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This time on the show we’re getting a little BASH happy with Standard Streams and pipelines as we break the encryption on a WPA protected wireless access point using John the Ripper and Aircrack-ng.

Virtual Desktops are a super easy way to save some money and keep yourself organized. While many operating systems like OS X and Linux support Virtual Desktops out of the box, Windows does not. Shannon covers three free programs to add this functionality and picks her favorite.

We’re getting promiscuous, with wireless cards! As part of our foundation series of HakTips Darren covers the fundamentals of wireless packet sniffing with a practical approach in BackTrack Linux using the Aircrack-ng suite.

This time on the show we're creating a multibootable USB from scratch using Your Universal Multiboot Installer.

Continuing the fundamentals series we’re going over more then you ever needed to know about MAC addresses, OUIs and Spoofing.

This time on the show we’re cracking down on my Windows PC, optimizing it for fastest performance.

Darren answers the top 10 questions including calculating brute force times with a little bash calculator action, changing mac addresses the other way, loading wifi drivers in Linux and a lot more.

Today we're continuing our WiFi series with the example of cracking a WPA-Pre Shared Key. We started by diving into a PSK brute force with John the Ripper with a previously captured 4-way handshake. Since we've taken a step back and covered promiscuous and monitor mode in terms of packet sniffing, and how MAC addresses come into play here. And now we'll cover the ingredients needed for this recipe of passphrase cracking delightfulness.

This time on the show I'm creating a virtual machine inside VirtualBox.

Today as we continue on our WPA cracking adventure we'll learn some more fundamentals of these ubiquitous wireless protocols including some 802.11 history, the WiFi Alliance and the lettered protocols B, A and G.

In this episode we're protecting your PC from keyboard mashers, little ones, and the not so technical with some easy to use free tools.

Today as we continue on our WPA cracking adventure it's all about WiFi Channels and a little fun with a 2.4 GHz Spectrum Analyzer, BackTrack 5 Linux and a microwave.

Checking out an alternative to Virtual Box called VM Ware Player.

Today we've following up with our discussion on 802.11 standards with today's latest and greatest, 802.11n.

Here in the US there are are 4 major carries and all of them use 3g and 4g as marketing speak for speed, but I am here to tell you it not all marketing at all. First lets cover what the G really stands for. It’s generation, so 3G is really the third generation of wireless cell technology. So, when Version says they have the largest 3g network they really mean they started building their network later than, say A&TT, who really started at 2G. So in the case of Verizon, 3G could be slower than AT&T’s 2G network because generation does not directly correlate with speed. But as we all know tech does have a tendency to get faster over time. The generational spec really dictates how the tech of a given generation uses it’s spectrum to push packets.

Today we're diving into the do-dads that make up 802.11, or to be more specific we'll be going over WiFi frames. It is with careful use or abuse of these frames we're able to accomplish some pretty nifty tricks.

Today we’re going over your top 5 tips, questions and software picks including performance boosters, 3d desktops and disk space analyzers for Windows.

Today we're following up our discussion on 802.11 frames with an investigation of beacons and a practical example using BackTrack Linux and a technique known as raw frame injection.

Today we’ll be setting up an environment which will allow us to easily dissect a beacon frame, as well as the other three types of management frames; probes, authentication and association. As you know we’ve covered the 3 types of wireless frames; management, control and data. Last week we went over one of the 4 types of management frames — the beacon.

This time on the show we are making my PC less sluggish with some simple upgrades.

Today we’re continuing our discussion on wireless management frames with probe requests and responses.

This time on the show I’m checking out EaseUS’s ToDo Backup Utility.

In this HakTip from DEFCON 19 Darren is joined by Mark Wuergler of Immunity to demo Silica, a wireless security assessment tool he has been developing.

In this HakTip from DEFCON 19 Darren is joined by Piotr of the QuadShot project.

This time on the show, Shannon checks out your favorite jailbroken apps for iPhone.

This time on the show I'm reviewing my top five Security Extensions for my favorite browser, Google Chrome.

In this HakTip from DEFCON 19 Darren is joined by Georgia Weidman of GRMn00bs to talk all things Android Botnets.

Tired of logging in and starting X manually every boot? Today we're automating the process.

You guys sent in a ton of ideas for Windows optimization tools after one of my earlier HakTips.

Download a copy of any web site and host it locally with a one-line web server.

I LOVE portable applications! Who likes installing stuff? Today I’m checking out Cameyo, a free virtualization tool.

In this bash basics HakTip we combine the power of the ping and date commands with read and a while loop to create a timestamped ping -- perfect for debugging borked bits.

Monitoring your PC's performance is one very important way to optimize any PC.

In this Bash basics HakTip, we're turning exhaustively long commands into shell scripts with minimal effort.

There are a lot of handy ways to launch programs and apps in Windows, and here are 3 of my favorites: RocketDock, StarDock ObjectDock, and True Launch Bar.

In this bash basics HakTip we’re downloading files from .htaccess protected web directories without storing the password in the bash history.

Deleting files is easy! But so is restoring them. Today, we're looking at tools to help securely and safely delete and restore files.

In this bash basics HakTip, we're covering bash history tricks.

Use these two easy tools to help improve your graphics, monitor, and video card settings without spending several hours tweaking your settings.

In this bash basics HakTip, we're covering Bash substitution without sed.

Ever want to tweak your CPU just a bit, change the fan speeds, or just plain research your machines stats? Here are some tools that do just that.

In this HakTip, Darren covers how to implement a grease monkey script in Chrome to correct a problem made by website designers.

Running out of room on your Solid State C Drive? Move your Steam games to another drive while keeping them playable with this great program.

Today we're skinning holiday cats in bash. That's Linux speak for we're doing fun happy command line things for the sake of doing them.

On today's HakTip, we're checking out the Problems Step Recorder, a built-in Windows 7 program that will record every mouse or keyboard click for faster and easier problem solving.

In this HakTip we're covering nifty network monitoring tricks using lsof in Linux.

Ever wish you could just update all of your programs at once instead of when they give you a popup to do so? You can with this Windows program, similar to apt-get upgrade in Linux, called AppUpdater.

In this HakTip, we're setting up Festival for the GUI in Linux.

On today's episode of HakTip we're checking out Get Linux, an ISO downloader for Windows.

We're setting up bind shells to netcat, without using netcat! Darren features three methods to create reverse shell connections to the internet's favorite TCP/IP swiss army knife.

In this HakTip, Shannon is covering some simple tips for starting with the Linux Terminal.

Pimp your Gnome desktop with this First Person Shooter inspired terminal emulator.

Need a lightweight screen recorder for your Linux terminal sessions? Darren checks out ttyrec and ttyplay, this time on HakTip.

Today on HakTip I will be focusing on some easy commands to get you started in the Linux Terminal.

Today on HakTip, I will be focusing on some Linux Terminal commands that'll help you manipulate and move files.

Today on HakTip, I will be checking out some Linux Terminal shortcuts called Wildcards, as well as hard and symbolic links.

Today on HakTip, I will be checking out some Linux Terminal filename specifications, how to view history, and file shortcuts.

Explore and learn about some Linux Terminal commands such as type, which and apropos.

Today on HakTip, I will be creating my own command with alias, then saving it with bashrc.

This week, we're learning about I/O Redirection. I/O stands for input/output and it lets you redirect the input and output of commands to and from files, and connect multiple command "pipelines". I'm also going to introduce some new commands we haven't covered yet in the next coming weeks.

This week, we're continuing our Linux Terminal 101 series with redirection of standard errors into files.

This week are are using the command in Linux called CAT to view Standard Input files.

This week on Haktip, we are checking out pipelines and their abilities in the terminal.

This time on HakTip, Shannon covers the echo command and its various uses.

This week we are checking out more expansion commands with nesting and parameters.

This week we check out single and double quotes in the Linux terminal.

Today we're learning and using the history command.

Permissions exist for Linux computers so more than one person can use a machine at one time and only be allowed to do certain things.

Several user accounts can exist on one Linux machine, and you can easily create and remove them using these commands.

This week we are checking out processes.

This week we are controlling the processes that we learned about last week.

This week we are checking out your viewership feedback tips.

This week we are getting into Netcat the networking utility for use of just about anything with the network.

This week we are getting into using Netcat to setup an instant chat network.

This week we are getting into using Netcat to file transfer network.

This week we are using Netcat for Banner Grabbing of website pages

This week we are using Netcat for Port Scanning of ip addresses.

This week on HakTip Shannon is creating remote shells with Netcat in Windows!

This week on HakTip Shannon is connecting to linux from windows with Netcat!

This week on HakTip Shannon is trying out Cryptcat, Netcat with Encryption!

This week on HakTip Shannon is using Netcat to make two processes talk to each other on a network!

This week on HakTip Shannon is using Netcat to direct network traffic around the computer and between computers!

This week on HakTip Shannon is introducing NMap a security scanner used to discover hosts and services on the network!

This week on HakTip Shannon is scanning for multiple targets in NMap.