OK, OK, just kidding.
This Guide is really about how to fool your
friends into thinking
you have defaced a web site. You can do this by
tricking the computer
of your victim, er, friend into showing a false
web address. It's so
easy, even a beginner can pull off these tricks.
In this Guide you
will learn:
* How to alter a
computer to which you have access so that anyone who
uses it will be
tricked, muhahaha!
* How to set up a
button on your web page that tricks someone who uses
Internet Explorer
into thinking you defaced the CIA web site.
* How to send an
email attachment that tricks someone who uses
Internet Explorer
into thinking you defaced the CIA web site.
* Plus, an uberhacker
bonus, how to forge email so you can insert
weird hidden codes
into it.
Even if you don't
like to play practical jokes, it's still worthwhile
to understand how
easy it can be to trick someone into thinking they
are viewing a
different web site from the actual one. What if you are
buying something
online? To whom are you *really* giving your credit
card information? To
whom are you *really* giving your online banking
information?
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* How to alter a
computer to which you have access so that anyone who
uses it will be
tricked, muhahaha!
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The easiest way to
trick someone into thinking you have defaced a web
site is if you have
access to his or her computer (or can get them to
use yours) and can
edit the hosts file. Whether the victim computer is
a Mac, Windows, Linux
or almost any other operating system, it should
have a file named
"hosts". In Windows XP and 2000 it is in
C:/windows/system32/drivers/etc/.
In Linux it is in /etc.
If you open the hosts
file in an editing program such as Notepad, it
will look something
like this:
# © (c) 1993-1999
Microsoft Corp.
#
# This is a sample
HOSTS file used by Microsoft TCP/IP for Windows.
#
# This file contains
the mappings of IP addresses to host names. Each
# entry should be
kept on an individual line. The IP address should
# be placed in the
first column followed by the corresponding host
name.
# The IP address and
the host name should be separated by at least one
# space.
#
# Additionally,
comments (such as these) may be inserted on individual
# lines or following
the machine name denoted by a '#' symbol.
#
# For example:
#
# 102.54.94.97
rhino.acme.com # source server
# 38.25.63.10
x.acme.com # x client host
127.0.0.1 localhost
Now add on to it:
206.61.52.30
www.cia.gov
Get online, type http://www.cia.gov
into the location window of your
browser, and you will
get the Happyhacker.org web page, while the
location bar says
http://www.cia.gov!
OK, so you want to
pick a really rank web page to display instead of
our friendly
Happyhacker page. How do you find the number that you put
in front of
www.cia.gov?
If you have Windows
XP, 2000, 2003, Mac OSX, Linux or any kind of
Unix, the answer is
easy. If you have a Mac or Linux, bring up a
terminal or shell
window. In Windows, click , click Start --> All
Programs -->
Accessories --> Command prompt. (Or search for a file
named command.com or
cmd.exe and run it.) Then type:
ping
rottendisgustingsite.com
Pinging
rottendisgustingsite.com [216.999.248.174] with 32 bytes of
data:
That gives the
numerical address you need, in this case
216.999.248.174.
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Newbie note: What do
those numbers mean? They are Internet addresses,
usually called
"IP addresses." They are kind of like phone numbers
used to reach
computers over the Internet. When you enter a domain
name (happyhacker.org
is an example of a domain name) into the window
of your browser, your
computer has to look up the number to which it
corresponds in order
to contact it, kind of like looking in a phone
book. In the cases
above I messed up the IP addresses by putting 999's
so that lots of
people wouldn't attack those IP addresses. Real IP
addresses only
contain numbers between the periods of up to 254.
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What if you want to
create your own "hacked" web site at one of those
free web hosting
places? How do you redirect a computer to your exact
page? Let's say it's
at http://www.freewebsites.com/~mysite/. Tell
your friend that you
hid a hacked page at http://www.cia.gov/~mysite/.
Then direct the IP
address for freewebsites.com to www.cia.gov. When
she or he types in
http://www.cia.com/~mysite/ she will see your own
web page.
There is one case in
which this hack won't work: if the computer on
which you play this
trick uses a proxy server. This is common in large
organizations as a
security measure. So be sure to test your hack
before showing it
off!
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