How to recover WEP key on a Wifi Router using BackTrack 5

BackTrack > Open GUI Mode > Open Terminal Check wifi adaptor compatibility with “iwconfig” Put adaptor in monitor mode with “airmon-ng start wlan0″ Scan for networks with “airodump-ng mon0″ Find the “WEP” network you want to crack and copy it’s BSSID Capture packets with “airodump-ng -c <channel> -w <output filename> –bssid <bssid> mon0″ Open new [...]

Getting Started with CodeIgniter

Auto load the following libraries and helpers by putting the following code lines in application/config/autoload.php: 1 2 $autoload[’libraries’] = array(’database’); $autoload[’helper’] = array(’url’, ‘file’); Creating a new model as application/models/post_model.php: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 <?php class [...]

Improving Google Apps generated emails

USE SPF: Add the following TXT record in your domain’s DNS Manager: v=spf1 a mx include:_spf.google.com ~all You can leave the hostname field blank. If your DNS manager isn’t letting you leave it blank, put “@” in that field without quotes. USE DKIM: Go to https://www.google.com/a/cpanel/example.com/ Go to Advanced Tools > Authenticate email > Set up email authentication [...]

Airtel Landline VAS: Lock/Unlock Calls, Enable/Disable Call Divert and Call Waiting

I’m not a person sitting lying in the office or home for hours, instead I am mostly dependent on my mobile device and tablet for most of the tasks. Therefore I was skeptical about my fixed and bulky electronics including my telephone line being mis-used by anyone. From sometime I am using security codes in almost all my gadgets [...]

Custom PHP Configuration File (PHP.INI) in Shared Hosting like Hostgator

[PHP]   date.timezone = "Asia/Calcutta"   ;;;;;;;;;;; ; WARNING ; ;;;;;;;;;;; ; This is the default settings file for new PHP installations. ; By default, PHP installs itself with a configuration suitable for ; development purposes, and *NOT* for production purposes. ; For several security-oriented considerations that should be taken ; before going online with [...]

Download big files from web to server over PHP without WGET or SSH Access

<html> <form method="post"> <input name="url" size="50" /> <input name="submit" type="submit" /> </form> < ?php // maximum execution time in seconds set_time_limit (24 * 60 * 60);   if (!isset($_POST[’submit’])) die();   // folder to save downloaded files to. must end with slash $destination_folder = ‘downloads/’;   $url = $_POST[’url’]; $newfname = $destination_folder . basename($url);   [...]

Why Asus India Service Sucks a big time

Facts and Figures: Service Centre: Lotus Computech, Azadpur RMA number: 7376425 => INJ9290004 Product Type : Notebook Product Model : K53SC Product S/N : B7N0AS142298273 Date of Purchase : 25/9/2011 Invoice Number: LSB-409917 Laptop Deposited in Service Centre: 8/9/2012 DOA Declared On: 1 October, 2012 DOA Certificate Number: ANN12ADL02011 I suffered from a horrible service [...]