Types of Hacker

Let’s see the categories of Hackers on the basis on their knowledge. Coders **The Real Hackers are the Coders, the ones who revise the methods and create tools that are available in the market. Coders can find security holes and weaknesses in software to create their own exploits. These Hackers can use those exploits to develop fully patched and secure systems.

Concept of Ethical Hacking

hi guys this is my first post i hope to present hacking A to Z 101 lets begun :) Hacking The Art of exploring various security breaches is termed as Hacking. # Computer Hackers have been around for so many years. Since the Internet became widely used in the World, We have started to hear more and more about hacking

Why Hackers Hack?

The main reason why Hackers hack is because they can hack. Hacking is a casual hobby for some Hackers — they just hack to see what they can hack and what they can’t hack, usually by testing their own systems. Many Hackers are the guys who get kicked out of corporate and government IT and security organizations. They try to bring down the status of the organization by attacking or stealing information

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 Log

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. There is a beneficial competition occurring between the Hackers securing systems and the Hackers breaking into those systems. This competition provides us with better and stronger security, as well as more complex and sophisticated attack techniques.

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Sunday, November 25, 2012

Email Password Hacking

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Email Password Hacking

There is no specified attack available just to hack the password of Email accounts. Also, it is not so easy to 
compromise the Email server like Yahoo, Gmail, etc.

Email Password Hacking can be accomplished via some of the Client Side Attacks. We try to compromise the user 
and get the password of the Email account before it reaches the desired Email server.

We will cover many attacks by the workshop flows, but at this time we will talk about the very famous 'Phishing 
attack'.

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.

The Email directs the user to visit a Web site where they are asked to update personal information, such as passwords and credit card, social security, and bank account numbers, that the legitimate organization already has. The Web site, however, is Bogus and set up only to steal the User’s information.

Phishing scams could be

Emails inviting you to join a Social Group, asking you to Login using your Username and Password.

 Email saying that Your Bank Account is locked and Sign in to Your Account to Unlock IT.

 Emails containing some Information of your Interest and asking you to Login to Your Account.

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, not by Clicking in any other Website or Email.

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Saturday, November 24, 2012

Email Spamming

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Email Spamming


Email Spamming is a variant of Bombing; it refers to sending Email to hundreds or thousands of users (or to lists that expand to that many users). Email spamming can be made worse if recipients reply to the Email, causing all the original addressees to receive the reply. It may also occur innocently, as a result of sending a message to mailing lists and not realizing that the list explodes to thousands of users, or as a result of a responder message (such as vacation(1)) that is setup incorrectly.

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