Skyhook the company behind the WiFi pseudo GPS in the iPod touch and the iPhone apparently has an API that allows you access to their database. Using this database you can find the physical geographic location of a WiFi router or access point.

Hi everyone! Like I promised last week I’ve been hard at work sorting out my ultimate portable covert hacking device install. I’m going to jailbreak my old iPod touch (Replaced by my iPhone 3G) and turn it into a portable innocent looking mobile hacking outpost I can carry with me anywhere. I mean who’s going to suspect the guy carrying nothing more than an iPod.

Sorry everyone. No post today. My Xbox 360 red ring of death ordeal appears to have come to a close today. So I spent most of the day re downloading all my downloadable content to authorize it for the new system Microsoft sent me. Each item must be re-downloaded individually so that’s 154 items in my case that each have to be selected and downloaded again (note that it dosen’t actually re-download them all some of them it appears to just re-authorize) this is complicated further in that Xbox LIVE will only let you queue 6 items for re-download. Needless to say this took a disgusting amount of time and was the cherry on top of the horrific customer service train wreck that this experience has been.

Check back here tomorrow for a brand new post.

Cheers,

Liam

I’ve been doing a lot of toying around with Apple’s Time Machine lately and recently stumbled onto this tool that allows you to change the schedule that Time Machine uses to back up your Mac (Normally this is done every hour). Every our is a little excessive for most users in my opinion (Well at least for me it is). 

I have an old (relatively) iPod touch lying around and since I got my iPhone I’ve been trying to figure out what to do with it. For a while I just used it to store extra stuff that wasn’t important enough to occupy space on my iPhone and then I started thinking. Wouldn’t it be great if I could make some more use of the portability and WiFi capabilities like say sniff wireless traffic or do some other man in the middle type attacks from it. I mean it definitely has all the components to make it work.

Many of you may have heard of the DNS vulnerability that was announced by Dan Kaminsky on July 8th and explained at this summers Black Hat conference (See the an interview with Dan at Black Hat 2008 below). You can also get media from the presentation (mp3, video, PowerPoint slides) off of the Black Hat 2008 archives 

I love bypassing content filters. Here’s a fast and easy way you can use your computer at home (Running an OpenSSH server) to get past  web content filters at work or school.

Here’s what we need

1. A computer at home running an SSH server.
2. SSH port (22) open on your router to your SSH Server
3. A computer running Linux or Leopard