Staying Anonymous

If you are planning to be Black/ Grey/ Green Hat hacker, then you will be really worried about you anonymity. What concerns you most have to be "How to stay Anonymous?" . So here are some methods to stay anonymous. These are only some basic anonymity techniques and the more advanced techniques will be lectured in the following tutorials.

A. VPN

VPN is the acronym of Virtual Private Network. As from a hacker's point of view, here are the facts that justifies its need:
1) Counterfeit the ISP's packet detection measures.    
Maintain your anonymity and boost by keeping your ISP from throttling, inspecting and prioritizing the data sent to and from your system.
2) Keep your IP address anonymous.    
Prevent the places your packets are traversing from identifying your connection information and location.
3) Hide your online activities from third parties.    
As a VPN provides a secure tunnel to make a connection to the outside world, it will keep the third parties away from finding your online activities.
4) And of-course, prevent location identification and Geo targeting.    
Yeah! the title says it all.

To help you start, below are some of the FREE VPN's that are available.

Cyberghost http://cyberghostvpn.com/ --> Good for germany
USA IP http://www.usaip.eu/en/free_vpn.php
Free VPN http://thefreevpn.com/
VPN Tool http://www.vpntool.com/services.php --> good
USSecurityKIS http://www.securitykiss.com/sk/index.php
Hotspot Shield http://anchorfree.com/downloads/hotspot-shield/
ProXPN http://proxpn.com/
Open VPN http://openvpn.net/
Tor VPN https://torvpn.com/information.html
Its Hidden http://itshidden.com/

B. Proxies

Proxies are another less secure alternative for VPN's . Proxies does the same job as VPN's as it hides your IP when you are surfing through the internet. There are different types of proxies ranging from less anonymous to high anonymous proxies. One thing that you have to keep in mind is that the proxies will not last for ever. The available proxy address will change from time to time (which is a best thing for staying anonymous).


Below are some of the Proxy sites that you can use as a starting leveler. 
http://proxify.com/
http://www.hidemyass.com/
http://hidefromyou.com/
http://proxy6.org/
http://www.httpsurf.com/
http://www.safersurfing.net/
http://unblocked.in/
http://www.proxeasy.com/webclient.aspx
http://newipnow.com/

Below are some of the Popular VM's that you can use .
VMLite - http://www.vmlite.com/index.php?option=c...Itemid=153
VMWare - https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/downloads
Virtual Box - https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Download

C. Virtual Machines

I suggest you to use a virtual machine while doing your stuffs. It is a best way to test your exploits without the pain of buying a new computer. For White hatters this is a heaven, because using a Virtual machine to test the servers(Remote Administration Tools) without the fear of a breach into your actual working environments. Now a days, the RATS and crypting techniques (will be discussed in RAT and Keyloggers section) became far more advanced in the favor of Black Hat hackers so that they can bye pass the Virtual machine environment and actually do their stuff in the host environments.

D. Be Easy With Your DOX Info

Another common mistake someone will do is that, he will put his details like nick name, email address, country etc on their slaves for the sake of name, You should do it only if you feel that much confident. As you are reading this now, I am pretty sure that, you take my word for this. Your confidence is what I say "Over Confidence". Don't put any kind of information after you are done. There is a site Fake Name Generator - http://www.fakenamegenerator.com/ which can help you generate some fake profiles. Believe me, you can get random profiles with a lots and lot of information from this site.

E. A Final Word

As I said in the starting of this tutorial, these are only some basic level Anonymity tools whose service you can make use of to stay anonymous. These cannot assure 100% anonymity and if you did something Black Hat stuffs and when you hear a door knock and see some cops outside your door, don't blame me :)

Hackers Introduction

Now a days a lot of people want to be hackers. It is a good thing to have extra stuffs in our knowledge bank. So lets start with the basics of hacking, by understanding the different types of hackers. There are manly 3 types of hackers:

Black Hat Hackers

This category of hackers is also known as "crackers". Hackers in this category are always tempted to gain privileges of someone(s) system without the authorization or permission . Usually these people works individual for their own gains/fun. But as a team they can be deadly and their impact can cause trouble to a greater extent. Their activity manly includes D-DOS attacks to websites, Site Defacing, Identity Theft, Vandalism etc. You will be lectured in detail about these terms in the following tutorials.

White Hat Hackers

In contradiction to Black hat hackers, White hat hackers are life-saving angels to many. They are also designated as "Ethical Hackers". In fact, Ethical Hacking is a career in today's world for many. To be an approved WHH, you need to be certified. But who cares about certification, when we know what we are talking about and when we have a good and helping mind. To be more specific about their do's, they perform security test on different systems with they authority 's authorization which would be definitely illegal when the hands of a BHH, WHH are small in count, but they are still powerful.

Grey Hat Hackers

As you can probably imagine , these are those categories of hackers who hacks for both good and bad. They usually do Black hatting for their malicious intentions and do White hatting with good intentions. In short, they help and harm. The majority of the people fall in this category. So they are typical hackers and still a potential threat!

Which One Should I Become?

If you are asking me, it will be definite WHH. But you don't have to listen to me. What I want to tell you is, it will be always better to know what you are getting into. Hackers are sometimes getting caught, and when they are caught, they will be charges and sometimes may sent to jail for some short period of time if you are not a certified WHH. If you are asking me, I suggest you to keep learning until you gain some good knowledge in the matter and know how to remove all traces of your hack. There can be different potential traces (like logs of the system you have hacked, you information'n that got captured by the hacked system etc) that can lead an expert to pin point the hand cuffs to your hands. The different methods to remove the traces of the hacks will be lectured in the following tutorials.

Other types of Hackers

"Dude just wait a sec! I thought you were saying there are only 3 types of hackers in the world!"

Well and of-course, there are only 3 types of hackers. But there are some different subcategories for these types. Just like some Ranks by which we can categorize.

Elite Hacker - A grade rank meant to describe the most skilled/reputed hackers. They knew/discover the hacking methods that are still unknown and that are not been fixed.

Script Kiddie - A lower rank than the above one that designates someone that uses tools made by others to do some stuff and they don't even know a shit about real hacking.

Neophyte - A much lower rank that describes a person that is a newbie to this matter and is having a little knowledge about this matter.

Hacktivist - As the name rhymes with "Terrorist", they are the people who hacks to inject some religious, political anarchy.

Green Hat Hackers - As the name indicates, they love green. They only hack for money. They will not think about the cause. They just want the money from their slaves.