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).
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?
enydo
I'M IN THE MAAAAIINNFRAAAAME.
david.michael
quote:
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 :)
Slylee
quote:
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?
enydo
quote:
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.
iTranscendence
quote:
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
kadomony
GAME OVER, MAN!
GAME OVER!
david.michael
quote:
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.
Slylee
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:p i appreciate it.
would scanning your computer with ad-aware (the free one) help find ?
* also, what can someone do to prevent being hacked?
