Jason Moran
Friday, July 21, 2006
  I Got Hacked
My home computer got hacked.

This is devastating because I am, as others call it, a "computer nerd". I run a firewall with most of the ports closed. I also have a windows firewall for a second-tier "just in case" protection. I use a password on the only administrator account that exists and all other accounts are limited.

As it turns out, those limited accounts are exactly what saved me from even more trouble. Well, that and "nice" h4x0rz.

You see, this hacker got in via a program running on my computer which allows somebody from a remote location to see what the computer would display on the monitor and for that remote mouse and keyboard to interact with my home computer.

What is lucky is that when the hacker got there it was at the login screen. The administrator account has a password, so he used Kelly's limited account. The saving grace is that Kelly does not have the privileges of installing anything. Therefore, the hacker was not able to install a keylogging, backdoor, trojan, etc program to further screw around with our computer.

Furthermore, the hacker left extremely obvious traces that he had been there. If the hacker had quietly gone on and off and we never noticed, then perhaps at a later point in time the hacker could have gotten on when my administrative account was currently logged in (and wreaked havoc). However, this h4x0r wrote disgusting phrases regarding Kelly and put text files in various places talking about files/directories he found being "awesome" or "good" or "gay".

Anyway, I took some strong initial steps...but I don't like my computer to be so locked down that I can't do cool things with it. Therefore I plan on taking some time to put the proper levels of protection on my computer in the next few days.
 
Comments:
wow. i saw the movie hackers about a year ago. i didn't realize stuff like that was possible.
 
That's funny Bode, I had a similar thought.

I suppose I'm extremely vulnerable to hacking as well. I don't take the time to really understand what I should know about hardening my network.

Heck, I don't take the time to take care of my computer at all.
 
poor jason. you probably have interesting things worth hacking into, also.
 
Who am I kidding Bek, no I don't. I am just a horder of media. Any hacker could get the same stuff I have.
 
I wanna know what the hacker said, lol;) What an idiot...he must not do it for any other reason but boredom!
 
I love your website. It has a lot of great pictures and is very informative.
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Your are Excellent. And so is your site! Keep up the good work. Bookmarked.
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HELLO THERE JASON

Im the "hacker" nop , im not a hacker . im just an 18 years old guy from sweden , who get your VNC server ip from an "port scan".
Sorry , i just checked out for some game passwords , but u aint i gamer.

If u dont belive me check out your Yahoo mail , your password is thu*s , isnt im right?

So whats to do now?

WELL, Change all ur passwords because its many more people than just one who have been in to your pc.

Well , any questions? Hejnz@Hejnz.net is my msn(messenger)
My email is = Heejnz@hotmail.com.

See you guys! i also wanna live in the Us :)
 
HELLO THERE JASON

Im the "hacker" nop , im not a hacker . im just an 18 years old guy from sweden , who get your VNC server ip from an "port scan".
Sorry , i just checked out for some game passwords , but u aint i gamer.

If u dont belive me check out your Yahoo mail , your password is thu*s , isnt im right?

So whats to do now?

WELL, Change all ur passwords because its many more people than just one who have been in to your pc.

Well , any questions? Hejnz@Hejnz.net is my msn(messenger)
My email is = Heejnz@hotmail.com.

See you guys! i also wanna live in the Us :)
 
Cool blog, interesting information... Keep it UP » » »
 
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