[quotemsg=4691770,6,150573]some1 here ever hacked?
is it difficult to hack for example ur school network with an laptop from outside, to change ur marks
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Actually... I almost got in trouble in high school for this... and I was definitely thrown out of a special computer program at my high school for this (Man that screwed up my grades, but no regrets)...
Let's see, at my main high school program...
Grades really depend on the program, granted, High School for me was... 3 years ago, in California at that? If you have the knowledge of how Microsoft Server works, and how the various policies are enforced, you can mess with a sloppy admin's network, especially since our school was lower-budget, so he had to piece together a network of varying machines of varying generations making them inconsistent.
Anyhoo, eventually you could get Remote Desktop rights on the network, and be able to access a teacher's desktop remotely, grab the grade file (Which was encrypted), somehow find a copy of the program somewhere (That was the luck part... unless you had knowledge of reverse-engineering encryption, which I didn't), edit it in the night, and replace it in the morning. You also have to make the changes very slight, because the teachers often keep hardbook backups, or further, would simply notice that something is not right.
I also got access to the network-wide program (That at the time, teachers only used for doing attendance)... It was funny I thought once I figured it out that for everyone's password, it used an algorithm consisting of a combination of the teacher ID number and their social security number.
However, I never really "Did" anything with the information, so I didn't get in trouble, and further, when they pulled me in for questioning, I told them that their security was sorely lacking and how they could improve it. If you ever get caught at your school, it's better to speak with a sort of professional grandeur as if you were doing the school a service, and as if it was all part of your plan all along (Yet not overly snobby though).
At the special computer program (Which took up a large chunk of my junior and senior year)...
... we were learning Java and Cisco... but the teachers didn't really teach much. Often we were bored, and so we'd like to cruise the internet when we finished our work. The teachers started locking down our internet, using a filter program proxy address to restrict us to Google only, and so I eventually gained Local Access on to each computer, creating hidden accounts... which then I'd remove the local policies restricting our changing of internet settings and installing of programs, and I'd have everyone log in through the normal proxy to get internet.
Further, I disabled all the monitoring software, as our teacher had this love... for some reason... to sit at his computer and watch our desktops via remote monitoring. It was pretty funny though when he'd want to look at one of the computers that was running on a different account, and he couldn't
Over the two years, I slowly gained access to Network Admin, and eventually had full access to the network. All of this was done during class, in my free time between work. They kept changing things to restrict our internet, yet I kept finding was to circumvent it to keep having internet for anyone who wanted it (And we also played many games of Metal Slug via MAME).
Just about 4 months before school was over, I was caught though, cheating on a test (Probably the only thing I felt bad about, as it was the first time I cheated on a test, as I didn't study the night before), as I used my powers a bit sloppily to keep a cheat sheet open in the background. Someone else used a similar cheat sheet, and we had the same answers, which lead to them taking a closer look, and then they realized how far my control of the network included (Or, at least, to a point). I never admitted to anything, they grilled me and threatened me with bringing in the police, but in the end they did a presentation of what "evidence" they had to my parents. Funny Enough, the Computer Admin lied to everyone, saying that he knew I had control of the system for "6 Months"... When in reality, 6 months is just the cut off date of the logs
. I lost all respect for him there.
I was kicked out of the program quietly... because they neglected to mention that no one is supposed to hack into their computers, according to their Cisco Teaching Licensing Agreement. And if Cisco found out about the whole debacle, they could lose their class license. It's all really funny when you look back on it.
Anyhoo... tinkering, twiddling... pushing all the different buttons and turning all the knobs. That's the key. Finding out how it works, trial and error. Also, RTFM, specifically the Admin's manual, the answer is likely in there. Having an understanding of advanced concepts? That's what makes you Super-Awesome, as you don't have to keep testing stuff until it comes out right. Oh, and Social Engineering is golden.
Though, what I was doing was tinkering, I wouldn't even compare it to what these people did. I probably would have did more if I didn't also play on the football team for my high school... that stuff keeps you crazy busy.
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