Track planes with your Software Defined Radio (SDR)

Motivation I remember the first time I tested Flightradar24 on my iPad. I had a lot of fun watching a plane approach over my own house and, then walk out to see..and there it was... The cool thing is that this plane transmits a lot of open data that

Security podcasts tips

Motivation To keep up with the security information flow, I am following a bunch of great bloggers, I read up on security issues using twitter where I follow great security people/researchers. I use feedly to get a message when a blog I follow has a new post. I try

Which third party services have you granted access to your Twitter account?

Motivation Can't remember all third party applications you have granted access to Twitter? Me neither! It might be wise to remove the ones you do not use anymore, just to be more secure. Each week I listen to security expert Graham Cluleys great podcast Smashing Security. In this

LAN Turtle factory reset

Intro If you read this blogpost I guess you have a LAN Turtle and it seems like you cannot use a secure shell to connect to it anymore? This happened to me. Hak5 has a great step by step howto on how to unbrick and factory reset the LAN Turtle.

Automated TLS scan and display results with grades

Motivation Do you know how many TLS certificates you have? When they expire? Are your server configured the best way possible? Wouldn't it be great if you had a list with this information on it? A list which updates every night with the latest results from an upgraded

Reset Wifi Pineapple Tetra and set it up with mac osx

Motivation I needed to get the pineapple to work with my mac, and I needed to get the internet sharing to work. I got a lot of really good documentation from Hak5s "WiFi Pineapple Generation 6 User Manual", but there are no good examples on how to set

Facebook username and password phishing using Target="_blank" vulnerability

This vulnerability has been blogged about by several other excellent bloggers, but I would like you to see how potentially dangerous this vulnerability is with a demo video. A lot of pages has this problem and I guess this vulnerability will be around for quite some time. I do not

Reset Wifi Pineapple Mark V and set it up with mac osx

How to Reset Wifi Pineapple Mark V Do you have a Mac and are having trouble with the internet sharing on your wifi pineapple? Or maybe the pineapple doesn't work as before and you need to restore to factory settings? I was having trouble to connect to the

Secure your kids from Internet ugliness - part 2

Motivation First of all I would like to say that I really like the open and free internet and I do not enjoy mass surveillance and big brother censorship. When that's said I really think internet contains ugliness I would like to filter out. In this blog post

Metadata in pictures embedded(!) in docx files

Motivation This blog post startet naturally after finishing a previous blog post on Are you leaking metadata? Here's a simple example to make your own tool to check!. When you make a word document, I guess you often use images you have taken with your smart phone og

How I protected my kids on the internet using OpenDNS and parent control

Motivation As a parent, are you worried about the content your children can be exposed to on the internet now a days? In my honest opinion there's more to worry about than sexual content, there is also child grooming proven on a lot of different sites, disturbing scenes

Are you leaking metadata? Here's a simple example to make your own tool to check!

Motivation A lot of people know that a document may contain information they don't want to share with the world. But did you know that metadata in your pictures might have GPS coordinates embedded? Did you know that your powerpoint presentation might contain your username, ip addresses and

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Doing your intel right using smart tools and techniques to collect your person of interest's data - part 1

There are numerous ways to make information come to you, not the other way around. In this post I'd like to share som techniques that I was taught in a @hackcon autumn course. This post builds on my previous post Using Atom- and/or RSS feeds to gather

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Using Atom- and/or RSS feeds to gather your information

Make the information come to you, not the other way around! Did you enjoy google reader and got sad when they closed the project? There's a lot of other similar tools that you can use listed here, but in this blog post we use Feedly as an example.

Programming and security kid - How I got my 8 year old started

I got a phone call one evening from a troubled mother from my eldest son's school telling me Your son has hacked my son! I did not know if I was more proud or more embarrassed, but my kid has become a hacker at the age of 8.

Knock knock....who's there?

Knock knock....who's there? The world knocking at your door....all the time!! As a house has doors, a computer has ports that can be opened and closed. Which ports are open to the world from your house? And how often do you check? Any new port opened