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Ethical Hacking | Pen Testing Job Opportunity

Ravi Chopra — Wed, 16 May 2012 17:22:26 +0000

Hey Hackers! this post of Learn Hacking has a different reason. If you have been looking for an Ethical Hacking | Pen Testing job, your search ends today. This is a call for all the hackers across the world who think they are good enough in this field.

Learn Hacking is soon going to officially Launch the Learn Hacking Security Services, we already have immense workload and we are looking for people who know the actual stuff/ actual work to join the team.
So if you think you got what it needs to be a Professional Pen Tester , Ethical Hacker just mail us your resume at admin@learnhacking.in with all the previous work you have done. The best Hackers will get a change to be a part of the Learn Hacking Security Services team.

Note:- Work would be strictly White Hat. Learn Hacking is neither into, nor supports Black Hat.

The best part is you don’t need any degree or qualification to be a part of the team. You should only know the core of Ethical Hacking and Pentesting with some previous work to show. You might be into a full time job or business, we really don’t care. What matters for us is your capability to do the real work.

So if you want to be a part of our great Ethical Hackers team, just mail us your resumes at admin@learnhacking.in.

You might be wondering about the pay. It will be pretty good and per project.

So Hackers, what are you waiting for. Mail us now and become a part of the Learn Hacking Team.

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How to Hack Bypass Windows Password

Ravi Chopra — Tue, 08 May 2012 13:36:30 +0000

After the launch of Learn Hacking official forum , there has been a great activity on the forum and we have seen some great upcoming hackers in there. This article was also made by one of the budding stars of the Ethical Hackers Community – Rishabh Saxena and I felt it worth sharing on the website.

Every now and then people ask me if we can really hack windows password or

How to Hack windows password.

In this article we are exactly going to tell you the same.

Hacking / Bypassing windows passwords is not a difficult task actually. If you have the required tools you can easily get into anyone’s computer by Hacking / Bypassing the password.

However Learn Hacking highly discourages the use of blackhat hacking techniques and use this knowledge only for a good reason. Say you forgot your computer’s password and want to recover it, you may use this method.

Now coming back to the main topic again:-

We are going to use a tool called Hirens Boot CD to crack windows passwords.

Download Hirens boot cd from

http://www.hirensbootcd.org/files/Hirens.BootCD.15.1.zip

Q) Where are windows password saved?
A) Windows first encrypts the password using some algorithm and then saves it to a Sam file.This sam file is locked and no user account including the administrator can use this file.This file is located in windows/system32/config.

Q) What is the above link ?
A) The link given above is the download link for “hirens boot cd “.
It is a special type of **live cd** bunched with popular and useful freeware tools .The link is to hirens boot cd 15.1 ,but you can download any earlier version.
The main reason for choosing this cd is that it contains number of useful softwares.There are many other Live cds too ,you can even try them.

Q) what is a **live cd**?
A) Live cd is a cd/dvd or any other portable media containing bootable Operating system.These media have the unique ability to run operating system without altering the files and operating system installed on the hard disk of the pc.
It generally places it files in the Ram[random access memory ,volatile memory],so when a pc is rebooted all it files are deleted automatically.

Q) How does this cd helps us?
A) Since this live cd doesnt use the pre installed operating system ,we can edit/delete files [even the locked ones ie sam file].You can also use utilities present in this cd to change the windows password.

Steps to use Hirens Boot CD to Hack Windows Password:-
1 ) Download the zip file from the above link.
2 ) Extract it.
3 ) There will be a .iso file . Burn that file to cd using nero/poweriso or anyother software you have.
4 ) Boot using this cd ie insert this cd in CD-Rom and restart [Make sure that cd-rom has the highest boot priority]
5 ) After booting ,It will show a menu , Choose “Mini windows xp”.It will take some time to launch.
6 ) After it is finished ,You will be having a windows classic style desktop.
7 ) Click on start>>Hiren boot cd menu [HBCD menu]
8 ) It will open a dialogue box,click on “Menu” >>click on “password and keys”, there you will be having a list of softwares,click on “”Password renew”".
9 ) Now click on select target ,Browse to your windows ie “c:\windows” and press ok.
10 ) Click on “Renew exisiting user password” and then choose the Your user account .
11 ) Enter the desired password and hit install.
12 ) You are now done just restart Your pc and login using your new password.

Prevention :
In the Bios settings set the minimum boot priority for removable devices . In this way the CD?DVD/USB wont boot and the method specified above wont work . Also set the password at the BIOS so no one will be able to change the Boot settings .

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Ethical Hacking Forum Official Launch – LearnHacking.in

Ravi Chopra — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 11:42:31 +0000

Hey guyz, as we already told our Fb Fans that we were working on the Forum for our site Learn Hacking. I am very happy to announce that its officially live.

You may visit it by clicking the tab “Forum” at the top of the site or may open it by visiting http://learnhacking.in/forum/

So just wanted to introduce you guyz with the forum and tell you some of its features.

This forum is the right place for you guyz to chat with hackers from all over the world and share your knowledge. You can ask for download link of any software , Game, Serial , Cheat Code and many more things and their download links would be provided to you ( NOTE:- You must agree our terms and conditions for that as mentioned in forum introduction).

You can ask for any hot topic you want to start and it would be started on your special demand.

Except all these things, you would be having your personal profile in the forum , You would be rated on the basis of your overall performance, the number of posts and comments you make and how much people like you, You will also ve able to send and recieve personal messages in the forum. So I can sum up this forum as a small social networking site for Ethical Hackers.

Forum has several Categories Like – Beginners Hacking , Advance Hacking , Server Side Hacking , Website Hacking , Coding , Windows Hacking and much more.

And it is just the beginning. The forun has much more to offer, but let the actions speak rather than words. Visit yourself and check it out.

But only registered users are allowed to use it for safety point of view. I am sure this is going to be a place where you would be spending more time of yours than you spend on Facebook:p

Now I want you guyz to Help Me Setup the topics in forum. Just tell me the most healthy topics for according to you guyz and they would be there:)

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Ethical Hacking Syllabus: Advance Level

Ravi Chopra — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 13:10:52 +0000

In the previous post of Learn Hacking we shared the Beginners Level Ethical Hacking syllabus. In this post we are going to take it to the next level and share the Advance Level Ethical Hacking Syllabus with you all.

This syllabus is an amalgam of various advance level Ethical Hacking syllabus like Penetration Tester Syllabus , Network Security Expert Syllabus , Web Application Security Expert, Exploit Writing Syllabus etc. It is not easy to categorize all of them separately however I will try to draw a fine line between the Ethical Hacking Syllabus for each one of them.

The Advance Level Hacking Syllabus is as follows:-

Network Security Expert Syllabus

• Security testing methodologies

• The Ethical Hacking Profession

• Passive Intelligence Gathering – 2007 Version

• Network Sweeps

• Stealthily Network Recon

• Passive traffic identification

• Identifying system vulnerabilities

• Abusing Domain Name System (DNS)

• Abusing Simple Network Management Protocol

(SNMP)

Exploit Writing Syllabus

• Introduction to Remote Exploits

• Engineering remote exploits

• Running shellcode in RAM vs. on disk

• Heap Buffer Overflows

• Compromising Windows 2003 Server Systems

• Compromising Solaris Unix and Linux Systems

• Attacking RDP (Remote Desktop Protocol) in

Windows XP, 2003 & Vista

• Windows password weaknesses & Rainbow Tables

• Unix password weaknesses

• Attacking Cisco’s IOS password weaknesses

Trojan genres

• Windows, Unix and Linux Trojans

• Kernel Mode Windows Rootkits – System Call

Hijacking and Direct Kernel Object Modification

• Kernel Mode Linux Rootkits

• Covert communication channels

• Spoofing endpoints of communication tunnels

• Tunneling through IPSec VPNs by abusing ESP

• Steganographic Tunnels

• Remote command execution

• Sniffing and hijacking SSL encrypted sessions

• Installing sniffers on low privilege account in

Windows 2003 Server

• Stealthy Remote keylogger installation

• Circumventing Antivirus

Cyber Forensics Expert

• Raw binary editing to prevent forensic

investigations

• Editing the Windows Event Log

• Abusing Windows Named Pipes for Domain

Impersonation

• Impersonation of other Users- Hijacking kernel

tokens

• Disguising network connections

• Attacking Cisco IOS

• Attacking STP & BGP protocols

• Wireless Insecurity

• Breaking Wireless Security – WEP, WPA, WPA2

• Blinding IDS & IPS

• Attacking IDS & IPS

The above Advance Level Ethical Hacking Syllabus is very diversified and you can choose the topics you want to start with. The topics are a little bit time consuming but if you start with dedication you will surely cover each one of them and take your knowledge to the advance level.

Use this knowledge wisely and for good only.

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Ethical Hacking Syllabus: Beginner Level

Ravi Chopra — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 06:02:26 +0000

Almost Everyone visiting this website wants to become a great Hacker but doesn’t know where to start. Even you might be willing to do the same. Do you have the same questions in mind like I used to have when I started to Learn Hacking. I used to have many questions in my mind like -

Where should I start to Learn Hacking
What should I do to become a Hacker
What are the steps to be followed to become a hacker
Are there any pre-requisites to become a Hacker
From where did all these Pro Hackers Learn all this cool Stuff

And many more questions. But I never had an answer to them in the beginning. Well I don’t want the fans of Learn Hacking to face the same issues. You should stop asking questions to yourself like :-

How to Hack
How to become a Hacker

And get started with the Hands on training.

In the previous post of Learn Hacking we told you How to Become a Hacker. Always remember one thing, no one can only motivate you or teach you the basics. Its your will power and practical experience that will help you become an expert Ethical Hacker or I must say a Cyber Security Expert. I like to be called a Cyber Security Expert rather than a Hacker (Personal Choice).

So back to the topic, before moving any further I would like to make one thing very clear. Don’t just rush and start with the basic.

In this post of Learn Hacking we are Going to tell you - Ethical Hacking Syllabus : Beginners Level .

Don’t just rush to learn everything at once. Just start from the beginning of this syllabus and move topic by topic. Pick up one topic and search every bit of it on internet. Google is your best friend for that. Once you feel that you are done with one topic and confident about your knowledge about that topic, then get practical knowledge regarding the same. Once everything is done, move to the next topic.

So here is the Ethical Hacking Syllabus for you. This is also the Cyber Security Syllabus , beginners level ofcourse.

1 – Introduction
2 – Networking & Basics
3 – Foot Printing
4 – Google Hacking
5 – Scanning
6 – Windows Hacking
7 – Linux Hacking
8 – Trojans & Backdoors
9 – Virus & Worms
10 – Proxy & Packet Filtering
11 – Denial of Service
12 – Sniffer
13 – Social Engineering
14 – Physical Security
15 – Steganography
16 – Cryptography
17 – Wireless Hacking
18 – Firewall & Honeypots
19 – IDS & IPS
20 – Vulnerability
21 – Penetration Testing
22 – Session Hijacking
23 – Hacking Web Servers
24 – SQL Injection
25 – Cross Site Scripting
26 – Exploit Writing
27 – Buffer Overflow
28 – Reverse Engineering
29 – Email Hacking
30 – Incident Handling & Response
31 – Bluetooth Hacking
32 – Mobile Phone Hacking

I hope it Helps. Don’t forget to leave your comments or ask for doubts if any.

Use this knowledge wisely and for good only.
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How to Become a Hacker

Ravi Chopra — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 18:22:40 +0000

Hey Hackers, in this post of Learn Hacking we are going to answer one of the most often asked questions by beginners ie.. How to become a Hacker. Most of us dream to become the best hackers of the world but don’t know how to achieve our aim. I am going to help you with the same.
In this post I am not going to tell you anything new but share my experience, I am just going to tell what are the things I followed to become what I am today, to achieve what I have.

First of all, let me tell you, the most important thing that you need to become a hacker is determination. When I started there was no established website, no reliable source to Learn Hacking. Its just a game of experimentation and practice. Practical knowledge matters much more than theoretical knowledge.

I had no idea of what I should do to become a hacker, there was no one to learn from , no one to ask for guidance. My parents used to say – “Hacker! ahh , don’t do anything wrong”. But the will to become a hacker never ended.

So here is what I did and will suggest every aspiring Hacker to do, this is the mantra to become a good hacker – “Learn Yourself”. Self Study is the key.

Now let me just tell you how can you do that. What should you do to Become a Hacker.

Just Follow the steps:-

1) Just search for Ethical Hacking Syllabus or the topics any good Ethical Hacking institute teaches.

2) Start with topic one and keep exploring the topic until you gain full confidence in the topic.

3) Move to the next topic and complete the syllabus.

4) Use your knowledge practically and try to solve every problem yourself without the help of anyone.

5) Once you know how to implement your knowledge practically, ah.. You are already a hacker..:P

Three things you should remenber when Beginning to Learn Hacking.

1) Never Give up

2) Try to leave backdoors once you get on the server

3) Be Anonymous

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Nessus Pentesting Software Tutorial | Website Vulnerability Scanner

Ravi Chopra — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 14:35:19 +0000

Hey Readers! We have received hundreds of requests for a Tutorial on Pen Testing or Penetration Testing. Many readers asked us for a step by step tutorial on Website Vulnerability Testing or Website Penetration Testing and this article is going to do exactly the same. In this article of Learn Hacking we are using Nessus for Pentesting which is an Open Source Software.

Read the rest of the information below.

Review Nessus PenTesting Software (Vulnerability Scanner)

Nessus is a PenTesting Software , Vulnerability Scanner Provided by Tenable Network Security.

About Tenable Network Security:

Tenable Network Security provides enterprise-class solutions for continuous monitoring and visibility of vulnerabilities, configurations, user activity and system events that impact security and compliance.

Tenable’s award-winning products are used by many Global 2000 organizations for PCI auditing, federally mandated compliance testing, log collection and risk management. Tenable is the creator and manufacturer of the Nessus vulnerability scanner.

Well this article mainly aims to provide the readers complete information about the Nessus software like its origin , use , advantages , disadvantages, cost and the features it should have. This article is written keeping both newbie’s and experts in mind so it doesn’t matter if you are new to this tool or have been using it since long back, in any case you are going to love this article.

Nessus is one of the best FREE penetration testing softwares available online. Best both in terms of features and costing (as its free) unlike other PenTesting software that cost hundreds of dollars for tools having the same functionality or probably less.

Nessus can be downloaded free from its official site ie.. http://www.tenable.com/products/nessus .

It is available for both the platforms ie.. Windows and Linux.
It is free for personal use but for professional use, we have to buy a subscription.

The subscription comes under two categories:-

Nessus Professional Feed Subscription
Nessus Perimeter Service and scan from cloud

Nessus Professional Feed Subscription

Tenable Network Security offers this subscription in 3 categories:-

1 year – $1200
2 Year – $2400
3 Year – $3600

Don’t forget that you have to subscribe to this feed only for professional use, for personal use its absolutely free.

Benefits of Nessus Feed Subscription

Tenable Network Security performs vulnerability research 24×7. When a new vulnerability is discovered, Tenable writes a Nessus® plugin, tests it and then makes it available for download such that your Nessus scanner can perform the most recent checks. The ProfessionalFeed from Tenable is used to keep each of your Nessus scanners up to date with the latest network and host-based security checks.

Nessus ProfessionalFeed subscribers also can use content developed by Tenable to perform UNIX, Windows and SQL Database configuration audits against custom policies, extracted configurations from live systems and policies based upon:

PCI Scanning and auditing
Center for Internet Security
NIST SCAP and FDCC Policies
Vendor guidelines from Microsoft and RedHat
DISA STIG Guides
CERT guidelines
… and more.

The Nessus ProfessionalFeed also includes the ability to search desktop systems for sensitive content and to perform audits against SCADA Control systems.

Tenable Network Security also provides email support for any customer who has purchased the ProfessionalFeed and is using Nessus 4 or a more recent release. ProfessionalFeed users can log into a customer portal and track the status of their submitted tickets.

Nessus Perimeter Service

Nessus Perimeter Service comes under two subscription options:-

1 month (30 days) :- $995
1 year :- $3600

What is Nessus Perimeter Service ?

Nessus Perimeter Service is an online Nessus scanner offering an unlimited number of scans against an unlimited number of IP addresses for a flat rate.

Nessus Perimeter Service allows you to scan any number of Internet facing sites you are authorized to scan from your desktop computer, mobile laptop, iPhone, customer network or wherever is convenient, as often as you want, all for a flat fee. And best of all – if you are a Nessus user, you already know how to use our service. Subscribers of the Nessus Perimeter Service are logged into the Nessus scanners hosted in Tenable’s secure datacenter.

•Rapid and Accurate Discovery of Systems and Vulnerabilities

•Vulnerability Scan Scheduling

•Support for the Nessus iPhone App

•Preparing for PCI-DSS Vulnerability Audits

•In-depth Web Application Scanning

•Highlighting vulnerabilities which have public exploits

•Patch and Configuration Auditing for web servers and many other devices

•Executive, Detailed and Differential reports

•Sharing results with Tenable’s SecurityCenter and 3rd party SIEM and GRC solutions

Well this was just the intro part. Now lets come to its usage. Lets see what can we do with it.

Based on a client/server architecture, Nessus lets users run the administrative console, which executes vulnerability scans and holds databases on a machine other than the server. Client front ends are available for Java, Win32, and X11, making Nessus a true cross-platform tool that can scan Linux, Windows, and Unix hosts.

Nessus provides an astonishing quantity of customized tests called plug-ins. These include interesting scans that look for vulnerabilities in routers from Cisco and other companies, CGI scripts, buffer overruns, remote-access connections, back doors, RPC, and SNMP.

To configure scanning, you can either use the defaults or customize your scans, though the latter will take the average administrator quite some time, depending on the diversity of the network. You can also set port scanning to various levels, taking firewalls and intrusion detection systems into consideration.
Using nessus can seem to be a tricky task at the first sight. Its not that difficult, but beginners can have a little trouble getting things done, but once you get it, you get it.

As soon as you install Nessus, you can see two files, the Nessus Server Manager and the Nessus Client File.

The server manager server the purpose for:-

Managing users
Updating plugins
Starting / Stopping Nessus

This is how it the Nessus Server Manager looks like:-

Nessus Vulnerability Scanner | Penetration Testing Tools | Website Pen Testing

Now the next step after starting the server would be launching the client . Just open the Nessus client and Nessus will open in your default browser.
This is how it looks like:-

Nessus Vulnerability Scanner | Penetration Testing Tools | Website Pen Testing

Note:- You may get a security caution in your browser. Just click on “Proceed anyway” and Nessus opens. The default port number for Nessus is 8834

Just login with the username and password you chose in the Nessus Server Manager.

As you login, a screen with a huge list of features appears.
In the home screen after login, four options are visible ie.. Reports, Scans , Policies and Users.

Nessus Vulnerability Scanner | Website Pen Testing | Website Vilnerability Scanning | Home Page

We are just going to discuss the use of all these features:-

Users:-It is simply used to manage users ie … Add/ Delete Users

Scans:- The Scans section is to add/start a new scan. The process is very simple. Just add the required details and you are done.
The screenshot below shows a clear picture of the topic.

Nessus Vulnerability Scanner | Penetration Testing Tools | Website Pen Testing | Website Vilnerability Scanning

Reports:- The reports sections has all the saved reports ie.. a log of all the previous scans (if you don’t delete them). This is a very good and important feature as its very important to save the PenTesting report of a site to make its report.

The scan results are formatted based on domains, hosts, and associated vulnerabilities. Reported weaknesses come with a multitude of suggestions, explaining the nature of the problem and listing fixes. Links to the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) dictionary (www.cve.mitre.org), which lists known vulnerabilities, and Microsoft TechNet (www.microsoft.com/technet), an online security resource for IT administrators, are also provided, offering administrators further access to information resources and existing patches.

Policies:- This is probably the most important and complex part of this scanner. This contains all the settings and plugins used for scanning. They can be used to filter out the scans and make the scanning process faster and better.

By default, there are four defined policies. They are nothing but settings for scanning.
For eg:- the web app scan will contain the policies only for Scanning web apps . This saves a lot of time and money for many people.

We can also add/define our custom policies according to our requirements and this is one of the most powerful features of Nessus.
You even have the privilege to import the policies defined by others on any other machine.
This is how they look like:-

Nessus Vulnerability Scanner | Penetration Testing Tools | Website Pen Testing | Nessus User Policy

Now if we goto edit policy, we are in the most powerful part of this scanner. Using these plugins in the right way is very important. Not only it saves a lot of time but money.

Here we are in the edit WebApp Tests option and this is how it looks like:-

Nessus Vulnerability Scanner | Website Pen Testing | Website Vilnerability Scanning | Tutorial

There are a lot of options to choose from, All the options can’t be discussed in this article.
There are about 45165 plugins in Nessus, We should define our custom policy depending upon the network we are scanning and putting its information in the preferences section.
This was just a small overview on Nessus so that you can be among the few thousands to actually know how to use it.

The versatility and importance of Nessus in the field of PenTesting can be judged by the fact that Tenable offers 4 different certifications just in using Nessus.

They are:-

1) TCNA – Tenable Certified Nessus Auditor
Candidates who successfully complete the requirements of this certification track have distinguished themselves as having in-depth knowledge of the Nessus vulnerability scanner and the underlying technical concepts

Price:- $195

2) TCSA – Tenable Certified Security Analyst
Candidates who successfully complete the requirements of this certification have demonstrated in-depth knowledge of Tenable’s Enterprise products as applied to vulnerability and compliance analysis, passive network monitoring, event management and correlation and network behavioral anomaly detection.

Price:- $295

3) TCSM – Tenable Certified Security Manager
Candidates who successfully complete the requirements of this certification have demonstrated understanding of the management capabilities with regard to policy control, data access, oversight and delegation of duties within Tenable’s Unified Security Monitoring solution.

Price:- On Demand

4) TCPA – Tenable Certified Product Administrator
Candidates who successfully complete the requirements of this certification have demonstrated the ability to install, configure and maintain Tenable’s Unified Security Monitoring suite including Tenable SecurityCenter, the Tenable Passive Vulnerability Scanner (PVS), the Tenable Log Correlation Engine (LCE) and Tenable Nessus.

Price:- On Demand.

Summary

Advantages:-

Free
Powerful scanning
Thousands of plugins
Very effective results
Fast
Test Reports can be saved , compared and downloaded

Disadvantages

Results not grouped on the basis of Severity or Vulnerabilities
Not for newbies ( because of the huge number of plugins)

Overall this is a must have/ use scanner for everyone in this field on PenTesting.

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How Hackers Changed the World | History of Hacking

Ravi Chopra — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 18:17:45 +0000

Hey Hackers! in this post of Learn Hacking, I am not bringing any new tutorial or trick for you but I am bringing out the truth of Hackers. How the Hackers changed the world and What is their actual contribution to the society.

When the term Hacker comes into Picture, many people get scared as the evil picture comes into their mind. They think that a hacker is going to hack their email or bank account or they are going to face severe loss of information and data, but this is not so. A few black hat hackers who misused their knowledge have made people think so however this is not the reality of Hackers, this is not what a Hacker really is.

People often come and say – “I am a hacker, I can hack any email account” and stuff like that, sounds really kiddish to me. They don’t know who a hacker really is and they call themselves a hacker. For a moment lets just forget about Blackhat and Whitehat or any other categorization of hackers.

Lets start from the beginning, How Hacking started?

What led to the birth of Hackers?

Any idea?

Well you are about to know.

It all started with video games, the early beginning of computers when people used computers just to perform calculations or play very small games, this new machine and its working generated curiosity in the minds of people and they wanted to learn more about it, when learnt they wanted to make it better. Then people like Bill Gates and many others mastered the concept and started improving them and the result is infront of us, yes your computer. Its the curiosity to Learn New things that led to the birth of Hackers (No harm in this I guess). Proved to be a boon for all of us.

The main aim of Hackers at that time was to gain respect of other Hackers, to prove that they have superior knowledge than others. A hacker is actually someone who has mastered in his/ her field and can develop its hack ie.. make it better. Even if you find an exploit in a software or break into it, its also going to benefit the software as that Exploit is going to get removed from it in the next update.

Now the Next generation came when after the hardware improvement it was the time for softwares and websites. Hackers had machines in their hands but wanted to make the best use of it, as a result they made many softwares and made many new innovations. Most of us have hear about one coding language or the other but have you ever wondered who thought about having a standardized Coding language or platform to perform a particular task? Well now you got the answer.

We all also use Linux and even Backtrack, Ever wondered how Linux was developed? It was developed as an opensource on Hacking forums. That’s why is still free and is so secure that many companies and even the biggest web servers use it.

Ah.. This is just the beginning. Lets come to the websites thing, people designed websites and developed them on various platforms but who would have taken care of website’s security. People gained immense knowledge about web servers. Internet was the next big thing. It was the age of static websites, trust me, static websites are much more hard to hack than dynamic websites. And only people with immense knowledge of web servers could hack them. So if someone was able to break into any website at that time, he was actually a web server expert.

Things don’t end here, as the process of learning never ends, the hackers have become smarter with time.

So what separates a Good Hacker from a Bad Hacker or What differentiated between a blackhat hacker and a Whitehat Hacker, well its their deeds.

Obviously when you have immense knowledge of anything you can both use and misuse it. If you use it wisely, you become a hacker else you become a cracker.

Then came several more categorizations depending upon the level you can hack, but they don’t matter much.

The main reason of me writing this post was to tell you Who a Hacker actually is.

In the present era when people consider Hacking Facebook account or email account as hacking, never forget the roots, How Hacking Started. Hacking will always lead to progress and development if used wisely, but in the end its you who is to decide how you want to use your knowledge.

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How to Insert Images in Facebook Chat | Facebook Hacking

Ravi Chopra — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 04:40:49 +0000

Hey Friends! After a long while , Learn Hacking is back with some new and interesting stuff for you guys.

We have received many requests asking – “How to insert images in Facebook Chat” or “Is there any way I can insert images in Facebook chat” .

You might also have the same doubt in mind.

And the answer is Yes.

You can actually insert images in Facebook Chat, you may use them as emotions or similes as well (as the size of the images is small).

The beauty of this trick is that you can even display the images of people who are not in your Friend list or can even display the Images of Facebook Pages on chat.

Now here is how to do it.

Open your chat.

Just Go to your profile or any other profile or any official page you want to use as an emotion ot want to use the image in Facebook chat.
See the url and copy the username or if there is no username specified then copy the profile id. For example http://www.facebook.com/learnethicalhacking. From this url you need to copy learnethicalhacking
Just paste this in chat window within double brackets such as [[learnethicalhacking]] and send it to your friend then the profile id associated with the username or profile id will show in chat box.

Facebook Hacking | Hack Facebook Chat | Insert images in Facebook Chat

See How simple was that.

Note:- IF you are accessing Facebook from your mobile then the image might not be displayed and normal brackets say [[learnethicalhacking]] will be displayed.

One more thing this image / emotion works only in chat window. You cannot use it in comments, status update or wall posts.

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Most Week Passwords of 2011 | How to Choose a Password

Ravi Chopra — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 12:03:19 +0000

With the year 2011 coming to an end, you should Learn from the mistakes of others and never keep weak passwords. In this post of Learn Hacking, we are going to provide you with the list of most weak Passwords of year 2011.
This list will help you to decide, WHAT NOT TO CHOOSE AS YOUR PASSWORD.

Choosing a strong password for your accounts (whether email accounts or server accounts), is one of the most crucial steps in protecting your account from getting hacked.
If you have a very strong password, chances of your account getting hacked are reduced by 50%, rest 50% is because of human ignorance and we can’t do anything about it.

So here are the WEAKEST AND MOST HACKED PASSWORDS OF 2011.
· 1. password

· 2. 123456

· 3.12345678

· 4. qwerty

· 5. abc123

· 6. monkey

· 7. 1234567

· 8. letmein

· 9. trustno1

· 10. dragon

· 11. baseball

· 12. 111111

· 13. iloveyou

· 14. master

· 15. sunshine

· 16. ashley

· 17. bailey

· 18. passw0rd

· 19. shadow

· 20. 123123

· 21. 654321

· 22. superman

· 23. qazwsx

· 24. michael

· 25. football

So as I said guys, Learn from the Mistakes of others.

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