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Hacking U3 Smart USB Drives – Probably one of the most popular pages on this site, this is where a lot of the excitement about U3 switchblade-type drives got its start. This writeup (which pre-dates the start of my blog) has been moved here from the university hosting where it used to be located.
Kismet on the Santa Rosa chipset MacBook
Saturday night fun with content thieves
OpenWRT on the Fon Fonera (slightly out of date)

“Exploring Extensions of Traditional Honeypot Systems and Testing the Impact on Attack Profiling”. Masters Thesis, Mississippi
State University Department of Computer Science, 2005. PDF
- For a while, you could buy this on Amazon for about 60 bucks, although I’m not sure why you would. I can’t seem to find it on
  there anymore, but it was good for laughs while it lasted.
R. McGrew and R. Vaughn, “GooSweep: Mining Search Engines to Acquire Network Forensic Evidence,” Third Annual IFIP WG 11.9 International Conference on Digital Forensics, 2007.
Robert McGrew, Rayford B. Vaughn JR,, “Experiences with Honeypot Systems: Development, Deployment, and Analysis,” hicss, p. 220a, Proceedings of the 39th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS’06) Track 9, 2006.Link
McRae, C., McGrew, R. and Vaughn, R., “Honey Tokens and Web Bugs: Developing Reactive Techniques for Investigating Phishing Scams,” Journal of Digital Forensic Practice 1 (03), September 2006, pp. 193-199. Link
- You may or may not be able to read this from that link, depending if you’re coming from an organization that has a subscription to the
  service. Google indexes the PDF, but the resulting link forwards you along to the above. This may be a fun exercise for the reader.

Craig M. McRae, Rayford B. Vaughn, “Phighting the Phisher: Using Web Bugs and Honeytokens to Investigate the Source of Phishing Attacks,” hicss , p. 270c, 2007.
“The Reality of Risks from Consented use of USB Devices”, Al-Zarouni, Proceedings of 4th Australian Information Security Management Conference, 2006