Session hijacking is widely used method by hackers for temporarily stealing network connections or login sessions. You might have heard this term used a lot by hackers & some of you have emailed me to explain it in brief.

So this post will explain you what exactly is session hijacking & I have written another one for hacking wireless hotspot using session hijacking step by step for understanding the concept.

What is Session

We see lot of Wireless network services offering us to use Wi Fi based on pay per use model – where you have to pay for usage and it costs really high but gives you high speed connectivity.

Evry user that pays for the service get connected. A unique MAC address of his laptop/netbook is stored in Service providers database for every paid user. Every time he gets connected to the paid network it creates a session and Session ID.

Every other user do not having authenticated MAC address and Session gets no connectivity. So this unique connection between user & wireless connectivity provider is session.

Black hat hackers have been using this technique from a long time to get unauthorized access to Paid Wi Fi network.

What is Session Stealing

In session hijacking we create a fake MAC address on our network interface & replace it with original one that we have by using MAC changer utility. And the fake MAC address that we are using is of certain user who is on the network &has already paid the wireless network usage.

So we spoof the MAC address & let network determine us through his MAC address as authenticated user. This is what we call Session Stealing or Hijacking.

Check out this cool article on how you can bypass the Wi Fi Hotspot Access Control by Session Stealing

It is not strange to call this generation as “intelligent” generation, the era of computers & internet. Humans are connected to each other through the world of computers spread over a network.
Essentially, in technical language, Computers communicate with each other through network. So any data communication between 2 or more computers involves transfer, sharing of vital data. The basic idea of networks is allow people remote access to geographically distant resources without having to be physically present. It has also been designed to send data back and forth, to stay connected.

There are large networks and small networks, but size is irrelevant in terms of importance of network security. The purpose of network security, quite simply, is to protect the network and its component parts from unauthorized access and misuse. Networks are vulnerable because of their inherent characteristic of facilitating remote access. For example, if a hacker wanted to access a computer not on a network, physical access would be vital. However, with networks in the picture, it is possible to bypass that particular security aspect. Therefore, it is vital for any network administrator, regardless of the size and type of network, to implement stringent security policies to prevent potential
losses.

The networks are computer networks, both public and private, that are used every day to conduct transactions and communications among businesses, government agencies and individuals. Today, most companies’ host computers can be accessed by their employees whether in their offices over a private communications network, or from their homes or hotel rooms while on the road through normal telephone lines.

Network security involves all activities that organizations, enterprises, and institutions undertake to protect the value and ongoing usability of assets and the integrity and continuity of operations. An effective network security strategy requires identifying threats and then choosing the most effective set of tools to combat them. Often important data is transferred from one computer system to other over the network. Network security safeguards the data communication so that vital information data is secured.

Whenever the word network security appears, it appears in conjunction with another popular buzzword “Ethical hacking”. The word “ethical” has special meaning as ethical hacking is very closely related to network security & is simply the use of programming skills to determine vulnerabilities in computer systems. Performed by special computer programming experts or hackers, it is very vital for the computers connected over network. With increasing use of the Internet and concerns about its security, especially when it comes to things like consumer information or private medical details, there is considerable need for computer experts to work in ethical hacking.

This is the guest post & Following is the Author Bio : Internet hacking is accessing a secure computer system by disabling or bypassing the security through internet. There are many ethical hacking tutorials available with which one can learn the ways of detecting the loopholes in cyber security.

(Note: Please Read Our Disclaimer Before reading & using this tutorial)

As you must have read at many blogs, it is very easy to hack the facebook accounts with the help of keyloggers. Black hat hackers are using such techniques to spy on Facebook accounts.

All you need to know is the Email Id of the Victim. We’re explaining here how to break its password. There are many software for hacking , phishing, keylogging which are freely downloaded from the Internet to break the Email  or any Account passwords. The one of  the common software used is Emissary Keylogger to hack the facebook password & So we are using it to demonstrate this tutorials.

Step for Hacking Facebook using Keyloggers:

1.    Download the software Emissary keylogger from the Internet.
2.    Make sure you have installed .Net framework. If not you install that.
3.    Extract the files with the help of Winrar or Winzip.
4.    Run the Emissary keylogging software on your PC .
5.    Open the  Emissary keylogging . It will be like the below given figure.

6.    The above page has some details given such Gmail Username(This will have you r Gmail accounts id. Where all the passwords are imported from target PC).

Gmail password (you choice of password)

Server Name (give it as server.exe)

Interval (according to you r wish you keep the Timer)

7.    Then the Option part Selection :
Block AV Sites: Blocks for the VirusScanning Websites on target computer
Add to Startup: Adds to Startup via Registry
Antis: Anubis, BitDefender, Kaspersky, Keyscrambler, Malwarebytes, NOD32, Norman, Ollydbg, Outpost, Wireshark
Disable TaskManager: Disable TaskManager on target PC
Disable Regedit: Disable’s  the Regedit on target PC.

8.  Then Download and Execute the Trojan Downloader  on the target PC . (Some antiviruses can report Trojan as malicious)

9.  Once you complete with this. Hit the Built the server keylogger file is created in the current directory.

10. After this created server file should be send to the target PC and make sure that it gets installed. This can be done by applying some tricks such as this file can be send by any song or video on Target PC. One this song or Video is played it get installed in that target PC.

11. Once this file is  runs on the target PC it send all stored password to the Gmail account which is mentioned.

12.     The User will such message in his Inbox of his Account. It consist of the victim’s Email-Id and stored password.

13.    Now with this you can Access the target persons Account without knowing the person.

Disclaimer : This article is for educational purpose only for ethical hacking students. Please note that hacking anyone’s account is violation of Facebook’s Terms & Conditions. Also if you break in to anyone’s private account it is considered as a crime. We will be not responsible for any misuse of this tutorial.

I find many of the guys, who are willing to become an professional ethical hackers. All these aspiring ethical hackers search some tutorials across Internet, and very few of them are lucky to go on right track. Then I came across this – “Beginners Guide To Ethical Hacking” by Rafay Baloch  . I just quick ran through its content & found out that- if you want to take a first step towards your career in security, you must go for this book.

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I was really surprised how this book laid out the information, presenting it in an easy to read and understandable fashion. In each chapter the author first introduces you to the topic and then shows you a real-world example with step-by-step instructions with images. It makes hacking look so easy!

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