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Nmap is one of those essential tools that you find yourself always reaching for after a few years of system administration. It’s an excellent tool for network mapping but more importantly for our purposes it can be used for security auditing. The main ways I use Nmap are as a port scanner and in some cases to identify the OS of the IP being scanned. These are by no means the only uses. Nmap has a ton of option and in addition can be extended with scripts. (more…)

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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.

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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.

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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

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You may be surprised to know that Leopard includes a command line version of Quick Look called “qlmanage”. If you’re a heavy terminal user like me this is incredibly handy.

I tend to do all my file organizing via the terminal so say I’m copying some jpeg files and I want to make sure they’re the ones I’m interested copying I can type the following command into the terminal to get a Quick Look preview of them all

qlmanage -p ./*.jpg

Which shows me all the .jpg files in my current directory or I could just preview one

qlmanage -p ./image.jpg

If you’re into bash or Perl scripting this opens up all sorts of cool possibilities.

There are also a selection of command line switched aside form the -p (preview) switch. I’ve listed a few of the more useful ones below.

-t                  Show thumbnails of the documents
-s size          Size for the thumbnail
-f factor       Scale factor for the thumbnail

As always if you have any problems, questions, comments or suggestions post them below in the comments section.

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