Category Archives: Hacking

All about interesting unintended “features”

OggSync for Windows Mobile

Tested Version: 4.19 OggSync connects to https://oggsync.com/r/r or https://oggsync.com/r/e and sends the entered info (PayPal eMail or Registration Code) along with some other info. You can find these URLs in cleartext Unicode inside the ogsync.exe. The relevant fields of a $_SERVER dump are those: PayPal: (I entered anon@anon.com as eMail address.) Registration Code: (The 12345… Read More: OggSync for Windows Mobile »

Toshiba notebooks

I found three different ways for bypassing the password-check on a Toshiba-notebook. I had no chance to test them, so I can’t promise they will work. Holding SHIFT Hold down the left SHIFT-key upon bootup – this should skip the password-check on most notebooks and on some desktop-systems. KeyDisk For this one, you will need… Read More: Toshiba notebooks »

IBM ThinkPad series

Please also see this homepage for more information regarding removing passwords from IBM ThinkPads. 240 [2609] Short the jumper JP1. 310/310D/310E/310ED [2600] Use switch SW2 near CPU socket (second bit switch counting from the lowest side). ??? [2610], 365C/365CD/365CS/365CSD/365E/365ED [2625] The following procedure disables user and supervisor passwords: 355x [2619], 360x [2620], 370C/750x/755C/755CS [9545] How… Read More: IBM ThinkPad series »

IBM PS/2 Aptiva

This is a short one: For skipping the password check, you have to hold down both mousebuttons after power-on until the first beep. If this doesn’t work, try to press both mousebuttons repeatedly.

DELL Latitude series

These ones are something different. DELL notebooks save their BIOS password in an EEPROM-chip so it isn’t deleted when you short-circuit the BIOS battery or something like that. Also there’s no jumper/DIP-switch which disables the password. Nevertheless, there are three different ways to get such things fixed: I will describe the second one here. Service… Read More: DELL Latitude series »