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Common Hacking Terms For Beginners - GrayR1ft - 04-09-2013
If you have just signed up to HC and you Don't know any think about hacking this may help you out.
you may have heard of "SQLi" and "RAT" Thrown around some times you have no clue what it means
Well here's a list of some which may help your understanding a little. Enjoy
BotNet: is a network of computer you have established using malware on many computers with your inflicted by you, controlled by you.
R.a.t = Remote admin tool: A way to control other computers from yours and execute many different functions
Xss = Cross-site-Scripting and is a web hacking method where you inject HTML or JavaScript on the web-page. This attack can be done by submitting queries into text boxes or simply in the URL
Key loggers : Malware which is Constantly recording the infected computer's Keystrokes and then sends you logs via E-mail or FTP.
VPN = Virtual private network: A private Network which will completely hide your IP.
VPS = Virtual private Server: A virtual private server is one of many virtual machines running on a single computer.They are often used by Internet hosting services. Although a VPS runs in software on the same physical computer as other customers
DOS: Denial of Service is an attempt to make a machine or network resource unavailable to its intended users usually down by one machine.
DDOS: Distributed Denial of Service is the same thing as DOS but from multiple systems
SQL: structured query language is a query language used for accessing and modifying information in a database.
Cookie logger: cookie logger is used to log the targets cookies then sends it to you Via E-mail or ftp
Malware: Malware, short for malicious (or malevolent) software, is software used or created by attackers to disrupt computer operation, gather sensitive information, or gain access to private computer systems.
It can appear in the form of code, scripts, active content, and other software. 'Malware' is a general term used to refer to a variety of forms of hostile or intrusive software.
vira – vira cannot spread without the help of us humans. They are like parasites because they need
a host to attach themselves to. The host is usually a legitimate looking program or file. Once this program is launched, the virus is executed and infects other files on your computer.
vira can be very destructive. They can do damage to your computer hardware, software and files.
vira are spread through the sharing of files and are many times sent within emails via attachments.
Worms – A worm is a malicious program that can replicate itself onto other computers on a network.
Unlike a virus, worms don’t need a human to be able to spread and infect systems.
Once it infects a system, it uses that system to send out other copies of itself to other random systems attempting to infect them.
Trojan Horse – A trojan horse is a malicious program that can be used to do silly things to a system like changing its desktop, mess with the user interface, and take control of your mouse.
It can also be used for some serious things like accessing your data, erasing your files, stealing your passwords, and capturing your keystrokes.
Logic Bombs – Logic bombs are usually pieces of code that are programmed into a program that lie dormant until a certain time or until a user does a certain action which causes it to be executed.
When it is triggered it performs a certain function that the program wasn't intended to do.
Bacteria – Bacteria make many copies of themselves and eventually end up taking up all of the computers resources such as all of its processor power, memory and disk space.
This results in the legitimate user losing access to those resources.
Backdoors: Backdoors are much the same as Trojans or worms, except that they do something different: they open a "backdoor" onto a computer, providing a network
connection for hackers or other malware to enter or for viruses or sp@m to be sent out through.
Rootkit The malware most likely to have a human touch, rootkits are installed by crackers (bad hackers) on other people's computers.
he rootkit is designed to camouflage itself in a system's core processes so as to go undetected.
It is the hardest of all malware to detect and therefore to remove; many experts recommend completely
wiping your hard drive and re installing everything fresh.
Adware are the programs which delivers ads to your computer (generally in POP-UP's form). They consume your network bandwidth and slow it down.
Wabbits According to Wikipedia, wabbits are in fact rare, and it's not hard to see why: they don't do anything to spread to other machines.
A wabbit, like a virus, replicates itself, but it does not have any instructions to email itself or pass
itself through a computer network in order to infect other machines. The least ambitious of all malware,
it is content simply to focus on utterly devastating a single machine.
Blended Threats – Blended threats combine all of the characteristics of the above and use them along with system vulnerabilities to spread and infect machines.
RE: Common Hacking Terms For Beginners - Ex094 - 04-09-2013
Title changed, Thank you for the share
RE: Common Hacking Terms For Beginners - 3r3bus - 04-09-2013
This could be a really good reference list. Fix some of the definitions and it should be good to go.
RE: Common Hacking Terms For Beginners - Access - 04-10-2013
Thanks for sharing! This is a must read for n00bs in my opinion
RE: Common Hacking Terms For Beginners - EddieWild - 04-10-2013
Thanks a lot... now i know what RAT means
RE: Common Hacking Terms For Beginners - GrayR1ft - 04-11-2013
Thank you for such positivist feedback :3. If you can see an error please PM me I will fix it up ASAP.
RE: Common Hacking Terms For Beginners - Asuna_mybb_import7736 - 04-11-2013
DDoS ain't "the same thing as DOS but to multiple systems."
DDoS are multiple systems, flooding a network with request. DoS is a single system, flooding a network.
Trojan horses are the same as RATs. If you notice vira scans, RATs always shows up as Trojan.Agent or similar.
It's vira, not viruses.
SQL isn't a common term. You might be reffering to SQLi, no?
Apart from that, and the many spelling errors, it's an okay guide. Thanks for posting it.
RE: Common Hacking Terms For Beginners - GrayR1ft - 04-11-2013
Sorry about how bad I when over it, I wrote this a long time ago. :3
RE: Common Hacking Terms For Beginners - SyntaX - 04-11-2013
Shouldnt this post be in "From noob to hacker" ?
RE: Common Hacking Terms For Beginners - Deque - 04-11-2013
(04-11-2013, 12:06 PM)SyntaX Wrote: Shouldnt this post be in "From noob to hacker" ?
You can not post in that section. It's under construction.
Quote:It's vira, not viruses.
The plural would be "vira" if we spoke Latin, but at least in my english dictionary the english plural is "viruses".
Also here: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/virus#English