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How to extend battery life in the BackTrack

BackTrack 3 Can your CPU do this? The idea is, I have a notebook and I want to extend the time of working on the nootbook without being pluged into the electric outlet. There are many possibilities how to do it. It definitely means that you have installed linux based operating system. You can save something by taking away modules that are unnecessary for hardware or by reducing the backlight of LCD. And what is the second biggest time glutton right after LCD? more

Hewlett-Packard BIOS hacking

Hewlett Packard logo Guide for bios hack of HP laptops in 1.0 :: What´s it about? HP as well as IBM have ona notebooks  Whitelist block in bios. That means that if you change the original Wifi card with a new one the BIOS will write this: 104-Unsupported wireless network device detected. System Halted. Remove device and restart. If you contact the Hewlett-Packard customer support they will probably try to satisfy you with advices such as update bios or update driver (as it would be possible to get in any operating system :) more

Bluetooth external antenna hack

bluetooth logo BlueTooth is today a standard part of every notebook and a better mobile phone. To bad if you want to do BlueJacking or BlueSnarfing and the bluetooth is in your computer only as a fashion accessory (module glued-on the WiFi card). In that case you have only two possibilities. Take out the pigtail to connect the external antenna. It´s not much fun to make holes into the new laptop. Who has tried it found out more

Essential Tools - Nessus exploit and rootkit scanner

nessus Nessus is a security scanner of vulnerability. Lately there was a lot of discussion about this topic. First of all little bit of history. Project Nessus was originaly under GPL licence, but somebody smart has closed the source codes and GPL was over. The project continued as Tenable Nessus and free version (GPL licence) under name GNessUs. But this one died out after a year abd the application goes on as OpenVas. Parallel GPL project is based on the last opened source code more

Packet Injection wifi Intel 4965 AGN patch

packet injection Finally there exists a way how to solve packet injection with driver for wifi card Intel WiFi Link 4965AGN – operating system Linux. The one modified is the original driver iwlwifi (included for example in distribution Backtrack Linux). Be aware that the packet injection is functional but still it is an experimental thing (develop version). Besides the complicated compilation and occasional unstability continue ‘Packet Injection wifi Intel 4965 AGN patch’