Well, it took me all day to get all my sites running today, there’s was a massive DoS attack by some hackers I had to take care of.

With that cleared away, here’s how to make some inexpensive solar cell panels.

Mike Davis is an astronomer. To practice his hobby away from the light-pollution of cities, he bought some land in a remote part of Arizona. But there was a problem: No electricity…. But he’s a resourceful fellow. He built some home-made solar panels using inexpensive blemished and damaged solar cells from eBay!

via treehugger

As you know, WonderHowTo.com is a great DIY video site and here’s Top 10 Cool Electronic HOWTO Videos from the How To, Hack, DIY, Mods Video Site:

1) How to Make a Metal Detector from Radio and Calculator -KipKay the famous Maker shows us how to make a metal detector from your old radio and calculator.  This one is really similar to the aircraft band receiver KipKay makes by taking the radio dial to its limit.

2) Here’s what happens when you type “Find Chuck Norris” on Google. Someone decided to make a website that results 1st on Google search for “Find Chuck Norris”, funny.

3) How to Make your own Home Windows Media Center PC - Here’s a great way to make your own Windows Media Center PC for watching and recording some programs on your computer.

4) How to find the hidden Microphone boost on Realtek HD Sound Cards - Here’s how you can get 20dB Micphone boost on HD sound cards.

5) Here’s how to perform CPR on an infant baby. - This might be one of the most useful things parents need to know in order to save their baby in emergencies.

6) Photoshop Hack - Check out how to increase boob size using Photoshop.  This one doesn’t require any surgery and it might help you with your future Photoshop skills.

7) Solitaire Hack - Learn how to win the Solitaire game on Windows XP or Vista. - I don’t play solitaire unless I am re-installing Windows and I need to kill time but still a cool thing to know how to do.

Here’s some tips on how to calculate faster using math shortcuts.

9) Learn how to remove a wheel from a Kawasaki motorcycle. - This could be applied to probably any Japanese sport bike.

10) Learn how to jailbreak your iPhone 3G! - Yes, every iPhone can be jailbroken for more fun.

Well, that’s all folks for now, check out the HOWTO video site for more!

Here’s an interesting video that shows hackers sniffing the Wifi to retrieve Gmail cookie. Of course, this is when you are using Gmail without HTTPS secure access.

For secure Gmail, simply use https://gmail.com instead of http://gmail.com.

via hackszine

Related:

For analyzing your network whether that be Wifi or wired, you might want to consider trying the following TCP/UDP network analyzers.

Download Ethereal - I have used Ethereal for a long time before when I used to work as an embedded network engineer.  It’s a great tool and shows pretty much every packet your network passes around. (great for wifi)

Download Wireshark - Similar to Ethereal, I believe this tool is based on the same core as the Ethereal.

Comcast’s DNS records were hacked…wow.

The hackers appear to have changed the Comcast DNS/WHOIS records which were pointing at a non-Comcast address. Although back to normal now, for a while the records displayed this data:

Administrative Contact:
Domain Registrations, Comcast kryogenicsdefiant@gmail.com
Defiant still raping 2k8 ebk
69 dick tard lane
dildo room
PHILADELPHIA, PA 19103
US
4206661870 fax: 6664200187

Technical Contact:
Comcast Corporation kryogenicsdefiant@gmail.com
1500 Market Street
Philadelphia, PA 19102
US
215-320-8774 fax: 215-564-0132

Record expires on 24-Sep-2008.
Record created on 25-Sep-1997.
Database last updated on 28-May-2008 23:48:08 EDT.

Domain servers in listed order:

NS21.WORLDNIC.COM 205.178.190.11
NS22.WORLDNIC.COM 205.178.144.11

Here’s a perfect nut and bolt ring for DIYers and hackers.  See that little spec of diamond of the “male” ring?

Lol, they forgot about the other important counterpart.

via ringoblog

Here’s some hackers auctioning off FTP passwords of top 100 sites on Alexa.

The software uses an eBay-like trading interface to qualify the stolen accounts in terms of the country where the server is located and the Google page ranking of the compromised server. Cybercriminals use the information to set a price for the compromised FTP credentials so they can be resold to other cybercriminals or adjust an attack on more prominent sites. The software also allows cybercriminals to use the FTP credentials to automatically inject HTML IFrame tags into Web pages on the compromised server.

via Yahoo News

Yey, we just got banned officially from StumbleUpon, it took them a long freakin’ time to do so. (at least the Digg guys were a little bit smarter)

So, what are we going to do? Nothing, we weren’t getting that much traffic from SU anyways. (at least lately, that’s why we are sellin’ off all our 300+ SU accounts, that’s right folks, we “control” the black market of SU, even SU engineers can’t figure it out because we are good hackers)

How to do this?

Basically, we make around 20-30 new accounts every week and get everyone at Zedomax to stumble like crazy.

We will tell you all about how to hack SU soon.

The weird thing is? We actually “helped” StumbleUpon grow like crazy with all our 1 Million+ stumbles. Every time we stumble, we are helping SU get more traffic. But I guess they made $60 million off eBay and we got nothing for helpin’. (At least help us sell some accounts for God sakes!)

We got in there before all those bloggers even knew about stumbling and helped them grow but in return we get our site banned.

It’s okay though, we are not bitter, SU people “were” better than Digg guys. They don’t totally ban you like Digg’s Kevin dictatorship BS.

That’s right folks, if you feel bitter about someone who just whopped your asses for last 2 years or so and made you see zedomax.com on SU, I apologize, SU was never hacker-proof. Always blame on the developer, not the hacker! :p

Boom shakalaka baby, we whopped your asses for too long, now we are gonna ban you too.

It’s actually great that we got banned today, it will be an honorable day to remember as a professional hacker. We got more traffic than the whole last month because of this incident.

Anyways, we will be posting more great posts instead of us rambling about our web hacks.

Here’s a quick 2AM post on how to use Internet Explorer in Firefox as a tab.

First, go to your Firewall application and deny Internet Explorer for incoming and outgoing network traffic. This will protect you against malicious IE hackers.

Second, download and install this cool IE tab Firefox extension for your Firefox.

Now, simply right click and select “View page in IE Tab” for any website you need to use IE.

I like this extension simply because I can view SiteHoppin in Firefox and IE without opening up 2 browsers.

Wow, it’s been almost 5 days without sleeping trying to fight hackers coming to this site. But, we always welcome hackers as we will work that much harder to keep them out. Basically, we are trying to build a super server on a “budget” of $1000/month. We will be adding more memory tomorrow to see if it will stop the hackers.

In the meanwhile, if this ever goes down again, please feel free to call me at 415-871-8295 and I will get it up. (Or SMS Max: “Your server is down!”)

Special Thanks to guys working in technical support team at Cari.Net. I talk to one nice gentlemen, Birnie. I even offered him some free pages on the QuarterWiki and the One Buck Wiki.

P.S. This site is not going down without a fight!