Password Generation

Since I have to create strong & random passwords so often, and got tired of using websites, I decided to look for a real program. I came across PWGen and have found it to do everything I need including creating password size in bit length and utilizes entropy for randomness.

Cracker scores big on Interactive TV show "Banzai"

I received some "insider information" from someone working for one of the top Interactive TV (ITV) networks that a player of the interactive game show Banzai found a way to crack (some say hack) his or her scores. Apparently the individual was kind enough to register with the email address of his actual domain name, then wrote about it on his site, posting screen shots.

Knowing these game cheaters use programs to modify values in memory adresses, I'll try this with TSearch on a simple game like Pinball. Fire up Pinball and start playing until theres a score, then start Tsearch and click "Open Process":



Click the magnifying glass and search with an exact value for the current score, leaving the "4 Bytes" under "Type".

1 byte = 0-255
2 byte = 0-65535
4 byte = 0-4294967295
8 byte = 0-18446744073709551615

I came up with 2 results on the first query. Double click to bring the address to the right pane, then edit the value and see if the score changed in the game. That was easy: