Articles Tagged With Hacking

How To Crack WPA / WPA2 (2012)

We have updated our tutorial on how to crack WPA / WPA2 with even more powerful and easier to use passphrase recovery tools. We've also added tips for creating easy-to-remember but essentially uncrackable passphrases.

How To Crack WPA / WPA2

Wireless networks secured by WPA / WPA2 can be cracked. But it's not as easy as cracking WEP.   Read more...

WEP Cracking...Reloaded

WEP Cracking has gotten much easier in the two years since our original tutorial. You only need one computer, one wireless adapter and one tool suite.   Read more...

Hacking the Apple TV

With some fairly simple hacking, Jim Buzbee turns the Apple TV into the best media player he's seen yet.   Read more...

How To Crack WEP - Part 3: Securing your WLAN

Humphrey Cheung turns the tables in his final installment of the WEP Crack series. Part III describes an approach to wireless security that matches defensive measures against the level of expected threat.   Read more...

Hacking the Linksys NSLU2 Part VI - Installing a Media Server

Jim Buzbee is back with his latest adventures in hacking Linksys' NSLU2. This time, he turns it into a UPnP-based media server - just the ticket if you'd like to free your PC from streaming media duties.   Read more...

How To Crack WEP - Part 2: Performing the Crack

In Part 2 of this series, Humphrey Cheung shows how to use the tools configured in Part 1 to capture data and perform a WEP key recovery.   Read more...

How To Crack WEP - Part 1: Setup & Network Recon

It's common knowledge that WEP can be "easily" cracked. But did you ever wonder how easy it is? In Part 1 of a two-part series, Humphrey Cheung takes you step-by-step through putting together a WEP-cracking setup and using Kismet to find vulnerable wireless LANs.

How To: Hacking the Linksys NSLU2 - Part 5- Moving to Unslung

In Part 5 of his Hacking the Linksys NSLU2 series, Jim Buzbee introduces us to the Unslung firmware that is the next step in the evolution of this little box into a general-purpose Open Source application platform.   Read more...

How To: Hacking the Linksys NSLU2 - Part 4- Customizing the Flash

Part 4 of Jim Buzbee's series shows how to modify the NSLU2's flash so that you can automate the startup of the other hacks and open the door to even more customizations.   Read more...

How To:Hacking the Linksys NSLU2 - Part 3 - Adding an iTunes server

Our third installment of Jim Buzbee's series walks you step-by-step through adding iTunes serving to the tricks that Linksys' little wonder can perform.   Read more...

How To: Hacking the Linksys NSLU2 - Part 2 - Adding NFS

In the second installment of Jim Buzbee's explorations of Linksys' little NAS-enabling marvel, he explains how to get set up to do your own hacking and walks us through adding NFS support.   Read more...

How To: Hacking the Linksys NSLU2 - Part 1

Once in awhile a product comes along that you just know is going to spark the imagination - and hacking skills - of enthusiatic tweakers. Linksys seems to have done it again with its Linux-based NSLU2 Network Storage Link. Our correspondent Jim Buzbee has agreed to chronicle his adventures with this little wonder for SmallNetBuilder readers in a multi-part series. Part 1 describes how Jim managed to get a root login.   Read more...