Make Your USB Device The Ultimate Hacking Tool

If you plan on doing this, I reccomend acquiring at least a 4GB flash drive. 

Now, the other day I was just Googling a few things, and I came across a few things that might interest you.

What if every time you inserted your thumb drive into a computer, it gave you all the sensitive data on the computer? That (and then some) is now possible.

First, I reccomend partitioning your flash drive. Search Google for
'bootit lexar', find it, and download it. Now insert your flash drive and then run BootIt.exe, which is inside the folder you downloaded. Before going any further, backup all your data on your flash drive. Now on your BootIt window, click Flip Removable Bit. Now take out your thumb drive and re-insert it.

Now, what you just did was reverse the bit rate of your thumb drive. Normally, Windows recognizes thumb drives as Removable Media because of thumb drives' bit rates. But when you flip the bit rate, you change it to the bit rate of a removable drive. Since Windows now recognizes your thumb drive as a removable drive, you can now partition it.

Now, go to Start, then Run. Type diskmgmt.msc. Now find your drive in the top box and left click it. It should appear in the bottom box. Now right click it and select Delete Partition. Once it is finished, right click it again and Select New Partition. From the window that comes up, you can select how much space should be allocated in your first partition, you can give the partition a name, and also select which format the partition should be in. I reccomend the FAT32 format.

You can repeat these steps to create new partitions.

Now for the fun part. You can choose what you want to do with each partition. On the first one, I installed Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron on one. On another, I put USB SwitchBlade and other programs on. And on another, I put a Ophcrack Live version on.

To install Ubuntu (or another distro) on your drive, you can always Google that.

USB SwitchBlade is a tool created by Hak5. Once the files are copied to your drive, you can plug your drive into any computer. Once you run the program, it copies a LOT of sensitive data onto your flash drive. Each computer is separated in separate directories automatically.

Other USB programs can be found at Nirsoft.net and if you do a little searching (or if you already know how), you can edit an autorun file for these. I put programs such as Angry IP Scanner. You can also search Google for 'USB Programs', or you can wait a bit until I can complie a link list.

Ophcrack can be installed easily. Just search Google.
*Note that the USB SwitchBlade works best under Windows XP.