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potts> yeah.... hacked to little bits when someone breaks in to your bathroom while you are in the shower....
We could go into a lot of detail to answer the question, but I will answer the question just as general as the question was answered....
How do hackers break inot your computer.... They find an exploit and use it.
how do they exploit it.... bad configuration and crappy software.
Crappy software - No its just that programmers spend a whole lot of time on there projects and programs, but for every programmer there is 10 or more hackers willing to test and shall i say reverse engineer anything that the programmers put forward.
but i guess crappy software can be exploited too :D
you must be more specific.... you know in hacking is not just a simple softaware that you can learn... it's a combination of heart and high IQ...
Knowledge is Power...
Im not an expert, but for what i know, hackers break in, because of Software Exploits, and that includes Windows. Microsoft when have an exploit on there system, they get weeks or even months, to send out a securty update, that gives to hackers plenty time to explore this exploits, find i way to use them to break in, and install something like Backdoor, so that they still can enter even if the user installs the security update.
There are also other ways, has we all know, TCP/IP is not secure, they can hijack connections, spy, or even put thinks in those connections. Hackers and security experts are the supreme users on internet, they know what to look for, and how to use information. But his is my opinion.
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Might I politely suggest that responses to threads that are out of date (the date at the top blinks at you ;) ) is not considered to be good practice.
Particularly with a thread of this nature.............the subject is so volatile that the answers would be different on a monthly basis, and this thread is six months old.
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Generally speaking, the hacker will first try to get in through the front door, just in case you've left it open. Then they will try the side doors. If those are closed, they try a backdoor. Next they will try the windows to see if they can pry them open. Or they try to pick the locks, which might take them a while. Others might attempt to get in through the roof while others might dig a tunnel under your floor to get in there.
The more brutal hackers will even attempt to ring the doorbell, hoping your child will open the door and make up some excuse for the kid to let them in. Or they just show you a fake badge telling they're from some official organisation and that they *must* have access to your house.
In general, hackers have hundreds of techniques to try and get inside those places where they don't belong. Trick is, is it really interesting for hackers to get inside? If the contents of the site has no value, hackers will be less likely to hack their way inside your site.
Since this thread came alive again, this is what I wanted to say about it, since when this thread was created, I wasn't here yet. :P
Katja: Bwahaha! :D Now, say if they want to perform a DoS attack, on a user, would that be like putting an extra lock on the house or something? :P
A DoS attack on someone's house is easy. Let me give an example: "Hey guys, Free beer at Noia's place! Go there, ASAP! There's unlimited beer available and also other drinks and even food! Believe me! You must go there!"
Not too many people will probably read this so I expect about a dozen visitors at your place. But basically, if this invitation was sent to millions of people, and about half of them would visit you, you would probably not be able to leave your house for a while. Besides, you'd be busy telling every visitor that the invitation is fake.
A computerized DoS attack is similar to this. Just tell as many systems as possible to visit your site. The more systems you get that will visit your site, the more trouble your site will be in.
And of course, your system will go completely mad at one point and crash with a serious nervous breakdown...
Oh gee whiz, you mean I can actually browse for "content"? How about the fact that here is a machine with alot up-time... never mind the amount of bandwidth and cpu cycles that can be used.Quote:
Trick is, is it really interesting for hackers to get inside? If the contents of the site has no value, hackers will be less likely to hack their way inside your site.
I still don't understand why people keep this sort of moronic view of what goes on... meanwhile I mention time and time agian on this site that 99.9% of attacks will have almost no human consciousness behind the scenes. Two or three computers will mass-exploit a few vulnerabilities while a couple others will use wordlists agianst shares and other compromised machines. All the user has to do is issue a command and review results.
MomAndPop.com has to get hit sometime.