skimmers, keyloggers, malicious hacks
Yea, I wrote a virus just to see if I could, I never released or used it...But I still wrote it. Obviously you've had some bad experiences with these guys. Regardless foul language isn't necessary. Not all hackers are bad, and not all viruses are made for evil. Ever hear of white hat hacking? Sorry, not trying to slam you...though it sounds like it, again, sorry if it does..heh. Just try and remember those who hack to test security will never tell some n00b how to write a virus. They know better.
Unfortunately, you can't do anything about it...the only way to stop all possibilities of hacking is to destroy your computer.
No, someone can still walk up and use your computer if you walk away for half a second.
How about spinning this thread in the right direction and suggesting solutions, prevention, backup strategies, etc.?
| destroy your computer. |
100% solution. Obviously, the cons are quite bad though...
IMO, run with adblocker/noscript and a good firewall/router and you will probably be safe. You just have to make you don't download random crap and run it like some people seem to like to do.
You better get used to this disappointment fast! The only way to avoid getting hacked is through computing abstinence :). And going forward, as technology advances into every aspect of your life, more and more attacks will occur... Mobile devices are the new hacking frontier! And soon we'll hack your car computer, pace maker, coffee machine, and toilet!!
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My opinion is that if you get any kind of malware, it's your own fault and you bear responsibility for it. Having accounts cracked into is different. It's not necessarily your fault (unless you choose a password like "password" or "000password123"); but usually the fault of the maintainer of the server hosting the network you have an account with for their lax security.
"They used a brute force/rainbow table/dictionary attack" is not an excuse here. If you, being the security head of a website that needs security (like a bank website), allow people to send so many HTTP requests to your password form that they can continually try passwords without being disconnected, then you deserve to be shot.
Only if the network was connected to the telephone cable, and even then, surely you'd need some kind of technical specification for the networking hardware and the telephone?
This reminds me of something a friend of mine saw on CSI: Miami. One of the actors said, "There's hackers in our network; we can see them in real-time." to which another replied "I'll make a GUI Interface in Visual Basic to track their IP addresses!"
-sigh-
I don't know about that... I realise you were joking, but think that would count as attempted murder... Most people with a pacemaker probably can't survive without it (can anyone with a pacemaker survive without it?); and I don't think most crackers are that malicious that they would actually want to kill people. The average cracker is probably someone of above-average intelligence, my age give or take a few years, who takes delight in getting what they want against the law. Most of them don't do it for personal gain, at least, not in terms of things like money... the ones who want to steal money from PayPal and accounts from online games are usually the dumbest and the smartest (PayPal) and the most immature and retarded (online game accounts). I think the majority of crackers do what they do because they like to think they have power over other people...
http://db.glug-bom.org/lug-authors/philip/docs/hackers-not-crackers.html
I met some penetration testers during work experience with a small IT company who wanted their servers tested. They were very interesting people. Also, they couldn't crack the servers without physical access to them, which was nice to know. You need a door pass to get in anyway, so you'd have to have servers hosted their yourself to get to theirs. It was also cool to watch a guy set up RAID.
"They used a brute force/rainbow table/dictionary attack" is not an excuse here. If you, being the security head of a website that needs security (like a bank website), allow people to send so many HTTP requests to your password form that they can continually try passwords without being disconnected, then you deserve to be shot.
| Can't technology today hack internal networks using resonance from telephone cables or is that science fiction. |
Only if the network was connected to the telephone cable, and even then, surely you'd need some kind of technical specification for the networking hardware and the telephone?
This reminds me of something a friend of mine saw on CSI: Miami. One of the actors said, "There's hackers in our network; we can see them in real-time." to which another replied "I'll make a GUI Interface in Visual Basic to track their IP addresses!"
-sigh-
| pace maker |
I don't know about that... I realise you were joking, but think that would count as attempted murder... Most people with a pacemaker probably can't survive without it (can anyone with a pacemaker survive without it?); and I don't think most crackers are that malicious that they would actually want to kill people. The average cracker is probably someone of above-average intelligence, my age give or take a few years, who takes delight in getting what they want against the law. Most of them don't do it for personal gain, at least, not in terms of things like money... the ones who want to steal money from PayPal and accounts from online games are usually the dumbest and the smartest (PayPal) and the most immature and retarded (online game accounts). I think the majority of crackers do what they do because they like to think they have power over other people...
| Not all hackers are bad, and not all viruses are made for evil. Ever hear of white hat hacking? |
http://db.glug-bom.org/lug-authors/philip/docs/hackers-not-crackers.html
| Sorry, not trying to slam you...though it sounds like it, again, sorry if it does..heh. Just try and remember those who hack to test security will never tell some n00b how to write a virus. They know better. |
I met some penetration testers during work experience with a small IT company who wanted their servers tested. They were very interesting people. Also, they couldn't crack the servers without physical access to them, which was nice to know. You need a door pass to get in anyway, so you'd have to have servers hosted their yourself to get to theirs. It was also cool to watch a guy set up RAID.
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Well that wasn't my intention :l My intention was to make your security more lax, so I could steal your bank details to make you less fearful of the World Wide Web and the Internet. They're two truly fantastic results of human ingenuity, and Sir Tim Berners-Lee (I always make sure to remind people of his nationality) and Vint Cerf respectively should be extremely proud of themselves (I suppose I got the order mixed up, seeing as the Internet is possible without the WWW, but the WWW is not possible without the Internet. It's not fun simultaneously being patriotic and hating your country).
Like I said; you're only likely to get malware on your computer by downloading and installing programs from untrustworthy websites.
I have another Firefox addon to add to Adblock and Noscript. It's called "Web of Trust." It flags sites rated as "unsafe" by other users. IMO the potential for incorrect ratings is quite low; although I have seen posts on a certain chan website advertising a raid to tamper with it...
Oh, also, FlagFox is good. It tells you where in the world the server you connect to is hosted, with the idea being that if you visit a .co.uk website and the flag is that of the Phillipines, then you should get out of there.
Like I said; you're only likely to get malware on your computer by downloading and installing programs from untrustworthy websites.
| IMO, run with adblocker/noscript and a good firewall/router and you will probably be safe. You just have to make you don't download random crap and run it like some people seem to like to do. |
I have another Firefox addon to add to Adblock and Noscript. It's called "Web of Trust." It flags sites rated as "unsafe" by other users. IMO the potential for incorrect ratings is quite low; although I have seen posts on a certain chan website advertising a raid to tamper with it...
Oh, also, FlagFox is good. It tells you where in the world the server you connect to is hosted, with the idea being that if you visit a .co.uk website and the flag is that of the Phillipines, then you should get out of there.
My problems have all been related to a worn out modem or a worn out configuration. I thought my log outs from the internet was someone or some time based system blocking my address to be malicious, which I think can be done, but the question is why would it be done?
Another of my posts got eaten by the internet. I was going on to say that only an ISP can really "ban" you from the Internet (individual websites can block your address, but if you have a router, rebooting it should get you a new one; does for me, anyway) by stopping your service (a government could theoretically, but that would require one like China's, and it's against human rights, so it'd be illegal in an EU country or the USA).
| but if you have a router, rebooting it should get you a new one |
| pacemaker |
how could you hack/crack an pacemaker?^^... it is controlled by permanent-magnets you lay onto the body of the patient...
you need to get very very close... or you need some very strong magnets... and they need to be the right ones...
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