Re: Intro To Hacking

[Jason Dusek <jason-dusek () uiowa edu>]

Well, I do own it. It would be dumb for me to ask for an intro to hacking and 
then make my first attempt on someone else's machine - I'd more than likely get 
caught.

As far as googling, google what? Even some nice keywords would help.

_jason

Andrew Smith wrote:
> Read, Google. Security updates, exploits, etc.
>
> I doubt you will get any specific advice here, your post sounds very
> much to me like you're trying to crack a server you don't actually
> own.
>
> Good Luck, Have Fun.
>
> On Fri, 15 Oct 2004 14:11:57 -0500, Jason Dusek <jason-dusek () uiowa edu> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have built a web server and I would like to practice hacking it remotely. Are
> > there any tutorials or a good introductory book that takes one step by step
> > through the process of 'owning' an unsecured box? Here are the stats:
> >
> >   FreeBSD 4.10 (not updated for about a month)
> >     Default security profile
> >   Apache 2
> >     PHP 4.3.8
> >     No SSI
> >   No firewall
> >   On a university network
> >
> > _jason