Eh I disagree you can't construe learning how to hack into anything else... Haven't you ever heard of ethical hacking or white hat hackers? It's merely the way you choose to use that knowledge.

what ive heard a little about is, hackers using viruses as their tool. Mostly things like a keylogger for password steals or there have been viruses that can be controlled to a certain extent wich can allow the user of them to disable the keyboard, or make the screen go blank, or make things pop up on a persons screen remotely. As well as messing around with key system files.

Danniboy.

yeah but thats probably the one that you rather wanna be stuck with that to have someone physically accessing your server/machine live

White Hat Hacking = Good, (as opposed to Black Hat Hacking = Bad)and Penatration Testing have started to really take off as a valid "profession" within the IT Community. The pay is not the best compared to some other aspects of the IT world, but it is getting better and will all depend on your experience. Certified Ethical Hacking is a course taught by the EC Council and is worth checking into just to learn more about how your systems work.

hi can is ask what is that white hat hacking??? can u teach me how to do it just a simple one
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tnx

White Hat Hacking means you exploit a system, program, etc. to find a weakness for the sole purpose of improving and strengthening it (rather than doing harm).

We did discuss this issue earlier on this thread that hacking has different aspects, you can't learn white hat hacking mate. You can learn hacking, then its the use of that skill what makes it White Hat or Black Hat.

Ethical Hacking is always for the purpose of testing the system against any attacks from hackers and then try to tie up the loose ends and would always be classed as good. As far as pay is concerned I have no idea as I don't directly know someone who does it as a profession but I do know of someone who was given a 4 bedroom house as a reward for finding loopholes in Online Banking System of one High Street Bank. And before anyone asks I do not have their names or anything.

Raj

I agree, that hacking is a skill (the actual technicality of which you would have to acquire on your own...if you want)...and like most things in life...it's what you do with this skill that then determines the difference between a White Hat and a Black Hat hacker...

But I remember reading a thread in one of the forums here in Daniweb, and the person was saying that their website was hacked, they also said that the hacker left them a message within their code...
how did they figure out their site was hacked?!?...
they said that they went onto their site 1 day and it was totally blank...when they looked at their code, they saw a chunk of code that wasn't there before...and they found it on all of their scripts (for the entire site, which apparently was huge)...

I am not exactly sure what type of site they have...but it can certainly make someone panic in that situation...

Now that would be classed as black hat hacking as obviously that was intentional harm done to the owner of that particular site without proper authorisation.

And to answer Technogeek's request, I'm sorry friend this thread is not intended to teach anyone how to hack be it a simple or complicated hack. That is what I have been saying all along from the start of the thread that this is for educational purposes only, not study material for learning how to hack.

Raj

Technogeek,
This is not the forum to teach people how to hack. In this particular thread, we are only becoming more aware of the hackers and their behaviour so that we can protect ourselves in the future. It would be greatly appreciated if you can simply follow the thread.