Barracuda Firewall Hacking for Fun and Profit - FreeNAS

http://garydrumm.blogspot.com/2008/02/barracuda-firewall-hacking-for-fun-and....

Step 1 - Find a Barracuda Firewall
Step 2 - Open it Up and Look Inside
Step 3 - ???
Step 4 - Profit! $$

If you read my techie blog, then you'll know exactly where this is coming from. It's not paintball, but it's still fun!

I basically void the warranty on a Barracuda Web Filter, replace the hard drive with a CF to IDE drive, and install FreeNAS server.

Now I have a 1U device to act as my NAS server. You can pick these things up on eBay, without a warranty, for less than $500.

Anyway, enjoy...

Category:

Education

Tags:

• barracuda
• firewall
• freenas
• hacking

[cotton509]

why not take its hdd to a different machine unstakk the ne software then pput it back?

[gldrumm]

Actually, that's what I did.  I set it up as a secondary drive on another machine, then wiped it out. I went ahead and used a different drive for my setup of FreeNAS. This box is actually being converted into a new Windows 2008 Domain Controller for my home network now.

[pocketfrogs1234567]

hi



[WebDawgII]

I had to flash my bios to erase the pass. My motherboard is newer.

[altphil]

I just did something like this to a WAF. Pretty simple, guessed the bios password using defaults, enabled netbooting and installed FC14 via pxeboot onto the CF HD already in there. Using the two sled drives in a RAID1 for big disk stuff. Only thing I can't figure out is the goofy little switch(? I guess) for the nic ports on the front. There's some cables running from it to the DB25 on back, but no serial console love with or without crossover. Still workin' on it.

[thegreenhack]

Hi I have a Barracuda Spam & Firewall 100, i bought it from a friend of mine, he installed windows xp on it, is there a way i can install the default Barracuda os back or a software,

i will appreciate your help.

thank you

[xISOmaniac]

very cool video and what a hell of a nice way to modify your Barracuda Firewall

[lillisund]

@gldrumm Your internet must be good! ^^

[Demonicshawn]

Cool stuff man

[GroovyMango]

With beer!! Cool guy ;)

nice trip