Category: Random

Hacking in Ga-Nkoane

T00bl1pp3 en I had a “quick” (10 hour round trip) visit to Ga-Nkoane in Limpopo -for those who don’t immediately know where this is: [mappress mapid=”2″] The reason for our visit was to test a field device House4Hack is busy developing for Eskom.  The device will be used during their surveys of the sub-reticulation networks to record…

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A sign of life. In an arid desert.

For well over a couple of years now, I have been looking to make contact with a community of hackers and makers in South Africa. Much to my chagrin, South Africa has been an arid desert.  No hackers.  No makers. South Africa may have beautiful places and great weather.  However, as far as creating and…

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Reaver vs Netgear DGN2200

The guys from Tactical Network Solutions released an open source project called reaver that implements an attack on WPA http://code.google.com/p/reaver-wps/ using WPS. “Reaver implements a brute force attack against Wifi Protected Setup (WPS) registrar PINs in order to recover WPA/WPA2 passphrases, as described in http://sviehb.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/viehboeck_wps.pdf” I tested this against my home router a Netgear DGN2200…

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