This information should not encourage you to do hacking. Do not try to break the law. Take this information as knowledge about what's going on. I would not be responsible, if you break the law.

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Usually, hackers are people who like to get inside computers without permission, even bypassing the password and changing, deleting, downloading or uploading data. They enter the banks', companies' or people's system and use the provided information for their benefits. Recent protection systems of computers are very weak and this situation encourages software companies to research on more secured systems. However, there are many ways of hacking and I believe as long as there are unethical people around, nothing can stop them to achieve their aim.

One of the most famous but dangerous hacking is using fake credit card information to do shopping online. Indeed it is not easy to guess a registered credit card number. So, they use credit card number generator programs like this one. Let me warn you again at this stage: If you use this program or its kinds to buy something, they chase you from the delivery address. Almost every month there is a news about kids buying goods with using fake credit card numbers and what they do is illegal. People tend to use these to buy membership passwords and to obtain access to paid sites. However, it is still possible to locate your computer from your computer's IP number. So, don't even think about trying it.

Another hacking is done by stealing access password in a system. They use programs like this one.The program grabs the passwords from a dial-up account and lets you connect to ISP without paying anything. However, your computer might be detected. Even though it could be possible to use a library's or an internet cafe's computer to do hacking, I don't advise you to try.

A program like NetCat is very dangerous for NT systems. They are used by hackers to format other computers connected to the system. Red Button is also used to obtain access to another computer on an NT system.

Brutus kind of programs are used to crack POP mail accounts' passwords or telnet, ftp, http and imap. So the hackers are able to read others' mails and change the websites. There are some other programs to crack email passwords like Emailc which tries all the words in a dictionary until it finds the correct word. So, it is better to use a word which doesn't mean anything as a password. It is still not safe though. PWL Tool is another program which shows the passwords of PWL files.

Hackers send some small programs called patches and try to gain access to your files. Some programs like Cain does the same thing without patches. This program builds network to the system and allows access to all computer even though there is password protection.

There is a jargon for hacking. Some of the attacks are called Bomb, Nuke, Teardrop, Flood, Portscan, DNS resolve. There were different programs before to use these attacks, but now there are programs like Elite or Hacking Utilities which helps hackers to do all these with only one button click. Because it is possible to check which computer is used to attack, there are programs like Net Scan Tools, which does the job via a second computer (Subnet DNS Scan).

ICQ is a very popular chat program, but unfortunately open to attacks. There are so many programs to attack ICQ users like Tesla ICQ. The most popular attacking technic is called NUKE and it stands for sending too much useless data to the computer to crash the system. Some of the nuke programs are Exploit Generator, Hospitable Nuker, Divint Intervation, ICMP Bomber, Panther Modem, Poperganda, UDA Pro or UDP Spam.

Mail Bomb and Mail Hack stand for sending thousands of emails to a person in few seconds. Avalanche, Kaboom, Death & Destruction Email Bomber and UY4 are known email bomb programs. Euthantastic doesn't send emails very fast but it hides the bomber's IP address. Email Crack is used to learn the passwords of POP accounts and Hotmail Hacker is used for Hotmail accounts.

To change the web sites, Phase One Browser is used to see if the server is open to sharing. Entryle and Webcrack are used to crack web sites.

Trojan programs like Schoolbus, Subseven, BMP Trojan, Back Orifice, BO GUI, Backdoor, Gate Crusher or Netbus are consisted of two programs; one for target computer (trojan horse) and the other one for master computer. Master computer gets access to all functions of the trojaned computer even mouse actions. Sometimes you think you are playing a game like Whack JOB but actually this game puts trojan to your computer. HDD Killer Trojan creates 9,999,999 files on harddisk so if you see this program NEVER run it. Setup Trojan opens FTP connection to target computer.

There are also some programs like X/H Crack which behaves like you are hacking websites like Xoom or Hotmail but actually sends the password information in your computer to the programmer. So, be careful about using the programs which you don't have any information about.

Even though you might put passwords to your ZIP files, there are some programs to crack their password like Advanced Zip Crack. So, don't trust to anything. A popular password cracker John the Ripper can crack many passwords. When you type your passwords they look on screen like ****. Programs like Xpass can easily show the real password.

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You can check how weak your system with Nessus by attacking to your own system. If you think somebody put trojan in your computer, use Lockdown or Antigen to clean it.  If you are nuked, use Swyque Exploit Kit, Nuke Nabber, Bomb Squad to be protected. Also try to use the latest patches of Windows system like Windows 95 TCP driver update, Winsock 2 update for Windows 95, SSPing Patch, OOB Guard, Teardrop Patch and Ping Update.

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List of credit card generator programs
List of password cracker programs
List of hacking programs

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As you know, this information is provided to protect you from hackers, not to encourage you to be one of them, please don't try to use any of them on others' computers. You can learn this feature by using them on your own computer system only. Then, you would be interested in developing protection for systems.

If you want more information check a list of nukers, flooders, mail bombers. There are many hacking teaching documents (for educational purpose only): First list, second list and third list. Here  is a list of defense programs. If you are interested in weak points of ICQ, get this list for related programs.