How To Trace A Hacker
I discovered a nice beginner's tutorial that explains how you can trace people that try to break into your computer system. It covers lots of explanations to questions like "How do these people find their victims" and "What doe the terms TCP/UDP actually mean".
It explains the netstat command which shows all connections to your computer and how to find out which connections may be malicious or dangerous and which are not. After that the tracert command is explained which you can use to trace connections. Finally it gives information on dns, how to lookup an ip and get the host of the connection.
It's a useful tutorial that everyone who has none or only rudimentary knowledge about the discussed topics should read through to get a basic understanding. It does not explain proxies which most hackers nowadays use. A tracert would lead to the proxy but not to the IP address of the hacker.
Here are the most important steps that you need to undertake to trace hackers or other attackers:
- Open the command line (for instance with the hotkey windows-r, typing cmd and tapping on the enter key), and run the command netstat -a there. This displayed all active connections of your computer. Then run netstat -an so that you get both hostnames and IP addresses.
- Now that you know the IP address, you can use the tracert command to trace the IP address or hostname from your computer to the computer that is used to make the connection.
- The information provided here can give you information about the Internet Service Provider or server that the hacker uses. Keep in mind that this can be a proxy server or VPN, or even another hacked computer.
Steps that you can undertake from here are to try and contact the abuse department if it is an IP or server, for instance by trying the email abuse@hostname.
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Doesn’t Windows 8 know that www. or http:// are passe ?
Well it is a bit difficulty to distinguish between name.com domains and files for instance.
I know a service made by google that is similar to Google bookmarks.
http://www.google.com/saved
@Ashwin–Thankful you delighted my comment; who knows how many “gamers” would have disagreed!
@Martin
The comments section under this very article (3 comments) is identical to the comments section found under the following article:
https://www.ghacks.net/2023/08/15/netflix-is-testing-game-streaming-on-tvs-and-computers/
Not sure what the issue is, but have seen this issue under some other articles recently but did not report it back then.
Omg a badge!!!
Some tangible reward lmao.
It sucks that redditors are going to love the fuck out of it too.
With the cloud, there is no such thing as unlimited storage or privacy. Stop relying on these tech scums. Purchase your own hardware and develop your own solutions.
This is a certified reddit cringe moment. Hilarious how the article’s author tries to dress it up like it’s anything more than a png for doing the reddit corporation’s moderation work for free (or for bribes from companies and political groups)
Almost al unlmited services have a real limit.
And this comment is written on the dropbox article from August 25, 2023.
First comment > @ilev said on August 4, 2012 at 7:53 pm
For the God’s sake, fix the comments soon please! :[
Yes. Please. Fix the comments.
With Google Chrome, it’s only been 1,500 for some time now.
Anyone who wants to force me in such a way into buying something that I can get elsewhere for free will certainly never see a single dime from my side. I don’t even know how stupid their marketing department is to impose these limits on users instead of offering a valuable product to the paying faction. But they don’t. Even if you pay, you get something that is also available for free elsewhere.
The algorithm has also become less and less savvy in terms of e.g. English/German translations. It used to be that the bot could sort of sense what you were trying to say and put it into different colloquialisms, which was even fun because it was like, “I know what you’re trying to say here, how about…” Now it’s in parts too stupid to translate the simplest sentences correctly, and the suggestions it makes are at times as moronic as those made by Google Translations.
If this is a deep-learning AI that learns from users’ translations and the phrases they choose most often – which, by the way, is a valuable, moneys worthwhile contribution of every free user to this project: They invest their time and texts, thereby providing the necessary data for the AI to do the thing as nicely as they brag about it in the first place – alas, the more unprofessional users discovered the translator, the worse the language of this deep-learning bot has become, the greater the aggregate of linguistically illiterate users has become, and the worse the language of this deep-learning bot has become, as it now learns the drivel of every Tom, Dick and Harry out there, which is why I now get their Mickey Mouse language as suggestions: the inane language of people who can barely spell the alphabet, it seems.
And as a thank you for our time and effort in helping them and their AI learn, they’ve lowered the limit from what was once 5,000 to now 1,500…? A big “fuck off” from here for that! Not a brass farthing from me for this attitude and behaviour, not in a hundred years.