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What Are Web Browsers?

Author: P.R.O.V.I.D.E.R. // Category:
THIS CONTEXT IS CONTRIBUTED TO ME BY MY FRND +RAJ+
SO HAVE A LITTLE LOOK ON RAJ'S CONTEXT:-


A browser is an application that provides a way to look at and interact with all the information on the World Wide Web. Technically, a web browser uses HTTP to make requests of web servers throughout the Internet on behalf of the browser user. In other words, a web browser is a software application that allows one to view pages on the World Wide web.

There are different web browsers that are available and in use today and they all come with a variety of features. Some of the available web browsers include Amaya, AOL Explorer, Arachne, Arlington Kiosk, Avant, Camino, Dillo, Elinks, Epiphany, Flock, Galeon, iCab, Internet Explorer, Internet Explorer for Mac, K-Meleon, KioWare, Konqueror, Links, Lynx, Maxthon, Mosaic, Mozilla, Mozilla Firefox, Netscape, OmniWeb, SeaMonkey, Safari, Opera and Off By One. Most of these web browsers are free, but there are five of them that do have a purchase price.


Web browsers also come with some features. Some common features that are included with web browsers are spell checkers, search engine toolbars, download managing, password managing, bookmark managing, as well as form managing. Accessibility features that may be included with many web browsers include page zooming, ad filtering, pop-up blocking, tabbed browsing, incremental finding, HTML access keys, voice controls, mouse gestures, spatial navigation, text to speech, and caret navigation.

With so many web browsers being available, there are a number of different technologies that are supported. Some of them are frames, Java, XSLT, XForms, RSS, Atom, SVG, WML, VoiceXML, MathML, and XHTML. Also, with many web browsers, support for different languages is possible, and some of the different languages that are supported by web browsers include English, Slovak, Arabic, German, Dutch, Turkish, Swedish, Chinese, French, Spanish, Thai, Hebrew, Italian, Greek, Russian, Polish, Welsh, as well as hundreds more.

A web browser is a powerful tool, and isn’t just used for personal computers anymore; there are web browsers that can be used on mobile phones, handheld game systems, as well as pocket PC’s.

Web browsers can also be personalized to an individuals needs by utilizing web browser accessories that are not included with the initial browser software. These applications are referred to as “plug insâ€, and a few of the more popular ones are Beatnik, QuickTime, RealPlayer, Shockwave, VivoActive Player, as well as Adobe Acrobat Reader.

Beatnik is utilized to receive high-quality sound and audio from websites. QuickTime, which is a product of Apple, Inc., works as a delivery system for such things as 3D animation, audio, movies, MIDI soundtracks, and virtual reality. RealPlayer delivers on demand audio and video without the hassle of waiting for downloads to complete. Shockwave allows multimedia files to be viewed directly in a web browser. VivoActive allows viewing of on demand audio and video from sites that offer VivoActive content, and Adobe Acrobat Reader allows access to PDF files on the World Wide Web.

Knowing all of the web browsers and their specific uses, it will become easy to understand how choosing the right web browser can enhance the Internet experience.

Cracking Tutorial

Author: P.R.O.V.I.D.E.R. // Category:
1.)How a cracker works.
-A cracker works by repeatingly sending passwords to a Yahoo! login server or a list of servers


-Crackers require password lists (dictionay files). These are lists of words that the cracker will attempt to use as the passwords


-All a cracker does, is try different passwords,until the correct password to the username is entered. (Crackers work on the possibility that one of the passwords you load in the password list is the correct password for the usernames they are trying to crack.)




2.) Basics you need to know.
-Cracker's use either servers or proxies in cracking.


-A Crackers are basically a program that simplfies and speeds up exactly what you do when you login to a Yahoo site.


-There are three types of crackers. Server crackers , Proxy crackers and Forwards crackers.


-Server crackers typically get patched (quit working) very quickly because Yahoo moniters it's servers and they pick up any increased bandwidth (alot of extra login attempts than normal). When they see these extra logins attempts they run some tests and find out what login method is being tried. They then goto work and patch the login method, which basically means that it will ban you after 50 - 100 login tries on a single IP.


-Proxy crackers are much harder for Yahoo to patch. You can use patched login servers on them because by using a proxy you appear to not be just one IP trying to log in, but many hundreds of IPs. Yahoo will ban each proxy, not your main IP. The ban is only a temporary ban as well, usually for 4 - 6 hours. And once you notice your cracker slowing down (proxies getting banned) simply scan and load some new proxies into the cracker and you are back in buisness.


-Forwards crackers can be eigther Server or Proxy crackers. Most crackers run Backwards. This means that the cracker goes through the list of names as quickly as possible using the first password in the list, then goes to the next password and starts at the top of the names list again. This ensures that the names you are trying to crack do not get "locked" by Yahoo for too many login attempts one right after the other. Im sure we've all had names locked before and had to type in the "random security code" below the password to log into the name. With a Forwards cracker, the cracker stays on the first name in the list until all the passwords have been tried on it, then moves to the next name. In order for a cracker to be considered a Forwards cracker, it must not lock names for too many login attempts. So basically with a working Forwards cracker, you can enter one name in the cracker and thousands of passwords to try and crack only that one name. Forwards crackers are the rarest type of crackers because the login methods they use are very hard to find and Yahoo tries very hard to patch these methods up quickly. I have had quite a few Forwards crackers before, but as of right now, I dont know of a single working one. I love using these types of crackers when I get ahold of one.


-Alerts: when a name has been cracked, the cracker has away of alerting you, more common you will get sound alert. In other cases an Alert Window will pop up.


-Password Options: Password options can change the passwords you are using to crack with to ALL CAPS , First Letter Caps" , Sim (using the name trying to be cracked as the pass), etc. etc.


-Sockets - A cracker's speed is defined by it's number of sockets. From a begginer's stand point, you might think that setting your cracker for it's max number of sockets will allow you to crack screen names faster. This is only true if you have a very faster ISP (Internet Service Provider) like cable or DSL. If you are on dial-up I would recommend only using 5 - 10 sockets. If you are on DSL I wouldnt use more than 50. If you are on cable you can use as many as the cracker will allow you to use. Also if you are using a Proxy cracker, keep in mind that you can only crack as fast as the proxies will allow you too. Some proxies are fast and some are slow.


-Timeout: This is a feature for proxy crackers which tells the cracker how long it should wait on each proxy to attempt to log in the name. If you set the Timeout low, the cracker will skip all the slow proxies in your proxy list and only use the faster proxies. This will make it faster but you also wont find as many proxies that work. If you set the Timeout higher, the cracker will wait a second or two longer on each proxy to allow it to try and log in the name. I would recomend using a high timeout unless you have like 30,000 proxies to crack with.


-Auto save is when you crack a name. it out saves it immediately to a txt or log file. This is a good feature in case you get disconnected or your PC gets turned off by accident or unplugged.


-In cracking, people that crack names look for usernames that Yahoo no longer allows them to make, these discontinued names are called illegals (a.k.a Rares).


-You will also here about a group of cracked names called originals, example of this would be "woody, farmer, warrior , potent , Jason , Mark , Jen etc... (you get the picture hence "original")




3.) Tools you need for cracking.
-You need a cracker of course, I recommend crackers that use proxies.


-To find Proxies, you need two kinds of tools, one to find proxies (scanner or leecher), and a Proxy Phecker to check if those proxies are valid. Some crackers will record only the good proxies when it is cracking so this will eliminate the need for a Proxy Checker (x-proxy is an example of a cracker that has this feature).

(Here are some proxy sites you can use to get some proxies)
Rob's Daily Updated Proxy List
http://www.multiproxy.org/txt_anon/proxy.txt
http://www.socklabs.com/proxylist.txt
http://www.cybers yndrome.net/pld_tmp.html
http://www.digitalcybersoft.com/Prox...oxy-list.shtm l
http://phpfi.com/43027


-You need names lists (a list of scanned names you want to try and crack), and password lists and a Proxy list before you start up the cracker.


-Now you need some names to crack. Compile this either by using a name generator and scanner, or you can find a room grabber and use it. This is a program that sends a bot into a list of rooms and grabs the usernames from the room....these are then saved as another .txt file. However you decide to do it, you should compile a list of at least 500 names to start




4.) How to find out if your cracker works...
-To make sure it still works, load up proxies and add some bot names and passwords to the name and passwords list, if it cracks the names, then it works!


Thats all for now. I hope this has helped some of you to understand how a cracker works and what tools you will need to be a successfull cracker. Keep in mind, cracking is alot like fishing. Dont expect to crack a ton of name when you first start. Sometimes you will crack for days without cracking a single name, sometimes even weeks. It really depends on how good your passwords are that you are using. It's alot of luck and cracking isnt for everyone. It takes alot of patience and determination to do it. If you are willing to tough it out then you can count on cracking some names in

The True Origin of Hacking

Author: P.R.O.V.I.D.E.R. // Category:
"DID YOU KNOW? If a hacker successfully penetrates your telephone
system's security, you could be billed for OVER $10,000 PER HOUR for
FRAUDULENT CALLS?"

The above quote was taken from an AT&T sales letter hawking security
systems to businesses. It was reprinted in the quarterly publication
2600, a sort of Popular Mechanics for, um, midnight technicians.

These days, most people think of hackers as anti-social types who
break into business phone lines, ATM machines, cable, and government
computers. Hackers are the new hi-tech outlaws.

Though the idea of hacker as outlaw has some truth, much of it is
certainly hyperbole ($10,000 an hour?). The overuse and misuse of the
word hacker has been chafing against me of late. I've always
understood a more benign definition.

Time for some schooling. According to Steven Levy's seminal 1984 book
Hackers, the idea of a "hack" came from the M.I.T.'s Tech Model
Railroad Club. In the late 1950s, the members of the club would use
the term to denote any project that was undertaken just for the "wild
pleasure taken in mere involvement." Those who took pride in building
better connections between relays were called hackers.

Wireheads that they were, it's no surprise that when a new mainframe
computer, the TX-O arrived on campus, many from TMRC were instantly
drawn to it.

To most people then, computers were bulky unfriendly machines that
took up entire rooms and crunched numbers for insurance companies or
scientists. They had no relation to the public at large.

To these hackers though, these computers presented a whole new realm
of possibilities. In the ensuring decade, they prodded the TX-O, and,
later, the PDP-6 to play chess, hum Bach, emulate ping pong, act as a
adding machine, and play space war games.

All these applications were called hacks. Such work was seen as
frivolous. These programs were written for no other reason than to be
simply to have them be admired and improved upon by other programmers.
In hindsight, its obvious these hackers were radically rethinking the
way computers could be used.

But hacking provided an addictive high. As Levy writes,

When you programmed a computer you had to be aware of where all the
thousands of bits of information were going from one instruction to
the next, and be able to predict--and exploit-- the effect of all that
movement. When you had all that information glued to your cerebral
being, it was almost as if your own mind had merged into the
environment of the computer. Sometimes it took hours to build up to
the point where your thoughts could contain that total picture, and
when you did get to that point, it was such a shame to waste it that
you tried to sustain it by marathon bursts.

To better suit such cerebral thunder runs, these misplaced geniuses
would slip into 32-hour days fueled by cokes and lemon jelly wedges.
For a dedicated few, outside norms were considered irrelevant -
fashion, college degrees, even personal hygiene. One particularly
notorious hacker, Richard Greenblatt would get so caught up in
projects that he'd neglect to bathe. As a result, whenever Greenblatt
would rub his hands together over the keyboard, little chunks of dirt
fell on the keys, called "blatties" by other annoyed users.

Eventually a philosophy emerged from M.I.T. known as the Hacker Ethic.
The one and all-holy central tenet was this: information should be
free. Hackers believed in free information the way hippies believed in
free love.

And oddly enough, at the time, it made sense. The way information
works is strange. Keep it for yourself, and no one else will expound
upon it, use it, or employ it in their own designs. If it's obscure,
it's worthless.

But if you leave information for others to tinker with, say a program
you wrote, it will take hold, become stronger, better, and, at least
in some small way, add to the collective knowledge of humankind.

This is why for years so much software was placed in the public
domain. If anyone saw a way to improve, say Xmodem, a program for
downloading, they were free to do so. Copyrighting a program was
considered heresy. In those early years at M.I.T., programs were left
around for others to tinker with, the creators admitting someone could
easily improve upon their design.

The idea made perfect sense in the collegial atmosphere of M.I.T..
Outside the campus, however, this ethic has since caused headaches for
companies, such as Bell Atlantic, that don't particularly appreciate
people taking a curiosity in how their systems work, having them
improved upon, or having it hacked for free phone calls.

The hubbub you hear these days is sound of the Hacker Ethic rubbing
against corporate propriety.

As maligned as the word means, its easy to forget how valuable hacking
is. It has made the Internet largely what is today: People doing stuff
with no promise of financial gain, but simply because it would be
interesting to do it. The word has been tagged with an unfair rap. I
just hope curiosity and inventiveness won't be taken out with it.

How To Catch A Hacker

Author: P.R.O.V.I.D.E.R. // Category:
Tip One

Hackers cover their tracks, Experienced hackers cover them more
thoroughly, but amateur hackers sometimes leave things behind, Don't
expect them to leave any really big evidence behind, expect more of
little things here and there you might find surprising, For example,
if you are writing a term paper and a black hat hacker accidently
saved it when he took a paragraph out, that's suspicious, Where did
that paragraph go ? Well, for one thing, now you know he was in that
area, Check the folders surrounding the file you might find something

Tip Two

Decipher between the type of hackers that are attacking you,
Experienced hackers will have a more in depth look around when they
penetrate your system, They won't touch much because they know that
they won't add too much to their knowledge, But if you know a hacker's
been in, and some files are messed with, and you have a log of someone
guessing passwords to a file or something of that sort, its probably
some newbie who's just starting out, These are the easiest hackers to
catch, They usually get so caught up in thoughts like "Iam in" that
they forget the basics, such as work behind a proxy

Tip Three

Don't go crazy if you lose data, Chances are, if it was that
important, you would have backed it up anyway, Most hackers nowadays
wish they were back in 1989 when they could use a Black Box and having
a Rainbow Book actually meant something, Most hackers aren't black
hat, they are white hat, and some even grey hat, But in the end, most
hackers that are in systems aren't satisfied by looking around, From
past experiences, I have concluded that many hackers like to remember
where have they been, So what do they do ? They either press delete
here and there, or copy some files on to their systems, Stupid hackers
(yes, there are plenty of stupid hackers) send files to e-mail
addresses Some free e-mail companies will give you the IP of a certain
e-mail address's user if you can prove that user has been notoriously
hacking you. But most of the time, by the time you get the e-mail adds
it's been unused for weeks if not months or years, and services like
hotmail have already deleted it

Tip Four

Save information, Any information that you get from a log file (proxy
server IP, things like "14P", e-mail addresses that things were sent
to, etc) should be saved to a floppy disk (they are not floppy
anymore, I wish I could get out of the habit of calling them that) in
case there's a next time, If you get another attack, from the same
proxy, or with similar e-mail addresses (e.g: one says Blackjack
123@something.whatever and the other says
Black_jack_45@something.znn.com) you can make an assumption that these
hackers are the same people, In that case, it would probably be worth
the effort to resolve the IP using the proxy and do a trace route
Pressing charges is recommended if this is a repeat offender

Tip Five

Don't be stupid, If you've been hacked, take security to the next
level, Hackers do talk about people they have hacked and they do post
IPs and e-mail addresses, Proof ? Take a look at Defcon Conventions,
I've never gone to one, but I have seen the photos, The "Wall of
Shame" type of boards I've seen have IPs and e-mail addresses written
all over them in fat red, dry-erase ink, Don't be the one to go
searching the Defcon web site and find your e-mail address posted on
the Wall of Shame board

Tip Six

Don't rely on luck, Chances are, sometime or another, you're going to
be targeted for an attack, Here you can rely on luck, Maybe they'll
forget ? Maybe they don't know how to do it ? If you think this way, a
surprise is going to hit your face very hard, Another way you could
stupidly rely on luck is by saying this: It's probably just a white
hat, On the contrary, my friend, it's probably just a black hat, A
black hat with knowledge stored in his head, ready to be used as an
ax, It's your data, You take the chance

How to become Hacker

Author: P.R.O.V.I.D.E.R. // Category:
How to become Hacker....

1) First know difference between Hacker,Cracker and Script Kiddy....

2)The only only only Hackers Guru is Google...
Remember no one knows than more than 'GOOGLE'

3) Unless u know(very Strong,talk,sleep,eat) more than 1 Programming lang.....u vll never be called as Hacker