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Episode 511 – Netcat, Brute Force, Virtualization and Pimping Wordpress
April 29, 2009 – 10:24 am | 33 Comments
Episode 511 – Netcat, Brute Force, Virtualization and Pimping Wordpress

Darren shows off some nifty tricks for Netcat and a targeted brute force attack dictionary generator. Matt continues his series on Virtualization with redundancy and Shannon pimps the blog with her Wordpress plugin picks. Plus the results of our Monkey Contest, the Code Challenge and this weeks easter egg hunt ;)

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Code Challenge
April 22, 2009 – 8:27 am | 18 Comments
Code Challenge

The first Code Challenge for Hak5 Season 5 — the Gmail Procrastination Badge. What started as a tongue in cheek comment on twitter about needing to declare email bankruptcy lead to proof of concept Gmail Unread Badge code.

The code

<?php

$mbox = imap_open ("{imap.googlemail.com:993/imap/ssl}INBOX",
"gmailusername", "gmailpassword", OP_READONLY)
or die("can't connect: " . imap_last_error());

$check = imap_mailboxmsginfo($mbox);
?>

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Episode 510 – Virtualization and Emulation
April 22, 2009 – 7:53 am | 38 Comments
Episode 510 – Virtualization and Emulation

Matt kicks off a series on Virtualization and invites us to see the 10 Gigabit beast at his office while Shannon and Darren wrap up their series on Wii Homebrew with the easiest way to backup and load Wii games and the Dolphin emulator.

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Monkey Contest
April 15, 2009 – 9:37 am | 2 Comments
Monkey Contest

Step 1: Download Monkey Art
Step 2: Get Creative
Step 3: Publish Monkey Wallpaper
Step 4: ???
Step 5: Profit!

Winner will receive Hak5 swag as well as a do-it-yourself sock monkey kit curtesy of SockMonkey.net!