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someguy03:
I will make a little tutorial with screenshots and post it up here for you in just a bit. 🙂
Johnson:
The disclaimers placed on booter and cracker sites is a bunch of hogwash. It is a bluff. It looks very cryptic but it is worthless. See below.
Claim: Citing “code 431.322.12 of the Internet Privacy Act” protects web site operators from prosecution.
Status: False.http://www.snopes.com/legal/privacy.htm
Breaking into another user’s account would also give you access to their e-mail. Sometimes other passwords can be found in e-mail that may allow crackers to access more information on other accounts. Additionally, IDs can be tied to Yahoo! or Microsoft Passports or Wallets.
I am not really sure where you fail to see the serious nature of this issue.
You say that it all comes down to money. Certainly, it does. But, are you content to stand by and watch others make money illegally while you work hard and abide by the law?
My research has shown that most of these sites are owned by teenage kids that may not be aware that what they are doing is against the law. They are excited by the prospect of kicking another user offline. It becomes a game to them and they form gangs or cliques that trade these various tools. They seek out the creators of these programs and in many cases the creators of these programs have leased a server so they can host this type of material. They strike up a “friendship” with the creators of these programs who then offer them web hosting at 5-10 dollars a month. It doesn’t take a genius to figure out that if you supplicate the kids and endow them with some sort of cryptic status that they will become a loyal follower and host a web site with you. Get 100 kids lined up at 10 bucks a month and you can pocket 12 grand a year. Not bad. Would you like an extra 12 grand a year? I bet you would. Nice little racket, huh?
If only it were legal.
I have shut down 46 web sites in 8 days. I am ONE person. How many people are registered on this forum, 6,000 or more?
If only one percent of them pitched in, that knocks down web sites at quite a clip.
This activity has been going on for years. Your suggestion to wait until AOL, Yahoo etc. resolve issues on their own is a fruitless one.
Quote:quote:Ok BLACK HAT, wanna let us know how? If you cannot add anything useful to the topic, its best to keep it to yourself. 😉Very well.
Find as many booter web sites as you can and look up the web host through traceroute.
A good tool is here http://www.network-tools.com
E-mail the web host and complain that the boot programs, password stealers, account lockers etc. made available on these web sites are denying you access to the Internet service that you pay for. This is in flagrant violation of any reputable web hosts acceptable use policy against harrassment or attempting to penetrate the security of another user’s account.
If someone were outside your home tampering with your phonelines so that you could not place a call, what would you do? Would you just hope that it goes away or would you take action? You would probably call the phone company or the police wouldn’t you? This is no different.
This will not stop people from trading boot codes in e-mail or on P2P programs but it sure does make it hard for people to just type “booters” into a search box and start downloading.
As they say, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
Happy Hunting
