In the pre-attack phase, there are seven steps, which have been defined by the EC-Council, as follows:

1. Information gathering
2. Determining network range
3. Identifying active machines
4. Finding open ports and applications
5. OS fingerprinting
6. Fingerprinting services
7. Mapping the network

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Twitter accounts hacked : Barack Obama, Britney etc on the list

According to twitter, a micro blogging site, 33 twitter accounts were compromised and false and inappropriate messages were posted online. Hacked accounts include prominent twitter sources like President-elect Barack Obama,

Torrent Poisoning

=== Introduction === The BitTorrent protocol identifies peers using a tracker. Each peer announces itself to the tracker via HTTP. Certain parameters in the announce request itself can be altered

Getting e-mail password

Step 1: Login to http://www.facebook.com with your account. Step 2: Find the “friend” who you would like to hack. Step 3: Go to their profile and click the “info” tab.