I'm using Panda and ALFA WiFi cards (Wireless Adapters) in a Linux (Ubuntu) virtual machine on a Windows 10 host a lot. When I started to use them, I had an issue where the cards would just seemingly randomly disappear. In my dmesg logs, I would see messages like this: [read more]
A recording of my Twitch stream live demo showing how you can use Video4Linux/v4l2 v4l2-ctl to change your webcam settings (like brightness, saturation or white balance) with a script from your shell or terminal. [read more]
How to control and share the output of a physical display or TTY via SSH using screen without any required manual interaction or local keyboard. [read more]
A whole ecosystem of additional hardware around the popular Raspberry Pi platform has formed over the recent years. One popular type of add-on is small displays that cover the size of a Raspberry Pi, often even featuring touch-screen functionality. These displays significantly improve your Raspberry Pi for many use-cases and [read more]
A quick thing I just stumbled upon: Want to play a sound from a Java program using, for example, the javax.sound APIs or the MidiSystem Synthesizer but, when running from within IntelliJ IDEA, you can't hear a sound and see no exceptions? First, try to package your project to [read more]
Trying to use a HackRF One on a laptop but seeing intermittent connectivity issues and weird behaviour? It might be related to power saving settings. [read more]
With the rise of support for multi-factor authentication in popular services and devices, the YubiKey family of hardware tokens has risen in popularity. Hardware tokens are more secure than using SMS as a delivery method because an attacker has to steal them from you and can't do so remotely. Yubico, [read more]
Today I am releasing my latest open source hobby project: nzyme. It's a Java-based program that puts wireless network adapters into monitor mode, sniffs management frames from all configured 2.4Ghz or 5Ghz channels and writes them into a Graylog instance for monitoring and analysis. About In my previous post, [read more]
A few days ago, Simone Margaritelli aka evilsocket released BLEAH, a BLE (Bluetooth Low Energy, or Bluetooth Smart) scanner and device enumerator that is incredibly simple to use. I just played around with it and documented the installation steps on the most recent Kali Linux. I will not cover how [read more]
I'm talking about DFIR (Digital Forensics and Incident Response) for WiFi networks at DerbyCon 2017 and will be releasing nzyme (an open source tool to record and forward 802.11 management frames into Graylog for WiFi security monitoring and incident response) soon. Note that I will simplify some of the [read more]