Technically, Hack is overriding or modifying stuff to achieve something uncommon to normal user say
overriding normal procedures of doing things or modifying things to achieve something hidden or uncommon.
Suppose we wish to change the administrator password of windows operating system. Now we all know that we can change windows password by following below procedure:
For windows 7 operating system:
GO TO CONTROL PANEL ->USER ACCOUNTS ->SELECT USER ->CHANGE PASS-WORD ->SAVE NEW PASSWORD.
The above explained procedure is normal way that users use to change windows administrator or users password.
But we all know that there are several uncommon ways of changing windows administrator or users password. These ways is what we call HACK.
Now if I don’t have administrator rights or I forgot the administrator password. Now how I will change the administrator pass-word to unlock system.
Here the term Hack and Hacker will come into picture. Now we have to use un-common ways to achieve the target as normal procedure is no longer working in our situation.
We can do above tasks by several methods according to levels of Hackers.
Novice Users:– They will format the windows operating system or will take experts help.
Script Kiddies (beginner level hackers):– They will use Linux live disks or emergency rescue disks to reset the password.
Medium Level Hackers (who have good knowledge of system and hacking tools):–They will use advance Hacking tools like OPHCrack or Backtrack OS to retrieve the password.
Elite Hackers (expert level hackers): –– Why to use any third party tool (know how to do with third-party tools) when I can do this manually by breaking into system root and reset it.
The elite one’s procedure to give you an idea about up to what level we will learn things.
Elite Hackers do things based on situations say how I will do if it’s my own system and if it’s somebody else’s system (i.e. I want to break into his/her system without getting tracked).
If it’s my own system, I have two choices: First, I can reset the password and Second, I can retrieve the password.
If it’s somebody else’s system, I am left with only one choice i.e. I need to retrieve the password because if I reset it then victim will know that somebody’s has broken into his/her system and you cannot call yourself elite if you can be tracked.
So as an elite hacker I will try to retrieve the administrator password without getting tracked or caught and its simplest way is using OPHCrack Live CD because this is the only possible way to retrieve the existing password without resetting it. All other methods reset the windows password. Alternatively, I will insert windows operating system CD/DVD and try to retrieve the windows password encrypted file and then decrypt it at my own system.
That all is about HAcker or HacKing.
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