Did you forget your hardware-based password and now you’re locked out? If it’s an IBM ThinkPad you may be in luck but it involves a bit more than just removing the backup battery. SoDoItYourself has an article detailing the retrieval of password data from an EEPROM.
The process is a fun one. Disassemble your laptop. Build a serial interface and solder it to the EEPROM chip where the password is stored. Connect this interface to a second computer and use it to dump the data into a file. Download a special program to decipher the dump file and dig…
Hack
Steal the administrator password from an EEPROM
Facebook
How To Create An Irresistible Facebook Photo That Turns New Visitors Into Fans
This is Day 4 of the 30 Days to 3,000 Fans program. You can learn more about the program here.
Most people just quickly upload their photo to their Facebook page and never think about it again. This is probably one of the worst mistakes you can make. Facebook doesn’t provide many customization options for the main public profile page meaning that your photo is what sets your public profile apart from others. Back in February, Rob Banagale wrote a guest post on our blog about various ways of customizing your Facebook profile photo. Since then, thousands of people have…
Hack
Serial hacking with an ATtiny2313
[Sprite_tm] automated a portion of serial hacking by sniffing out the baud rate using an ATtiny2313 and FT232 breakout board. The firmware assumes 8 data bits, no parity, and 1 stop bit (8N1). This is pretty much defacto among serial ports so it should work well, though some devices do use different settings. The auto detection routine can sniff rates as low as 110 baud and supports non standard rates. Released under GPLv3, the software is also supplied in hex format. [Sprite_tm] has provided great project in past such as Working with VFDs, Controllable bristlebot, and AVR boost converter. Additional information regarding serial…
Software
Sysinternals Suite 2009.03.30
Sysinternals Suite By Mark Russinovich nbsp Updated March 30 2009 The Sysinternals Troubleshooting Utilities have been rolled up into a single Suite of tools This file contains the individual troubleshooting tools and help files It does not contain non troubleshooting tools like the BSOD Screen Saver or NotMyFault The Suite is a bundling of the following selected Sysinternals Utilities AccessChk AccessEnum AdExplorer AdRestore Autologon Autoruns BgInfo CacheSet ClockRes Contig Coreinfo Ctrl2Cap DebugView Desktops DiskExt DiskMon DiskView Disk Usage DU EFSDump FileMon Handle Hex2dec Junction LDMDump ListDLLs LiveKd LoadOrder LogonSessions NewSid NTFSInfo PageDefrag PendMoves PipeList PortMon ProcessExplorer Process Monitor ProcFeatures PsExec…
