EC-Council has announced a total of 40 full and partial scholarships totaling US$100,000 for outstanding individuals who have contributed meaningfully in the IT Security domain and possess the desire to update their information security certification skills.

Due to a DDOS attack unleashed on Time Warner Cable, customers in the Southern California and National regions have had continuous internet outages. The attack was targeted at Time Warner’s DNS servers for a whole week. According to Time Warner, this attack will not be ignored, and they will prosecute. Below is the official E-Mail that was sent out to affected customers:

What is SSH? SSH is network protocol that is used to create a secure connection between two computers.

Today, there are only a few hacker zines left, and of those, only a couple are still by run by the “underground”. Many years ago, especially during the BBS days, hacking related zines were very popular. Hundreds sprung up, but only a select few became popular. In this post, I list a few of the currently run zines along with a list of the many zines that were written many years ago. It is very interesting to read them and see how the hacking community changed and technology evolved over time.

In many public places like schools and libraries, the system administrators disable CMD.EXE but forget about the older version, COMMAND.COM. When trying to access CMD.EXE, if you are displayed with the following message:

Everybody loves free stuff. But is it possible to get non-free items free on the internet? Of Course! Through Social Engineering and E-Mail Spoofing you can, and I will show you how with an example to back me up.

Today I got this E-Mail message and it looks like a new (at least to me) phreaking attack.

We’ve all seen the ridiculous attempts made by hollywood to try and portray hacker’s realisticly in their movies. And as I’m sure all of you have concluded, they absolutely….FAIL. For those of you who havn’t seen any, follow this link to see a full list of movies. Some of these will be totally absurd to those of you who know hacking while others will be somewhat realistic.

I’ve posted about phishing and the techniques attacker’s use to spread their phishing sites. Now, let’s look at how they create these phishing pages in the first place with step-by-step instructions. Knowledge of PHP and HTML will be very useful for creating fake login pages. By reading the rest of this post, you are agreeing to our DISCLAIMER.

How to hack. It’s a very often asked question with around 1,000,000 Google searches each month. I know that anyone that runs a hacking related website get’s asked this question daily. After searching the internet for a decent answer to this question, I found none, so I decided to answer it on my own once and for all.