You wonder if the USA is ready for this 
Read here-->
http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/08/18/cyber.warfare/index.html

Hi all! try googling it am sure you can find a ton of links towards hacking and how to self teach yourself thats how I started and its working, am not a pro but I believe in becoming one and those are my goals in a ethicial manner good luck...choa

try this Site it has A+,Net+,Sec+ and CCNA and MCSE etc

http://www.proprofs.com/ 

check out there site finally a new version downloading to do some home accessments link to the download page

http://ophcrack.sourceforge.net/

cool features -


Multithreading:
Bruteforce module:
Command-line version: Ophcrack core is now completely separated from the GUI. You can now use it the g33k way.
New GUI: The new GUI in C++ uses QT and we hope it will ease your experience with ophcrack.
Support of mulitple simultaneous tables: Select the tables you have and you want to use once for all and watch ophcrack decides which tables to use or not and what to load in order to increase the speed of cracking.
Support new Vista free tables: We computed new Vista tables based on a dictionary. Some variations are applied to the words of the dictionary before being added to the tables. It enables us to release a brand new Vista LiveCD.
Session auto-saving: If for some reason you have to interrupt the cracking, it is possible to reload the state in which ophcrack was when you stop by loading a session file. This session file is auto-saved every 30 seconds.

enjoy everyone 

I stumble towards a cool website called http://www.instructables.com/
I was interested in creating a free antenna also called a parabolic antenna and found different ways, but wow this site has all different ways of creating almost anything. I even saw Poor man's Wi-Fi USB antenna which is cookware reflector with a hole in the center and you stick the small usb wireless adapter and gain access to other AP's Please no bad intentions,but the site is excellent if anyone would like to venture through this site am sure you will be very amaze with what these folks have come up with enjoy all.

well anyway I like to have the hardcopy book with me its mind and I get to carry it anywhere I go ,no power required 

Thanks Brotha hope its not illegal I purchased my ethical hacking Book.l am sure training is important along with these materials to become a expert hacker.

check this site out http://www.scribd.com/

and http://www.net-security.org/insecuremag.php

Free mags excellent security information.

Hi there can you give us all a bit more info on what type of thinkpad model you have  The gear that I'am using is an IBM T60 with a single PCMCIA Neatgear WG511T wireless card, and no problems are presented.there are also cheap in prices go to a website like www.buy.com or ebay and good luck in searching.

PS-Also Russix will come out with a list of wifi cards that will work with their live dist CD soon. 

While reading more about portable apps I said to myself why not have C@A run on a regular Usb stick ,well I google it and did not find any good results I was able to just copy the whole folder into my thumb drive along with packet.dll,winpcap.dll and wanpacket.dll into its directory but darn this only made me an Abel stick aka Cracker Usb that's nice but I would like a sniffer also hahahah well it seems that our spanish community of hackers has come out with  a portable version of  C@A here is the link if anyone is interested

I had to translate the webpage

http://www.dragonjar.org/en/cain-abel-portable.xhtml/

rar password is www.dragonjar.org

once you download extract the rar, and extract the exe into a new created folder using rar into your machine and copy abel.dll into it.the downloaded exe only made portable cain into a sniffer  so to make it fully work copy abel.dll from a full C@A install into the newlly created folder,now copy the whole content into your flash drive and there you can now uninstall C@A from your Machine go and download a cool tool like PStart --->http://pegtop.net/start/ for it to autostart.Now you can go ahead and tested on non installed C@A but remember some AV will flag this Cain and also delete it from your Flash drive so place it into readonly mode or truecrypt it.Please am not responsible for any misuse of this tool remember Ethical reasons Amen.

well I hope all of you enjoy this cool link I found or if others did before me

PS-Its better to buy a U3 flash drive its much faster but in the near future they will come out with a usb 3.0 super fast lol

  The most easy wasy to test your wireless I used this Live CD with its easy to use automated script anyone can run this Dist CD with the right gear I tested this with a Netgear WG511T wireless card  and it ran excellent it also gave you an option to setup an eviltwin mode but you need to have two wireless cards for this to work.I also ran kismet it was a bomb I hope anyone that tries Russix will feel the same enjoy:
links to the website

http://www.russix.com/

download for the Live CD

http://www.russix.com/downloads/download.htm

Hi everyone on Friday my co-partner and I from work decided to update a Linksys's wirless router model:WRT54G V8.0 frimware to a DD-WRT firmware update,and I was very amzed how it turn this $50 Wifi router into a $600  wireless router , it now has extra added features.
IMPORTANT:If you are going to try this please READ THE GUIDE.
Below are the added features that you will expect to see once you upgrade.check out there Site to see what other vendor's are supported. I do plan to buy the current WRT54GL which is Linux base router if you have an old one I think you will benifit once you read this Site.
link to DD-WRT:
http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/What_is_DD-WRT%3F

Supporeted devices Site:
http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Supported_Devices

Features:

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802.1x Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP)
Access Restrictions
Ad Hoc
Afterburner
Client Isolation Mode
Client Mode (supports multiple connected clients)
DHCP Forwarder (udhcp)
DHCP Server (udhcp or Dnsmasq)
DNS Forwarder (Dnsmasq)
DMZ
Dynamic DNS (DynDNS, easyDNS, FreeDNS, No-IP, TZO, ZoneEdit, custom, and others)
Hotspot Portal (Sputnik Agent ,Chillispot)
IPv6
JFFS2 (JFFS2)
MMC/SD Card Support (hardware modification required)
NTP
ntop Remote Statistic (ntop)
OpenVPN Client & Server (only in -vpn build of the firmware)
Port Triggering
Port Fowarding
PPTP VPN Server & Client
QoS Bandwidth Management
QoS L7 Packet Classifier (l7-filter)
RFlow
Routing (BIRD)
Samba FS Automount
Syslog
Rx Antenna
Tx Antenna
Show Status of Wireless Clients and WDS with System Uptime/Processor Utilization
Site Survey
SNMP
SSH server & client (dropbear)
Startup, Firewall, and Shutdown scripts (startup script)
Static DHCP
Style (Changeable GUI; v.23)
Supports New Devices (WRT54G V3, V3.1, V4, V5 and WRT54GS V2.1, V3, V4)
Telnet server & client
Transmit Power Adjustment (0-251mW, default is 28mW, 100mW is safe)
UPnP
VLAN
WOL (Wake On Lan) (WOL)
WDS Connection Watchdog
WDS Repeater Mode
Wireless MAC Address Cloning
Wireless MAC Filter
WMM (Wi-Fi MultiMedia)
WPA over WDS
WPA/TKIP with AES
WPA2
Xbox Kaid

You made me laugh true, but she is still a small kid and am enjoying it
as she loves playing around with computers.

  Than you for the link watching it and yes the type of job I would like Thank you again for the link.

Hi everyone been doing some researching on decrypting Vista password and I got the say yes its possible only as IronGeek mention, if it's a weak password yes it can be cracked. I viewed and followed his Tutorial, I give a lot of credit to IronGeek’s Cracking Vista Password Beta tut on his site, First I Boot into my system which has Vista Ultimate with Ophcrack boot CD and, there are Two Accounts that has my Daughters password and mine. Now just to pose a bet on my child's password to crack it, she is only 7 yrs old, and her password contains 10 characters letters and Numbers. I told her to please tell me her password because I will do some auditing on both passwords. I asked her and she declined hahahah, but with a bit of social engineering that helped a bit . Well on to the Tut Popped in a thumb drive into my system booted up with the latest Ophcrack CD once it populated all accounts, It stated that all LM hashes are empty please use Nthashes Table to Crack them, well here is the part I found very interesting since we cannot use rainbow tables through OPhcrack why not save the hashes into a text file. First you go To--->Load---->from encrypted SAM--->File system--->mnt--->hda1 (can be a different letter name)--->WINDOWS\system32\config---->click on open
Now all accounts will show up here with no notification if they are LM or NT but you can click on tables, but remember Vista hashes all accounts to the NTHash so let's go and save --->Save As (here is when your external thumb drive comes into use) go to--->System Files--->mnt--->sdal removable. Make sure you do see the file save into the small drive. Now the fun part begins logout of Ophcrack boot backup into Vista open up Cain and Abel go to--->cracker Tab-->left window-->LM&NTLM-->click on the white area -->click the plus sign-->Import Hashes from a text file-->G drive(can be a different letter)--->look for file name (save.oph )click on shift+*.*
and the accounts should populate, there you will see LmHashes beginning with “AAD” this is the blank hashes the right hashes are your passwords hashed in NTHash.Now I have been doing a lot of random collection of wordlists and Dictionary out into the internet some I have had great success, but I like to keep this a secret cause I like doing things very ethical so that’s where you would do your homework Google it! hahaha you can use Rainbow tables they would have to be NTLM Tables. Continue Right Click and Select all users’ right click and Select-->Dictionary Attack NTLM Hashes-->select your wordlists or you can use Cain’s wordlist and then run. It took about 20-30mins to crack my Kids password her password is "kissing???" Cannot display her numbers at the end, that is our secret hahahah , but I was amazed in less of time it took to crack her password fully. I continued on with my password it contains 1uppercase letter, 2 lowercase letters, 3 numbers & one special character and am still trying to crack it with no success , well this is my experience using this method, I hope anyone reading this will do this ethically and if you need further info go to Irongeeks website you can see what I trying to interpret in his tutorial .I hope this was very informal, and always use different characters in the mix of your password.

Thanks Don never really paid big attention to these small drives the U3 but remember all do this hacking things ethical.