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Saturday, 29 August 2009

The Trendliest: Social: Pranks

Hello my band of trendly tricksters, are you having a laugh? No? Well that's too bad. Are you sad because your significant other was in a horrible train accident today and your apartment just burned down? What, nobody told you? We're just kidding. That's what we here at The Trendliest call a prank...and it's the hottest new way to get a hearty har-har out of friends and family, but mostly out of yourself.

Pulling a prank is easy. There are only a few simple steps. First, think of a friend, enemy, frenemy, or group you want to make feel bad. Second, think of something to do that would absolutely eliminate that person or group's dignity and/or crush their soul. Third, enact a plan including either bombs, children, or other celebrities (sometimes all three) to temporarily crush their soul and/or erase their dignity. Next, watch said person or group lose their dignity while reacting to this potentially horrific occurrence by bursting into tears or reacting in a manic nature. Finally, announce to your friend, enemy, frenemy or group that they've been "punk'd" or that the event that has crushed their soul indeed never occurred or that at least part of what you said wasn't true, thus sending a great sense of relief to said prankee, though never fully restoring their dignity. There, you've pranked someone. Wasn't it fun and or trendy?

Carson Palmer: Leader of Trojans, Destroyer of Spartans

While Pranking is currently trendly, some times it can go horribly awry. One of the first pranks was held way back in the time of the Trojan War (otherwise known as the 2002 GMAC Humanitarian Bowl) when the USC Trojans led by then Quarterback Carson Palmer entered the Spartan arena by occupying a wooden horse that was then left outside the Michigan State University stadium, which their opponents then mistook as a gift and brought it onto the field of battle. However, once inside the East Lansing stadium, Palmer and company ritualistically slaughtered their opponents with a precision passing attack, clock eating run game, and harrowing defense by a score of 48-3, thus winning the Trojan War...and leaving plenty of blood, pain, and humiliation in their wake.
Those Poor, Unfortunate Michiganders

Ashton Kutcher: Trendliest Hero

Indeed, while most pranks end in horrible tragedy due to the fact that they never reach that aforementioned "final step", as evidenced by the efforts of extremist religious groups like Al Qaeda and shows like "Candid Camera", one man has mastered the art of stripping people of their dignity and then giving it back to them in small pieces so that over time they may one day hope to be a shell of their former selves. That man is Ashton Kutcher. His hit show "Punk'd" shows famous people crying because their fancy cars have been smashed even though they haven't and it makes us all laugh, which is the original point of pulling the prank in the first place...and what's more trendly than coming full circle.
Method or Tools of hacking

Common methods Computer insecurityComputer security Secure operating systems Security architecture Security by design Secure coding Computer insecurity Vulnerability Social engineeringEavesdropping Exploit Trojanviruses and wormsDenial of service Payload BackdoorRootkitKeylogger This box: view • talk
A typical approach in an attack on Internet-connected system is:
Network enumeration:

Vulnerability analysis:

Security exploitMain article:

Vulnerability scanner:

Packet sniffer:

Spoofing attack or phising or Fake login page:

Rootkit

Social engineering:

Trojan horse:

Virus:

Worm

Key loggers:

summer: day 74

Hello!
Today, while reading Don Quixote, I was able to progress over 150 pages (very rough estimate)! At some point, Jason called (besides in the morning), which was good timing, since I was just wanting to take a break from DQ and I wanted to tell him about what I was reading (at that point, the Duke and Duchess had been tricking Don Quixote and Sancho Panza for over 100 pages! and I was telling Jason about the incident with the wooden horse that eventually exploded and the lies Sancho told afterwards--[Before mounting the horse, DQ asked if he could look inside the horse, because he feared traitors, like with the Greek horse in the Trojan war, but they assured him that he needn't worry. So, they mounted, and wore blindfolds to avoid vertigo, and meanwhile people serving the Duke/Duchess used bellows to create wind, and added heat to make the apparent flight seem plausible, and it ended with them lighting fireworks from within the horse, DQ and SP flying up, and then a lance was left in the ground with a banner telling DQ and SP that the enchanter was impressed by their courage, and therefore released the duennas of their curse without doing battle {the "duennas" were had beards, and were actually men, but they didn't find that out}, and that was the end of that trick]. Later, we went to Jervy Gannt, during which I was very frustrated, since Dad kept telling me I didn't have time for anything other than my Extended Essay (e.g. I wanted to watch Ferris Bueler's Day Off [spelling?] for my movie critiquing essay for Spanish) and such. I feel repressed sometimes by their rule--they treat me like a child, telling me that "It is late, go to sleep" and then getting angry if I go to bed anywhere beyond 1, just because it is the summer. The other day, Dad also got angry because Michelle didn't sign up for a Yoga-like class at some point, and was grumbling about not paying her college tuition next time, though I doubt he was too serious. Things like that make me want to stay in-state, because I can earn enough scholarships to not need to rely on the parental unit, and thus I won't feel as obliged to do anything they want me to. As I was rambling in Jervy Gannt, I felt this sudden anger, because the trails too, in a way, confined me, for if I left the path I would be threatened by untrimmed weeds, infested with bugs, anthills, and such. Before going to Jervy Gannt, I talked to Michelle a little, but she left soon, to eat her oatmeals, and didn't talk to me until after we returned from our walk. As stupid as it is, I also played on Neopets for a while yesterday, and bought books for my pet to read (I want it to be intelligent, but it's hard to find books of good prices...). That's about all I did though, as far as I can remember.

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Method or Tools of hacking

Common methods Computer insecurityComputer security Secure operating systems Security architecture Security by design Secure coding Computer insecurity Vulnerability Social engineeringEavesdropping Exploit Trojanviruses and wormsDenial of service Payload BackdoorRootkitKeylogger This box: view • talk
A typical approach in an attack on Internet-connected system is:

Network enumeration:

Discovering information about the intended target.

Vulnerability analysis:

Identifying potential ways of attack. Exploitation: Attempting to compromise the system by employing the vulnerabilities found through the vulnerability analysis. In order to do so, there are several recurring tools of the trade and techniques used by computer criminals and security experts.

Security exploitMain article:

Exploit (computer security)A security exploit is a prepared application that takes advantage of a known weakness.

Vulnerability scanner:

Vulnerability scannerA vulnerability scanner is a tool used to quickly check computers on a network for known weaknesses. Hackers also commonly use port scanners. These check to see which ports on a specified computer are "open" or available to access the computer, and sometimes will detect what program or service is listening on that port, and its version number. (Note that firewalls defend computers from intruders by limiting access to ports/machines both inbound and outbound, but can still be circumvented.)

Packet sniffer:

Packet snifferA packet sniffer is an application that captures data packets, which can be used to capture passwords and other data in transit over the network.

Spoofing attack or phising or Fake login page:

Spoofing attackA spoofing attack involves one program, system, or website successfully masquerading as another by falsifying data and thereby being treated as a trusted system by a user or another program. The purpose of this is usually to fool programs, systems, or users into revealing confidential information, such as user names and passwords, to the attacker.

Rootkit

RootkitA rootkit is designed to conceal the compromise of a computer's security, and can represent any of a set of programs which work to subvert control of an operating system from its legitimate operators. Usually, a rootkit will obscure its installation and attempt to prevent its removal through a subversion of standard system security. Rootkits may include replacements for system binaries so that it becomes impossible for the legitimate user to detect the presence of the intruder on the system by looking at process tables.

Social engineering:

Social engineering (computer security)Social Engineering is the art of getting persons to reveal sensitive information about a system. This is usually done by impersonating someone or by convincing people to believe you have permissions to obtain such information.

Trojan horse:

Trojan horse (computing)A Trojan horse is a program which seems to be doing one thing, but is actually doing another. A trojan horse can be used to set up a back door in a computer system such that the intruder can gain access later. (The name refers to the horse from the Trojan War, with conceptually similar function of deceiving defenders into bringing an intruder inside.)

Virus:

Computer virusA virus is a self-replicating program that spreads by inserting copies of itself into other executable code or documents. Thus, a computer virus behaves in a way similar to a biological virus, which spreads by inserting itself into living cells.

Worm

Computer wormLike a virus, a worm is also a self-replicating program. A worm differs from a virus in that it propagates through computer networks without user intervention. Unlike a virus, it does not need to attach itself to an existing program. Many people conflate the terms "virus" and "worm", using them both to describe any self-propagating program.

Key loggers:

Keystroke loggingA keylogger is a tool designed to record ('log') every keystroke on an affected machine for later retrieval. Its purpose is usually to allow the user of this tool to gain access to confidential information typed on the affected machine, such as a user's password or other private data. Often uses virus-, trojan-, and rootkit-like methods to remain active and hidden.

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