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Default Passwords List now accepting contributions
Feb. 03, 2008

We have received a number of e-mailed submissions to our Default Passwords List along with requests for a form to add default passwords automatically. Well, your wish is our command! Click here to add default passwords to our list! Let's make the biggest and best default passwords resource on the net even better!

Rejected by Wikipedia?
Jan. 20, 2008

Have you recently posted an article to Wikipedia only to find it deleted? Perhaps your article wasn't considered "encyclopedic" enough, or it lacked rigorous sourcing, or espoused a point of view. Perhaps it was even me, Dethme0w, who proposed it for deletion.

Well, take heart. Your article may have a home here at AOH. We have considerably looser standards than Wikipedia does. We allow partisan screeds and religious rants (in fact we want them very much!). We have a whole section for fringe science; Wikipedia only allows writing about the existence of this subject. We really want lots of hacks and how-to's; these are deleted on sight on Wikipedia. The only things we don't want are items that will get us in trouble for hosting them: libel, illegal porn, passwords, credit cards, anything that can hurt someone just by being here.

You can even upload your stuff right now! We'll take care of categorizing it.

AOH New Look and Uploads feature
Sep. 04, 2007

If you've been looking around the site, you've probably noticed that we've changed its appearance to a dark and dramatic cyan-and-black colour theme which we hope will enhance your visit. It's intended to evoke the early days of the digital underworld, when text files, BBS messages, and the login screens of hackable systems everywhere were read on green phosphor monitors. Of course, those green phosphor monitors disappeared for a good reason, which is why we're only trying to bring you the feel of them rather than destroy your eyesight by faithfully reproducing them. Yuck. Anyway, the new look also includes some improvements to the side bars - we've replaced the link to the AOH BBS with a "Hot Topics" display; we've worked on making the ads actually have something to do with the content on the page you're on; we've added an Upload feature (because our FTP server has been gone since January); and of course we have cleaned up and added more files to the TUCoPS, /etc, and /etc/passwd areas of the site.

Have you created a text file, PDF file, or short video involving computer or telecom security? There's no better way to get your creation high exposure and really make a name for yourself than to upload it to a large and popular site like artofhacking.com! And uploading to us just got a bazillion times easier than it used to be!

THC BBS Turns 20
Jul. 09, 2007

Those of you who first visited artofhacking.com and its proto-sites (like "Fixer's Tech Room") less than about 7 years ago may not be aware that before artofhacking.com, there was a dialup BBS called THC - short for Tommy's Holiday Camp - where hacking and phreaking textfiles were stockpiled and downloaded in great numbers, and these same subjects were the focus of much forum-style discussion. Very much as AOH is today.

The BBS, however, was much more than that, and much broader in its interests and appeal than AOH is now. Games, dating/matchmaking, software downloads, chat among locals, the full slate of newsgroup-like "echomail" channels that wanted to be Usenet when they grew up. And all the porn you could eat. What it lacked was a large audience outside its local dialup area, but then a little thing called the Web came along, and dialup BBSes either became fossils or evolved, as THC did, into websites.

Today, July 9, 2007, is the 20th anniversary of the founding of the dialup BBS that eventually became this web site.

THC BBS still exists as an entity of its own, at thcbbs.com. As it was 20 years ago, today it doesn't get a lot of traffic - its heyday came and went like the summer and fall in which it occurred. It's not the Commodore 64 Blue Board it was when Ronald Reagan was the leader of the Free World, rather a phpBB like the AOH BBS, but it's there nevertheless, and who knows, maybe it's due for a comeback.

AOH BBS Open to new users again
Jun. 24, 2007

The Artofhacking.com BBS has been re-opened to new users. Back in February we were experiencing a major flood of new accounts being created by spambots that target the phpBB software used on the AOH BBS. Unfortunately, phpBB didn't (and still doesn't) ship with the kind of bulk user management tools we need to screen a large number of new accounts at once. In order to avoid AOH becoming a spam haven for every sex drug and so-called hot stock tip on the net, we had to temporarily close the door on new accounts. In the mean time, those needed management tools have now been written in-house and are proving very effective. The BBS is now open, come on in and pour yourself a beer and share your stories, questions, answers and general thoughts with the AOH community! And of course, no spam please.

Another lost AOH archive restored!
Feb. 20, 2007

After a five-year absence, the Game Sniper Archive (formerly called "Game Sniper 2000") has returned! This was an immensely popular part of the site and it was heartbreaking to have to take it down. However, with our former ISP and its bandwidth limitations long behind us, we have been on a program of restoring old archives and introducing new ones for some time now, and Game Sniper is the last of the removed former archives that needed to be restored.

Although new titles stopped being added in 2001, we have recently added a few dozen newer files to the archive (check out the "H" section under "Harry Potter", plus others) and we should be fully up to date within a few months. After that, the archive will be updated several times a year as all our other archives are.

As with all our archives, Game Sniper is free and requires no logon or anything from you - just surf in and enjoy!

Why you need Firefox...
Jan. 24, 2007

At AOH, all our PCs are 100% free of viruses, worms, adware, and spyware. Why? Because we use Mozilla Firefox, the fast, free and open-source browser with the best security features!

Don't take our word for it - read what the experts (and the hackers themselves) say about Firefox's alternative, a browser you are probably using right now, Microsoft Internet Explorer:

Firefox immune to outerHTML flaw in MSIE - MSIE (mshtml.dll) OBJECT tag vuln. - MSIE 7.0 beta Crash - Remote overflow in MSIE script action handlers (mshtml.dll) - MSIE ECMAScript interpreter stack overflow - MSIE Address Bar spoof - MSIE Address Bar Spoofing vuln. - MSIE Exception Handling Memory Corruption vuln. - MSIE vuln. based on MarjinZ & Mr.Niega discovered - MSIE Vulnerbility - MSIE vulnerbility - MSIE "createTextRange()" Code Execution - MSIE (mshtml.dll) - Remote Code Execution - MSIE - Crash on mouse button click - MSIE ART File Heap Corruption vuln. - MSIE DBCS Remote Memory Corruption vuln. - MSIE DOS vuln. - MSIE DXImageTransform ActiveX Memory Corruption vuln. - MSIE UTF-8 Decoding Heap Overflow vuln. - DoS vuln. in MSIE 6 SP2 - HTML Tag Memory Corruption vuln. in MSIE 6 SP2 - Multiple vulns in MSIE 6.0 SP2 - MSIE <= 6 DoS vuln. - MSIE crash - MSIE opera dos exploit - MSIE 6 Crash - MSIE ActiveX 0day? - MSIE UXSS (Universal XSS in IE - MSIE vuln. - MSIE 7 is a Source of Problem - MSIE 7 status: 8 days after release, 3 unfixed issues - MSIE 7 website security certificate discrediting exploit - MSIE 6 urlmon.dll Long URL Buffer Overflow vuln. - vml.c - MSIE VML Buffer Overflow Download Exec Exploit - daxctle2.c - MSIE COM Object Heap Overflow Download Exec Exploit - MSIE 'Crash' is Exploitable - MSIE (CHTSKDIC.DLL) COM Object Instantiation vuln. - MSIE (daxctle.ocx) Heap Overflow vuln. - MSIE (IMSKDIC.DLL) COM Object Instantiation vuln. - MSIE (msoe.dll) COM Object Instantiation vuln. - MSIE 7 - Still Spyware Writers' Heaven - MSIE Compressed Content URL Heap Overflow vuln. - MSIE Compressed Content URL Heap Overflow vuln. #2 - MSIE Multiple COM Objects Color Property DoS vuln. - MSIE VML Zero-Day Mitigation - MSIE CSS Class Ordering Memory Corruption vuln. - MSIE CSS Float Property Memory Corruption vuln. - MSIE Multiple CSS Imports Memory Corruption vuln. - Multiple vulns in ICQ Toolbar 1.3 for MSIE - .MHT Buffer Overflow in MSIE - a litle bypass with IE - Accessing remote/local content via MSIE (IE) XML parser - Address Bar Spoophing for the Pheeshies: IntotheNet Explorer 6 - Alpha Phishing - Another MSIE 4.0 filename overflow - Another way to crash MSIE - applicable exploit for winxp-sp2-uptodate MSIE - Another MSIE Bug - Buffer overflow in MSIE's HTTP parsing code - Bypassing SMTP Content Protection with Outlook - Buffer Overflow in MSIE - MSIE MIME Header vuln. - MSIE Flaws in Certificate Validation - Crash in MSIE 6.0 Sp1 - MSIE allows malicious VBScripts - MS05-020 MSIE DHTML Object handling vulns - DoS vuln in MSIE 6 SP2 #1 - DoS vuln in MSIE 6 SP2 #2 - DoS vuln in MSIE 6 SP2 #3 - MSIE Browser & Your Files and Folders ! - Dumb MSIE 6/XP DoS found on the web - Exploit for the MSIE Object type overflow - Exploit/DoS in MSIE 6.0 (OBJECT Tag) - Exploiting IE5 to manually force a file onto a target computer - MSIE Popup object fakes the location field - Flooding MSIE 6.0.2800 (6.x?) security zones ! - UPDATED - Flooding MSIE 6.0.2800 (6.x?) security zones ! CRITICAL - Forward:FullDisclosure/IE - Possible Address Spoofing - MSIE - cross site click detection? - MSIE - display arbitrary HTML - MSIE / Outlook / MS SHLWAPI Render - more trivial crash - MSIE 5.x keep-alive session hijacking - MSIE 5.x-6.0 allows executing arbitrary programs using showHelp() - MSIE 6 SP2 Possible URL Spoofing - MSIE 6.0 - trivial crash - MSIE 6.0 - trivial crash - part II - MSIE and .xla may lead to problems - MSIE Bookmark spoof concept - MSIE BUG, Mozilla DOS? - MSIE bug: loading HTML under a graphic file name - summary - MSIE Certificate Stealing (Phishing) bug - MSIE chromeless window vulns - MSIE Cross-Site Scripting in Unparsable XML Files - MSIE HHCTRL exploit still usable even after patch - MSIE HttpOnly circumvention via http TRACE (that requires already elaborate access) - MSIE iFrame + Sun JVM + JS bug. Exploitable? - MSIE issue with percent 20 - MSIE ms-its: and mk:@MSITStore: vuln - MSIE Object Type Overflow Exploit - MSIE remote code execution - MSIE Remote Compromise by Getting Cache Location - MSIE Script Injection to Custom HTTP Errors in Local Zone - MSIE Self-Executing HTML - MSIE Shared codebase of (eg. in Outlook) allows silent delivery and exec of code - MSIE URL Issue Being Used In Phishing In the Wild - IE, Opera DoS - IE-object tag longtype exploit - . . . and over 200 more bugs and exploits!

Plus, our entire site is optimized to look and work best in Firefox.