i really like crackmes.de. dont understand it yet but its a good start for me. didnt check out the book yet. not really looking to spend money right now though. thanks guys.

thanks man

i that what seperates ethical hacking from hacking is the way that you use it. im not very good at it. but you cant deny that you need to know how they do things and how they think if you re going to be able to do anything about it.

are you saying that the steps that i took are correct? and the tutorial that i watched showed them going to google,hotmail,ebay,etc... and it worked on the video. and i thought that ettercap turns the packets that it captures into plain text. no idea why it isnt working for me?

i ve been looking at tutorials for ettercap. i ve been trying to sniff out passwords with arp injection on my  network, but im not having too much luck. a little help please. here is what i have been doing:

in shell: ettercap -G

goes into graphic mode:

sniff > unified sniffing > network interface (i chose wlan0) im pretty sure that this is the correct one for me.

start > start sniffing

hosts > scan for hosts

when done scanning:

hosts > host list

then i set the user as taget1 and the AP as target2

mitm > arp poisoning > sniff remote conections

the tutorial said it should just start printing passwords in plain text. but its not working for me. i went to all kinds of login sites on my other computer, but still nothing. im thinking that i didnt configure something. (even though the tutorial didnt mention it) or it has something to do with the vista security. (even though my anti-virus didnt say anything) apprechiate the help.

i think that it dose. i wanted to look into it so i can see how the keygen creates a serial and learn how to prevent from happening. i figure that all hacking is ethical hacking. you need to know what the hackers are doing so that you can prevent it to the best of your ability. thats why i asked for advise on how to do it legally. maybe there are some files for download that give you permission to crack the serial for this reason.

i want to make my own keygen. do i have to know assembly to do that? and any ideas how i would be able to implement it legally? and also dose anybody know where i can find a good assembly programming tutorial for nasm with linux? i checked out the free hla programming from the ground up tutorial, but i dont like the examples that they give me. there seems to be alot of errors in them, or i dont have hla configured correctly. id rather just learn assembly with nasm or gas. thank you.

is was looking for a file in backtrack 4 and i accendentally moved an a.out file to the desktop. i dont know where i moved it from. i think at the time i was looking in one of the bin folders. any idea where this belongs? thanks

im not exactly sure were i want to  start off in backtrack 4. i read something on sniffing. i have a good idea about arp spoofing and injections. how would a hacker benefit from that? im right now trying to use arp spoofing to capture my router password when i log into it. (my router password not my wpa key) is that possable? im using DSniff. should i be using a different sniffer? thanks alot. and anything that you could tell me, or any tutorials pertaining to backtrack 4 would help alot. i know thats pretty vague. sorry

just installed backtrack 4. im having trouble finding any tutorials that dont pertain to just hacking wep keys or wpa/wpa2 keys. any help will be apreciated. thank you.

to start off... thanks for the help guys. im downloading backtrack 4 right now. with backtrack 3 i have only really used the wireless hacking tools like airmon-ng, airodump-ng, etc... i saw a thing on youtube were they were sniffing pictures and one where someone cracked and ftp password with a word list. thats all the questions i had for the moment i guess. thanks again.

i ve been messing around cracking my wpa key with backtrack 3. is wpa really that secure? is there a program that will crack a wpa key with out using a word list? still a beginner here, but not a completly. also i am only able to find tutorials for wireless cracking with backtrack 3. is that all it's really good for? if so what else would you suggest? thanks alot.