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Hacking website of the week:

www.KrebsOnSecurity.com

Websites mentioned:

Trusted online scanners:

NoVirusThanks.org (Possibly Compromised?)

Virus-Trap.org

AVHide.com

Non-Trusted Online Scanners:

VirusTotal.com

Jotti

A hub and a switch have the same purpose; to connect a bunch of computers via ethernet “cross over” cables to create a network. Their main difference is that a switch is much more intelligent than a hub.

On a hub, all of the internet traffic (packets) are sent to every connected computer, where it is determined whether it belongs to that computer. As you may have already guessed, this isn’t very bandwidth friendly and is bad for performance.

Switches are much smarter, they are able to inspect all the headers of the packets coming in and determine where they are coming from and to whom they are destined for. The switch then forwards the traffic to the proper destination. This greatly reduces bandwidth and offers much better performance. For this reason you won’t find many hubs these days, switches are the preferred choice for networks for obvious reasons.

Because all traffic is forwarded to all the machines on a hub, it is very easy to sniff and store the traffic since it just comes to you. The sniffed packets may include website passwords, ftp passwords, the websites the user visits and other personal information.

On a switch, since the traffic is examined and forwarded to the correct machine, how would you sniff it if it doesn’t come to you? Easy, by ARP spoofing. Watch out for a post on that very soon.

1. A GIANT cup of hot tea. I know when many people picture hackers wacking away at their keyboards, they picture them with piles of soda cans or some other type of sugary bubble filled drink. Not me. Instead of digesting that heart killin’ crap, I stick with the old fashioned cup of freshly steeped tea. Green, White, Black, Oolong… you name it, I digest it.

2. Loud music. Depending on my mood I go with a playlist of techno or rap. I like to mix it up with some softer techno like ATB, some harder heavy beated techno like Benny Benassi and some fast-paced get-out-of-my-chair-and-shake-my-booty techno like…. well theres to many good ones to single out a few. When I’m in the rap mood, I like some older Eminem and related, and some old-school rap like Biggie Smalls. “I love it when you call me Big Poppa!” … but most of the time I stick with the techno. If you hate techno.. i hate you. Not really…

3. A clear desk. I need to have my desk to be everything-free… somehow I relate a clear desk with a clear mind and can think much better. It also bothers me… which is funny because its still always a complete mess, so I guess it doesn’t bother me enough. Hmm…

4. Full stomach. I can’t work on an empty stomach. Sometimes when you start without planning, you forget you are hungry so it’s no big deal. But if I sit down and plan to do some hacking, then I must have a full stomach. The bad part about this is that it doesn’t mix well with the tea part. As many of you may know, tea is a pretty good laxitive, so it doesn’t help me much when it causes me to have to take an immediate shit every thirty minutes… killing my “hacker mojo” a.k.a, concentration.

That’s it for me. What gets you in the mode? Tell us in the comments or I’ll come after you after I’ve eaten a full meal and had a giant cup of tea… you don’t want that. Trust me.

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News stories mentions:

Here comes the Johnny Depp RIP malware
iPad searches lead to malware
Hackers target doctors’ emails to make a killing
Oil companies targeted by hacking attack
Over half of global hacking attacks from China – report

TechCrunch Hacked and Defaced

Report: 48% of 22 million scanned computers infected with malware
Hack attack on Obama via House computers
FBI Arrests Alleged Cable Modem Hacker

Websites mentioned:

Pipl

PeekYou

Hacking website of the week:

House of Hackers

Book of the week:

Hacker Cracker

Follow me:

Twitter.com/MrCracker

One more thing… what is a Virtual Machine? Well without giving you a brainfart, it is simply a software that uses your host operating system’s resources (cpu,ram,hard drive) to launch and run another operating system within it. For a more technical explanation check out this Wikipedia article…here….just kidding, I’m going to keep you on this site as long as possible. Muaha, find it yourself! So here’s the video:


Get VirtualBox
Get BackTrack 4

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News stories mentions:

Computer scammers solicit for Haiti

‘Iranian Cyber Army’ claims its first casualty

Baidu sues domain name server after hacker attack

Depressing Analysis Of RockYou Hacked Passwords

Google’s Nexus One Has Multi-Touch Thanks To Hacker

Tor IP anonymising internet service hacked

Sony Playstation 3 Hacked By Father Of iPhone Jailbreak

Website of the week:

www.HappyHacker.org

Websites Mentioned:

BackTrack 4

BackTrack 4 Training

And the links up top:

Check it out for yourself:

Google’s Leet Speak Homepage

Want to challenge your leet speak reading skills? Try interpreting Google’s missions statement, it’s harder then it seems!

Google’s Missions Statement

How’d you do? I had to refer to a leet speak translator to keep from experiencing a brain fart.

Besides the change in technology, the underground discussed in the book is still very much similar to the one that exists today. It tells the journey of a few teenagers as they get interested in the hacking scene, how they grow in knowledge and skill, and how their morals/ethics start to change as their skill increases which gets them in lots of trouble.

Click here to read it.