Internet

Beware of ICICI Fake E-Mails

Posted by Natraj Kanoor on 06 October 2009

This is an Important Notice to Hacking Discussion Readers about fakes e-mails from ofserv.alert@icicibank.co.in and so on .. which was notice with subject “ICICI BANK ACCOUNT NOTIFICATION”. It’s an Fake Notice to Steal your Bank Data..
The E-Mail i got today at 3PM with subject line “ICICI Bank Account Notification” Then i went through the e-mail there was the e-mail Description like below :

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Internet

Facebook Applications Used For Phishing

Posted by Natraj Kanoor on 09 September 2009

It would be easy to think that once someone has logged in successfully to Facebook—and not a phishing site—that the security threat is largely gone
Earlier this week, however, Trend Micro researcher Rik Ferguson found at least two—if not more—malicious applications on Facebook. (These were the Posts and Stream applications.) They were used for a phishing attack that sent users to a known phishing domain, with a page claiming that users need to enter their login credentials to use the application. The messages appear as notifications in a target user’s legitimate Facebook profile.

After entering the credentials, users would then be redirected to Facebook itself.

While Trend Micro has informed Facebook of these findings, users should still exercise caution when entering login credentials. They should be doubly sure that these are being entered into legitimate sites, and not carefully crafted phishing sites. The particular site involved in this phishing attack is already blocked by the Smart Protection Network.

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Windows

How to hack passwords using USB Drive!

Posted by mack74232 on 22 August 2009

How to hack passwords using USB Drive!

Today I will show you how to hack Passwords using an USB Pen Drive.

As we all know, Windows stores most of the passwords which are used on a daily basis, including instant messenger passwords such as MSN, Yahoo, AOL, Windows messenger etc.

Along with these, Windows also stores passwords of Outlook Express, SMTP, POP, FTP accounts and auto-complete passwords of many browsers like IE and Firefox. There exists many tools for recovering these passswords from their stored places. Using these tools and an USB pendrive you can create your own rootkit to hack passwords from your friend’s/college Computer.

We need the following tools to create our rootkit:

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MessenPass:

Recovers the passwords of most popular Instant Messenger programs: MSN Messenger, Windows Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, ICQ Lite 4.x/2003, AOL Instant Messenger provided with Netscape 7, Trillian, Miranda, and GAIM.

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Windows

BIOS Password Hack

Posted by arbu on 17 August 2009

Standard BIOS Backdoor Passwords

The first, less invasive, attempt to bypass a BIOS password is to try on of these standard

manufacturer’s backdoor passwords:

AWARD BIOS

AWARD SW, AWARD_SW, Award SW, AWARD PW, _award, awkward, J64, j256,

j262, j332, j322, 01322222, 589589, 589721, 595595, 598598, HLT, SER,

SKY_FOX, aLLy, aLLY, Condo, CONCAT, TTPTHA, aPAf, HLT, KDD, ZBAAACA,

ZAAADA, ZJAAADC, djonet,

AMI BIOS

AMI, A.M.I., AMI SW, AMI_SW, BIOS, PASSWORD, HEWITT RAND, Oder

Other passwords you may try (for AMI/AWARD or other BIOSes)

LKWPETER, lkwpeter, BIOSTAR, biostar, BIOSSTAR, biosstar, ALFAROME, Syxz, Wodj,phonix,toshiba

remember that Passwords are Case Sensitive.

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