hack technics

[myx at amex.ro (myx at amex.ro)]

Well,
Today hacking becomes more and more money based. In early ages of
internet, hacking was more like a "show-off" between good and bad guys.
Unfortunatelly, today, hackers can be divided in  few categories.
Ethical one (lab hackers) , script kiddies (wich includes scam site
builders, phising sites, piracy and more) and ( most dangerous) those
known as on-command hackers (very good skilled and working for a lot of
money). Every category have their own target(s) .
Knowing what they are targeting and why, realising if the network, OS,
software we protect is one of any category target is a good way to start
protecting and defending.
Latest phising metod(s) ? Simple. Pose as a script kiddie in one or more 
underground sites or chat and you'll be "on news" with them.


On 2/12/2007, "lord maximus" <gangstified at gmail.com> wrote:

> well to start it off... Hacking in my own opinion, is a state of mind....
>
> I won't go into what exactly a hacker main focuses are, but they should be
> to get in any way possible, leaving no footprint or logs. So thinking using
> the state of mind factor, you could say if one think doesn't work (like
> subverting windows 2003 SP1 kernel integrity protection", you'd find another
> way todo the same thing, or some other way into a machine in a given attack.
>
> It also depends if your talking live hacking of a machine, or hacking of
> software.
>
> On 2/12/07, Omid Tavakoli <omid.zs at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Dear mailing list members ,
> >
> >
> >
> > This is a Network Security specialist (Penetration Testing Asset) who has
> > been working on the latest methods of the penetration testing; as part of my
> > research I have some questions and I would be very thankful if you would
> > help me find the answers.
> >
> > I believe in order to provide the required level of security for any
> > application, network or operating system, we need to look at it from the
> > hacker's point of view because they have been always one step ahead of us. I
> > need to know what the hacker's main focuses are. For example, "Subverting
> > Windows 2003 SP1 Kernel Integrity protection"? or "defeating stack based
> > overflow prevention mechanism". What are the latest phishing methods? and
> > ...
> >
> > And in general, what is the direction of the hacking methods in the near
> > future?
> >
> >
> >
> > Sincerely,
> >
> > Omid Tavakolli