And when your in the venue, many times they have ushers checking tickets at the seats to keep people that bought cheaper tickets out of the better seats.

    OK. Lets say that there is a group of four people that want to go to a concert. (this is where it gets cool) What you have to do to abuse this little ticketfast idea is have one person buy a ticket close to the stage (which are usual more expensive) and have the other three people buy the cheapest tickets that they can possibly find. Now once the tickets have been emailed to you, create four copies of the expensive ticket and use Photoshop or any other photo editor to replace the bar codes on the three fake expensive copies with the bar codes from the three cheap tickets. And when your done you'll have four copies of the expensive ticket with four unique bar codes. And one last thing is to change the seat row's and numbers of the fake ones so that the ushers don't see four tickets with the same seat.
     If you do this, it will allow you to get into the venue with a valid ticket according to the database and will fool the usher when you go to get your seat.

    Can Ticketmaster fix this problem? Well, they can but it will be VERY difficult to do. Since each venue has different procedures of admitting people, it will be impossible to set up a standard procedure of admitting people who are using ticketfast. The only other thing that Ticketmaster can do is to drop the entire ticketfast option all together or completely change its control devices. So, until then, it's up for the taking.

Zimer

Thanks to Battery from 2600.

Vodka Hack? What?

     Since the major holidays have just pasted us by, I'm sure some interesting infamous holiday horror stories have developed. And I'm sure that we've all had our share of really cheap alcohol. Well, unfortunately I don't have a solution for the horror stories but I have found a hack to turn really really bad Vodka into Ketel One. Just visit this Link.

Zimer

P.S. If your up to reliving those gruesome 2004-2005 holiday horror stories, just drop a comment under this post. :-)

*update* LOL Thats got to be the funniest holiday horror story I've ever heard! First comment and I think thats might be the best one! Thanks for the post Artbell.

Well everyone, Artbell seems to have set the bar pretty high. Lets see what the rest of you have.

Start your day by hacking a Coke

Are you tired of being bullied by the Coke machine always taking your money like that 3rd. grade bully used too? Well, now's the time for sweet sweet revenge!

The new Coke machines are hackable. (usually the ones with the large buttons) But unless your the Coke man and can get inside the machine, there are limitations. But this is fun none the less. If you press the keys in this order 4-2-3-1, you will be able to get into the debug menu. The menu will show in the LCD screen of the machine. Once in, you can navigate the menu with the buttons. 1 being BACK. 2-UP, 3-DOWN, 4-SELECT. The options that are in the menu are as follows: CASH - lets you see how much money is in the machine and the individual buttons. EROR - tells you if there have been any errors on that machine. VER - tells you the version of the operating system on the machine.

SALE

- tells you how many sodas ahve been sold.

Now this is all I have for you. If you mess with it, you probably be able to do some other things too. But ether way it's interesting to know.

And thanks to everyone at www.jinx.com.

Zimer

Caller ID Spoofing

Ever want to make it seem like you were at work when your really out golfing? At school when your really at the mall? Well, now you can and its easier than ever now. All you need is a phone.

www.covertcall.com has come up with a way to make it seem that your calling from a completely different telephone #. All you have to do is visit there website, sign up for an account and add a few bucks to your credit(which is done though paypal so its really simple) $5.00 should be plenty enough. Once you do that, you tell it what # your calling from and what # you want the recipients caller ID to show up as and press send. And presdo, your set.

Now you can be at the bar, when your supposed to be at work and your wife will never know. Or if your really into weird crap you can be at work when your really supposed to be at the bar O.o??? What ever kind of deception you want you can get it with covertcall.

Well, with that I'll let you be off on your caller ID spoofing ways. Have fun!

Zimer