Hackers’ Excellent Adventures

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With his baby face and doughy body, 17-year-old Joshua Gilson does not look like your typical FBI quarry.

In fact, huddled over his Toshiba laptop, with rock music blaring from his bedroom stereo and Jerry Springer flickering on the TV, the Sheepshead Bay resident looks like any other teenager, albeit one experiencing maximum sensory overload, 1998-style.

But actually Gilson is part of a nationwide networkof teenage computer hackers who have stolen everything from Internet accounts to credit card numbers, a cybergang that has flourished despite a yearlong effort by the FBI to curb this online piracy, the Voice has learned. “I’ve stolen accounts and stuff like that. I didn’t even think it was that big of a deal,” Gilson said. “Everybody does it.”

For months, federal investigators have been serving subpoenas and search warrants at the homes of these young hackers, carting away computers, disks, modems, and other items as parents watch in horror. Agents with the FBI’s computer crimes squad have recently raided homes across the metropolitan area–from Brooklyn to the New Jersey suburbs–as part of a probe into wide-scale credit card fraud and other cybercrimes.

In several instances, agents visited the same residences more than once — first in mid 1997 and then again earlier this year — because some young hackers were undeterred by the federal probe. According to one court record, a hacker recently boasted to a friend that “nothing could be done to him because he was a minor.”

One federal investigator acknowledged that while “it’s tough to prosecute a juvenile,” the FBI is “not always sure you’re gonna find a teenager” at “the end of the string.” The source added, “And if you do, it still doesn’t mean the game is off, because if the damage is severe enough it is still a crime and it’s still a problem.”

Since the probe is ongoing–and every target appears to be underage —
investigators have tried to keep details of the case confidential, including whether any teenagers have been arrested on federal charges. But interviews with several subjects of the criminal inquiry and a confidential FBI document obtained by the Voice provide a detailed look at the current investigation.

The federal probe began last spring, when agents learned of the “massive deployment of a password-stealing program” on the Internet, according to the FBI document. The scheme targeted accounts on America Online (AOL), the nation’s largest online service. AOL is a favorite nesting place for young hackers, who congregate in chat rooms with names like Dead End and Island 55. “Fifteen seems to be the preferred age for an AOL hacker,” said one long-in-the-tooth 18-year-old hacker.

One eye open | Cracking accounts at night

One eye open | Cracking accounts at night
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There was nothing more fun then thinking of a bunch of leets to add to a cracker that I was going to start overnight. I remember everyone had their own PWLs (password lists) from 3200 to 34000 and even larger. (You can find a bunch of the PWL's on here). It all depended on how much time you wanted to put in cracking your leet......

Rant | 1999

Rant | 1999
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So now its 1999 after web I dove into visual basic to learn to code my own progs.  I cant remember the person that helped me add bas files, and how to call the different subs in that module such as ChatSend. Programming in VB was different then coding websites but wasnt to far off. There was actually a ton of sources and content available......

AOL WaReZ RoOmZ

AOL WaReZ RoOmZ
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[[[[{{{{(((( WaReZ RoOmZ ))))}}}}]]]] (((((¥«§»Keepin da WaReZ phree«§»¥))))) FREESHIT ( thats an L not an I ) This room will open July 31 at 4:00 East Coast IVIXIVI ( look like MXM???) UPSS MM Zeraw VvaReZ Moose Games Server Phish POA HoAOL TCT Glass Sleep AVI Fate Freestuff Fuck proggie trade Passwords Havok AOLsuX war phuck AOHell Kill AOLhelp hell fire flood chaos owa anarchy.....

From O0O of AOL-Files

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I found this old post from O0O of the old AOL-Files.com site posting this on DigitalGangster.com   Join Date:  Apr 2007Location:  NYCPosts:  1,428   its funny how 12-14 years later people remember things so much differently than what you remember. Many of the names here I haven't seen since bouncing around the PRs in the late `90s. Many of you remember the "leet" SN jackers/suspenders.....

Local Windows hacking for newbies

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.-‘____________|______
| |
| Your computer |
| is dead… |
| and it was so alive | Local Windows hacking for newbies
| _______ |
| |.—–.| | Written by MiggyX for the Black Sun Research Facility
| ||x . x|| |
| ||_.-._|| | Contact : miggyx@amicoders.demon.co.uk
| `–)-(–` |
| __[=== o]___ | Coming together is a beginning, Staying together is
| |:::::::::::|\ | progress, Working together is success!
| `-=========-`() |
| You shouldn’t have |
| installed: |
| |
| -= Win’95 =- |
`———————`

Old AOL Phishing Phrases

Old AOL Phishing Phrases
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Hi, I'm with AOL's Online Security. We have found hackers trying to get into your MailBox. Please verify your password immediately to avoid account termination. Thank you. AOL Staff Hello. I am with AOL's billing department. Due to some invalid information, we need you to verify your log-on password to avoid account cancellation. Thank you, and continue to enjoy America Online. Good Evening. I am.....

The Hackers Handbook [Read Me]

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T H E H A C K E R ‘ S H A N D B O O K
Copyright (c) Hugo Cornwall

All rights reserved

First published in Great Britain in 1985 by Century Communications Ltd

Portland House, 12-13 Greek Street, London W1V 5LE.

Early Phishing

Early Phishing
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Koceilah Rekouche krekouche@pushstart.info

The history of phishing traces back in important ways to the mid-1990s when hacking
software facilitated the mass targeting of people in password stealing scams on America
Online (AOL). The first of these software programs was mine, called AOHell, and it was
where the word phishing was coined. The software provided an automated password
and credit card-stealing mechanism starting in January 1995. Though the practice of
tricking users in order to steal passwords or information possibly goes back to the
earliest days of computer networking, AOHell’s phishing system was the first automated
tool made publicly available for this purpose. 1 The program influenced the creation of
many other automated phishing systems that were made over a number of years. These
tools were available to amateurs who used them to engage in a countless number of
phishing attacks. By the later part of the decade, the activity moved from AOL to other
networks and eventually grew to involve professional criminals on the internet. What
began as a scheme by rebellious teenagers to steal passwords evolved into one of the
top computer security threats affecting people, corporations, and governments.

Exploring Historical & Emerging Phishing Techniques

Exploring Historical & Emerging Phishing Techniques
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International Journal of Network Security & Its Applications (IJNSA), Vol.5, No.4, July 2013
DOI : 10.5121/ijnsa.2013.5402 23

Marc A. Rader1 and Syed (Shawon) M. Rahman2, *
1CapellaUniversity, Minneapolis, MN, USA and Associate Faculty, Cochise CollegeAZ, USA
Mrader3@CapellaUniversity.edu
Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Hawaii-Hilo, Hawaii,
USA and Part-time Faculty at Capella University, Minneapolis, USA
*SRahman@hawaii.edu
ABSTRACT
Organizations invest heavily in technical controls for their Information Assurance (IA) infrastructure.
These technical controls mitigate and reduce the risk of damage caused by outsider attacks. Most
organizations rely on training to mitigate and reduce risk of non-technical attacks such as social
engineering. Organizations lump IA training into small modules that personnel typically rush through
because the training programs lack enough depth and creativity to keep a trainee engaged. The key to
retaining knowledge is making the information memorable. This paper describes common and emerging
attack vectors and how to lower and mitigate the associated risks.
KEY WORDS
Security Risks, Phishing, Social Engineering, Cross Site Scripting, Emerging Attack Vectors, DNS poising.
1. INTRODUCTION
Phishing is a social engineering technique that is used to bypass technical controls implemented
to mitigate security risks in information systems. People are the weakest link in any security
program. Phishing capitalizes on this weakness and exploits human nature in order to gain access
to a system or to defraud a person of their assets.

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