do they have programs they use or is it all in some sort of code?
Jacked Jarhead
do they have programs they use or is it all in some sort of code?
Anabolic Member
very quietly
Anabolic Member
there's no one answer to that question.
read this to get your career in crime off the ground. It shows advanced searches through Google to find vulnerabilities on websites. Gotta love Google, they find everything.
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Originally Posted by Lavinco
You think Johnny's taking note of IP addys for future victims?
~Elite AR-Hall of Famer~
Hacking just refers to getting into a system. Just like there is not one way to break in a locked house, there are many different ways, depending on the system, to get in. Hackers are good people, while Crackers are not. Big difference. The teen trying to deface websites with "you suck" is a cracker.
Junior Member
"Hacking" is malicious. They know right off the bat, if they get caught, they are in deep ish. Remote access to a system (secure or not) your not suppose to be on, for example. "Cracking" is more software/piracy related. Someone that uses pre-written software to hack a website, or crack a serial for some software, is know as a "script-kiddie". They have no skill, but yet take credit for accomplishments.
Anabolic Member
Very well put.. For the most part what you will encounter today are script-kiddies. Once an exploit is found such as in the popular phpbb.com forum the exploit will be spread underground by all these kids and they will grub the web for phpbb forums and exploit them. Most are done using hack "tools" that take zero skills but if you go to zone-h.com you will see lists of sites that have been hacked, defaced and whatever. They run contests (not zone-h) but hacker groups to see who can deface the most sites in a set time. As a person that runs many many web servers these guys are always trying to get into our systems and unfortunately we have had a couple. We actually had a Real hacker get in as "root" on one of our boxes and set up a spam system and shot out about 100k spams before we caught him (of course that was within 30 minutes or so). We removed his spam tools and it pissed him off so he wiped the data stripe clean.. not pretty.. We do on-server and off server backups so it only took a few hours to restore but what a pain in the arse it was.
why do people hack?? because they can't lift weights.
Oldman
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Sorry to bust your bubble, but hacking is neither good nor bad. Its the person in control, and everyone is different. Cracking is neutral also. You can write a cracker to test an applications security potential for testing purposes, but that doesn't necessarily mean you're bad. There are many people trying to deface websites also, not just teens. Hacking does not refer to getting into a system. Hacking more or less, in a nutshell, is doing something the code is not usually permitted to do. You can hack many things, and there isn't an actual system on the other end.
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Associate Member
I am an IT major, and I can tell you that hackers are fu#king smart people bro. Hacking is some very sophisticated shit!
A hacker can do port scans to search for open ports and enter your machine for one.
It's a whole world of hi tech crap out there.
Junior Member
Someone that uses Ethereal to do a port scan is not a hacker, they are script kiddies.
Ron Paul Nuthugger
Its not that high tech bro (depends i will agree on what you are trying to do)...shit get a laptop and a wireless card and a network/package sniffer and drive around and see what you find...plenty of morons out there running wireless networks without encryption/security.
Not that hard.
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anyone go to black hat this year (or any other year)? if you're interrested in that stuff, thats the place to be every year. this past year it was down in vegas. lots of cool stuff. the thing they do every year is set up a super protected computer and have teams to see who can be the first to crack it.
New Member
most of the hackers pay other hackers to do their job
AR-Hall of Famer
ANyone ever put a connection to the hardware manufacturers? I mean, virus can generate new computer sales for the average Joe Computer Owner... "computer has been acting slow and messed up lately - time to buy a new one!"
Not to start a conspiracy theory but big business has shown deviant ways to raise their bottomline's before... many times before... got to make the stock holders happy...
Snook~ AR Lounge Monitor
If i can write a string command in JAVA saying, "Hello and welcome to JAVA" Does this make me a hacker ?
Junior Member
No, it makes you a new student in a JAVA programming 101 class.
Snook~ AR Lounge Monitor
Naaa i can make madddddd infinite loops.
Senior Member
Well i have some background in this.. from my younger years. I used to do a little hobby hacking back in the late 80's and early 90's i am not sure what the guys are doing these days.. but it all comes down to an understanding of exactly how the OS works for instance. Linux/Unix was one i used to dabble with quite a bit. The easyest way i learned how to get into these box's was pretty simple.. i would subcribe to the programmers news groups. they would talk about security flaws and fixes and you could exploit them. back then i would run a war dialer which is a program that was set up to dial numbers like this say the number was 555- you would enter 0001 to 9999 and it would dial every number in that range loging all computer activity that answered. you could go back later and attempt to get in. I would also use s Dos shell account for my dial up internet access and i could telenet multiple times and by the time i was done you really couldnt tell where i was comming from. These days it is much harder. Most hacking i would imagine look for open wireless access then use that on a secured cleaned computer.. sitting in their cars ect.. this way you cannot be tracked. Reserch guys like Kevin mitnick as well as emanual goldstein. Alt 2600 magazine. Blacklisted magazine ect.. its really rather interesting.
Associate Member
hacking is all about math and see the number sequence and understanding the flow of Av flow as well OS implantation.
Senior Member
I live in an apartment comlex and pick up plenty of wireless signals. Anyway I can look on their computer to steal some porn?? Just playin, but I do pick up a lot of their music library and have been schemin on that. I wouldn't do anything harmful to their computer even if I knew how, but I'll def double my musci library.
Senior Member
It seems like you are my neighbor
Senior Member
Thanks for the songs Alex. Btw, I like the pics of your gf...
AR-Hall of Famer
Ste****g WiFi is a given. IMO - if you broadcast in the open you are allowing people to join your network. If you drop 20 bucks in my driveway - I'll spend it for you
If I had wireless network set up I wouldn't care if people joined it, I ain't a scrooge - but the minute it messed up my bandwidth (a noticeable decrease in speed) - fuk them all, I would secure it...
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lol, interesting to hear you all add to this post. for the most part...its entertaining. i thought i remember seeing a post saying hackers are good, and crackers are bad. lol....wtf is that all about? hacking and cracking are neither good, nor bad....the intent is where you can apply your accusations.
umm, read another saying something about all hacking is, is math. well, you would be right, if you weren't wrong.
hacking is good and bad. depending on how you look at it. "pre-hacking a network" (aka vuln. testing) can be used to prevent a certain attack. most of you have misconceptions about hackers/crackers/scriptkiddies.
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not to be a dick...but if you have to ask...there's no amount of explaining that will help you. 99% of the people who ever claim to have skill are scripty kiddies.
Member
Agreed!
Senior Member
so when is the last time you went to a defcon convention? they seemed pretty boastful to me.
Associate Member
One simple way to hack into a password protected website is by using injection SQL. This works on some non-protected websites written in .asp or .aspx and using Microsoft SQL databases.
They use a statement similar to the following to determine if the username and password are authentic based on values stored in the SQL database:
SELECT count(*) FROM useraccounts WHERE username = <inputed username> AND password = <inputed password>
At the username and password prompt you simply type in the password: ' 1 or 1=1' in the password field and any username in the username field and bam your inside the restricted area.
When you enter in the password of ' 1 or 1=1' the SQL interprets it as follows:
SELECT count(*) FROM useraccounts WHERE username = anything AND password = 1 or 1=1
Since 1 always equals 1 this statement will always return true.
This was a relatively simple security vulnerability that was exploited by many hackers. It allowed people to gain access to restricted sites.
Associate Member
If you want to learn some hacking, go to http://www.hackthissite.org/ its a very good site..but I dont recommend going around and trying SQL Injections on random pages. Just so you dont try it from the SQL example cmax gave you. It's not the use of programs that make the best hacking, it's the clever and smart thinking of an individual to pick though the holes and flaws and collect information to get what they want. An example would be a good SQL injection hacker could enter information into a field to get a certain error respond back that would allow him to figure out information from that, like figuring out database and field names. and if found, data can easily be edited, deleted, or taken.
Anabolic Member
i wish my university offered a course in hacking
Associate Member
take a look into EC-Council's Certified Ethical Hacker course/cert...teaches you the thought process and SOME basic hands on attacks and defenses...good course/cert for beginners into the world of security, and again as stated before, social engineering will almost always turn up more results quicker than actually attempting to go after a machine...cleverly amusing, http://www.darkreading.com/document.....svl=column1_1 the usb key way...there are tons of attacks out there, but if you want to learn, start reading...don't ever stop...there's always someone out there better than youi wish my university offered a course in hacking
-garrett
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Network security
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One of the best places to learn hacking is hacking forums. There are few very good ones based in Europe but most of them are not in English (Russian, Dutch etc). They discuss the most recent hacking techniques and sell personal CC numbers and other stuff
New Member
hacking must be fun
Anabolic Member
plz take me under your wing... i shall be your apprentice... im ready to learn the ways of a hacker
Senior Member
i want to see more.
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Holy sh!t... either Microsoft2soft hacked the arcade or he registered here and took names!
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