It is possible to crack WPA/WPA2 wireless network credentials using any number of open source tools available now including oclHashcat+, aircrack-ng, or pyrit to name a few. If you are having trouble cracking a password it is possible that the network uses RADIUS authentication instead of pre-shared keys(PSK). Now you could see this when if…
It is very common when obtaining wireless network handshakes to end up with a huge capture(.cap or .pcap typically) file. Previously purehate wrote this article on filtering out SSID specific EAPOL packets from a capture file but if you wanted to keep any and all packets related to a specific SSID including data packets, beacon…
Earlier today I needed to find the quickest and easiest way to monitor all traffic to and from a specific device on my network. The goal was to see how much bandwidth based on a specific amount of time that the device was using. My initial hope was that I could configure port monitoring on…
If you are using Google Analytics for web analytics it can be beneficial to exclude certain addresses to provide a more accurate view of traffic to the site. There are numerous reasons that excluding IP’s from the analytics statistics such as if it is a personal site that doesn’t do a lot of traffic and…
It can be beneficial sometimes to search for patterns in files on a Linux server that have been compressed with gzip instead of having to uncompress each file to search through it. A good example of this if typically in log rotation you rotate the logs and compress the older log files so if you are troubleshooting…
I needed to capture some packets on a server to import into Wireshark on a Windows XP computer but hadn’t done this in awhile so I needed to refresh on how to do this. I ended up using dumpcap to capture the data, then obtain the dump file on the windows computer, and then imported…
I discovered something really cool tonight to help organize my default Gmail account. You can use an unlimited number of aliases which in return will allow you to easily filter or organize incoming email based on numerous factors. By default Gmail will deliver any mail with your username+anystringhere@gmail.com to your Gmail inbox. This not only…
On Mint.com, to search for transactions with no tags, go to the following location: Trends >Filter by Tag tab > Click “Not Tagged” in table > Keep drilling down pie graph until you get to the transaction Double clicking on the “Not Tagged” row in the “Filter by Tag” tab does not work, which is…
Typically there will be certain things you use Adobe Photoshop for on a regular basis and you can make your life much easier by assigning keyboard shortcuts to the tasks you perform the most. Follow the directions below to assign a keyboard shortcut to Adobe Photoshop CS4. In the example below we will assign Ctrl-Alt-b…