Once an attacker puts together a phishing website, how does he go about getting victims to go to it? The methods are unlimited, but for those of you who lack creativity, I have put together some of the most common methods used.

So, what is phishing? In a nutshell, phishing is the act of stealing one’s personal information by pretending to be a legitimate and trustworthy entity. Most commonly it is an E-Mail service website or an E-Commerce website.According to www.phishtank.com, in the month of December, 2008 the top targets for phishing attacks were:

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I constantly get emails of people asking me how to hack hotmail, hack yahoo, and all the other popular email services. Usually it’s for one of the following moronic cover-ups: It’s my password, I just forgot it. , or my boyfriend this or my girlfriend that. I just don’t understand what possesses them to possibly think that I give a hoot. Nah, I love you guys, I’m just kidding! Everyone seems to think that there’s some hacking trick that will magically get them the password. Too bad you have to actually learn something. Bummer… eh? Below I have briefly described the most common methods.

Today, there are hundreds of hacking/security related blogs out there. Out of those, only a select few end up being updated regularly with good content. I am currently subscribed to a few and so should you. Hey that rhymes! Here’s the list in no specific order.

Have you ever visited one of your favorite websites to find it defaced by some hacker named “C0mpHugg3r”? Maybe the fact that this hacker kept your from being able to watch the next episode of Gossip Girl, or help kill some time at work by playing flash games, made you extremely mad causing you to throw your freshly brewed cup of moonshine against a wall, accidently clipping your co-worker and causing him to fall off the cliff he was standing by. Then while you were being escorted to jail you might have asked yourself, why would someone do this!? Why can’t they just get a life!? Seriously! What do they possibly get from hacking that innocent website?! Ugh! Well I asked myself these same questions and came up with this list…

The British man accused of hacking into US military computers will have his final showdown in the UK courts next month.

After almost four years of fighting extradition to the US as a result of what prosecutors have called “the biggest military computer hack of all time”, Londoner Gary McKinnon will face a judicial review conducted by the high court on January 20.

In my opinion, which is pretty much all that matters, the greatest hacker films of all time are listed below. Nowadays, almost every watchable action film has at least one scene where a hacker does his thang. You may have noticed a pattern in most of these films, hackers are criminals. As all of you know most hackers are not criminals, but curious hippies. It’s to bad today’s youth spends more time watching and believing TV then their own teachers and school. That’s why you see hacker’s these days receiving …