Hacking tips

Nothing is secured 100% in our world every thing can b hacked.The most important thing we intrested in hacking is to hack FB.

    What is Phishing ?

                    Phishing is one of the type of hacking . It is a method of acquiring sensitive information such as username, password, bank information etc. Phishing page could be saif as an duplicate page of real one. Its look exactly similar as the real page.But when user enter sensitive information on such phishing page his information is send to the E-mail address provided in the phishing page or you can say the one who created that phishing page. Phishing page is mostly send via mail. Target of phishing are mostly social networking sites like facebook, orkut etc. Also Banks website to acquire credit card details,website like yahoo, gmail are also target of phishing.



    Example of Phishing scams:

• Email asking you to login to your locked account to unlock it.
• Email carrying a Link to sites like Facebook,yahoo etc and asking you to Login.
• Emails containing some Information of your Interest and asking you to Login to Your Account.

   
     How to be safe from phishing ?

• Never login to any of your account through link provided in the Email.
• Go to real website dont click on any link posted anywhere. such as link posted on your facebook wall by friend or link provided in comments or link to ceratin website on any blog.
• Check the URL of website before entering any sensitive information. Because the URL of phishing page is not same as the URL of  real one.
• Real gmail page looks like gmail.com while phishing looks different somthing like gmail.anything.com

                                            Keylogger

 1. What is keylogger ?

You might have heard about keyloggers but really dont know what they are reading this article will clear your mind. A keylogger also know as keystroke logger is software or hardware device which monitors each and every key typed by you on your keyboard. You can not identify the presence of keylogger on your computer since it runs in background and also it is not listed in task manager or control panel. It can be used by parents to keep eye on their childrens or company owner to spy on their employes.

2. How it can harm you ?

In this section i will talk about how keylogger can harm you in different ways for example It can be used by your enemy or friend to get sensitive information such as your username and password, Bank credit card details, or any other activities you do on your computer.

• Example: You login in to your Facebook account from a computer in which keylogger is install then your username and password will be captured.

3. Types of  keyloggers 

There are two types of keylogger hardware keylogger and software keylogger. Software keylogger is install in your computer where as a Hardware keylogger is attached to your keyboard. Looking at below images will clear your mind.

                              HARDWARE KEYLOGGER                                  

 

 SOFTWARE KEYLOGGER

 

                              

 4. How to Protect yourself from keyloggers ?

Keylogger  can be used by your enemy  to get sensitive information such as your Bank credit card details, or password of any social networking sites etc. In order to be safekeep following points in your mind.

• Never use your online banking from cyber cafe. If you want to use then you can try this method. open notepad and type anything Then copy and paste each word that comes in your username or password.
• You can even use above method to protect your facebook profile, yahoo or gmail id.
• When you enter cyber cafe make sure that no hardware device is attached to keyboard wire. Its look something similar to above image.