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White Hat Computer Hacking
Questions concerning 'Ethical Hacking' curriculums such as that found in any of the official ethical hacking courses may be asked here.
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Hackers search computers and/or networks for weaknesses. Hackers that exploit these weaknesses are called Black Hats. The ones who try to fix this weaknesses are called White Hats. Grey Hats are both, usually they're White Hat Hackers by day, and Black Hats by night.
If a hacker has gotten into your computer once, they will get in again. If you are unable to track down any programs that they left behind, you should seek professional help. As a last resort, backing up your important data and reformatting your computer will guarantee removal of these programs.
Remember to always use strong passwords and to be suspicious of any programs you download from the internet.
Hacking started because people realized that there were flaws with security. For example, this month people realized there was a major security flaw with internet explorer 7. Savy PC user knew they could access otheres information without them knowing. Hacking also started because user were concerned about vullnerabilities.
Is wanting to become a computer hacker bad?
It depends on what you mean by hacker.
Being a true hacker is someone who knows lots about a particular technology and is good at modifying it to make it better. Whether hacking is a good or bad thing depend on what you hack. If you hack some thing with a copyright or cause destruction then yes it is bad. If you use those skills to improve open source software, do legal penetration testing, digitalize a toaster, build your own chat program, ect. then hacking is a good, legal, and fun hobby or possibly even a profession.
Are there any cheats for ponybox?
You can cheat by getting a page refresher and logging on and letting it run for a long time. And then you can collect the items using the in-game item "item retrievers" These items can be slightly exspensive, but for large items that you can get via this method, it can be worth it.
How do you get hacking tools and hack anything you want?
A hacking device that could hack ANYTHING is probably impossible to make and if one did exist, it'd probably be very hard to use and highly illegal, if its on your computer and not the internet, you can probably hack it using regedit but be careful, its very easy to destroy your computer using regedit. (start -> run -> regedit)
oh, and theres a simple way for you to hack other usernames (even admins) on your own PC if you are an admin, just go onto start -> controll pannel -> user accounts -> click which-ever account and go "remove password" then you simply log out, click their username (or type it in) and with no password, press ok. (this is windows xp)
How do you become a mod on ponybox?
DejaVu is the most common person to choose moderators. She chooses mature players with knowledge of the game. She does not pick people who ask or rant and fight constantly.
You become a moderator by playing the game well, helping people. and not causing trouble.
Usually the first step is to contact your ISP who will work on tracing the hacker. This usually means they will get the hackers IP and find out what ISP owns that particular address and then make contact with that ISP providing details of the attack and request the details of the customer who was using that IP address at the time of the attack.
However usually hackers will get off easily. It's no problem tracing the computer that was used for the attack, but actually pinning somebody to the computer is the hard part. If its a school or library or internet cafe or some other public computer then you have little hope.
If it goes to a house, then you have to figure out which family member it was, big brother or little brother? And even if you know which one it was (because the other doesn't have the knowledge) you still have to pin him to the computer and you can rest assured his parents are not going to help you.
If it goes back to a house that has wireless internet, now you have to take neighbours and anyone who may have parked outside the house.
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It depends on your definition of "hack", but to hack something like a video game, here are some very general steps you would take, from my understanding of hacking.
- Have access to the source code of the game, this can be achieved through the disc, usually. Once access is gained, you can begin to probe for unsecured or weak areas, which can be exploited. Alternatively, you could have a list of un-patched exploits.
- Once you pick or find an exploit, you begin finding ways to bypass areas of the game using it. Such as being able to bypass the area of a multiplayer game that caused you to take damage when hit, and when you found a way to get around this, you can begin exploiting the weakness.
- When you find ways to bypass areas of a game using an exploit, you can develop tools -or mods- that let you do certain things in the game that are not normally possible (such as god-mode, or unlimited bullets).
However(!), you should be aware that many forms of hacking are illegal, and can be very dangerous to you.
What is the ratio of white hat hackers to black hat hackers?
"...there is no ratio because the white peoples are just the same as the black people because there both hat hackers because they hack into peoples stuffs..." - crap answer!!! In proper english: The ratio to black hat and white hat hackers can not be determined. White hat hackers are employed by companies to test and develop ways to improve defence on a company network/system. Black hat hackers are those that hack for fun and for personal profit such as hacking into a facebook profile or hacking into a bank to embezzle funds. Many white hat hackers are past black hat hackers that have become famous for hacking, so employers want them to test the defence and improve their system, so would these black hat or white hat?? White hat hackers and black hat hackers are divided by a very thin line and so it is very hard to determine which hacker belongs to which group. Also, Black hat hackers are performing illegal acts breaking the codes of the computer misuse act. Because of this, they will lurk in shadows and may not freely admit to being a hacker. Therefore, it is unknown how many black hat hackers there are and so it can not be put into ratio. I like the correction above, One rule for 'white hatters' regards the use of correct spelling and punctuation ... vital for good code! So one might consider the first respondant above to be at least a 'grey hatter' but certainly not a 'white hatter'. Personnaly I think that in addition to the correction above this determination must consider the overall security of the web; in doing so we could see who is 'ruling' at that particular time and posibly, therefore determine, where the majority strength lies if not the actual numbers.
hacker is not a bacteria , or invisible man. we can see hackers. probably your question should be "can we find hackers?". hackers are not robbers or gang lords. they are same as common man but with some knowledge about computer's working. but crackers are hard to be found.
How many kinds of hacking r there like website hacking password hacking?
Cracking is the proper term for referring to performing malicious attacks. Some important categories of attacks are access, modification and denial of service attacks. Each of these attacks can be carried out in an infinite number of ways and apply to all systems. These types of attacks threaten confidentiality, integrity and availability respectively.
What is the origin of hacking?
The term was used pejoratively by mathematician John Nash. When he became a C.L.E Moore Instructor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1951, he brought this term with him.[1]
The term achieved widespread use in the 1960s and its meaning then evolved to a quick, elaborate and/or bodged solution students devised for a technical obstacle; it was used withhacker, meaning one who discovers and implements a hack. The Jargon File, a glossary of slang from technical cultures at the MIT AI Lab, the Stanford AI Lab, Bolt, Beranek and Newman, Carnegie Mellon University, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, and others gave the tongue-in-cheek derivation "German word meaning 'someone who makes furniture with an axe'". This derivation was carried through when the Jargon File was eventually published as "The Hacker's Dictionary" in 1983 and later republished as "The New Hacker's Dictionary". However any student of German will know that the German word 'Hacker' (literal translation: "someone who chops") has nothing to do with making furniture, and that the derivation was intended as a wise-crack.
Over time, the meaning of the word there was expanded, perhaps through contact with the amateur radio community. It came to mean either a kludge, or the opposite of a kludge, as in a clever or elegant solution to a difficult problem. In the term "hack value" it also acquired a meaning of anything that was simultaneously fun and clever.
The initial hacker community at MIT, particularly those associated with the Tech Model Railroad Club, applied this pre-existing local slang to computer programming, producing the variant which first came into common use outside MIT.
The term "hack" was first used by US university computing centre staff in the mid-1960s. The context determined whether the complimentary or derogatory meanings were implied. Phrases such as "ugly hack" or "quick hack" generally referred to the latter meaning; phrases such as "cool hack" or "neat hack", to the former. In modern computer programming, a "hack" can refer to a solution or method which functions correctly but which is "ugly" in its concept, which works outside the accepted structures and norms of the environment, or which is not easily extendable or maintainable (see kludge). The programmer keeps beating on it until a solution is found. The jargon used by hackers is called "Hackish" (see the Jargon file). This should not be confused with "1337" or "leetspeak."
In a similar vein, a "hack" may refer to works outside of computer programming. For example, a math hack means a clever solution to a mathematical problem. The GNU General Public License has been described as[who?] a copyright hack because it cleverly uses the copyright laws for a purpose the lawmakers did not foresee. All of these uses now also seem to be spreading beyond MIT as well.
On many internet websites and in everyday language the word "hack" can be slang for "copy", "imitation" or "rip-off."
The term has since acquired an additional and now more common meaning, since approximately the 1980s; this more modern definition was initially associated with crackers. This growing use of the term "hack" is to refer to a program that (sometimes illegally) modifies another program, often a computer game, giving the user access to features otherwise inaccessible to them. As an example of this use, for Palm OSusers (until the 4th iteration of this operating system), a "hack" refers to an extension of the operating system which provides additional functionality. The general media also uses this term to describe the act of illegally breaking into a computer, but this meaning is disputed.
The term is additionally used by electronics hobbyists to refer to simple modifications to electronic hardware such as a graphing calculators,video game consoles, electronic musical keyboards or other device (see CueCat for a notorious example) to expose or add functionality to a device that was unintended for use by end users by the company who created it. A number of techno musicians have modified 1980s-era Casio SK-1 sampling keyboards to create unusual sounds by doing circuit bending: connecting wires to different leads of the integrated circuit chips. The results of these DIY experiments range from opening up previously inaccessible features that were part of the chip design to producing the strange, dis-harmonic digital tones that became part of the techno music style. Companies take different attitudes towards such practices, ranging from open acceptance (such as Texas Instruments for its graphing calculators and Lego for its Lego Mindstorms robotics gear) to outright hostility (such as Microsoft's attempts to lock out Xbox hackers or the DRM routines on Blu-ray Disc players designed to sabotage compromised players).
How do you get gP in tales runner?
In Tales Runner, you can earn gP (game Points) by participating in various races and events, completing quests, and achieving specific milestones. Winning races typically gives you more gP than finishing in lower positions. Additionally, daily logins and special in-game activities can also reward you with gP. Be sure to check for any limited-time events that might offer extra gP bonuses!
What do you call a hacker that gets profit from the hacking?
A criminal.
A hacker in the original sense is just a very good programmer. So a very good programmer that gets paid would be called an "employee".
How can you become a master mind in computer field?
to become master mind in computer u need to take more than seven life than also there will be no guaranty to become master in computer
Mayur Chudasama
Master mind of computer
They are much smarter than you and they multi task like you breath
EDIT: we actually are not "bad guys" that "hack" your accounts and steal your money/information/privacy, those so called hackers are not hackers, they are crackers and the majority of the hacker community hates them, it's like if you know how to hot wire a car won't make you an engineer.
hackers are programmers who mostly gave away their programs, ideas and source codes and help to debug other programmer's problems, hackers may also refer to as a program customiser(yes this is british English) like the famous Apple Dev Team and game mod creators, we are a bunch of people that like to help out and have fun, improving our skills by improving other people's skills, noted that people that cracks other people are not hacker, although hackers do have the ability to crack an account, this doesn't make them bad. It is like you know how to kill, but you are not bad as long as you don't kill.
most hackers are fond with the Linux operating system and very little like mac (due to mac's "preset" programs and the lack of utilities to develop softwares out of mac), if you are interested in being a hacker, you should learn how to program first, i recommand starting with LUA, as it is light weighted and easy to learn/use. by the way, that is my first learned scripting/programming language. you should also learn how to use perl and if you are good enough (which im not since im only 14 but it's impressive enough since im reli 14 only), you should also learn .NET, C, C++ and the powershell is also useful, you should try some Linux operating systems
and sorry for writing a book
from an amateur hacker
