by Calvin Robinson on January 20, 2009.

It was the first day of semester 2 of my final year today. The new free-elective module I was attending is called ‘Computer Security and Forensics’, but I call it ‘hacking’ for short. This module is gunna be great! It’s basically all the stuff I like to experiment with in my free time, but I get credits for doing it! Amazing.

The first tutorial entailed sniffing FTP/HTTP/SSH/TELNET packets. It was cool helping Aryel learn the magic of Wireshark. The lecture was about the difference between Hackers & Crackers, what they are after, and how they go about it. Not too intense, but it was entertaining never-the-less.

This has inspired me to write about some exploits of the past. The fun stuff that kept me entertained in my youth, that you just can’t do any more (wow I sound old);

Voicemail hax, Bluejacking, Netsend.

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by Calvin Robinson on September 8, 2008.

Someone happened to be showing me a custom Linux Live USB distro the other day, which looked kinda cool. It was KDE (ew), but also had a Fluxbox setup, which is sexy in a simple way.

I took a copy, to play around with, as it seemed to have a lot of cool tools on there, some of which I had seen before, lots of which I hadn’t. This looked like a hacker’s distro.

The name is BackTrack. I didn’t look much into it, until I was watching Hak5 on Revision3 this morning, and saw a review on Maltego, which just so happens  to come with BackTrack.

So I started playing around with BT3 (after an easy upgrade), and I love it. It’s so useful.
This is a Network Security / Sysadmin must-have distro. Every tool you could possibly need, is already there, on the disc.

Maltego is pro. It’s basically an Identity lookup tool. You input a person’s details, whatever you happen to know about them, name/email/location/phone etc. and then it will look up all the information it can find on said person.

I found some very old email accounts of mine, linked to forum posts and profiles, just as old. I think I may have also discovered Kevin Rose’s personal e-mail account. No luck with Bill Gates though. ^^