Note: The British post office, is the US Equivalent of Ma Bell.

In Britain, phreaking goes back to the early fifties, when the technique of ‘toll a drop back’ was discovered. Toll a was an exchange near St. Pauls which routed calls between London and nearby non-London exchanges. The trick was to dial an unallocate number, and then depress the receiver-rest for 1/2 second. This flashing initiated the ‘clear forward’ signal, leaving the caller with an open line into the toll exchange. The could then dial 018, which forwarded him to the trunk exchange at that time, the first long distance exchange in Britain and follow it with the code for the distant exchange to which he would be connected at no extra charge. Read the rest of this entry »

I hope you have read the previous article I wrote on the different types of attacks you get as a whole and liked it. This article will cover the most common TCP and UDP attacks. I will therefore cover the following TCP attacks:

1. TCP SYN or TCP ACK Flood Attack
2. TCP Sequence Number Attack
3. TCP/IP Hijacking

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Well I wrote the article about viruses and said that I will write this article about the types of attacks and how to protect yourself against these attacks. There are alot of different attacks but I’m going to cover only these:

• Eavesdropping
• Snooping
• Interception
• Modification Attacks
• Repudiation Attacks
• Denial-of-service (DoS) Attacks
• Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) Attacks
• Back door Attacks
• Spoofing Attacks
• Man-in-the-Middle Attacks
• Replay Attacks
• Password Guessing Attacks

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Well, this is just a quick article that I wrote so that you can understand software exploitation a bit better. There are 5 types of software exploitation which I will cover in this article namely:

1. Database Exploitation
2. Application Exploitation
3. E-mail Exploitation
4. Spyware
5. Rootkits

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This is a paper will be broken into two parts, one showing 15 easy steps to becoming a uebercracker and the next part showing how to become a
ueberadmin and how to stop a uebercracker. A uebercracker is a term phrased
by Fadhli Rafiqi to refer to some elite (cr/h)acker that is practically
impossible to keep out of the networks.

Here’s the steps to becoming a uebercracker.

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Psychotic’s FAQ
by Virtual Circuit and Psychotic

I. HACKING
* What is hacking?
* How do I crack shadowed passwords?
* How can I tell the difference between an encrypted password and a shadowed password?
* Where can I find the password file if it’s shadowed?
* Where is the password file located?
* What is an exploit?
* What are some basic telnet commands?
* How do I get out of the log file?
* What is a DNIC? Read the rest of this entry »

This test was conceived and written by Fadhli

(Herewith a compendium of fact and folklore about computer hackerdom,

cunningly disguised as a test.)

Scoring - Count 1 for each item that you have done, or each

question that you can answer correctly.

If you score is between: You are Read the rest of this entry »