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- HACKING 101 - By Johnny Rotten - Course #1 - Hacking, Telenet, Life
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-
- Since I have always felt that Baton Rouge was at a loss for *GOOD* hackers,
- I have taken it upon myself to educate the masses on this rather elusive of
- subjects.
-
- This course will cover a straight jaunt into Telenet, how to get there, what
- to do, where to go, and what to do once your in.
-
- The very first thing that you will need to do is to get NUAA from the Sprawl.
- This rather nifty utility scans Telenet for valuable, connectable "addresses".
- These addresses are a numeric code which is broken down as such:
- 508266 - typical Telenet address
- ^^^
- This is basically an area code...
- The 266 part can also go up as high as 9999 (or above)
- That's the unique part of the address
-
- Alright, scan a known area code...you will almost certainly get a large number
- of connections, and using NUAA, it doesn't take very long (an hour or so to
- scan over 800 possible connections...indeed not very long).
-
- NUAA will produce a logfile, and another file of NUAs (network user addresss,
- get the connection?). Check this NUA file. All of those addresses are valid
- connects. And, it also gives the first line of text that came across on this
- system.
-
- This is where you will begin. Look through this list for anything that says
- Unix. Once you find a NUA that goes to a Unix, your work shall begin.
-
- The first thing to try and do when trying to access a Unix is to try "default"
- accounts. These are accounts that are built into an initial Unix installation.
- However, these accounts are usually changed. IF they were always changed, then
- we would never get in anywhere.
-
- The list of defaults for a Unix that I am aware of are:
- informix, sync, uucp, golden, anonymous, user, login, demo
-
- These accounts usually have the same password as their username. I.e. account
- "informix" will have it's password as "informix".
-
- Dr. Hacker and the Bladerunner have additional information concerning defaults,
- and I am sure that they will comment.
-
- What to do when you have gotten into the system
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-
- Watch the logon screen for the last login date. If it was a day ago, or a
- few hours ago, or even a week ago, IMMEDIATELY hang up. These accounts are
- better left for the local pro (Dr. Hacker) or the semi-pros (myself and
- Bladerunner). However, if the last logon date was more than a week ago, or
- even a year ago, IMMEDIATELY hang up.
-
- Why? Well, unused accounts are just as dangerous as used accounts. You should
- call here and alert us to the system that you have found (in E-MAIL, not in the
- public forums). The only way that your further education in this matter can be
- attained is if you remain undetected, and the process to determine that is more
- complicated than I care to go into. But once you have determined that you can
- get in, let us know.
-
- So, that's the first part of this lesson. Once you have completed this much of
- it, then let me know, and I will go on to the next part, which is - "What kind
- of fun things are there here to do".
-
- Any questions...??
-
-
- JR
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