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Fastest Oracle Password Cracker released !

SoonerOrLater just released new version of Oracle password cracker under GPLv2 License. We advice our readers to first understand the terms and condition of the release license [http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.txt] before start playing with it, specially those crackerjacker tinytots and scirpt kiddies, else you might face severe consequences and losses.
You can download both source and the […]

What to do if you forget Windows XP’s administrator account’s password?

You are back from a long vacation. You turn on your computer and when you try to log on with your administrator account; Windows XP gives you an error message saying that the password is invalid.
Yours is the only user account in the operating system so you cannot log on with any other user […]

Friday Fun: Hack an Elevator

Ever been late for the meetings because of lousy elevator stopping on every floor, when you need to go to the top floor [for e.g. 70th]. Haven’t you felt, you have been living almost large part of your office life within an elevator. Would that be great if you could go directly to your desired […]

iPhone Hacked !

It’s not been a month, iPhone was launched and its hackers are already breeding. The coolest gadget of 2007, iPhone, is already under attack by some teen enthusiasts, who want to do everything that the iPhone doesn’t allow them to do. Afterall, rules are meant to be broken.
A teenager, who is just out of […]

What is footprinting ?

Footprinting is the technique of gathering information about computer systems and the entities they belong to.
-Wikipedia

It is one of the phase in which the attacker gathers information about the target system before starting his attack. Footprinting can expose system weaknesses and help the attacker to exploit it. For example, an attacker might use a port […]

iPowerWeb Hacked

I just read in webhostingtalk that one of the leading shared web hosting company iPowerWeb got hacked. Many of the clients websites got hacked due to Javascript vulnerability. As reported on PHPBB the hacker seemed to have implanted some kind of malicious javascript code on some of the pages of client’s sites. These Javascript […]