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#1 2013-04-13 01:43:34

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HACKING (for a good reason)

Soo... I wish that one day i could become a hacker, however, i don't want to be a bad guy.. i have discovered that their are hackers that try to hack computers so that organizations can learn how to defend against it, and thus prevent bad hackers from gaining personal info.

I would like to know where to begin learning to hack... any ideas

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#2 2013-04-13 02:52:17

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Re: HACKING (for a good reason)

Hack This Site is a good place to start hacking.


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#3 2013-04-13 03:49:28

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Re: HACKING (for a good reason)

You could also get your certification in ethical hacking down the road  smile

Kind of a neat way to make a living

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#4 2013-04-13 11:44:30

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Re: HACKING (for a good reason)

By the way, hacking and cracking are too different things.

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#5 2013-04-13 11:48:33

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Re: HACKING (for a good reason)

MoreThanOneLetter wrote:

By the way, hacking and cracking are too different things.

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#6 2013-04-13 12:07:43

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Re: HACKING (for a good reason)

nathanprocks wrote:

Hack This Site is a good place to start hacking.

It's decent, but there are some things that it just doesn't teach you. The real best way to learn how to hack is actually to learn SECURITY. I'd personally recommend you dedicate an old computer to create a local web server. Don't port forward it, but you could use it in order to test the security. Try to break in to that, and each time you succeed, add more layers of security and try to get past that. Look through the source code of Apache (one of the most common web servers) and look for code that could be exploited. Learn PHP and MySQL, and most importantly, KNOW YOUR WAY AROUND A LINUX/UNIX TERMINAL.
Also remember this: the biggest security flaw is always the programmer. If everything was easy to hack, there would be no web, just anarchy. However, as in the basic HTS mission in which you need to get votes for a band, a large part of hacking is taking advantage of places with small budgets or inexperienced developers.

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#7 2013-04-13 12:15:34

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Re: HACKING (for a good reason)

A couple of days ago, I hacked my school netbook with Windows 7's built-in Startup Repair tool. I installed the latest version of iTunes because the version that came with the netbook doesn't support iOS 6. I also installed Google Chrome.  tongue


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#8 2013-04-14 05:38:20

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Re: HACKING (for a good reason)

nathanprocks wrote:

A couple of days ago, I hacked my school netbook with Windows 7's built-in Startup Repair tool. I installed the latest version of iTunes because the version that came with the netbook doesn't support iOS 6. I also installed Google Chrome.  tongue

One of my friends would have loved to do that. He bought his own laptop now though  tongue


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#9 2013-04-14 12:05:50

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Re: HACKING (for a good reason)

Just hacked my school laptop a bit further... I disabled the AppLocker service so that I can run most .exe files. Then I installed Visual Studio 2010 Express so I can write programs at school.


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#10 2013-04-15 21:37:11

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Re: HACKING (for a good reason)

^ niiice

See, with this ethical hacking thing, you can find a vunerability and go yell at someone to fix it. Then poof! the product is more secure and happier for everyone.


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#11 2013-04-15 22:01:36

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Re: HACKING (for a good reason)

It sounds like an actually pretty cool job.


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#12 2013-04-15 22:18:26

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Re: HACKING (for a good reason)

so you pretty much want to be a white hat


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#13 2013-04-16 00:10:53

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Re: HACKING (for a good reason)

scratchisthebest wrote:

^ niiice

See, with this ethical hacking thing, you can find a vunerability and go yell at someone to fix it. Then poof! the product is more secure and happier for everyone.

The Tech Support Officer at school knows how to hack the school laptops and he doesn't care that I hacked mine. Students would be happier if the laptops weren't so locked down, but then they would use them for the wrong reasons such as playing games in class.


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#14 2013-04-16 09:40:40

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Re: HACKING (for a good reason)

nathanprocks wrote:

scratchisthebest wrote:

^ niiice

See, with this ethical hacking thing, you can find a vunerability and go yell at someone to fix it. Then poof! the product is more secure and happier for everyone.

The Tech Support Officer at school knows how to hack the school laptops and he doesn't care that I hacked mine. Students would be happier if the laptops weren't so locked down, but then they would use them for the wrong reasons such as playing games in class.

How did you hack your laptop?
I seriously need to.


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#15 2013-04-16 10:54:56

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Re: HACKING (for a good reason)

mythbusteranimator wrote:

nathanprocks wrote:

scratchisthebest wrote:

^ niiice

See, with this ethical hacking thing, you can find a vunerability and go yell at someone to fix it. Then poof! the product is more secure and happier for everyone.

The Tech Support Officer at school knows how to hack the school laptops and he doesn't care that I hacked mine. Students would be happier if the laptops weren't so locked down, but then they would use them for the wrong reasons such as playing games in class.

How did you hack your laptop?
I seriously need to.

Ok, but I shall not be responsible if you break your's or someone else's computer, or if you get in to trouble using this hack. This tutorial is for Windows 7. I have not tried this on Windows 8.

1. Start up the computer. If the computer is already on, restart it. Before you do this, read the next step.
2. While the computer is starting and the Windows logo is on the screen, hold the power button until the computer turns off.
3.Turn the computer on again. It should ask if you want to launch Startup Repair. Press enter and wait for it to load. If it does not ask to launch Startup Repair, repeat steps 1 and 2, but when you turn the computer on again, repeatedly press the F8 key (before the Windows logo appears). There should be a "Repair your computer" option. Select it if it isn't already selected and press enter.
4. When it has finished loading, make sure the keyboard input method is correct and click Next.
5. Click Startup Repair. This usually takes a while to do (probably a minimum time of 5 minutes, usually more). If Startup Repair asks if you want to restore the computer using System Restore, click Cancel.
6. When is is finished, it should say "Startup Repair cannot repair this computer automatically". If this dialog box did not appear when Startup Repair finished, go back to step 1. If it did appear, there will be a text box with error details. Scroll to the bottom of the text box and click the last link. This will open Notepad.
7. In the Notepad window, click File, then Open... Browse to C:\Windows\System32. Select "All files" from the Save as type menu. Find Magnify.exe and rename it to Magnify_old.exe. Find cmd.exe. Copy cmd.exe and paste it (in the same folder). The copy should be called something like "cmd - copy.exe". Rename it to Magnify.exe. If the version of Windows is 64 bit, you may have to repeat this step in C:\Windows\SysWOW64.
8. Restart the computer. When Windows is finished booting and the logon screen appears, click the Ease of Access button in the lower left corner of the screen. Check the box next to "Make items on the screen larger (Magnifier)" and click OK. A Command Prompt window should appear. From here, you do hack around with anything as the Windows SYSTEM user.

Here are some of the possible things you can do with this hack: (There are many other things you can do, but I can not think of anything else.)

If you want to make yourself administrator, type "control userpasswords2" in the Command Prompt window and press enter. You can make your account an administrator from there.

If the computer says "This program is blocked by group policy. For more information, contact your system administrator." when you try to run a program that is not installed on the computer, type "services.msc" and press enter. In the list of services, find "Application Identity" and double click it. Set the startup type to disabled and click OK. Restart the computer for this change to take affect.

If you want to install a program without making yourself administrator, type the path to the setup program in the Command Prompt and press enter.


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#16 2013-04-16 11:41:10

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Re: HACKING (for a good reason)

THANK YOU THANK YOU

But will it function if it goes correctly?
(i.e. use applications, browse internet, etc.)


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#17 2013-04-16 12:09:41

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Re: HACKING (for a good reason)

mythbusteranimator wrote:

THANK YOU THANK YOU

But will it function if it goes correctly?
(i.e. use applications, browse internet, etc.)

Yes, if you do everything correctly, the computer will function.


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#18 2013-04-16 12:14:58

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Re: HACKING (for a good reason)

Wait a second... how come I can't just press F8 the first time it restarts?


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#19 2013-04-16 17:45:59

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Re: HACKING (for a good reason)

Interesting.


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#20 2013-04-16 20:34:36

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Re: HACKING (for a good reason)

nathanprocks wrote:

mythbusteranimator wrote:

nathanprocks wrote:


The Tech Support Officer at school knows how to hack the school laptops and he doesn't care that I hacked mine. Students would be happier if the laptops weren't so locked down, but then they would use them for the wrong reasons such as playing games in class.

How did you hack your laptop?
I seriously need to.

Ok, but I shall not be responsible if you break your's or someone else's computer, or if you get in to trouble using this hack. This tutorial is for Windows 7. I have not tried this on Windows 8.

1. Start up the computer. If the computer is already on, restart it. Before you do this, read the next step.
2. While the computer is starting and the Windows logo is on the screen, hold the power button until the computer turns off.
3.Turn the computer on again. It should ask if you want to launch Startup Repair. Press enter and wait for it to load. If it does not ask to launch Startup Repair, repeat steps 1 and 2, but when you turn the computer on again, repeatedly press the F8 key (before the Windows logo appears). There should be a "Repair your computer" option. Select it if it isn't already selected and press enter.
4. When it has finished loading, make sure the keyboard input method is correct and click Next.
5. Click Startup Repair. This usually takes a while to do (probably a minimum time of 5 minutes, usually more). If Startup Repair asks if you want to restore the computer using System Restore, click Cancel.
6. When is is finished, it should say "Startup Repair cannot repair this computer automatically". If this dialog box did not appear when Startup Repair finished, go back to step 1. If it did appear, there will be a text box with error details. Scroll to the bottom of the text box and click the last link. This will open Notepad.
7. In the Notepad window, click File, then Open... Browse to C:\Windows\System32. Select "All files" from the Save as type menu. Find Magnify.exe and rename it to Magnify_old.exe. Find cmd.exe. Copy cmd.exe and paste it (in the same folder). The copy should be called something like "cmd - copy.exe". Rename it to Magnify.exe. If the version of Windows is 64 bit, you may have to repeat this step in C:\Windows\SysWOW64.
8. Restart the computer. When Windows is finished booting and the logon screen appears, click the Ease of Access button in the lower left corner of the screen. Check the box next to "Make items on the screen larger (Magnifier)" and click OK. A Command Prompt window should appear. From here, you do hack around with anything as the Windows SYSTEM user.

Here are some of the possible things you can do with this hack: (There are many other things you can do, but I can not think of anything else.)

If you want to make yourself administrator, type "control userpasswords2" in the Command Prompt window and press enter. You can make your account an administrator from there.

If the computer says "This program is blocked by group policy. For more information, contact your system administrator." when you try to run a program that is not installed on the computer, type "services.msc" and press enter. In the list of services, find "Application Identity" and double click it. Set the startup type to disabled and click OK. Restart the computer for this change to take affect.

If you want to install a program without making yourself administrator, type the path to the setup program in the Command Prompt and press enter.

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#21 2013-04-16 23:35:42

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Re: HACKING (for a good reason)

I'm very interested in hacking and I can do it very well too! I've taken many online training courses, and programmes (ones I should be ashamed of) to hack into mainly websites. I don't hack databases just websites and Apps.

The program I use lets you put in a URL and instead of opening the page it opens up source code. Then you may attempt to get through the jungle of letters and numbers to do as you please. Well good luck with your hacking job thingy  wink


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#22 2013-04-17 01:49:20

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Re: HACKING (for a good reason)

mythbusteranimator wrote:

Wait a second... how come I can't just press F8 the first time it restarts?

Some computers will automatically ask to boot into Startup Repair mode, while others don't and you have to press F8 to get into Startup Repair.


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#23 2013-04-17 05:24:18

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Re: HACKING (for a good reason)

Strange connection, my piano teacher has a fried who makes a lot of money doing this professionally.

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#24 2013-04-17 06:11:11

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Re: HACKING (for a good reason)

Gravitation wrote:

Strange connection, my piano teacher has a fried who makes a lot of money doing this professionally.

Yeah, hacking is cool. Has anyone here heard of Chris Putnam? He hacked Facebook around the end of 2005 and they hired him.


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#25 2013-04-17 10:12:38

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Re: HACKING (for a good reason)

nathanprocks wrote:

mythbusteranimator wrote:

nathanprocks wrote:


The Tech Support Officer at school knows how to hack the school laptops and he doesn't care that I hacked mine. Students would be happier if the laptops weren't so locked down, but then they would use them for the wrong reasons such as playing games in class.

How did you hack your laptop?
I seriously need to.

Ok, but I shall not be responsible if you break your's or someone else's computer, or if you get in to trouble using this hack. This tutorial is for Windows 7. I have not tried this on Windows 8.

1. Start up the computer. If the computer is already on, restart it. Before you do this, read the next step.
2. While the computer is starting and the Windows logo is on the screen, hold the power button until the computer turns off.
3.Turn the computer on again. It should ask if you want to launch Startup Repair. Press enter and wait for it to load. If it does not ask to launch Startup Repair, repeat steps 1 and 2, but when you turn the computer on again, repeatedly press the F8 key (before the Windows logo appears). There should be a "Repair your computer" option. Select it if it isn't already selected and press enter.
4. When it has finished loading, make sure the keyboard input method is correct and click Next.
5. Click Startup Repair. This usually takes a while to do (probably a minimum time of 5 minutes, usually more). If Startup Repair asks if you want to restore the computer using System Restore, click Cancel.
6. When is is finished, it should say "Startup Repair cannot repair this computer automatically". If this dialog box did not appear when Startup Repair finished, go back to step 1. If it did appear, there will be a text box with error details. Scroll to the bottom of the text box and click the last link. This will open Notepad.
7. In the Notepad window, click File, then Open... Browse to C:\Windows\System32. Select "All files" from the Save as type menu. Find Magnify.exe and rename it to Magnify_old.exe. Find cmd.exe. Copy cmd.exe and paste it (in the same folder). The copy should be called something like "cmd - copy.exe". Rename it to Magnify.exe. If the version of Windows is 64 bit, you may have to repeat this step in C:\Windows\SysWOW64.
8. Restart the computer. When Windows is finished booting and the logon screen appears, click the Ease of Access button in the lower left corner of the screen. Check the box next to "Make items on the screen larger (Magnifier)" and click OK. A Command Prompt window should appear. From here, you do hack around with anything as the Windows SYSTEM user.

Here are some of the possible things you can do with this hack: (There are many other things you can do, but I can not think of anything else.)

If you want to make yourself administrator, type "control userpasswords2" in the Command Prompt window and press enter. You can make your account an administrator from there.

If the computer says "This program is blocked by group policy. For more information, contact your system administrator." when you try to run a program that is not installed on the computer, type "services.msc" and press enter. In the list of services, find "Application Identity" and double click it. Set the startup type to disabled and click OK. Restart the computer for this change to take affect.

If you want to install a program without making yourself administrator, type the path to the setup program in the Command Prompt and press enter.

Or you could change all the passwords on your computer with net user username newpassword.


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