Friday, June 29, 2012

The Ultimate Guide To Tools

By Thomas Grabo


When attacking your machine or even network, the hackers are just only using simple techniques. To scan some vulnerable systems, many hackers found ease in using a demon dialer. Since connection may eventually fail, the demon dialer is the best tool to make repetitions in number redialing. There is also another perfect tool for hacking in a form of wardialer. Wardialer is a known application which definitely uses a modem to conduct dialing to a lot of random phone numbers just to determine another modem that is probably link to another computer.

Definitely, hackers are also very keen in identifying computers that have very good connections like DSL or even cable connections. Those hackers will eventually use a scanner program to ping IP addresses in order to know if the system of networks is running smoothly. You can definitely witness the repeated pings in the log once you employ firewall software in your computer.

All these tools are significantly found in the internet. The hackers have identified many sites in the internet which show hacking tools that are easy to use for their own benefits. The homegrown documentation made available in the hacker shoptalk could help the hackers in using complex tools.

Some of the programs available for them are the scanning utilities that identify the weak points of a computer or network and those sniffing programs that definitely spy on the data that pass between machines.

Since there are vulnerable IP addresses, hackers take advantage to use the net just to share some lists of them. The hackers may find convenience in hacking on the addresses of some computers loaded with a specific virus.

After looking for a potential machine, the hacker will be using whisker, a hacker tool, that determines the operating system and knows the existence of unpatched holes. The whisker helps the system administrators to conduct security testing to all their systems but unfortunately, it also provides authentic information to the hackers to exploit the systems.

The hackers are eventually helped by many conditions which could let them penetrate on a lot of computer systems. Lax security contributes a big factor on it. If a company does not provide a password to protect the system, then the hackers can easily penetrate. If the system administrators tend to forget updating their software through security patches, then the vulnerable ports are made available for attacks. The misconfigured firewall or router is believed to contribute a lot in the hacking activity. It definitely leads to the sniffing of important documents like e-mails, files, and passwords of private people.




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