How To Hack A Website

Hacking a site means getting knowledge about the weak points in a system and exploiting those weaknesses to approach that system. Today almost everyone is using computers to run their business or work smoothly and successfully. In every business, people program their computers to make communication easy with outside businesses. This type of programming in a computer actually opens the secrets of that business in the outer world. Hacking a system means knowing the secrets of another person’s business by invading their privacy and stealing their personal or business data. It is important to remember that the steps discussed in this article are all meant to serve educational purposes alone. Hacking is neither encouraged nor endorsed. 

Types of Hackers

1. Ethical hackers: These hackers do not go through any network of computers illegally. They used to perform various experiments to test the efficiency of their security systems in a company. Also famous as white hat hackers, these ethical hackers do their work without having any personal reasons.  
2. Black hat hackers: Black hat hackers perform hacking to gain access to another person’s network. They want to steal data to get a personal profit by sharing that information with other hackers. 
3. Blue hat hackers: Blue hat hackers invade another network to help security companies to detect vulnerabilities present in their network. Companies take help from such types of hackers before introducing their new program to check their network.
4. Gray Hat Hackers: Gray hat hackers have the qualities of both white and black hat hackers. They work to check the drawbacks of a network and inform the administrator so they can take appropriate actions to improve it. 
5. Intelligence Agencies: These hackers work for national security systems.
6. Organized Criminal hackers: Black hat hackers who try to find their entry by exposing the computer system.
7. Hacktivists: Hacktivists hack a system for social purposes such as politics and religion. Their main motive is to let down a person or defame a website. They have two categories: Cyber terrorism and the Right to information. The latter category has the motive to take out confidential information and share that in the public domain for free. The first category has the motive to spread threats by destroying the working of a system to gain political aims.

Becoming A Web Hacker

Given below are some tips that can prove to be very useful for you to become a hacker:

1. Learning UNIX: UNIX is a computer operating system that can support multiple users as well as multiple tasks. This operating system was designed specifically for providing good security to the system. 
2. Learning more than one programming language: Learning other programming languages that are used in the field is important. These include JAVA, Perl, PHP and Python. 
3. Learning more than one operating system: The most widely used operating system is Windows, it is also the most commonly compromised system. It is good to learn and know how to hack a Microsoft system since it is also a close-source system. 
4. Becoming familiar with various networking concepts: It is imperative to have an understanding of TCP/IP, UDP protocols in order to be able to make use of the vulnerabilities that exist on the world wide web. 
5. Reading articles about hacking: By extensively reading articles, you will be able to gain useful insights into the subject of hacking. It will also be quite helpful in the development of the attitude and mindset of a hacker. 
6. Learning to program in C: C is considered the most powerful out of all the programming languages. Learning C will be helpful in dividing a task into smaller segments, the segments can then be used to express the sequence as commands. 
7. Getting to know about cryptography: Encryption and cryptography as technology is imperative for the internet and networking. Cryptography increasingly finds its use in ATM cards, passwords, e-commerce etc. Since hacking requires the breaking down of these encrypted codes, decryption, and understanding of cryptography is important. 
8. Experimenting on your computer: You can begin by working as an experiment on your own device, with this you will be able to correct yourself if you make any mistakes. 

How to Hack a Website?

The two main methods used in hacking websites are either through SQL injection or by making use of basic HTML code. 

Hacking Websites Through SQL Injection

Step 1:

Begin by opening google.com on your browser. Prefer to use the Firefox search engine. Type in inurl:.php?id= . A list of websites will be shown on your screen with dork PHP, choose and click any one. 

Step 2:

Type in an apostrophe at the ending of the URL you chose. This will be quite helpful to you in determining whether the website is potentially vulnerable or not. If the message “you have an error in the SQL syntax” appears, this indicates that a vulnerability most likely exists, and hence you can proceed. 

Step 3:

This step involves removing the apostrophe that you typed in. Add an order by 2 in order to check how many columns the website contains, this is a very important part. Keep up the test with 3, 4, 5 till a message that says “unknown column” is shown. 

Step 4:

In this step, you will be deleting the ’12 order by’ and replacing the null union all select 1, 2, 3, 4…10. After the loading of the page is completed, a few numbers will be visible, continue by picking the top one. If the number is 7, replace it in the URL with @@Version. If it shows 5.092 community, it is good because the version of the database is above 5, and it means that the site can be hacked. 

Step 5:

Continue by replacing the @@version with group_concat(table_name). Add from information_schema.tables where table_schema=database()– after the @@version. 

Step 6:

The next is replacing both the tables in the URL with columns. This will give you all the information that the website contains, and you can choose from the data that you wish to obtain, like username, address etc. Next is replacing column_name with username,0x3a, pass and replacing all the info tags with users–. With this, you will obtain the passwords and usernames that are associated with the website. 

If a message appears that says “unknown user name and blank list”, it indicates that you have reached the incorrect table. You will have to go back and begin looking for a different table. It can also possibly mean that you are supposed to choose a different method of hacking. 

Step 7:

For logging in, Google and find the admin page finder. Continue by clicking on the first link that appears. Following the set of given instructions, you will get to the login of your admin page finder. Follow this and log in with any of the login details you obtained. Once the login is completed, click on the profile to see the details needed. 

Hacking A Website Through Basic HTML Code

If you have the knowledge of the basics of HTML and javascript, you will be able to gain access to websites even though they are protected by passwords. This method will help you jack into an account with easy steps. The hack will be done on a website that is less secure and through HTML. This method will only work on those websites that have very poor security. 

Step 1:

Begin by opening the site that you want to hack. In the sign-in form of the website, enter the wrong username as well as the wrong password. Error pop up warning you that the username and/or password are wrong will appear. 

Step 2:

Do a right-click on the error pop up to get a view of the source. 

Step 3:

Continue by opening and viewing the source code. In there, you will see coding done in HTML and javascript. Find a line that looks something like 

<_form action=”…Login….”>

Before the login information, make a copy of the URL of the website that is currently open. 

Step 4:

Continue with care and delete the javascript that is responsible for the validation of the information on the server. Now, this website has been hacked successfully on the basis of how efficient you are in deleting the javascript code that is validating the information of the account. 

Step 5:

Continue by going to the file>save as>. Then save this file anywhere on the hard disk of your device with ext.html. 

Step 6:

Again open the website you are hacking, that is the ‘chan.html’ file that you saved in the above step on the hard disk of your device. You should notice some changes on the page compared to how it originally was. If there are changes, this means that the process is right. 

Step 7:

Now enter a username along with a password in combination. Since you have successfully hacked the website, you will be able to gain entry into the account.