Hacking?

[NerdNinja]

Yes, I want to learn hacking! Not like to hack into banks or government or stuff like that but so I can change programs or mod them and screw with my friends!

 

What i'm asking from you guys is where is a good place to start learning?

 

And that's pretty much it! Any questions just ask!

[Luc401]

uh coding?

[fizzlesticks]

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[Thecrazyswede]

uh coding?

 

As this man says you need to learn how to code games.

 

and just saying it will take FUCKING ages to learn and is probably A LOT harder then you think.

[nsyedhasan]

Against CoC, I think. Also illegal.

[helping]

Against CoC, I think. Also illegal.

....uh, no

 

settle down with the backseat moderating 

[Morpheus]

Against CoC, I think. Also illegal.

why? hacking isn't only for doing bad things..

[Luc401]

As this man says you need to learn how to code games.

 

and just saying it will take FUCKING ages to learn and is probably A LOT harder then you think.

Yeah it will probably take you a few years to even come close to being good.. Especially modding other peoples games and dealing with their code it will probably hell..

[Youbetternot]

Start by coding! 

[NerdNinja]

Also illegal.

Only if I cause damage or break copyright laws. I wouldn't share mods for programs.

[NerdNinja]

....uh, no

 

settle down with the backseat moderating 

Whew! I was scared for a moment haha

[NerdNinja]

why? hacking isn't only for doing bad things..

Tru dat!

[Morpheus]

Tru dat!

if you want to make mods and stuff i'm not sure if that's called hacking? 

[ttam]

Would be called editing and or programming.

You don't edit the programs, you create a program to alter what happens with and or before the program executes anything.

These are typically called malware infections and do these sort of things.

 

If you start now, you will be able to do it in about 5 years.

[fizzlesticks]

Would be called editing and or programming.

You don't edit the programs, you create a program to alter what happens with and or before the program executes anything.

These are typically called malware infections and do these sort of things.

 

If you start now, you will be able to do it in about 5 years.

What he's talking about can be hacking, cracking or modding.

You absolutely can edit the programs.

It is in no way related to malware.

And doing simple things is actually very easy.

[Owen]

If you just wanna mess with your friends a classic is making a fake Chrome or Internet Explorer shortcut that shuts down their computer..or spams porn windows whatever you prefer

[ologiic]

Check out HackCommunity, tons of useful information on there =p

[loganryan99]

This is advice that I spew out on basically every thread similar to this but if the reason you want to learn programming (don't like calling it hacking because that's not what this is) just to mess with your friends or whatever you aren't going to get far. Programming is generally something you're interested in or you aren't, and people who want to learn for one specific purpose (making games usually) they don't get anywhere. You really have to like programming for programming to get anywhere. If that describes you and I got the wrong vibe from this thread then good luck

[Flojer0]

Is this hacking from the angle of building things or from the side of modifying things? If it's the earlier learn programming. If it's the latter then learn how to use a Hex editor and don't be afraid of breaking some things very badly. With a Hex editor you view the contents of your ram and storage directly and modify them any way you wish. I have never messed with it but accessing the tools is easy. I don't see it being difficult aside from finding the values that need to be changed. Like if you want a massive number of bullets then you would need to find the exact value in ram that is tied to your bullet counter. Some knowledge of how programs are structured in memory and a tool that could single out the program you want to play with could be handy.

 

All I have done across these lines is use a hex editor to fix an external HDD I had. But upon booting the editor I felt like a 12 year old in a forest, who had just been handed a chain saw. I could do very many things, but I could break things in every way you could imagine, and every way you couldn't imagine.

 

Anyway, here are the tools I've touched on. As a disclaimer of course it is your responsibility if you screw up. Starting inside a virtual machine to play around and learn might not be a bad idea either. You could lose everything.

 

http://mh-nexus.de/en/hxd/   <--- Raw hex editor for ram and storage, found when I needed to fix a HDD

http://codefromthe70s.org/poke.aspx   <--- This one appears to be able to single out individual programs, found when I was considering cheating FTL.

 

I did just try poke out and it is fairly straightforward. Let the program scan for your program, select it, then use it to scan for a known value in game, change the value, scan again. Keep doing this until you aren't lowering the number of instances that contain that value and you should be fine. My recommendation is to try it on a game you don't mind corrupting just in case and you should be save.

 

Also keep in mind that there are programs that state in the eula that you are not allowed to modify the programs in such a way and that if you do such things in a multiplayer game is can result in you losing the right to play that game or worse something like your steam account. So again, go nuts, have fun, but be careful.

[iain]

Yes, I want to learn hacking! Not like to hack into banks or government or stuff like that but so I can change programs or mod them and screw with my friends!

 

What i'm asking from you guys is where is a good place to start learning?

 

And that's pretty much it! Any questions just ask!

Put in on youtube 

 

Hak5 you will learn a lot it is a good show.

[Frix]

Against CoC, I think. Also illegal.

Pretty sure messing about with friends isn't illegal.

[fizzlesticks]

Pretty sure messing about with friends isn't illegal.

Depends on what you do, friends are just less likely to call the cops.

[Flojer0]

Depends on what you do, friends are just less likely to call the cops.

Yup, messing with friends isn't illegal. But doing illegal things with friends is.

[fizzlesticks]

oh ya, here's a good book to help you get started on stuff like this http://www.amazon.com/Reversing-Secrets-Engineering-Eldad-Eilam/dp/0764574817/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1387693468&sr=8-1&keywords=reversing

[Mauri]

Depends on what you mean by hacking.

 

Cracking software would require programming knowledge.

Bypassing network security/accessing otherwise secured databases would require sysadmin/networking knowledge, not necessarily programming knowledge.