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Season 3 Episode 6

December 31, 2007

In this episode of Hak5 Darren uses the eeePC, BackTrack 3, and Aircrack-ng to audit the security of our WPA encrypted wireless access point. Wess reviews Herbie the Mousebot from Solarbotics, a great electronics projects for beginners/intermediates. Chris Gerling comes by to show us Rockbox, the open source firmware alternative for your portable media players as well as a brief tutorial on building your own songs for frets on fire. Grab a companion cube and gather ’round for some technolust.

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Running time: 38:21

Production Notes

Wizzywig volume 1: Phreak is now available!

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33 Responses to “Season 3 Episode 6”

  1. anthrounit on December 31st, 2007 11:46 pm

    ha ha First post of the New Year THANKS HAK5!!

  2. mrynit on January 1st, 2008 12:25 am

    i have the rss feed for xvid set in miro and it is not seeing the new ep as of now

  3. Matt on January 1st, 2008 4:03 am

    Happy New Year Everybody! Good Episode as well - very informative

  4. Zalzer on January 1st, 2008 6:44 am

    Cool it’s January 1st and just got home and now I can sit back relax and enjoy an episode of Hak.5 … thats definetly the best way to kick of 2008 … Happy New Year to all

  5. Santity on January 1st, 2008 8:13 am

    Wow, how many mistakes can one make in a post?

    Backtrack 3?.. latest version is 2..

    And Roxbox is http://roxbox.sf.net/ anyone with brains knows you don’t add a www prefix.

    Here is a suggestion, fire the evil monkey who posted this episode.

    Thanks..

  6. Shinmaryuu on January 1st, 2008 8:25 am

    This episode seems to be up quality wise from recent previous efforts. Each segment was solid and there wasn’t really a low spot. I’m not sure if more time went into each segment or what but it really showed.

    Good Stuff and a great new years gift.

  7. Ed Piskor on January 1st, 2008 2:08 pm

    Hey guys! Thanks so much for pimping my hacking/phreaking graphic novel, Wizzywig!

    If anyone’s interested in checking it out the can go here:
    http://www.edpiskor.com/wizzy.html

    Thanks…

  8. l337virus on January 1st, 2008 5:00 pm

    thx for releasing a new episode of HAK5!!!

    and yea HAPPY NEW YEARS! Hak5

  9. Inky on January 1st, 2008 5:22 pm

    Sanity, Backtrack 3 is in Beta - Check before you post!

  10. Hak5Chris on January 1st, 2008 5:31 pm

    Ed, fantastic book, I had the opportunity to thumb through it before we shot the segments the other day.

  11. Administrator on January 1st, 2008 5:34 pm

    Sanity,

    You’re right. This monkey should have checked his post before hitting submit. However, in monkey’s defense, he was drunk along with most of the world on newyears.

    Rockbox link fixed. And as for BackTrack 3beta, you can download it here:
    http://www.remote-exploit.org/backtrack_download.html

    Cheers,
    Darrem

  12. SanParty on January 1st, 2008 5:47 pm

    Sanity, you got it wrong too.
    Rockbox: http://www.rockbox.org/

  13. Matt on January 2nd, 2008 4:39 pm

    Could someone please buy Chris some fucking nasal spray? Seriously. Damn.

  14. Hak5Chris on January 2nd, 2008 4:56 pm

    I don’t know what it is but I have been sick the last 3 times i’ve been out there.

    Currently battling a chest cold.

  15. Administrator on January 2nd, 2008 10:00 pm

    I actually took the time to mute out as many of the sniffles as I could.

    Maybe Chris is allergic to hacking?

  16. Resando on January 4th, 2008 8:51 am

    Which dictionary list(s)do you guys prefer?

  17. v1p3r on January 4th, 2008 10:52 am

    Does anybody have a good dictionary list that I could use in a dictionary attack?

  18. Administrator on January 4th, 2008 11:39 am

    Wordlist I used:
    http://www.openwall.com/wordlists/

    More links to wordlists:
    http://aircrack-ng.org/doku.php?id=faq&DokuWiki=c97615265e7eb340f459d4a168032ab1#where_can_i_find_good_wordlists

  19. digideth on January 5th, 2008 12:31 am

    so will there be a hak5live soon or what?

  20. Mhogan35 on January 5th, 2008 8:23 pm

    Great episode guys, yall are definitely on track to a great year of content!

  21. Kaynaro on January 9th, 2008 6:53 am

    Great show once again guys!

    Darren,

    Where can i find more information (articles etc) on your segment about the “recovering” of WPA-PSK key’s?

    Kaynaro.

  22. ziplock on January 9th, 2008 9:08 am

    Great show guys, and thanks for introducing the new beta of BackTrack3! Here’s a tidbit, muts included the wifi drivers for the Eee into BT3 only moments before cvs was closed! With the help of aircrack-ng krew and madwifi, we made the deadline. Visit us at remote-exploit.org and offensive-security.com (the “official” training site of BackTrack)

  23. Rennfield on January 14th, 2008 10:03 pm

    Could someone please check the Xvid link, I keep getting the message.

    “The website declined to show the page. Most likely cause: The site requires you to log in.”

  24. Administrator on January 15th, 2008 3:32 am

    I’ve contacted Libsyn support about the xvid issue and will report back once resolved. Sorry for the inconvenience.

  25. Administrator on January 16th, 2008 1:38 am

    Libsyn has fixed the issue. Thanks.

  26. admin on January 17th, 2008 5:54 pm

    So what is the name of that Nintendo DS wireless deauth tool?
    Where can I get it?

  27. Spudgun on January 18th, 2008 8:03 pm

    Hey nice new theme! :P

    Can’t wait til the next ep =P

    -spud

  28. wargsm on January 21st, 2008 7:36 am

    Great ep guys, filled a page or two in notepad and added some new bookmarks to the list as always.

    I have a HP Compaq Presario V6000 with Broadcom 802.11 a/b/bg wireless card. I’ve been trying to get it connected in backtrack for a long time, but to no avail. It just doesn’t want to go wireless in nix. I’ve read through tutorials and forums for months as well. What would you suggest I do? Is there a fix, or should I buy a new card? If so what would you recommend, seeing as I need to be able to inject packets as well.

    Thanks for any help offered.

    ./wargsm

  29. Keith on January 27th, 2008 8:00 pm

    where are the shownotes?

  30. mlopez on January 28th, 2008 8:06 am

    nice episode.

  31. Drake on March 6th, 2008 3:04 am

    Where are the show notes :(
    really good ep :P

  32. moooan on March 12th, 2008 4:21 pm

    What was the exact model number of the eeepc used in this video?

    Thanks

  33. courtland on April 2nd, 2008 4:11 am

    hey guys, this is really neat. i have a 17″ macbook pro and i am running backtrack 3 under parallels. ive also got a partition for Fedora Core 5 (for school). Now that i have started backtrack 3 in text mode i can see that there is still a GUI and a (KDE??) “start menu” like windows. when i opened it, i saw backtrack, et al utilities like aircrack, kismet, etc. so now i guess i dont have to install all of these apps to get started.
    today i went out and bought the Belkin N1 wireless card (F5D8071) with the Atheros chipset. is this all i need to get into into monitor mode while running kismet? and another question, will i be able to crack my own home network with my current computer setup?
    i know that i need to somehow get the backtrack 3 partition to read the from the Belkin card and that is where i am having issues.

    your input is greatly appreciated…

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