Steal This Computer Book 4.0 by Wang, Wallace -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Steal This Computer Book 4.0

Praise for Steal This Computer Book Dedication Acknowledgments Introduction

Your Own Revolution

Communication's the thing Truth is nothing but a point of view

What's in This Book

I. The Early Hackers

1. The Hacker Mentality

Questioning Authority Questioning Assumptions Developing Values The Three Stages of Hacking

2. The First Hackers: The Phone Phreakers

A Short History of Phone Phreaking Phone Phreaking Urban Legends

The toilet paper crisis in Los Angeles The Santa Barbara nuclear hoax The president's secret

True and Verified Phone Phreaking Stories

Making free phone calls, courtesy of the Israeli Army Phone phreaking for escorts in Las Vegas

Phone Phreaking Tools and Techniques

Shoulder surfing Phone phreaking with color boxes

Blue box Red box Green box Black box Silver box

Phone phreaking with color box programs Phreaking with war dialers and prank programs Phreaking cellular phones Hacking voice mailboxes Hacking VoIP

3. Hacking People, Places, and Things

Social Engineering: The Art of Hacking People

Studying a target Gaining familiarity The keys to social engineering

Picking Locks

The theory of lockpicking The tools and techniques

Exploring Urban Areas Hacking the Airwaves Hacking History (or, Hemp for Victory)

The Japanese textbook controversy Hiding history to protect the present Watching movies for fun and propaganda

II. The Pc Pioneers

4. Ansi Bombs and Viruses

The Making of an ANSI Bomb

How an ANSI bomb works Planting an ANSI bomb

The Spread of Computer Viruses

Spreading a file-infecting virus

Parasitic program infectors Overwriting file infectors

Spreading a boot-sector virus Spreading a multipartite virus Spreading a macro virus

How Viruses Avoid Detection

Infection methods Stealth Polymorphism Retaliators

How Antivirus Programs Work

Comparing antivirus programs Choosing an antivirus program

Why People Write Viruses

For fun For notoriety

Finding virus-writing tutorials Virus-writing toolkits Virus Myths and Hoaxes

The mobile phone virus hoax The nuclear war hoax The bait-and-switch virus hoax The publicity-seeking virus hoax

Learning More About Viruses The Future Virus Threat

5. Trojan Horses and Worms

The World of Trojan Horses

Taunting the victim Attacking the victim's pocketbook The coming of the RATs (remote-access Trojans)

Sneaking a RAT onto a computer How RATs work

Worms: Self-Replicating Viruses

Email worms IRC/Instant messaging worms Internet worms Malicious web pages

Stopping Worms and Trojan Horses Tracking the Threats

6. Warez (Software Piracy)

Copying Copy-Protected Software Defeating Serial Numbers Defeating Product Activation Warez Websites Usenet Newsgroups: The New Piracy Breeding Ground

III. The Internet Hackers

7. Where the Hackers Are

Hacker Websites

Hacker websites for fun and profit

Attrition.org AusPhreak Chaos Computer Club Cult of the Dead Cow New Order Nomad Mobile Research Centre The Shmoo Group Underground News

Computer security "hacking" websites

AntiOnline DShield Hideaway.net Insecure.org PacketStorm Security News Portal SecureRoot SecurityFocus Startplaza.nu Sys-Security Research Talisker's Security Portal WindowsSearch Wiretapped

Hacker search engines

Hacker Magazines

2600 Blacklisted! 411

Hacker News Magazine The Hackademy Premium Phrack Private Line

Hacker Usenet Newsgroups

General hacking newsgroups Computer virus newsgroups Encryption newsgroups Cracking newsgroups

Finding Hackers on IRC Hacker Conventions

DefCon HOPE (Hackers on Planet Earth) Chaos Communication Congress PH-Neutral RuxCon ShmooCon SummerCon ToorCon

Don't Panic: Hackers Are People, Too

8. Stalking a Computer

Why Hackers Choose Their Targets Finding a Target

War dialing Port scanning War driving

The steps to accessing a WiFi network Finding a WiFi network Protecting a WiFi network

Probing sites by Google hacking

Finding specific webserver software using Google Searching specific websites Probing a website's defenses Finding and copying files using Google Guarding against Google hackers

The Next Step

9. Cracking Passwords

Password Stealing

Using a keystroke logger Spying with a desktop monitoring program Using a password recovery program

Dictionary Attacks Brute-Force Password Attacks Passwords: The First Line of Defense Blocking Access with Biometrics

Biometric devices Defeating biometrics

Good Enough Security

10. Digging into a Computer with Rootkits

How Operating Systems Work The Evolution of Rootkits

Modifying log files Trojaned binaries Hooking program calls Loadable kernel module (LKM) rootkits

Opening a Backdoor Sniffing for More Passwords Killing Rootkits

11. Censoring Information

Censoring the Internet

URL filtering Content filtering DNS poisoning Port blocking

The Internet Censors

Countries that censor the Internet

The Great Firewall of China The Internet censors of Saudi Arabia Castro's censors in Cuba Internet censorship around the world

Companies that censor the Internet

Censorship Begins at Home: Parental Control Software

Parental control software gone bad: blocking political and educational sites Parental control software gone really bad: CYBERsitter

CYBERsitter on the offensive Cyber Patrol vs. cphack

Project bait and switch: the double standard of censorship Researching parental control programs

Avoiding Internet Censorship

Accessing banned web pages by email Accessing banned web pages through proxy servers

Reading Banned Books Online

Secretly reading a banned book in broad daylight Secretly browsing the Web in broad daylight

Is Anyone Censoring the Censors?

12. The Filesharing Networks

A Short History of Internet FileSharing How FileSharing Works

The birth of Gnutella The Ares network The FastTrack network

Sharing Large Files The Problem with Filesharing

IV. The Real World Hackers

13. The Internet Con Artists

Charity Scams The Area Code Scam The Nigerian Scam Work-at-Home Businesses

Stuffing envelopes Make-it-yourself kits Work as an independent contractor Fraudulent sales

Pyramid Schemes

The Ponzi scheme The infallible forecaster

The Lonely Hearts Scam Internet-Specific Con Games

Packet sniffers Web spoofing Phishing Keystroke loggers Porn dialers

Online Auction Frauds Credit Card Fraud Protecting Yourself

Cagey Consumer Council of Better Business Bureaus Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Fraud Bureau ScamBusters Scams on the Net ScamWatch Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)

The Recovery Room Scam

14. Finding People on the Internet

Who Are the Stalkers? Stalking on the Internet Finding Personal Information on the Internet

Searching personal websites Finding names, addresses, and phone numbers

555-1212.com Freeality ICQ White Pages Infobel.com InfoSpace Lycos People Search Switchboard USSearch.com WhitePages.com Yahoo! People Search ZabaSearch

Finding someone using a Social Security number Finding people in the military Searching public records Finding email addresses

EmailChange Meta Email Search Agent (MESA) NedSite Other options

Stalking Celebrities Protecting Yourself

15. Propaganda as News and Entertainment

The News as Reality TV Corporate Influence on the News

Project Censored: the news you never read about Drink milk—the chemicals are good for you The objective news from ABC and Wal-Mart The mystery bulge on George Bush's back

The News Only Reports the Facts—And Anything Else Anyone Will Tell Them The News as History Fear, Future, Fun, and Fakes: The Weekly World News as a Role Model for the News Media

Fear: attracting an audience Future: distracting from the present Fun: keeping people happy Fakes: lies are more interesting than the truth

TV Guide and Oprah Winfrey Newsweek and Martha Stewart O.J. Simpson and Time Diversity at the University of Wisconsin Bobbi McCaughey, Newsweek, and Time

Using Satire to Report on Reality Blogs as News Sources

16. Hacktivism: Online Activism

Virtual Sit-ins and Blockades

The world's first Internet strike Zapatistas on the Internet Disturbance on demand

Email Bombing Web Hacking and Computer Break-ins Computer Viruses and Worms Activist Video Games Google Bombing Becoming a Hacktivist

17. Hate Groups and Terrorists on the Internet

Hate Groups on the Internet Racist Video Games Terrorism: The Communist Threat of the Twenty-first Century

The myth of cyberterrorism Terrorists on the Internet

The Future of Terrorism

V. The Future—Hacking for Profit

18. Identity Theft and Spam

Understanding Identity Theft

How identity theft works Minimizing the threat of identity theft Protecting your credit rating

Spam: Junk Mail on the Internet Why Companies Spam and How They Do It

Collecting email addresses

Newsgroup extractors Website extractors SMTP server extractors P2P network harvesters Phishing for email addresses

Masking the spammer's identity

Protecting Yourself from Spammers

Complain to the spammer Complain to the spammer's ISP Complain to the Internal Revenue Service Locating the spammer's postal address

How Spam Filters Work

Content (Bayesian) filtering Blacklists and whitelists DNS lookup lists Attachment filtering

Stopping Spam Possible future solutions to spam

Going on the offensive Antispam organizations

A PostScript: Spam as Propaganda

19. Banner Ads, Pop-Up Ads, and Search Engine Spamming

Banner Ads and Click Fraud Pop-Up/Pop-Under Ads

How to create a pop-up/pop-under ad How to stop banner and pop-up/pop-under ads

Watching Out for Web Bugs

Tracking the websites you visit Using web bugs in spam Bugging newsgroups Protecting yourself against web bugs

Spamdexing: Search Engine Spamming

Keyword stuffing Keyword content creators Link farming Cloaking and code swapping Doorway pages Spamdexing for hire

20. Adware and Spyware

What Spyware Can Do

Displaying pop-up ads Home page hijacking Stealing information

Why Companies Advertise Through Spyware How Spyware Infects a Computer

Installing infected files Installing infected anti-spyware programs Drive-by downloads Spyware-infected spyware

Where Spyware Hides Eliminating Spyware

Securing Internet Explorer Switching to a safer browser Installing a firewall Monitoring your startup programs Running anti-spyware programs

VI. Protecting Your Computer and Yourself

21. Computing on a Shoestring: Getting Stuff for (Almost) Free

Internet Comparison Shopping Buying a Refurbished Computer Save on Printer Supplies Free (and Almost-Free) Software

Getting commercial software cheaply (and legally)

Bundled software Buying obsolete software, upgrades, and OEM versions Buying software at academic discounts Shareware and freeware Name-brand alternatives

Finding an open-source program

Free Internet Access Free Email Accounts Free Web and Blog Space The Best Things in Life Are Free

22. Computer Forensics: The Art of Deleting and Retrieving Data

Recovering Deleted Data File Shredders Storing Deleted Data

Finding data stored in slack space Finding data stored in swap files Your history stored in a web browser cache

Computer Forensics Tools

File-undeleting programs Hex editors Magnetic sensors and electron microscopes

Commercial Forensics Tools Protecting Yourself

23. Locking Down Your Computer

Protecting Your Computer (and Its Parts)

USB blockers Alarms Remote tracking services

Protecting Your Data

Backing up your data Update and patch your operating system Identifying and closing default weaknesses Choosing a firewall Switch to a safer browser Protecting your email account from spam Protecting against phishing

What's Next?

A. Epilogue B. What's on the Steal This Computer Book 4.0 CD

Uncompressing, Unzipping, Unstuffing, and So On Chapter 1—The Hacker Mentality Chapter 2—The First Hackers: The Phone Phreakers Chapter 3—Hacking People, Places, and Things Chapter 4—ANSI Bombs and Viruses Chapter 5—Trojan Horses and Worms Chapter 6—Warez (Software Piracy) Chapter 7—Where the Hackers Are Chapter 8—Stalking a Computer Chapter 9—Cracking Passwords Chapter 10—Digging into a Computer with Rootkits Chapter 11—Censoring Information Chapter 12—The Filesharing Networks Chapter 13—The Internet Con Artists Chapter 14—Finding People on the Internet Chapter 15—Propaganda as News and Entertainment Chapter 16—Hacktivism: Online Activism Chapter 17—Hate Groups and Terrorists on the Internet Chapter 18—Identity Theft and Spam Chapter 19—Banner Ads, Pop-up Ads, and Search Engine Spamming Chapter 20—Adware and Spyware Chapter 21—Computing on a Shoestring: Getting Stuff for (Almost) Free Chapter 22—Computer Forensics: The Art of Deleting and Retrieving Data Chapter 23—Locking Down Your Computer

Updates C. Cd License Agreement

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