I was watching HAK5 on REV3 last week and they mentioned a tool called the preyroject.
What the prey does is runs a piece of software on your PC/MAC/Linux computer that communicates back to your account at www.preyproject.com so in the event you computer is stollen or lost you can connect to the website and tell your laptop it is lost.
When you set this setting the Prey software starts to send you back information regarding your missin laptop such as LAN and WAN IP addresses, running processes, logged in users, screen shots and a photo from the webcam if you have one.
The software will also try to geotag you location via GPS or wireless acces point. The software will also try to connect to the Internet via open AP’s if it is not already connected to the internet.
You can also have the software place a popup on screen and have a buzzer sound every report interval, but this may just infuriate whoever has stollen you computer and have it end up in the bin.
It installed on my macbook really easily and registers with just a quick submission of your preyproject.com credentials. I have yet to test installing it on Windows or Linux, but plan to when I get a chance.
The awesome bit about the software is that it is written in BASH so it is very portable. It was also announced that there is a version available now for the Aindroid platform, which I am excited about for when I get my new Smartphone in the next few months as it seems like a perfect place for this software on a mobile phone.
Make sure you check out HAK5 as well as it is always full of cool tools like this every week.
