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CloudLayer
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Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2012 4:32 pm?? ?Post subject: How current is this (illegal) hack?

Hello. How current is this hack? http://www.textfiles.com/hacking/INTERNET/hotmail.txt I am not a hacker. I wonder if this has been used on me during any period when I was not logged out - in the past I sometimes was "stupid," as the author of these instructions puts it -- I would rather call it "trusting that nobody was bothering to waste their time getting into someone with no money and nothing interesting going on in their life's account" - enough to not log out.

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Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2012 5:40 pm?? ?Post subject:

Personally I think this is a prank. Why would he give list a throwaway hotmail account, then claim that he'll hunt you down if you try to hack it, when it's pretty clear he couldn't have access to your IP. Also if you actually read it, in step 1 you have to login using the account. Which requires the password. This is really just a session hijack, you couldn't use it against a random hotmail account. A key logger would be much simpler and get you the actual password. Jason.

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Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2012 6:08 pm?? ?Post subject:

CloudLayer wrote:

Interesting... thank you fraac and Jason... how does a keylogger work, do they hack into your actual computer or is it just web-based? Do many hackers know how to do this?

Does anyone by chance know of any websites with good information on how to detect a keylogger?

A key logger can be a hardware device you connect between the keyboard and computer, or a software program you install on the computer. Anti-virus and malware detection can detect key loggers. Observant users can also spot a hardware key logger if they look at their cables.

It's unlikely that a hardware key logger is installed on a laptop.

Googling: detecting key loggers

Should find some relevant up to date info. Covertly using a key logger is most likely illegal in your jurisdiction.

Jason