Guitar Hero TIP Guide

Microsoft has announced that it won’t be prosecuting hackers who hack their legally owned software on their own hardware. As soon as they hack illegal copies or on other people’s hardware, they’re in trouble. They are trying to get hackers to come forward with problems with their products before the hacks are leaked into the wild. What is this, Microsoft becoming the good guys?!

This is copy/paist of: http://www.worldofraids.com/ just thougt some ppl might wana try this.

Gfx enhancement macro: WoW will look better

Some players found a way to improve WoW graphics by manipulating several console commands. The following macro will do the job:

/console farclip 777
/console horizonfarclip 6226
/console groundeffectdensity 256
/console groundeffectdist 140
/console smallcull 0
/console skycloudlod 3
/console characterambient 0

You have to restart WoW for some of the effects to be used.

What does this do?

• The vegetation can be seen from miles away (grass flowers etc) plus there seems to be FAR more of it.
• The “bloom” effect seems to be more vivid.
• The view distance is greatly increased.
• Everything seems to be more sharp and crisp.
• The weather effects appear to be more intense.

See below for some examples:

http://www.worldofraids.com/2008/april/terokkar.jpg
http://www.worldofraids.com/2008/april/darkshorem.jpg

However depending on your hardware you might encounter some fps issues (low framerates), so here is the macro to revert the changes (you can also go to video options and pull all the detail options to minimum):

/console groundEffectDensity 16
/console groundEffectDist 1
/console horizonfarclip 1305
/console farclip 177
/console characterAmbient 1
/console smallcull 1
/console skycloudlod 1
/console detailDoodadAlpha 1

Keeloq is used in loads of types of cars. This site shows you how to crack a key in under an hour and then generate new keys fairly easily.

De broncode van de mmo Eve Online is uitgelekt. De code van de client van het spel is onder andere via torrentsite The Pirate Bay te downloaden. Ontwikkelaar CCP bant iedereen die de code binnenhaalt.

………………….Bovendien wil deze gamer weten waarom CCP geen detectieroutines in de client heeft ingebouwd en dus alleen vanaf de servers op bots jaagt: de broncode van Eve Online is eerder uitgelekt en CCP zou sindsdien nauwelijks maatregelen hebben genomen tegen de bots die het spel teisteren. De helpdeskmedewerker vertelt daarop dat CCP de voorkeur geeft aan het maken van uitbreidingen van het spel en niet aan veiligheid…………….

Official URL Link

Youtube presentation video link of Wii Hack.

Youtube Video Link

Ouch – that must hurt when you’re the German minister of the interior and as you’re pusing biometrics left, right and centre, the CCC publishes not only your fingerprint, but your fingerprint on a transparent plastic film so that people can easily pretend to be you!

That means at the very least changing the fingerprint lock for your next car, mister!

IntelGuardians

IntelGaurdians has released DaisyDukes, an app you can put on your USB device and remove passwords stored in the memory of locked windows or linux machines. It was only a matter of time. Link goes to the register, not the app.

The new version also copies the BD protection.

The RFID hacks keep coming fast and furious — hot the heels of that Mifare / Oyster Card exploit, the crew at BoingBoing TV has posted up a little demo of how easy cracking the RFID encryption on an American Express card can be. All it takes is an $8 dollar reader easily available on eBay, some software, and the courage to walk around with a laptop waving plastic boxes at people’s butt pockets, but developer Pablos Holman says he’s hoping to develop a newer version that will allow him to be a little more discreet. The root of the problem is apparently the fact that the system uses local decryption rather than sending card info to a secure data center, but either way we’ve been worried about this for a long time — we’re sticking to loose change and the barter system from now on.

RFID credit cards easily hacked with $8 reader – Engadget

Dorks are people who do things stupidly enough that they end up putting valuable information on the internets in such a way that google finds and indexes them.

The Google Hacking Database has a whole list of dorks you can search google for.

The Cult of the Dead Cow (CDC) has been around for ages and has now built the Goolag scanner, which automatically scans for dorks.

Then you can connect any Linux PC running winlockpwn to it and bypass the login prompt. Using bioskbsnarf you can read the BIOS password. The paper on how to do it is called “Hit By A Bus: Physical Access Attacks with Firewire (as performed at Ruxcon 2k6)” and can be found here too.

This is Vista ripped open – how to properly bypass the signup procedure.

A simple and cheap method to hack into pin machines and gather the information you need to clone a card and have the PIN number. This works because there is no encyption of the data on the line you can tap.

Ur wireless 902.11 networks are belong to us

This 14 year old kid walks around tram depots, figures out what signal is needed to make track points switch, builds his own TV Remote control and goes and derails 4 trams. That’s young talent for you.

Two issues in this story: Because registrars allow you to return a domain without costs within 5 days, domain kiting or tasting allows unscrupulous companies to register a domain, see how much traffic it generates and throw it back for free or re-register it every 5 days, allowing them to get free domains. Apparently the scope of this problem is huge.

The second issue is that so called reputable companies (such as Network Solutions) are posting your searches for domain names, so that above unscrupulous companies can register them before you can.

TomTom Systems are basically linux machines running on ARM CPUs. This means – we can hack them! And because they’re running Linux and a whole load of Linux apps, TomTom provides this page with the OS source codes and the tools they use.

Of course since then it has been hacked like crazy. Here’s the wiki page with all the hacks on it.

An interesting paper detailing quickly how to crack MD5sums using Google 🙂

Some lovely Firefox extensions, including cookie interceptors, site spidering, user agent switching and more

The Storm botnet is now sending around 2 billion emails per day, has around 30,000 computers hosting the webpage that is linked to in the email, runs at around 10% capacity and blasts anybody who starts looking at it with a massive DOS. This thing can take down just around everything (allthough it doesn’t seem to be doing so) and is way more powerful than the world’s most powerful supercomputers.
The article focusses on the DOS power of Storm, but what if it started doing some more interesting stuff like curing cancer, running folding at home or something?
Pretty amazing – it’s not the first of April, is it?

There you go. DIzzIE on the Rorta forums has a lovely quick guide for paying users of Netflix to rip them and then save, distribute, whatever them.
Apparently as soon as the howto came out, Netflix changed their DRM a bit, but hardly any time later the howto was modified on 2 points and you can still rip them.

A neat little entry to add to your about:config settings as an integer set at 0 is nglayout.initialpaint.delay

Pissed off with ICANN? Want your own tld and don’t think that you should have to be super available for it to happen? There is a different type of top level domain out there, called the gTLD. There are a few people offering them, but not all of them are very big. Of the 2 big ones, the Open Root Server Network seems too expensive at $1000,-.
Namespace gives one away for free and subsequent ones for $25,- per year. Switching is easy, all you have to do is add a few DNS servers in the root.hints list of your DNS server.

No lists of iPhone hacks here – there are plenty of them, there shouldn’t be any trouble at all finding them on internet. However, because the OS restore disks came in 2 flavours, part encrypted, part unencrypted, they’ve managed to hack the standard root password out of it allready:

Alpine

Have fun. I still love my Treo. When is Palm going to give me the stuff I want?!