Welcome back, my tenderfoot hackers!

Hacker newbies have an inordinate fixation on password cracking. They believe that cracking the password is the only way to gain access to the target account and its privileges. If what we really want is access to a system or other resources, sometimes we can get it without a password. Good examples of this are replay attacks and MitM attacks. Neither requires us to have passwords to have access to the user’s resources.

Another way to gain access to a user’s account, resources, and privileges is through capturing or impersonating the user’s tokens.

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The biggest pet peeve of many Google Now users has always been the fact that you can’t toggle basic system functions with voice commands. In fact, this was such an annoyance that folks even went so far as to apply root mods to get the functionality.

Well, we’re happy to report that Google has finally integrated this functionality into Google Now. Voice commands are now capable of toggling Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and even the LED flashlight on Android 5.0 Lollipop devices.
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No setup is required to access these features on your Lollipop device. Just say “Okay Google,” followed by the command… more