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Interesting Hacking Links

BetoBates — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 06:15:26 +0000

So, I am taking Ethical Hacking at college this summer and have came across a few interesting links to share. They include topics about ATM card skimming and PIN capturing, password cracking, and remotely capturing keystrokes.

ATM Card Skimming and PIN capturing Awareness Guide

View the whole PDF about ATM skimming and Pin capturing, with lots of exmples, here.

Compromising Electromagnetic Emanation of Wired and Wireless Keyboards

For more information, videos, and to read their paper visit The Security and Cryptography Laboratory’s page here.

Password Recovery Speeds: How long will your password stand up?

How strong are your passwords? Lets see… I will guess its no longer than 8 characters in length, right?

brute force attack

numbers ~ 2 mins max
letters ~ 62 days max
numbers + letters ~ 253 days max
numbers + letters + symbols ~ 23 years max

darren ~ 30 seconds
Land3rz ~ 4 days
B33r&Mug ~ 23 years

For more information visit the lockdown.co.uk page here.

Remember though, if you a common word(s) you are instantly cracked!

Triumph At Bonnaroo 2009

BetoBates — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 04:25:52 +0000

I didn’t see him at Bonnaroo, but I wish I had!

Wondering Triumph: Part One

Wondering Triumph: Part Two

Stand-up: Part One

Stand-up: Part Two

John Hodgman Talks About President Obama’s Nerdiness

BetoBates — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 02:25:55 +0000

John Hodgman, you know he’s a correspondent on the Daily Show & he’s in the Mac commercials as a PC… Yea, that guy! Well, he wrote a humorous speech in which he talks about Obama being the first nerd president. John cites a few nerdy examples and quizzes the President to test his nerd-i-ness. Quite a funny speech, whether or not you like Obama. I am glad other people watch C-SPAN, because I would have never come across this gem otherwise… And who would have thought C-SPAN would have there own YouTube channel? I know! Anyway… enjoi.

C-SPAN – 2009 Radio and Television Correspondents’ Dinner Speech: “Obama Is The First Nerd President.”

…still want more Hodgman?

TED Talks – John Hodgman’s brief digression

The Crisis of Credit

BetoBates — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 23:11:05 +0000

Finally! A simple explanation of our countries current financial situation.

The Crisis of Credit Visualized from Jonathan Jarvis on Vimeo.

G, E, & C

BetoBates — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:41:19 +0000

Did you know that G, E, & C are the notes of the NBC chime? The reason NBC uses the chime may not be well known to most people. The original use of the chime was for station identification in the 1920s, long before automation in the 1970s. A sort of tv traffic signal if you will, to switch between stations and pause for station identification. You may still here these today while listening to sports on the radio in the form of a radio announcer.

The first use of the distinctive NBC notes were thought to come from WSB in Atlanta, who used them for their on purpose. They were heard by someone at NBC while watching a networked broadcast of a Georgia Tech football game and asked permission to use them as their own. Three months later in 1931, the chimes began as they are today, G, E, C (G3, E4, C4 for you musicians out there).

Last week stars gathered in Los Angeles to shed some fresh light on the 75 year old stable. Those stars include:

Jenna Fischer of the Office
Masi Oka of Heroes
T.I.
B.B. King
Richie Sambora of Bon Jovi
The B-52’s
Clint Black
The Flaming Lips
+ many more

EW.com had an exclusive peak at the recording process of these artists with one particularly intresting one from the Flaming Lips. Wayne Coyne managed to build an intresting double neck guitar featuring the iconic Guitar Hero neck. Hop over to EW.com and check out the exclusive video for yourself.

The Cardinals’ Short Show in Atlanta

BetoBates — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 00:59:14 +0000

So, I just got back from the Cardinals‘ show at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater on October 17, 2008. My friends and I sat in the front orchestra seats, pretty sweet, isle too! We got there two songs into the band’s set, about 9pm. We were late because we found out there was a Red Robin in Cumming, Ga and just had to eat there. Anyway, the band played some sweet songs, just check the set list.

1. Into The Light
2. Cobwebs
3. Peaceful Valley
4. Goodnight Rose
5. Bartering Lines
6. Everybody Knows
7. Wonderwall (Oasis) – w/ crazy guitar solo
8. Fix It
9. Off Broadway
10. Sun Also Sets
11. Come Pick Me Up
12. Grand Island (Neal Casal)
13. Shakedown on 9th Street

It may seem like a short set list. That’s because it was. Ryan apologized all show about his voice leaving him. Finally, after Shakedown on 9th Street, he apologized one last time and the band left the stage. I and everyone else there was caught off guard. Did they really just walk off stage? For good? I have only had one beer. Are we suppose to cheer and convince them to come back out? Well, we tried but the house lights went bright and the roadies started taking the stuff off stage. It was over. It was 10pm.

I am one in two for Cardinals‘ shows, this being a loss. I hope they come back to Atlanta healthy and with lots of energy to make it up to the city. If you missed out, here are some of my photos from the show. Enjoy.

P.S. I really dug the neon roses on stage.

The Cardinals

Windows 7 Multi-Touch Demo

BetoBates — Thu, 29 May 2008 03:01:41 +0000

How cool is this? Windows 7 will feature multi-touch as a core part of the soon to come operating system. Here is a demo from this weeks All things Digital 6 conference. Now, I just need to save up for my new multi-touch capable monitor…

That’s What She Said!

BetoBates — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 02:20:30 +0000

I love the Office as much as the next guy. What I love the most about the Office is Michael Scott’s inappropriate behavior though. So, when I found this youtube video of Michael’s best catch phrases, I was very pleased. That’s What She Said!!!