Wireless War Driving.

Well all this week I’ve been dedicating my time to checking out all about war driving so I could find out how dangerous wireless could be.

The first thing I did was check out common war driving sites to find the easiest way such as already made databases which was shocking to me the amount of unsecured networks I found a database on Wigle using the Jigle desktop tool it has thousands of access points on it.

Anyone can do something similar too this which is very scary I found a couple of peoples access points on it (which where not secure) which is just advertising your AP so hackers can come and steal your information.

Now its bad enough being on the map but what can you do to stop people hacking you?

Simple use WPA encryption, WEP encryption can now be cracked in a matter of seconds so DON’T use it, or even better you could use WPA2 these encryptions are brilliant and worth wile spending money on a new AP just to get the encryption. Please check out WPA encryption.

Program Of The Week: TrueCrypt

TrueCrypt is one of the best encryption programs around in my opinion, the program is very easy to use and very secure it has many different encryption options and the best part is you can have 3 encryption types encryption on encryption on encryption its amazing at how this works, you can make it look like for example a .pdf file or a .mp3 file allowing you to hide it even further but my favourite part is, hidden volumes this will use a already made truecrypt encryption and put a hidden folder inside it so for an example say you’ve made a truecrypt volume of 15mb’s but you want a hidden one well you can make one and say you make the volume 2mb’s the original file will then show as 13m’s.

You access this hidden volume by using a different password for the original volume it really is brilliant to hide things from hackers give it a go!

April Fools, I’m a fool a big fool

I really don’t like this date today I’ve noticed how many things I’ve been tricked into thinking for example Free Broadband by google the free broadband captured my eye so i started reading it finding that you have to flush something down the toilet now that got me thinking not about the fact its April the 1st but how cool it would be to have a internet connection from your bog.

So I went to a forum posted it then someone pointed the date out too me and it hit me the TV program must of been a April fools then still typing about this google free broadband in a forum still hasn’t hit me 5 mins later after posting i realise internet from a bog, you have to be kidding me, rushes back to forum and I try to make it look like I’m tricking them to same my self any embarrassment so if you’ve been tricked go with it ;).

Program Of The Week: WinHTTrack

I’m new to downloading sites straight onto my computer but it really does look popular, now I can see this being used for many purposes, maybe your internet connection goes down and you want to access your resource websites but can’t so you use WinHTTrack to download the sites next time you will be ready. Or my favourite is save your bandwidth because you will download the site straight to your computer you wont need to access the internet to view it any more you can just view it from your computer, which is a brilliant idea and the main reason I am using it.

Its a really good program you don’t need to have any knowledge of how websites work etc, as it will allow you to set up category’s so for example I have a Web Development category and in this it has n2kdesign.co.uk and w3schools.co.uk.
It will take all the pages from n2kdesign.co.uk which (if configured) will also download zip files or things like that allowing me to have everything they have except the obvious PHP files etc.

Program Of The Week: Locknote

Today I’m starting a new part in this blog called POTW (Program Of The Week), to start it off I will tell you about my favourite textfile encryption Locknote if you like to store sensitive data in small text files this is for you, it will allow you to password protect the files with a 256bit encryption, as you can see its free which is always a plus side.

Features

Now this is my favourite part of the program it is very hard too loose you can use any file you encrypted to encrypt again because you can drag it onto the file and it will ask you for a password to encrypt the file then on that new encrypted file you can use that to drag and drop another file onto it to encrypt another one, it really is a brilliant feature.

This is the most simple encryption tool I have ever seen so give it a go, and spread the word of LockNote.

LockNote is made by Steganos.