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Wi-Fi has completely changed the way we browse the net and use the internet in our day to day life. The complete comfort of accessing internet at better speeds is achieved through Wi-Fi networks.

This article explains how to make a WiFi antenna out of a Pringles can, which you can use to boost your Wi-Fi network speeds. Link

I am back for another dark tip that not only is useful but potentially devastating for security.

It is called the USB Switchblade. This was a community based project that was introduced in the Hak.5 forums (http://hak5.org) . What the device does is upon insertion in the targets PC will automagically obtain information (depending on what type of USB you have).

So let’s go over the steps of installing the USB Switchblade.

1. Make sure that you have a USB drive. I would say that 32mb is fine but if you want to obtain a lot of information I would say that 128 is perfect. If you have the U3 there is a method for you but I will discuss that in a future post becuase the type i am covering is for standard USB drives.
2. Next go to this page
3. Download the original Non U3 version
4. After the download is finished, open the .rar file. If you can’t open this file i recommend you download the free 7-Zip program at http://www.7-zip.org/
5. Now insert your USB drive and extract the files inside the PCInfo folder into the root of the USB drive (ie, C:\ or F:\). The folders that are now added should be “batexe” “dump” and “icons”
6. Take out your USB device and plug it in again. You should notice the usual dialogs and message window pop up. Click OK but make sure the icon is on the icon used to show the USB drive.
7. Now wait 5-15 seconds and look in the folder called “dump”. In there you should find information on your pc in there including autosaved IE passwords.

Hopefully everything worked out for you in this post. Until the next time I post, i have been your Dark Tipper of the site, Psichonico. Bye

I am back with another dark tip. This time I am going to talk about how to crack Windows Passwords and will teach you the most simple way to prevent the crack from happening to you.

So firstly we need to get ourselves some Rainbow Tables. A Rainbow Table is a pre-computed set of LM hashes. LM is short for Lan Manager and that hash is what stores your Windows password because it would be “suicide” to keep windows passwords in plain simple text. A LM hash can range from 300 MB’s to 40 GB’s. You can crack most windows passwords with just about 1 GB’s worth of a Rainbow Table.

Once you have the table you could get rcrack but if you find that Command Prompt is just a pain to handle then you probably would not want to use it. So what you can do is get a program called Cain & Abel and that will store the Rainbow Table hashes in its interface when you tell it to crack. You should click the cracker tab and then the + button and for this example just tell it to pick up your local system. Now right the click the account you want to crack and select dictionary attack then LM Hashes. Now add your Rainbow tables and simply select start. Once it has finished off and if it does tell you your password then you need to secure that. There is a link included on how to stop LM hashes.

Microsoft’s How – To stop storing LM hashes