Hacking is usage of non-documented or "dirty" features of programs and devices, using them in unusual way or for unusual purpose. This includes obtaining access to computer systems without someone's authorisation.
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Getting a Bloomberg keyboard to work on a standard machine
I have just gotten my hands on a Bloomberg Keyboard (Model CTB100) and it looks quite interesting... Its got a shed load of extra buttons (hopefully programmable), a USB port on the back, place for ...
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My computer turned itself on. Was I hacked?
I woke up and found my PC switched on. I have wake on LAN enabled.
I check the log and my pc started up an hour after i went to bed. I have very basic windows log reading skills. Is there something I ...
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is it possible to monitor dll injection events on Windows, such as to detect user mode rootkits?
wikipedia article's section on user mode rootkits is not quite clear about the mechanism of injecting code into running processes. Does this take advantage of normal OS functionality and so could be ...
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How to set the Screen Saver Grace Period for Windows 8?
I manually added the ScreenSaverGracePeriod (REG_DWORD) value in seconds to the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon registry key and it didn't enable the screen ...
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How to XKCD-hack a tailgator? [closed]
I was wondering how one would go about the above? That is, how would you
Create a wireless network from your computer? I suppose you'd be emulating a wireless router or something, (and obviously ...
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Was my MacBook hacked if I have PuTTY host keys in my home directory?
.putty/randomseed and .putty/sshhostkeys were found in my home directory of my MacBook Pro this morning.
I'm running OS X Snow Leopard. I've never installed PuTTY on my machine.
Does this mean my ...
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Prevent Sending Spam with my Yahoo Account?
Today morning I found my Yahoo Mail account sent several emails with Subject re: and this body : this is crazy you should give it a look http://www.wanews15.net/biz/?news=9080205 to all my contact ...
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Possibly hacked delicious account suddenly containing links to adult sites etc - is there an alternative for delicious [closed]
I was searching for some academic publications I saved earlier on delicious. To my astonishment, there are a lot of tags and links in my account, that point to adult material from a Brazillian site ...
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How MS “web stream recorder” works?
I try to figure out how MS webstreamrecorder works to develop the same thing for Linux OS. I've tested opened ports, but I don't see any UDP or TCP opened ports when "web stream recorder" is up and ...
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How do game cheat codes work? [closed]
There are many cheat device names, such as gameshark, gamegenie, action replay and codebreaker, and I do not know the difference of them.
I wonder how do cheat codes work. What do they do with the ...
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Windows 7 pro remote desktop true multi monitor support patch or hack [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Windows 7 Pro multi-monitor Remote Desktop software
After hours of research the closest i came to any patch that could fix this was a concurrent sessions patch which is ...
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How to create a shortcut or automate file in calling a contact in skype
What are the option in creating a quick access to dialing a contact in Skype? and How?
Example I want to bind a custom key in calling my friend, let say
"cmd" + "0"
or
cmd + "9"
. I'm ...
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How to use proxy to filter data from particular IP?
I am running an online game for kids but lately I have been experiencing attacks from some vile individuals who just like ruining it. I assume (based on Windows log) that they connect hundreds time ...
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How can I find out why the internet connection speed in our LAN is so slow?
The internet connection speed in our LAN has been slow down for several days.
Is it possible that a virus is the cause of that?
How can I detect the cause of this low speed?
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I closed ...
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Weird access from RIPE servers and other IP addresses
Looking at my server logs, I see a lot of activity from various IP addresses. Something like this:
69.65.10.86 - - [22/Feb/2012:11:14:40 -0200] "GET http://amate urangelz.com/ HTTP/1.1" 200 69869
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Logwatch - Being probed by own network router?
I have been having some fun messing around with Apache running on an Ubuntu Server. It is set up as a global web server and shares some files that I can access anywhere. I am also using it to connect ...
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Android mobile data connection security [closed]
I have an android phone and I wonder if the data I send and receive over my mobile network could be seen or altered by someone who has my mobile number, my device's mac address, my identity on social ...
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Is there a way you can Hack Wireless Capabillities into a Gamecube? [closed]
Alright, I am getting a GameCube for really cheap from a friend, but I want it to do more than just play games, I want to run it off of Linux. I did some research, finding that some distros did ...
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Linux equivalent of MS StreamingVideoDownloader
is there something on Linux like this : http://www.binarymark.com/Products/StreamingVideoDownloader/default.aspx ?
When we start to play a video file in a browser, the software start to save & ...
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How can I obtain a password from a website using a form using the GET method on an .aspx platform?
I am trying to find out a password for an area of a website that uses the GET method to authenticate correct credentials. The page is an .aspx but I'm not sure if that makes any effective difference.
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How can I find out who is trying to hack my computer?
I'm using Windows XP. I have heard that other users (or hackers) can access my computer's data when I'm online.
So how can I know who is accessing my computer? I would like to create a log of these ...
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Is there an alternative memory allocator that uses separate swapfile?
Is there alternative allocator that can be LD_PRELOADed into a process, overrides "malloc", "calloc", etc. and allocates things using it's own swap files (mmaped to files instead of MAP_ANONYMOUS)?
I ...
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Is there a program to accelerate/slowdown time in other process?
Is there a program/library that allows to override time flow in other processes?
Expecting it to override clock_gettime, gettimeofday, alarm and other functions that report time or use timeout using ...
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Closing 139 and 445 ports to prevent from get hacked
I heard that you can close these two ports for surfing safe on the internet. By mean don't get hacked. Now I'm closed them but I'm not sure is it really true or not. BTW, I'm on win7.
Thanks.
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Add resource to compiled executable
I have a compiled executable that I would like to add an icon to. It currently has 0 resources and uses the default Windows Application Icon. I have tried "Resource Hacker" and adding an icon, but it ...
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Trying to install OS to new computer; Won't detect HDD
Mobo: Biostar th67+
CPU: i3 2100
GPU: Radeon 6850 (using integrated right now)
PSU: Antec 400 Watts
HDD: 80gb Deskstar IDE + external Seagate
I am trying to install Windows 7. My problem is that ...
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Encountered an Email Hack … what steps to take to get out of this?
I think I may have just run into clicking on an email virus/hack. This hack was an email PDF attachment, that turned out to be blank. But could probably be an undercover program running.
Someone ...
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Is monitor mode possible for just one SSID?
Is it possible to put the WiFi adapter on a Linux box into monitor mode and then tell it to join a specific WPA2-protected network, so that I might sniff all wireless traffic on that network?
I'm ...
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Hacker sending email from hotmail, changing password doesn't stop it
A colleague of mine seems to have had their hotmail account hacked - lots of spam is being sent from their account to their contacts, and the spams show up in their Sent folder so they're definitely ...
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In Linux can I direct all traffic from a specific ip address or mac address to file
In Linux can I direct all traffic from a specific ip address or mac address to file.
I am look of a way to take all traffic from a specific ip address or mac address and put it into a file. Does ...
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dhcp.lease showing strange entries
lease 172.16.0.174 {
starts 2 2011/11/22 10:23:11;
ends 3 2011/11/23 10:23:11;
binding state active;
next binding state free;
hardware ethernet 6c:50:4d:0e:c8:c0;
uid ...
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My email clients and computer have been hacked
My client system has been compromised and hacked.
My client is using wWindows 7 and Outlook Express 2007 for email communication.
The Email ID of my client is from a Yahoo Small Business account.
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Delete hotmail account but keep MSN messenger
Is it possible to delete hotmail account but keep MSN messenger. My hotmail account got hacked into sending spam and I'm just fed up. I want to get rid of the email account but unfortunately I do use ...
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Can User Using Public Wi-Fi Be Traced?
Let's imagine the following situation:
"Overintelligent hacker connects to Wi-Fi points across country and performs illegal activities that get government's attention.
If all the government can get ...
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Backtrack 5 On USB Error
I encounter that error when I shutdown or restart Backtrack5 on USB that I created boot from unetbootin !
That is the error :
(EE) FBDEV(0) : FBIOPUTCMAP : Invalid Arguement
The XKeyboard Keymap ...
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Chat Roulette-like web site sniffed my HTTP traffic [closed]
I was on a random webchat site, similar to Chat Roulette. I had a couple of different browsers - IE and Firefox - open.
I was talking to a person in one of them, and then they identified the URL of ...
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How can I make OS X Stickies *custom* colors?
OS X Stickies lets you change the background color of a stickie note to any of six colors. How can I select a different, custom color for my notes?
I don't see any preferences that allow me to do ...
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How do I set a hidden menu to visible in a program?
How do I set a hidden menu to visible in a program?
background:
I have an old Delphi application that has a hidden menu with various test tools. But to get it I have to change a flag in the code and ...
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Strange behaviour on my MacBook. Hacked? Point me in the right direction
Within the past week I noticed some strange behaviour on my Snow Leopard MacBook Pro.
A few of my windows in the background closed themselves without me doing anything while I was working. Then I ...
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OS X: Is there a way to send a fax via a network connection to a Samsung CLX-3170?
My Mac auto-discovers this multifunction printer-fax-scanner, but only provides a print option by default.
Is there any way to utilize the scan/fax features over the network? There's no mention of ...
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Aircrack-ng Usage on Windows (XP) — Needs clear steps
I've found that Aircrack-ng is very powerful tool for Wireless Hacking.
But it is a bit complicate to use (even with its documentations).
Also, when i run GUI, it needs to add "Capture File". What is ...
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can a server be un-hackable [closed]
If I created a network with one web pc and one database pc and only allowed access to 80 port and 443 port from the 'outside' and blocked any access to others, how would people hack my network? Are ...
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Do I have to worry about PPTP?
for the recent time i have been actively using PPTP to externally connect to my home network. This is going great as i can easily browse my local NAS's content.
But it seems like PPTP has some ...
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Edit strings of exe file with no resources
I am trying to edit some hardcoded textstrings of a simple application called mininotify, because I want to do some translation. The program has been abandoned by its developer some years ago, and he ...
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How to trace a hacker
So, I'm a big fan of the cheesy 90's movies about hacking (read Hackers). I've been using computers all my life, which has brought me to university studying in Computer Engineering. The other day I ...
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Can my belkin n300 usb wireless network adapter be used with aircrack?
Can a Belkin n300 USB wireless network adapter be used with aircrack/backtrack etc for cracking WiFi encryption?
Windows 7 on my laptop cannot pick up my signal as it is out of reach but my external ...
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Firefox addon or similar tool to “hack” login cookies to keep me logged in?
I'm getting extremely tired of having to log into websites. Are there any addons or tools that exist that will keep altering my cookie expiration for sites I choose to keep making the expiration far ...
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What means do I have to catch a Hacker that cracked in one of my computers? [closed]
OS: Windows 7 Enterprise Edition (90 Day Trial Version)
I put my computer into a DMZ so that I could host a server for a little while. (Port Forwarding was not working in my version of DD-WRT that I ...
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My browser have been hacked.. or?
I just looked over my blog today and discovered a problem with my comment form. I've already installed and activated the Akismet anti-spam plugin so I don't actually receive the spam comments, but my ...
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Deleted Files in Windows 7 - When did this happen?
FYI... Best undelete tool for NTFS/FAT? and I need program for recover deleted files in windows mention NTFS undelete to recover deleted files. BUT...
I believe my computer may have been hacked. Is ...
