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Virgin Media and the WPS flaw

By Hegelund | April 18, 2012 - 11:36 pm |August 3, 2015 Linux, Networking, Security, Wifi

Some cleaver guys figured out that there is a flaw in Wi-Fi Protected Setup (WPS). WPS was developed for an easy way to connect devices to a wireless network, by using an eight-digit pin code. WPS is enabled on many routers as default, no matter if they are running WEP, … Continue reading →

Whatismyip

By Hegelund | March 31, 2012 - 1:15 pm |April 7, 2015 Linux, Scripts

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When working in a shell I would often like the ability to see what public IP I’m on. There is no build in function, which I know of anyway. So after a bit of searching I found this one-line-wonder, and wrote it into a little script. #!/bin/bash wget -q -O … Continue reading →