These are the kinds of things dreams are made of, a 14 year old hacker on Call of Duty was just recruited by Microsoft. You heard me right, Microsoft.

It seems now days that instead of going to college, one can just hack into a website or service and get recruited by some big name company like Microsoft. The 14 year old from Dublin, Ireland had broken into the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 servers last month and started a phishing scam to get user information. Microsoft had initially thought the attack was a part of the same attack against the PlayStation Network and issued an alert. Word of the collaboration between Microsoft and the 14 year old came straight from Microsoft:


Paul Rellis delivered his key note address during Bank of Ireland Business Week. Rellis revealed that Microsoft planned to work with the Dublin teenager to develop his talent for legitimate purposes.

His name was not revealed, however I am sure it will turn up soon. What do you think? Should Microsoft be working with this kid?

Source: http://www.tekgoblin.com/2011/05/27/14-year-old-call-of-duty-hacker-hired-by-microsoft/

Its good. Turning a thief to a police. na snake sabi trace snake for mountain,

Hacking and Cracking are not bad things. It depends on your reason of hacking or cracking. I learned cracking (moreover we don't call it cracking rather Reservse Engineering). There are good hackers and bad hackers.

However, Hacking server or technology is way of knowing how secure or loophole of that server or technology is.
I remember when I hacked my school server. I didn't get job in school, rather they warned me not to do again.

Afritelly:

However, Hacking server or technology is way of knowing how secure or loophole of that server or technology is.

yes, hacking you own servers or servers that you are hired to pen test, thats if you dont want to end up in a well funish boys quarters in kirikiri

Afritelly:

Hacking and Cracking are not bad things. It depends on your reason of hacking or cracking. I learned cracking (moreover we don't call it cracking rather Reservse Engineering). There are good hackers and bad hackers.

However, Hacking server or technology is way of knowing how secure or loophole of that server or technology is.
I remember when I hacked my school server. I didn't get job in school, rather they warned me not to do again.

how come u were caught? cant u cover ya tracks?
i will like to learn to be a white hat hacker, can u help?

netghost:

yes, hacking you own servers or servers that you are hired to pen test, thats if you dont want to end up in a well funish boys quarters in kirikiri

lol

These days organizations hire hackers to learn the unwritten rule of hacking known to black hats only. This guy will save them so much money and reputation by showing the vulnerabilities in their products.

so u are saying black hat is the key, but it seem i cant get any tutorial online that can help on the matter. can u help bro?

denzel2009:

These days organizations hire hackers to learn the unwritten rule of hacking known to black hats only. This guy will save them so much money and reputation by showing the vulnerabilities in their products.

I call BS.  Why would thy insist on hiring hackers who can't be trusted not to bite the hands that feed them?

Seun:

I call BS.  Why would thy insist on hiring hackers who can't be trusted not to bite the hands that feed them?

Have you seen the film catch me if you can? Where did he end up working?

Pelumiv:

so u are saying black hat is the key, but it seem i cant get any tutorial online that can help on the matter. can u help bro?

You will learn hands-on hacking from undergoing the Offensive Security Certified Professional course.

Have watch part of the movies but not full. dont even remember the concept. Can i get any e-book on it? and more info about the certified course. thanks

Pelumiv:

Have watch part of the movies but not full. dont even remember the concept. Can i get any e-book on it? and more info about the certified course. thanks

E-book on the movie or OSCP?

how come u were caught? cant u cover ya tracks?
i will like to learn to be a white hat hacker, can u help?

I think they noticed that the network was very slow. Admin and one guy check all the computers connected internet and they noticed that some computer were not connected, "They were wondering how come? ", I guess they knew already, there is an attacked on our school network. Because it doesn't usually happen, I think they check CCTV camera and noticed when I went to one classroom.

Quite a long story, to cut it short. Anyway, they reported me to my lecturer (Microprocessor's Lecturer) he was shocked. Been an only African student in that  year. Well, I failed his course because I decided not to attend his lectures. Because, through that day he was just monitoring me up and down.  That is how the story went. Following year I took the course and I passed.

I have checked Naija Network and noticed it is very easy to hack but I am not interested in hacking. Moreover, I have good things to do order than just hacking websites and networks.

\\Please do not ask me how to do it.

\\Please do not ask me how to do it

U well know that i will surely ask u how 2 do it. The catch is if u know how to hack but decide not to crack others website, then i might be able to know it and not harm people website.

Interesting topic. Interesting discussions. Wish 'em Federal Government of Nigeria could actually emulate this.

Look at 'em group of Nigerian Hackers attacking govt's digital infrastructures, the best the FGN shoulda done before Anonymous/PLF became involved is to hire those people.

That's raw talent at its best. How can you call yourself an ethical hacker/pentester if yhu haven't defaced a site/hijacked the cpanel/stayed r00t for months/years/controlled 1million+ army of bots/taken down an entire Network/ddosed a whole svr/route yo uni's wireless packets thru yo system etc. ?

L33t hackers(white,black,grey) all passed through the 'blackhat' stage before becoming who they are.

You want to learn? Then be ready to soil your fingers! Staying Anonymous & Legit is NOW up to you.

By legit i mean. .Let's say ure good(not a n00b). .worked on interswitch's sys(wit0t permission) nd w00t. .You have access to 'plain-text' user details. .including pins et al. What do you do? Do you go ahead to notify them OR you sell off the details to scammers?!

Notifying 'em makes u a 'legit blackhat' || Selling 'em off makes you a phucking criminal & its against d hacker's culture. You exploit 'codes/systems' NOT people.

(Please NOTE: They are BOTH punishable by law. )

1 thing y'all should have in mind is "It takes a hacker to catch a hacker". #Shikena

^^^^and every good hacker must have social engineering skills. These literally open the doors for them.

^^Nice one Sir. A good example is Kevin Mitnick

Slyr0x:

^^Nice one Sir. A good example is Kevin Mitnick

You are a subject matter expert too. With the way things are going, I foresee war in the cyberspace soon.

denzel2009:

You are a subject matter expert too.

True talk

denzel2009:

With the way things are going, I foresee war in the cyberspace soon.

Cyber prophet, WOW

^^^I aint a fake prophet

denzel2009:

^^^I aint a fake prophet 

then you have ur first follower

@denzel2009:

^^^I aint a fake prophet

It is true story.

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Maybe I should tell first step of reverse any software (mainly dotNet) is easy to do. (Most of the software you have to install them and notice trial version signs eg. 30 trial version, limited functions and so on.)

1.Download PeID: open it and drag any software (it can be *.exe, *.dll and so on) you want to reverse. PeID will check if it is packed or not. If it is packed then you have to unpacked it.

2. Download OllyDbg: I won't explain how to use for you read documentation about it.

3. .NetReflator: Download from here ---> http://code.google.com/p/deflector/

\\Please don't ask me how to use them.

[OFFTOPIC CLOSED]

Has any of you guys try what I have wrote?

Afritelly:

[OFFTOPIC OPEN]
Maybe I should tell first step of reverse any software (mainly dotNet) is easy to do.

i would like to know the target language of your dotNet reverse engineering tools, is it going to be the  Common Intermediate Language (CIL, pronounced either "sil" or "kil" (formerly called Microsoft Intermediate Language or MSIL) which is the lowest-level human-readable programming language defined by the Common Language Infrastructure specification and used by the .NET Framework and Mono.

OR SOMETHING ELSE

i would like to know the target language of your dotNet reverse engineering tools, is it going to be the Common Intermediate Language (CIL, pronounced either "sil" or "kil" (formerly called Microsoft Intermediate Language or MSIL) which is the lowest-level human-readable programming language defined by the Common Language Infrastructure specification and used by the .NET Framework and Mono.

I'm sorry. I don't understand. The Basic idea is how to crack software.

Sorry but i still think they are better things to think of than reverse engineering and h**k**g

Sorry but i still think they are better things to think of than reverse engineering and h**k**g

True. If we don't know RE, how can we protect our software?

Sorry dis is offtopic. At Fayimora, why are u nt replying my IM on yahoo? there is example on atm that i cant find in d ebook or their site.

Cant remember not answering anybody today, IF your talking of some other day then I most definitely wasn't beside the computer

@Arfri, I think you should focus more on developing more efficient softwares now than RE. Theres a ryt time for everything

@Arfri,  I think you should focus more on developing more efficient softwares now than RE. Theres a ryt time for everything

Yeah true. But I'm a software developer.

Learning never ends, Theres a lot more out there that you still need to explore, There are much better ways to implement softwares you already have implemented, Hve you tried out those algorithms and see the effects they have on you software? Theres just tooo much to know so its continuous