NationStates Jolt Archive


About the recent 'nation hacks' (and how to avoid it)

Reploid Productions
05-03-2004, 03:43
I'm sure most of you are aware that there seems to be a rather high number of nations being 'hacked' lately. For those of you who don't regularly check the News, I suggest you do.

First of all: THERE HAVE BEEN NO ACTUAL HACKS. A very unscrupulous player (now DEAT and IP banned, with sterner measures to follow) tricked a very large number of players via offsite forums she was an admin on. Unfortunately, many players used the same password for these offsite forums that they do for their nation, and the aforementioned player exploited a loophole in the Proboards forums to access the passwords of those users.

Secondly: Some steps to take to prevent something like this happening to you.
-NEVER use your nation's password on a forum or other service, especially if it's a forum run by another player
-If you are currently a member of any offsite forum and used your nation password for your forum login, immediately change your nation's password to something totally different
-Make sure your password is not something easy to guess or crack by brute force. A good password is:
-At least 8 characters long
-A mix numbers, upper and lower case letters, and assorted punctuation.
-Not a word in ANY language

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~Evil Empress Rep Prod the Ninja Mod
~Master of the mighty moderation katana Kiritateru Teikoku
TROUSRS
07-03-2004, 15:35
How do you know that said player got the passwords from his/her offsite forum? Was it a pattern, such as all the players from that forum had their nations stolen, that you noticed? And did said victims get their nations back?

Also a side note, the 'hacker' most likely will access his/her forums from another computer, and strike again from another computer. Stay vigilant.
Catholic Europe
07-03-2004, 15:59
his/her

It's a her. Rep said so in his post.

...she was an admin on...
Enerica
07-03-2004, 16:28
with sterner measures to follow

? Just wondering.
The Basenji
07-03-2004, 17:00
Enerica-

My guess would be a report to her ISP. Hacking is a serious crime that can be very gravely punished. Like having your Internet service removed. Whatever the ISP decides to do.

Or maybe it's just a ban from NS.

But I'd *hope* she is being reported to her ISP
TROUSRS
07-03-2004, 17:03
Enerica-

My guess would be a report to her ISP. Hacking is a serious crime that can be very gravely punished. Like having your Internet service removed. Whatever the ISP decides to do.

Or maybe it's just a ban from NS.

But I'd *hope* she is being reported to her ISP

But it's not hacking, it's more.. creative.
The Basenji
07-03-2004, 17:11
Creative or uncreative hacking...it's still hacking. She tricked the players into joining an offsite forum and then stole thier passwords, using them for their nations.

...Even if the people shouldn't have used their nation passwords and came up with new passwords... :lol: :roll: :lol:
Enerica
07-03-2004, 17:17
It might be that they will report her to her forum provider.
Tactical Grace
07-03-2004, 17:25
It is not hacking. Most computer security compromises are achieved by tricking people into revealing access information or stealing it from an insecure location. Actually breaking into the server and getting access to nation files would require a degree of sophistication vastly in excess of what anyone but a true expert could hope to achieve. And hitting an online bank would be a far more productive use of their talents.

Tactical Grace
Forum Moderator
Enerica
07-03-2004, 17:41
True, I suppose for this instance the better word to use may be cracker, a somewhat less professional hacker. Lots of people can crack, not so many hack. *hehe*
Faxlandu
08-03-2004, 03:27
these hacks are not over, no where near it. I tlak to these people on AIM and they are still in NS im not sure how as i know IP masks wont allow you to access NS (No i have not tried it). Also, I am still trying to rally anyone who has been hacked, but many nations are still lost and we are not sure who is a hacker anymore. If the IP ban has been initiated it is definetly not working because we lost a region just a few hours ago due to the same hacker. I am the rightful owner of grazon and i lost him while trying to save other nations that were getting hacked (like i said i talk to these guys on AIM and the like to gloata about getting passwords) Talk to allegra17 about this. I am wondering if thier is anyway of getting grazon back in my control. If not i understand due to security risks.
08-03-2004, 03:54
...
A very unscrupulous player (now DEAT and IP banned, with sterner measures to follow) tricked a very large number of players via offsite forums she was an admin on. Unfortunately, many players used the same password for these offsite forums that they do for their nation, and the aforementioned player exploited a loophole in the Proboards forums to access the passwords of those users.
...

Good thing I use InvisionFree.
Reploid Productions
08-03-2004, 04:58
Good thing I use InvisionFree.

Still, it's a good idea not to use your nation's password for any off-site forum or other program, especially if it's run by another player.

http://rpstudios.ian-justman.com/junk/CGgoods/RepProdtheModsig2.JPG
~Evil Empress Rep Prod the Ninja Mod
~Master of the mighty moderation no-dachi Kiritateru Teikoku
Reploid Productions
08-03-2004, 05:12
these hacks are not over, no where near it. I tlak to these people on AIM and they are still in NS im not sure how as i know IP masks wont allow you to access NS (No i have not tried it). Also, I am still trying to rally anyone who has been hacked, but many nations are still lost and we are not sure who is a hacker anymore. If the IP ban has been initiated it is definetly not working because we lost a region just a few hours ago due to the same hacker. I am the rightful owner of grazon and i lost him while trying to save other nations that were getting hacked (like i said i talk to these guys on AIM and the like to gloata about getting passwords) Talk to allegra17 about this. I am wondering if thier is anyway of getting grazon back in my control. If not i understand due to security risks.

There are no hacks. Easily guessed passwords or passwords stolen through clever trickery, yes. Hacks? No. We are well aware that these shmucks are still in NS, and are in the process of tracking them down. At the moment, due to the massive number of nations who have had passwords stolen, we are deleting the stolen nations as soon as we are made aware of them. They may be restored after the immediate problem is resolved, but it can be quite difficult to prove ownership.

While these griefers seem to be hell-bent on trying to bring Nationstates down, I want to reiterate that this is only a moderate inconvenience and not the end of the world or the apocalypse of Nationstates. However, it does prove why you should be very paranoid with your passwords, as they can and will be stolen by unscrupulous players.

http://rpstudios.ian-justman.com/junk/CGgoods/RepProdtheModsig2.JPG
~Evil Empress Rep Prod the Ninja Mod
~Master of the mighty moderation no-dachi Kiritateru Teikoku
09-03-2004, 03:54
Ok children listen here.

Lady Blue Moon
Enterthefist (runs under the AIM s/n of Iron Jokers)
did all of the "hacking"

I admit it because I am Enterthefist. I am leaveing Nationstates and figured I would tell you the tricks and whats right and wrong. This was a HIM and HER job. Just to clarif

Proboards,
The trick with the admin thing is a bit complicated. I will let you all know how it works. First off you can be a global moderator or an admin to get what you need. ok this is it.... When you modify a profile you can only change there password, not see it. So the way us low life genusis thought, was change the e-mail to something of ours then user there login name and do the "lost password" thing. then you recive the e-mail and BAM you got there pass. This only worked with a few nations, hence the Moderators not being hacked.

I have stolen many nations off of people.
Cidonia, Old Carthage, Grazon, Toored, ect...
I was the theif and LBM was the spy

Also the nation "Reformed Germany" I only gave him some nations of mine but he still finds it fun to flame and piss off the mods.

Faxlandu... he was Grazon before I hacked him. You could check the start up IP, it would match his.
Toored.... is still Toored2, I didn't take that.
Old Carthage, was an inactive USSR nation (not sure of owner)
Cidonia, well someone sent me some Telegrams about me hacking it but the nation is deated now.

So before this nation is Deated with the rest of me. I am just letting you know that some people like Fax and Toored2 should get there nations back. They were only deated because of my and RG flaming and spamming, on purpose.

I am the last of the "hackers" LBM is IP banned and Reformed Germany is quiting with me. Well it has been fun since day one when I joined NS, and I know many nations of NS thought of me as someone who made this game worth while, making up side regions and plaguing war on the main region. It kept the players active and everyone had a good time.

Fax/Grazon, Remember when I was recruited by toored? I used the name VolumeSeven, and then I beleave it was Reploid that revived my first ever nation "TheCokeMan". The old days man.... tradeing Coke for Enterthefist and bam I got my name. Now look at me... deated on sight, no use of starting up again. Well I guess I am leaveing you with a peace of NS history. Me and LBM made the news section and I am satisfied enough. I know I have been plagueing NS for about 2 weeks now with Nation Stealing but I guess my time is up.

If you want to talk to me, AIM: Iron Jokers
Best of Wishes to your up rising on the Ranks. Sorry I dented it a bit by scaring people with these "Hacks" Enjoy.
http://www.freepgs.com/ironjokers/DEATed/Fist%20WUF%20copy.jpg
09-03-2004, 04:17
And hey! Your forgot to delete the most obvious name... Tsk Tsk LMAO

Well hey list Rep, we never wanted to bring NS down, we just wanted to cause a big issue, which we did, so we were successful. Thats why we are walking away.

And you other people need to understand both Mods are right. It isn't hacking. It is clevery and trickery. We didn't force anyone to join the forum. We just had a admin pass from one which led to another and it spread like a virus. Gaining multiple passes to admins of proboards. That how it went from Frith to the USSR to Europe. I was a frith nation, we were never involved in Europe or USSR. But we still got there.

o yeah and if you IP banned Iron Jokers thinking that was me. You made a booboo, he was just some german guy that I met through RG and had nothing to do with this. :wink:

http://www.freepgs.com/ironjokers/DEATed/Fist%20WUF%20copy.jpg
09-03-2004, 04:18
Well, I am ACC, I was hacked by Fist. One of his first. I got my nation back by trading him the nation Spazzers, which is now deat cause he had it. I don't know if I can get it back or not...

But, more importantly is the nations Grazon and Toored. They were both hacked and should be returned to their rightful owners. Grazon to Faxlandu. And Toored to Mofia Hitman. Also, Asposie was hacked in our region cause it had a large pop. It belongs to the person who has the IM "HappyExtraFox". I can give it to them if you ressurect it, they would appreciate it, and so would I cause they would cease to be angry at me for their nation getting hacked cause it was in GGLAR, my region.

As to me, my region was greifed by Fist. We were at 70, got back up to 50. And are now under way again.

Well, I say now goodbye to Fist. Nice graphic at the end. Keep safe Fist, and don't go hacking no more... It is bad for your blood pressure...

http://www.temporaldoorway.com/gallery/poster/galtsgulch.jpg A pic of Galts Gulch
09-03-2004, 04:19
Firstly calling these immature stupid people "hackers" is incorrect. You are giving them more credit than they deserve. They did no actual hacking.

It doesn't take much intelligence to do what they did.

Secondly why on earth would you even be sad enough to take over someone elses nation when it is such a basic game.
09-03-2004, 04:25
Well, I am ACC, I was hacked by Fist. One of his first. I got my nation back by trading him the nation Spazzers, which is now deat cause he had it. I don't know if I can get it back or not...

But, more importantly is the nations Grazon and Toored. They were both hacked and should be returned to their rightful owners. Grazon to Faxlandu. And Toored to Mofia Hitman. Also, Asposie was hacked in our region cause it had a large pop. It belongs to the person who has the IM "HappyExtraFox". I can give it to them if you ressurect it, they would appreciate it, and so would I cause they would cease to be angry at me for their nation getting hacked cause it was in GGLAR, my region.

As to me, my region was greifed by Fist. We were at 70, got back up to 50. And are now under way again.

Well, I say now goodbye to Fist. Nice graphic at the end. Keep safe Fist, and don't go hacking no more... It is bad for your blood pressure...

http://www.temporaldoorway.com/gallery/poster/galtsgulch.jpg A pic of Galts Gulch

Don't worry I will be to busy ready Atlas Shrugged, and studing some php stuff. *cough cough* just kidding on the php, I know this forum runs under that category. Well I wont be "hacking" anymore. In Real Life things heated up with the parents and my head wants to explode, well atleast by putting a bullet through it. O yeah, and the graphics, when I get bored I usually think a lot so I make graphics or pull nastey little tricks like this NS one.

http://www.freepgs.com/ironjokers/DEATed/Fist%20WUF%20copy.jpg
09-03-2004, 04:26
I call him a hacker cause I have been for the last month. And that was intelligent enough stuff he did, knowing how to get our passes off the forums.

As for him being deranged and sad. Well, he wanted to create a riot and did. It was his way of going out big.
09-03-2004, 04:28
Double post... :roll:

You'd think after about 300 posts, I wouldn't do that anymor... sigh
09-03-2004, 04:28
Triple Post... :oops:
09-03-2004, 04:30
Firstly calling these immature stupid people "hackers" is incorrect. You are giving them more credit than they deserve. They did no actual hacking.

It doesn't take much intelligence to do what they did.

Secondly why on earth would you even be sad enough to take over someone elses nation when it is such a basic game.

Well lets see, why did I take nations? Because it pisses off little punks like you. and it amuses me when you go crying about it. And you must not even be smart as us "kids" because you probly would have never thought of it. God When you talk my IQ# drops, so just shut up.

http://www.freepgs.com/ironjokers/DEATed/Fist%20WUF%20copy.jpg
09-03-2004, 04:42
Going out big??? ROFL! Oh my god!!! *whipes tear from eye* that is so stupid it's funny!

I must hand out milk and cookies to the both of you! Pretty soon you will both be growing hair in unusual places and hopefully you will both start growing up and actually learning something.

I don't think "Hackers" is the word I'd describe you as... The term is more likely "Wanna-be-hackers" or "try hards" who know very little about actually hacking.
09-03-2004, 04:46
Well lets see, why did I take nations? Because it pisses off little punks like you. and it amuses me when you go crying about it.

It doesn't piss me off or scare me because I know you can't hack!

Thats why it is so funny because your trying to act big when you know nothing!

Do you honestly think I'd be typing all this if I felt threatend? No I wouldn't... but I don't because I know you can't even touch my account on here
09-03-2004, 05:16
Hey, why are you attacking me?
Fist stole my nation, I am not in league with me. And, you do sorta talk a little stupidly.
09-03-2004, 05:18
And your telling us to grow hair, Mr. 3 poster. I have posted 100 times as much as you and have been in and out of this game so don't talk. We are trying to have a serious convo here, but you keep butting in. Go talk in the general forum or something.
SalusaSecondus
09-03-2004, 06:54
Stop baiting the Cracker. This is someone who does things just to cause harm to others. There is no art or skill to what he did, and it is an insult to any true hackers out there to even give him the label in jest.

His malicious actions have caused harm to many, and that was the sole purpose of what he did. We can only hope that he matures before it is too late.

http://www.weirdozone.0catch.com/projects/nationstates/salusasecondus/salusasecondus2.jpg
SalusaSecondus
Tech Modling
09-03-2004, 07:02
So we hope. He is probably trying to learn how to ACTUALLY hack now...

Well, I'd like to thank the mods for all the time they spent sorting all this out... :lol:
09-03-2004, 07:03
And trust me, I am not baiting him. I was talking to him on IM a little while ago. He is going to go on to other stuff for now. It seems that his hijackings are done for now.
SalusaSecondus
09-03-2004, 07:50
If you think that you had a nation stolen by these people, please report it here: http://www.nationstates.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=130081
09-03-2004, 08:05
Ok, I did. I will tell the others to post there as well. And was I baiting Fist or the other nation?

If it was Fist, then I wasn't. If it was the other nation, I guess I was a little on the attack and I apologise. :oops:
MTNG Puppet
09-03-2004, 20:13
Well how bout a nation stole by other hackers yall said yall could do nothing for me.. Playa chk (which is brought back from the dead) is sitting in lazeraus and cant get any attention from me...my first nation is dead hacked into by a old nation... She changed the password and the email so i cant get playa chk ....back.....can u do something about that? cause every time i asked yall said no. grr
[violet]
09-03-2004, 22:01
[violet]
09-03-2004, 22:26
Heh, this guy talks tough on the forum but sends me a whiny e-mail about how it's not fair he's been banned.

Once more for the cheap seats: this is considered fraud in most parts of the Western world, and we take it seriously. If we bust you stealing nations, we will report you to your ISP. Then you can explain to your parents why they're accusing you of T&C breaches.

With regards to hacking, the point the mods and I want to make is that this site hasn't been hacked. We want to be clear on that, because otherwise people get the idea that someone can break into our server and steal nations at will. This has never happened. If you choose a good password for your nation, keep it secret, and don't use autologin on public computers, nobody will be able to steal your nation.
10-03-2004, 02:42
Go Violet! Whiny e-mail, lol.

Well, as to NS not being actually hacked I can confirm that. He only used the forums to do so... He was just fairly good at making it seem as though he had...

Thanks again to all the mods and violet. (Still wondering who that is... max perhaps... a flower?)

Well, I hope I get my nation back that was deat thx to Fist...
11-03-2004, 06:52
:twisted: It's absolutely amazing how you all whine and cry when you see that you've been ousted by an ingenius move on Fist's part. You probably all got what you deserved, especially ACC!! You got OWN3D so get over it!! It was in the past, and it's time to start living in the present and planning for the future. So you got hacked, what's the big deal?? You obviously are sad you didn't think of it first or you wouldn't be whining like a bunch of damned two year olds! Stop your blubbering, there is nothing that can be done now. Take your punishment and go! :twisted: 14/88
Reploid Productions
11-03-2004, 07:24
*ahem*

PWNED.

http://rpstudios.ian-justman.com/junk/CGgoods/RepProdtheModsig3.JPG
~Evil Empress Rep Prod the Ninja Mod
~Master of the mighty moderation no-dachi Kiritateru Teikoku
11-03-2004, 07:34
LOL!!! :lol:
Gotta love mods and their swift revenge! Took out RG3 too...
12-03-2004, 16:33
*ahem*

PWNED.

http://rpstudios.ian-justman.com/junk/CGgoods/RepProdtheModsig3.JPG
~Evil Empress Rep Prod the Ninja Mod
~Master of the mighty moderation no-dachi Kiritateru Teikoku

Very nice. I even like the katana thing that say "Deat" on it. Reploid is a true 1337 mod. He uses the big man words like PWN! Own is uber n00b stuff... http://freewebs.com/nsgraphix
I started this up and I got a few things on it so far. :) [violet] and Reploid are on it. :)
Reploid Productions
13-03-2004, 00:49
Um... I'm a 'she' :P
13-03-2004, 20:03
You know, I actually never knew that...
They need to have a list of all the mods and their genders...

But, that image is pretty cool. (on the NSGraphix site. The sword is just awesome in general)
26-03-2004, 07:32
My region, federation of trabia, has been hacked and stolen from me. He hacked in, rejected me and my UN delagate, and put a password on my region. My main nation, which i founded the region with, was Laosing. He recently stole that too, a few hours ago. All this has happened today. I alerted moderators but i have no idea when ill hear back. Right now I have a nation, Final Fantasy haven, that can be contacted. It amy be stolen too though. Heres the whole story in its order of events.

4 or 5 days ago- I start my region, federation of Trabia, and work to get ppl to join. Because of my interest in Final Fantasy, I decided I would ask them as well as some of my friends to join. The response was good and yesterday i had 25 nations.

2 days ago- Ppl in Final Fantasy region (FF) started to get angry cuz about 10 ppl had left them and come to my region. They posted negative messages about my region.

Yesterday- Everything was running fine, but due to the unrest in FF i decided to make a nation that i could put in their so i could monitor them and have access to the message board if i needed it.

Today- It started when a nation formed called "Anti-Trabia" and they moved to FF. they are qouted here:
--------From FF region Message board-------
4 hours ago-
I have a master plan that will destroy The Federation of Trabia.

5 hours ago-
The Republic of Anti-Trabia Watch and see the empire crumble before your eyes. Keep posted.

5 hours ago-
The Republic of Anti-Trabia The Federation of Trabia is now under our control. The regional password is in my hands.
--------------------

They then proceeded to hack into my region under my nations name, reject me and my delegate Cruchy, and put a password on my region. Luckily I had another nation still in the region called "Final Fantasy Haven". I alerted all the members of FOT that it was not me who had done this. Later on, they changed the password again and changfed the factbook to:

World Factbook Entry: The Federation of Trabia is now under the control and ownership of Final Fantasy.

I was very mad that they had hacked and stolen my region, but I still had my nation Laosing. NOT FOR LONG.....
They then hacked my nation from the rejected realms and stole it as well, and changed the motto to "I surrender to anti-Trabia". I now have my nation in FF region and a seperate nation "Final Fantasy Haven" in the rejected realms. Im left with no power, no region, and I feel violated. He then has the nerve to send me a message from my stolen nation:

Hello, and grettings from the best nation on earth. You will find that I am much more powerful than your "law". Enjoy your stay in the Rejected Realms.

This really steamed my clams!!!! I want action and want to know if he could have hacked further into my computer. I want my nation and region back. I would also like to thank The CDM Cofee drinking Emirate of the Isle of Orleans for all his help and advice with this situation. Please moderators, do something to stop this.
Morporkustan
28-04-2004, 12:07
I have also been recently hacked....cracked....whatever....anyway,

I was just wondering what the procedure is? I mean, I can't get into my nations cause whoever did it changed the passwords.

Appart from telling the mods is there anything that I'm suposed to do?

Pork.
23-05-2004, 17:15
Hmmmm, we're keepin' an eye on this on our forums too. It seems he's no hacker, but just knows a little trick, so it doesn't seem he's much to worry about. Still, he has said he "has another plot", not that I believe it.
_Susa_
20-06-2004, 16:55
It is not hacking. Most computer security compromises are achieved by tricking people into revealing access information or stealing it from an insecure location. Actually breaking into the server and getting access to nation files would require a degree of sophistication vastly in excess of what anyone but a true expert could hope to achieve. And hitting an online bank would be a far more productive use of their talents.

Tactical Grace
Forum Moderator

Well, don't give them suggestions :o ! And, I think I might hear a little boast in that, like that NS has the security of a bank, maybe? Hehehe, j/k :lol:
Gothic Kitty
20-06-2004, 16:58
Every time when you dig in a grave, a present thread/problem goes one step down the ladder.
Myrth
20-06-2004, 18:58
Every time when you dig in a grave, a present thread/problem goes one step down the ladder.

Except this is an announcement so it's always at the top :wink:
Gothic Kitty
20-06-2004, 19:02
Every time when you dig in a grave, a present thread/problem goes one step down the ladder.

Except this is an announcement so it's always at the top :wink:

Lol, I thought this was an old thread. You know you've been on the internet to long, when .................... :oops:
Chessalavakia
16-07-2004, 01:39
Have you dealt with the possibility of her getting a proxy?
Carinthe
27-07-2004, 12:01
For your your information, the nation Iron Jokers does not belong to the hacker. I know the owner of that nation, and I can asure you it's a highly respectable law obeying player. No way that the owner of that nation would hack ever! It is just a coincidence that that name is used. I am dead sure that all mods can verify that.
For some reason he's using random names of nations to communicate in regional fora. Be careful. He has used another false nation's name too, which I don't recall anymore.
Myrth
27-07-2004, 12:16
wtf?
Carinthe
27-07-2004, 12:29
wtf?

Is that a spam message, or a question? :p
Gwarra-Gwarra
27-07-2004, 13:21
It's just kinda sad that these kind of things happen. This is not something to be proud of, it's something to be ashamed to the core of your being for (the people perpetrating the "hacking")

Oh well. Long may nationstates live on!
Sheewee
07-08-2004, 20:05
Hacking into nations? how low will people go?
Tora-Bora Talibans
07-08-2004, 23:18
how low will people go?

Heh, this is NationStates, get used to it :P
Hagge
30-09-2004, 20:30
Hacking in and cheat in a text game that is so low that is can't be descrived... boooo and shame on you all that do this!!
Hagge
01-10-2004, 14:58
This is the second day someone is trying to STEAL my nation and region... Two days after eathother some one is trying to loggin to my nation and Steal My nation AND my Region.
Where is the Game mods!!!!
It have to stop!!
Please Game Mods can you help us!!

" The Space Nation of Hagge
"You are in our heart, I want to live and die here."

UN Category: Iron Fist Consumerists
Civil Rights:Some Economy:Strong Political Freedoms:Rare

There have been 2 bad login attempt(s) since your last successful login.

Location: WWSETI"

Yesterday it was 5 attempt.
Thanks for your Help, RBS
Reploid Productions
01-10-2004, 19:28
This is the second day someone is trying to STEAL my nation and region... Two days after eathother some one is trying to loggin to my nation and Steal My nation AND my Region.
Where is the Game mods!!!!
It have to stop!!
Please Game Mods can you help us!!

" The Space Nation of Hagge
"You are in our heart, I want to live and die here."

UN Category: Iron Fist Consumerists
Civil Rights:Some Economy:Strong Political Freedoms:Rare

There have been 2 bad login attempt(s) since your last successful login.

Location: WWSETI"

Yesterday it was 5 attempt.
Thanks for your Help, RBS

We can't decipher who attempts to login to your nation- that is why the game now warns you of bad login attempts. The best way to prevent whoever it is from succeeding is to change your password every so often, and make sure it's long and not easily guessed.
Hagge
02-10-2004, 02:08
ok Thanks for your help.
District 268
20-10-2004, 16:12
Creative or uncreative hacking...it's still hacking. She tricked the players into joining an offsite forum and then stole thier passwords, using them for their nations.

...Even if the people shouldn't have used their nation passwords and came up with new passwords... :lol: :roll: :lol:

It sounds to me to be more of social engineering, as in tricking the members to give her the password. Either by pretending to be a moderator or admin for NS, or via a fake site that claims to be NS and capturing the password attempts. Also see Phishing, as in creating a bogus email or web site that pretends to be from another web site or company but collects the victim's information via a email or web form, they are tricked into entering it.

BTW I guess the same password for this forum is used by NS as well, correct? So someone with access to this forum, can get the password to NS accounts, in theory.
District 268
20-10-2004, 16:23
It was just abuse of your powers on the other forum to send the players email to your email accounts. I fail to see how this is hacking or cracking. This is more of abusing your admin/moderator powers to get the passwords of other players by, wait for it, wait a bit longer, almost there, cheating, yes I said it. This is more like cheating than actualy hacking or cracking.

Still I do see the reason why you did it. Yet you must understand that you broke some rules in order to do it. Which made the IP and Deat bans.

Besides a real hacker or cracker would use VPN or some proxy to hide their IP address so an IP ban would have no effect on them. Or in some cases a zombie infected PC that has a virus or trojan infection that allows the hacker/cracker to remote control the victim's box. Giving the hacker/cracker an almost unlimited number of IPs to work from.

I've been in some hacker and cracker forums, and I read up on how they operate. You may very well still be learning, but you are not hacking or cracking in the sense that others are.

If it was meant as a joke, good joke, but you got caught. :rolleyes:

Ok children listen here.

Lady Blue Moon
Enterthefist (runs under the AIM s/n of Iron Jokers)
did all of the "hacking"

I admit it because I am Enterthefist. I am leaveing Nationstates and figured I would tell you the tricks and whats right and wrong. This was a HIM and HER job. Just to clarif

Proboards,
The trick with the admin thing is a bit complicated. I will let you all know how it works. First off you can be a global moderator or an admin to get what you need. ok this is it.... When you modify a profile you can only change there password, not see it. So the way us low life genusis thought, was change the e-mail to something of ours then user there login name and do the "lost password" thing. then you recive the e-mail and BAM you got there pass. This only worked with a few nations, hence the Moderators not being hacked.

I have stolen many nations off of people.
Cidonia, Old Carthage, Grazon, Toored, ect...
I was the theif and LBM was the spy

Also the nation "Reformed Germany" I only gave him some nations of mine but he still finds it fun to flame and piss off the mods.

Faxlandu... he was Grazon before I hacked him. You could check the start up IP, it would match his.
Toored.... is still Toored2, I didn't take that.
Old Carthage, was an inactive USSR nation (not sure of owner)
Cidonia, well someone sent me some Telegrams about me hacking it but the nation is deated now.

So before this nation is Deated with the rest of me. I am just letting you know that some people like Fax and Toored2 should get there nations back. They were only deated because of my and RG flaming and spamming, on purpose.

I am the last of the "hackers" LBM is IP banned and Reformed Germany is quiting with me. Well it has been fun since day one when I joined NS, and I know many nations of NS thought of me as someone who made this game worth while, making up side regions and plaguing war on the main region. It kept the players active and everyone had a good time.

Fax/Grazon, Remember when I was recruited by toored? I used the name VolumeSeven, and then I beleave it was Reploid that revived my first ever nation "TheCokeMan". The old days man.... tradeing Coke for Enterthefist and bam I got my name. Now look at me... deated on sight, no use of starting up again. Well I guess I am leaveing you with a peace of NS history. Me and LBM made the news section and I am satisfied enough. I know I have been plagueing NS for about 2 weeks now with Nation Stealing but I guess my time is up.

If you want to talk to me, AIM: Iron Jokers
Best of Wishes to your up rising on the Ranks. Sorry I dented it a bit by scaring people with these "Hacks" Enjoy.
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The leaders of life
01-12-2004, 04:39
Someone hacked into mine and changed my password, i'm luckey that was all they changed i was able to get it back