IT @ QUB are moving forward

QUB Relevant: Mostly PGR or prospective PGR Just out of a great meeting with QUB Information Services regarding: Researcher/ Student webspace Email Wifi and VPN Web Space For a while now, this has been a bee in my bonnet; many other institutions provide User-Dirs or Public Facing Pages that, while being slightly monitored, are in the control of individual researchers and students. These draw attention to the bleeding edge of an institutions academic research while maintaining ownership of the content. ...

February 11, 2013 · Andrew Bolster

Idiots Guide to Updating Nexus 7 to Latest ROM

Came across a well known issue with QUB_SEC and Android, so I decided to fix it. Basically, Android was bailing on a particular part of the TTLS Authentication scheme that is used by millions of workplace and academic RADIUS / AD secured wireless networks, and QUB is one of them. This Comment on the issue indicated that the problem had been fixed in the newly released 4.1.2 builds, and that we’d probably be waiting a while for the OTA updates… So I guess I’ll have to do it myself! ...

October 11, 2012 · Andrew Bolster

News from the Belfast Hackerspace

So we’re only a few weeks into developing this idea, and first I’m going to give some credit where credit’s due; the people that I’m working with this have been brilliant, I want to give special thanks (in no particular order) to Ryan Grieve (@thegrieve), David Kane, Ben Harrison, Martin Gilchrist (@Gilchrist_LLP), Jonny Milliken, Dan Reid, and Chris Murray (@kris18890). Anywhere, where are we now? ...

September 7, 2010 · Andrew Bolster

Intel 4965: Poor wireless performance under Ubuntu

I had an incident recently where the Windows 7 side of my laptop connected easily to an open AP, but the Ubuntu 10.04 (or 9.04, tried both) wouldn’t, with the Intel Iwlagn drivers reporting in syslog a deauth (reason=6), basically the card spoke too soon. I eventually found the solution. After several weeks of asking the same question everywhere I could think of (as well as emailing Intel…) I found the answer a lot closer to home, from a PhD student ^H^H^H^H^H^H^H Graduate in my University over LinkedIn (Ironically enough, I’m actually working with him on my Final Year Project next year… Good stuff to come :D ) ...

July 8, 2010 · Andrew Bolster

Shared Items - 03/03/2010

Recovering Data From Noise I’m definitly going to be lookin into this (and yes I’m prepared for the headache-inducing math it will accrue) cus I have an idea about an RF implementation… A New Wi-Fi Exploit, Limited But Clever Design Your Own Wordpress Theme Easily With Constructor

March 3, 2010 · Andrew Bolster

Shared Items - 03/02/2010

10 ways to make Internet Explorer act like a modern browser Until IE comes into the fold, I guess these methods for Open Web Standard shiving will have to do. Getting Freelance Work: The Hacker Technique Definatly going to be doing this, even just to keep my Design chops up to scratch Puzzle Websites to Sharpen Your Programming Skills Great Collection of Sites that inevitably suck all the time out of my week! ...

February 3, 2010 · Andrew Bolster

Best Laid Plans of Mice and Men

Recently the only additions I’ve been making to this blog are presumptious ' I’ll be doing this’ messages, and this is no excection. I’ve been living and working in Athlone, Ireland for the past year and have really learnt alot and very much enjoyed myself, but however much I will miss the place, academia drags on; it sounds like a campaign slogan but I’m back in Queens for ‘TWO MORE YEARS…TWO MORE YEARS’ ...

July 12, 2009 · Andrew Bolster

Hacking Weekend

So, I’ve been experimenting over the weekend with Backtrack 4. My… Lord…. Times have changed, it used to be that if you wanted to mess with WEP you have to go thru a dozen intermediate stages. wesside-ng makes life so much simpler.30 minutes, fully automated. What i had done previously was manual airodump-ng, aireplay-ng with arp attacks, and then shifting the caps onto my big box to crack inside of 10 seconds, pity is the packet capture on a quiet network can take a day. ...

February 15, 2009 · Andrew Bolster

EEEpc note

Ok, got the 900, sorry this blog is very very late Pros: AMAZINGLY small, you wont believe how small it is until you use one The keyboard is just managable the Webcam is amazing quality when it works More responsive than i imagined The Extra 16GB SSD really helps Wonderfully fast bootups (If you never plug it in to any accessories (other than charger) set the Boot Booster enabled under the BIOS, trims a second or two) ...

May 24, 2008 · Andrew Bolster