The 15 Greatest hacking Exploits.

[Kelemvor]

Very fun article to read through:

http://www.tomshardware.com/20...ng_exploits/index.html

 

[Vette73]

18 page article from Tomhardware... no thanks

 

[IEC]

They missed LoKe's exploits

 

[sjwaste]

Ugh, I got to about page 8 before I had to close it. Tom's Hardware is unreadable, 3 paragraphs of text framed in solid ads.

 

[Vehemence]

One of the greatest article exploits:

Taking a 5 page article and splitting it into 18 pages with ads everywhere so we makes the moneys.

 

[legoman666]

I waded through the entire thing. There is hardly any real information in the whole 18 pages.

 

[ondarkness]

Originally posted by: legoman666
I waded through the entire thing. There is hardly any real information in the whole 18 pages.

that's a good enough summary for me! =P

thx!

 

[silverpig]

Dear god, it was about 3 sentences per page and just covered with ads. It was almost like Where's Waldo?

I used to go there quite a bit around 8 yrs ago. Now it's terrible.

 

[pyonir]

Originally posted by: legoman666
I waded through the entire thing. There is hardly any real information in the whole 18 pages.

Thanks...i was kinda interested in checking it out...but it's not worth it then.

 

[Barfo]

Originally posted by: dNor
One of the greatest article exploits:

Taking a 5 page article and splitting it into 18 pages with ads everywhere so we makes the moneys.

You need hacker skill nowadays to set up your computer and browser to avoid all these ads :thumbsdown:

 

[Kirby64]

Originally posted by: dNor
One of the greatest article exploits:

Taking a 5 page article and splitting it into 18 pages with ads everywhere so we makes the moneys.

This, kids, is why we have Adblock Plus.

I saw 0 ads while reading thru the entire article.

 

[jjones]

Originally posted by: Kirby64

Originally posted by: dNor
One of the greatest article exploits:

Taking a 5 page article and splitting it into 18 pages with ads everywhere so we makes the moneys.

This, kids, is why we have Adblock Plus.

I saw 0 ads while reading thru the entire article.

Yeah, but you still had to navigate through 18 pages what would have fit on 2.

 

[Vehemence]

Originally posted by: Kirby64

Originally posted by: dNor
One of the greatest article exploits:

Taking a 5 page article and splitting it into 18 pages with ads everywhere so we makes the moneys.

This, kids, is why we have Adblock Plus.

I saw 0 ads while reading thru the entire article.

Work has IE7 and even if it we used Firefox, clicking "Next" every 5 words is ridiculous.

Yeah, but you still had to navigate through 18 pages what would have fit on 2.

Beaten! NOES!

 

[T9D]

It was a decent very vague read. Gives you enough to go research more. And they didn't say what year that first worm was. They also should have gone on more about the later worms. Blaster and love bug, mydoom etc. And at the end they say hacking giants have died down, just because. Well I think thats because they cant make huge hits like they used to. They should give credit there for the stronger encryption, more secure servers, more firewalls, and much better security on windows. A lot of measures are done in email programs too. we may just never see that kind of hacking again because it's 1000 times harder and more secure now adays. Those were simpler times, everything was new and so small. Computers were slow and weak. And that was taken advantage of and exploited.

 

[andylawcc]

Originally posted by: Marlin1975
18 page article from Tomhardware... no thanks

that's quite typical of them, so they could spam ads

 

[Atomic Playboy]

Interesting topic, but extremely poorly laid out (there was no organizational structure to speak of; it starts out speaking about a few guys, jumps to someone else, comes back to the first few guys, goes back to someone else, randomly interjects some Russian kid, goes back to the first guys... it's not chronological, it's not by person, it's just a clusterfuck), very little specific detail, and spread out so that you have to click next page every 2 paragraphs. If you turned this in as a paper in high school you might get a C.

 

[legoman666]

Originally posted by: Atomic Playboy
Interesting topic, but extremely poorly laid out (there was no organizational structure to speak of; it starts out speaking about a few guys, jumps to someone else, comes back to the first few guys, goes back to someone else, randomly interjects some Russian kid, goes back to the first guys... it's not chronological, it's not by person, it's just a clusterfuck), very little specific detail, and spread out so that you have to click next page every 2 paragraphs. If you turned this in as a paper in high school you might get a C.

It did however interest me enough to look up some of the dudes on wikipedia. Of course, if they had written the article well in the first place, I wouldn't have needed to.

 

[mrCide]

horrible article. TH can DIAF

 

[yhelothar]

I guess I'm not as much as a hardcore nerd as some of you guys, it was a good read for me. I didn't know about much of this aside from kevin mitnick before.
I'm glad I was able to read this article without letting a few ads bother me. I guess my ADD isn't that bad after all.
Thanks OP

 

[Modelworks]

One of the best
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Midnight_(HBO)

 

[rival]

what a crappy article

about 70% of it is about mitnick

 

[TheTony]

Read the article the other day and I tend to agree with the criticism. The article does have some interesting information, nearly all of which I've heard before, however. No offense to the writer, but it does read like a school report. It probably would have been understandable if it was structured like an in-depth list; however, it seemed like it tried to be a feature article at the same time. It also fails to go into much detail and lacks some focus, which is too bad, considering it's published on a tech site.

 

[clamum]

Maybe I'll get around to it later, but goddamn, what a shitty fucking site (layout-wise).

 

[yllus]

Horribly written article. It was all over the place. The layout... well, I think the rest of you covered that.

 

[sandorski]

For a good Documentary on the subject, check out The History of Hacking. Should be on Google Video.