21-06-2014, 11:52 AM
WINDOWS HACKING
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What is HACKING ?
Hacking is just getting information without permission or with permission.
It’s a practice of accessing information without authorization.
Basically hackers are not a negative personalities. They are appointed in a company for providing security.
For virus there is anti-virus but for cracker(who can access your information and can use for bad purpose.) there is hacker.
Today’s due to increasing in the use of network it is important to maintain the security as good as you can
Can Hacking be Ethical?
The noun ‘hacker’ refers to a person who enjoys learning the details of computer systems and stretch their capabilities.
The verb ‘hacking’ describes the rapid development of new programs or the reverse engineering of already existing software to make the code better, and efficient.
The term ‘cracker’ refers to a person who uses his hacking skills for offensive purposes.
The term ‘ethical hacker’ refers to security professionals who apply their hacking skills for defensive purposes
Why windows in not secure ?
. In windows , the security policies can be change by doing
editing and adding command in registry files.
User account password is stored in SAM (Security Account Manager) which is in encrypted format . This encrypted format can be decrypted again using s/w.
If admin and user account are present then it is possible to take the right from admin account and can run the system like administrator.
Biggest vulnerablity is that if an user change the directory of SAN then he can do anything on your system.
HOW WINDOWS HACKING IS DONE ?
Following are the ways are use by the hacker :
1. BACKDOOR
2. KEYLOGGER
3. CAIN N ABEL
4. COMMAND LINE HIDING
5. DRIVE HIDING
BACKDOOR
SETP 1: Follow the following path :
My Computer C:\ windows System32 find “cmd ”
STEP 2: Cut the “ cmd ” and paste it to desktop
STEP 3: Rename it with “ setch ”.
STEP 4: Again cut the same file from desktop and paste it to System32.
KEYLOGGER
1.Keylogger is used to maintain the record of the keys which
are used by the victim.
2.Generally it is used to trace the account password or any
other confidential data such as bank account number an
other password such as email account.
Cane N Abel
1.There are many software available to find the administrator password. This a software also works the same.
2.used to crack or find system password.
3.checks all the possibilities by mixing all the character , numeric and characters.
4. 100% possibility to get password by using this s/w
Hiding Files
Hiding file are one of the common option for securing files . But using some methods your hiding files can be make visible.
So, hiding files is not a secure way to protect the file.
But using command prompt it possible to hide your files permanently.
Following is the command is use for hiding :
Attrib +h +s [filename/directory]
To make it visible again :
Attrib -h -s [filename/directory]
Password Cracking Countermeasures
Password cracking can be prevented on your machine when you follow the following countermeasures:
• Try to enforce more than 6 character password and which is alpha-numeric with symbols.
• Reset your passwords every 14 days.
• Implement Physical security and isolate access to the Server.
• Implement SYSKEY at the time of deployment.