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Originally posted by enydo This is how it works.

yep.
the more flashy graphics, the more hacking power you have.

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Originally posted by Slylee ok what do you mean "fake login pages". you mean the hacker creates one and somehow gets the victim to sign in?

Essentially. Often there is a bit of social engineering involved with phishing, too.

For example, a user gets an e-mail something like:

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Facebook is now offering 100 free iTunes downloads for the week of August 23! [bunch of additional, convincing text] Click the following link to log in to your Facebook account and claim your free downloads! http://facebook.freeitunesoffer.com/login

In this case, the user would have registered "freeitunesoffer.com" and made a subdomain of "facebook" to end up with that sort of URL, which might look legit to the unsuspecting n00b. They then create their own login page that looks identical to the real Facebook one, but the form would actually send the information you type in to the creator of the fake page (or wherever they want).

lol

im being serious. i'm genuinely curious. what does the fake login page mean? would that only work if you are trying to hack someone's computer who lives in the same home? you couldn't do that from another computer/another location could you?

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Originally posted by notelfreak man i can't believe i tried to come off as responsible in that other thread, i am so full of shit just don't tell anyone

I'M IN THE MAAAAIINNFRAAAAME.

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Originally posted by Slylee lol im being serious. i'm genuinely curious. what does the fake login page mean? would that only work if you are trying to hack someone's computer who lives in the same home? you couldn't do that from another computer/another location could you?

See above

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Originally posted by david.michael Essentially. Often there is a bit of social engineering involved with phishing, too. For example, a user gets an e-mail something like: In this case, the user would have registered "freeitunesoffer.com" and made a subdomain of "facebook" to end up with that sort of URL, which might look legit to the unsuspecting n00b. They then create their own login page that looks identical to the real Facebook one, but the form would actually send the information you type in to the creator of the fake page (or wherever they want).

ohh ok i get it.

so it only works if the person has your email address though right?

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Originally posted by notelfreak man i can't believe i tried to come off as responsible in that other thread, i am so full of shit just don't tell anyone

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Originally posted by Slylee lol im being serious. i'm genuinely curious. what does the fake login page mean? would that only work if you are trying to hack someone's computer who lives in the same home? you couldn't do that from another computer/another location could you?

Hacking is not a set process that one goes through in order to "hack" a system. It's complicated, there's a lot of things you can pull to "hack" someone, usually involving some sort of computer code. Basically, if you don't know anything about computer science you're going to have a tough time understanding what hackings all about.

Also, good hackers generally do not share their secrets.

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Originally posted by Slylee ok what do you mean "fake login pages". you mean the hacker creates one and somehow gets the victim to sign in?

Yes, like once they get an account they will run bots to get them to spam comments on all its friends profiles with like the "free macy's" or whatever that was going around for a while on myspace. When you click that link, it redirects you to a login page that the average moron would just think was the myspace login page, but if you looked at the web URL.

instead of
login.myspace.com

you'd see
login.something.something

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Originally posted by Slylee ohh ok i get it. so it only works if the person has your email address though right?

Well, with the aforementioned method...yes. That's just an example, though.

i know it's complicated i'm not expecting to just know how to do it after reading some posts, but you guys are doing a good job of dumbing it down for me i appreciate it.

would scanning your computer with ad-aware (the free one) help find shit?



* also, what can someone do to prevent being hacked?

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Originally posted by notelfreak man i can't believe i tried to come off as responsible in that other thread, i am so full of shit just don't tell anyone