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I plan to start work on a tongue-in-cheek article on how to Cyberstalk someone. Basically, it will cover how to expand your knowledge about someone based on little bits of info like user name/email address, IP, given name, school or place of work, etc. using tools like who is, Google, NetBIOS sniffers, etc. Anybody have any good ideas on things/techniques I should mention? I’ll be sure to give you credit in the article if I use your ideas.
I have found tools like Canada411 to be very useful sources of info on person's and businesses Iron. ;)
Cheers:
Iron, be careful how you go about doing this. The law is fuzzy in this area. You don't want to be inplicated as aiding in a felony.
Just 2 cents worth pocketing. ;)
I realize you put Google on the list already, but I think you might consider http://people.yahoo.com used to have some pretty interesting stuff.
-Deeboe
Point well take Horse, I just figured the best way to figure out how to protect yourself is to see how information can be found. I'll try to CMA as much as I can from a legal stand pont.Quote:
Originally posted here by thehorse13
Iron, be careful how you go about doing this. The law is fuzzy in this area. You don't want to be inplicated as aiding in a felony.
Just 2 cents worth pocketing. ;)
are you going to discuss anything about WHOIS? if your being cyber stalked you might want to know more about who is hosting them etc... http://www.arin.net/whois/
Yep, I plan to use Whois to find info, especially for folks you have their own domain name. (I'm Kind of vulnerable to this, but I don't want to pay for the extra service of hiding my info.)
There are thousands of skiptrace resources out there, especially in the US.
For instance,
Articles : http://www.pimall.com/nais/missingm.html
Links : http://www.pimall.com/nais/SKIPTRACE.HTM
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SQL injection into databases that dont provide some data, for instance telephone directories allow for forward lookup ie - number from name, but creative thinking can allow for looking up a name from a number. Theres plenty more uses of this idea....
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Whois is kinda dull, any idiot can run whois and figure out what it means, hope you dont focus to much on this.
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Its not so much about getting the information, but knowing what to do with it.
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Deep Web Resources!!!
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Phishing style info gathering - you might be able to email and get some information.
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Friendsreunited and other reunited sites, they might of been i the forces, been at school some place, what about online people finders? there all over the place, theres a few free ones that give a little info. if there not on a site then prehaps they have a friend or a neighbour you can ring and get info from by being clever...
i2c
Well your signature should be included as well. Already you have much of my system info:
Your IP: XX.XX.XX.XX
Host Name: My ISP (which most anyone can tell it is ADSL)
Platform: Linux i686
Browser: enUSrv: 1.7.10 Gecho/20050715 Firefox/1.0.6 SUSE.
ISP City: Winter Park
Just $.02 worth.
cheers
Hi,
Google Earth would work in some areas. Although slightly out of date, the pictures could give away features of someone's house, car, nearest shops, restaurants. This would allow you to send weirdly knowing messages. Combine the information with current weather charts or timezone information to give the effect of up to dateness.
R T Uyzenen
Public Databases is another source Link
I would have to agree with TheHorse13 on this
You may also want to check out http://www.virtualchase.com/
That site can make for several afternoons of fun...
I learned of all kinds of resources from there.
Just stumbled on this. Probably not quite what you are looking for, since it is more physical stalking than cyberstalking, but it does link to a service that sells keyloggers and offers online monitoring of the data.
Also, a device that records telphone numbers dialed (inluding pass codes), magnetic gps, bugged cells phones, etc.
http://www.syncmag.com/article2/0,1895,1865679,00.asp
And don't forget about Social Engineering, or as i like to call it Manipulation tactics.
You can learn alot about someone if you are able to social engineer them to give the data\details that you are wanting..
front2back
Yeah, them fellas tried pulling the same stunt with me...Quote:
Yep, I plan to use Whois to find info, especially for folks you have their own domain name. (I'm Kind of vulnerable to this, but I don't want to pay for the extra service of hiding my info.)
WHOIS ThePastorGang.com? http://www.networksolutions.com/whois/index.jhtml
I always use www.peoplebot.com for people home address and telephone number. For personal information always check their local city courthouse. something like clerkofcourts, or whatever city their in is in. Find all types of useful information in there. Not to mention the county jail or prison for that matter.
See what I mean by to much information
Public county databases hold tons of useful information. A LOT of information.Quote:
Statutory fine assessed for moving violation Charge #1: Unknowingly Operating Vehicle While DL Suspended/Cancelled/Revoked Receipt:
D6 ISSUED Charge #1: Unknowingly Operating Vehicle While DL Suspended/Cancelled/Revoked Receipt:
BENCH WARRANT ISSUED
4 1/20/1999 BENCH WARRANT ORDERED, BOND SET AT 10000.00
5 1/25/1999 DELINQUENCY NOTICE MAILED TO DEFENDANT
6 2/18/1999 $10000.00 ASCC, FOWLER BAIL BONDS
7 2/18/1999 BENCH WARRANT FILED (SERVED)
8 2/18/1999 PROBABLE CAUSE AFFIDAVIT FILED RETURN ON
I think http://www.anywho.com/ might be of help!
I use http://www.all-nettools.com/toolbox to reverse lookup and tracerout IPs.
cheers
Irongeek:
Just some cya links for the average user.
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2005/onl...line.security/
JOOI what happend with this irongeek, did you manage to complete it? Or was it too dodgy ground to walk on in the end?
Thanks!
I've sort of put it on the back burner for now, as I don't think I could do the topic justice yet.
Ok mate, guess its something to look forward too!
You may want to approach this similarly to an article or tutorial on vulnerability assessment or penetration testing. You're not writing an article explaining how cyberstalkers can stalk people, but how people can employ the cyberstalker techniques to find out how vulnerable they themselves are - how much publically available information is out there that could be exploited by their enemies and used against them. I do this a couple of times a year using new databases and techniques to see just how exposed I really am.Quote:
Originally posted here by Irongeek
I plan to start work on a tongue-in-cheek article on how to Cyberstalk someone. Basically, it will cover how to expand your knowledge about someone based on little bits of info like user name/email address, IP, given name, school or place of work, etc. using tools like who is, Google, NetBIOS sniffers, etc. Anybody have any good ideas on things/techniques I should mention? I’ll be sure to give you credit in the article if I use your ideas.
I've been having huge problems with people cyberstaling me, and I think it would only be fair if your article covered ways of preventing being cyberstalked on the different methods you wish to cover. These people can block my connection at will prevent me from using high anonymity proxies in case they cannot find me on a network, block all smtp and pop ports to my connection, and I'm still tring to figure out how I can stop most of their activities described above. If you'd help, I'd be very grateful