Written by Jay
Manchester Grey Hats is about bringing the community together and because of that, we wanted to create a blogging platform for anyone wanting to use it.
Blogging with MGH is not like blogging with some of the other platforms. It might seem quite complicated and roundabout to start with but it gives us a few benefits:
Security. We are using static files so we have a smaller attack surface.
Presented by: Jay
In this workshop, we’ll look at the common vulnerabilities found in web applications such as XSS, SQL Injection, CSRF etc and learn how to discover and exploit them.
To join in with the exercises, you’ll need a laptop with a web browser, ZAP or burpsuite and Hackazon running inside a VM.
This workshop is aimed at beginners so if you’re already familiar with web app security, you may not get a huge amount from this (although we’d love for you to come along anyway!
Presented by: Jay
Software Defined Radio (SDR) is a cheap and easy way to listen to and interact with radio devices. In this workshop, we’ll look at the capabilities of SDR, discuss common weaknesses in radio systems (such as wireless keyfobs and wireless keyboard) and look into ways these can be exploited with cheap and readily available hardware.
For this workshop, you will need a laptop with gnuradio companion, SDR# or qqrx and capable of running SDR drivers (these should all be available in Kali Linux).
Written by Jay
As a Software Guy ™ I tend to be way more comfortable reversing a binary than following the tracks on a chip and it’s for that very reason that I decided to document the process of hacking home routers the hardware way. The end goal, as always, is and see what kind of access can be gained and ideally get access to some kind of shell with root privileges.
Written by Jay
I wanted to be notified of reddit PMs when all computers were off. Unfortuantly I don’t have a phone which can subscribe to RSS feeds so the solution was to create a couple of (quick and dirty) shell scripts which will blink a LED on a modified Buffalo WHR-G125 router running Tomato firmware.
Soldering is required to attach an LED to an unused output pin. If hardware hacking isn’t your strong point (god knows it’s not mine) you should be able to hijack one of the existing LEDs, such as DIAG or ROUTER.