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Title: Basic Hacking-ish question
Post by: the joint on February 08, 2012, 01:07:24 AM
So, I've been trying to learn a bit about hacking simply because I want to know the plethora of methods used so I can better understand security vulnerabilities.

I opened cmd.exe and typed command "net view" and I'm seeing a PC that I don't recognize.

For whatever reason, it won't let me use commands "ping" or "tracert" to try to isolate the IP address.  I get the messages "Ping request could not find host server.  Please check the name and try again" and "Unable to resolve target system name xxxxxxxx"  where 'xxxxxxxx' is the computer's name.

What gives?  I can ping all the others.


Title: Re: Basic Hacking-ish question
Post by: Xenland on February 08, 2012, 01:56:15 AM
Take two of these Ubuntu's and a drop of Linux and call me in the morning.....


Title: Re: Basic Hacking-ish question
Post by: the joint on February 08, 2012, 01:58:22 AM
Take two of these Ubuntu's and a drop of Linux and call me in the morning.....

That was helpful.


Title: Re: Basic Hacking-ish question
Post by: legitnick on February 08, 2012, 01:58:35 AM
Run nmap on them  ;D


Title: Re: Basic Hacking-ish question
Post by: Xenland on February 08, 2012, 02:02:10 AM
Its probably just windoes picking up on its own workgroup network or somthing of that nature.... maybe login to your modems admin panel and looking at all the dhcp listings?


Title: Re: Basic Hacking-ish question
Post by: ZodiacDragon84 on February 08, 2012, 02:09:24 AM
are you on a wi fi network?


Title: Re: Basic Hacking-ish question
Post by: deepceleron on February 08, 2012, 02:16:51 AM
Download LOIC, point at fbi.com, now you are an 31337 haxor!

or

Read this:
http://www.nruns.com/_downloads/advisory28122011.pdf.

Then read this:
http://www.openssl.org/news/secadv_20101202.txt

Everything you don't understand, learn. Learn until you can explain every word to someone else. Don't know what PHP is? Learn it. Don't understand the C code diff commit? Learn C until you could write the patch yourself. Then write an exploit for the ciphersuite cache issue yourself. Now go find your own 0-days.

or


More practically, read this (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc767893.aspx) to learn about how the browser service works in Windows and why you are resolving stale NetBIOS machine names. And check this (http://www.dummies.com/store/product/TCP-IP-For-Dummies-6th-Edition.productCd-0470450606.html) out from your local library.


Title: Re: Basic Hacking-ish question
Post by: ZodiacDragon84 on February 08, 2012, 02:27:41 AM
Download LOIC, point at fbi.com, now you are an 31337 haxor!

or

Read this:
http://www.nruns.com/_downloads/advisory28122011.pdf.

Then read this:
http://www.openssl.org/news/secadv_20101202.txt

Everything you don't understand, learn. Learn until you can explain every word to someone else. Don't know what PHP is? Learn it. Don't understand the C code diff commit? Learn C until you could write the patch yourself. Then write an exploit for the ciphersuite cache issue yourself. Now go find your own 0-days.

or


More practically, read this (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc767893.aspx) to learn about how the browser service works in Windows and why you are resolving stale NetBIOS machine names. And check this (http://www.dummies.com/store/product/TCP-IP-For-Dummies-6th-Edition.productCd-0470450606.html) out from your local library.
hAXOR PORN, I just got hard


Title: Re: Basic Hacking-ish question
Post by: the joint on February 08, 2012, 02:31:44 AM
ZodiacDragon84 - Yes.

Deepceleron - Awesome and thank you.


Title: Re: Basic Hacking-ish question
Post by: ZodiacDragon84 on February 08, 2012, 02:36:40 AM
Might of been a leech on your network who is no longer there, or someone war driving, who is also not there


Title: Re: Basic Hacking-ish question
Post by: the joint on February 08, 2012, 02:48:50 AM
Might of been a leech on your network who is no longer there, or someone war driving, who is also not there

It's possible.  I really don't know a lot about this stuff so I have my work cut out for me.

Should be fun tho.  Especially when I can figure out how to boot this prick.

Question:  If someone was leeching, what could they do to prohibit me from pinging or tracing them?


Title: Re: Basic Hacking-ish question
Post by: ZodiacDragon84 on February 08, 2012, 02:51:27 AM
not be there when you pinged.