ghost 4815 - Hack Online Stalkers, Hackers, & Visitors: Get & Trace IPs FOR REAL

I've read many books about hacking over the years and I have been dissatisfied by all of them. A lot of them talk about things like port scanning and packet sniffing, and using tools like Metasploit, or finding shortcomings in a website's user input sanitization. All of the books went into detail about all the things I could do if I were a hacker, but none of them actually explained to me how to become a hacker. After reading at least a dozen books like this over the years, it was like I knew a lot about how to acquire a lockpick, all the things I could theoretically do with a lockpick, and how to use a lockpick, but I still knew nothing about how I could open a locked door. That's why I wrote this book.

This book isn't like other hacking guides, where it's like "All you have to do to guess someone's password is port scan them, figure out what server they're using, hope it's running unpatched software with an exploit that you can download online, then deploy it to the open port, then do something with the data to achieve some vague thing." This book won't tell you how to create a password cracker, as if randomly guessing someone's password is even remotely plausible for the average hacker these days. This book won't talk about feverishly trying to find mistakes in a website's input sanitization, allowing you to execute your own code on the site or server, where your main weapon against a target is sheer luck. This book won't actually teach you how to unlock a locked door. The main premise of this book is that an increased focus on internet security has made penetration out of the realm of possibility for most hackers nowadays. What this book will instead teach you is how to hack people who come to you . These people might be hackers or stalkers lurking on your websites, using tracking blockers and VPNs to keep their activities hidden. They might be people you've lured to your website for a specific purpose, who you can fool into giving you secret data. Or they may be just people already visiting your website that you want to find out more about. Either way, this book will show you how to weaponize your own web pages. To unmask your visitors. To track their location. To get them to reveal things that they might not want you to know. Or, to block them entirely. This book won't only teach you the basic principles behind hacking, it will go the full distance and tell you exactly how to hack people who come to your website and exactly how to get them there.

To do this, I'm going to first teach you the basics of PHP a language we can use to program servers to do our bidding. This sounds scary, but programming isn't that hard, and PHP is one of the easiest coding languages for a beginner to learn.

The Getting Started section will give you instructions on how to get set up to start hacking. I'll get you set up with a code editor, an FTP client, and a test server. I'll also teach you how to cover your tracks while hacking, using things like VPNs, free web hosts, hacking browsers, fake email accounts, and anonymous currencies. This section will also introduce you to hacking by showing you how to perform a quick, easy, no-coding-required hack that will let you read the source code of a website.

The How to Code section will be a crash course on PHP programming, teaching you everything you need to know to start writing PHP scripts. I'm going to teach you how to code, and then I'm going to teach you how to hack. Coding isn't scary and I'm going to equip you with the basics that you can use for white hat endeavors too, like getting a programming job. I'll walk you through creating your first program, and then we'll move on to learning about variables, functions, arrays, and loops. You'll also learn how to program your server to generate and manipulate HTML, CSS, and JavaScript code on the fly. By the end of this section, you will know enough about programming servers to start writing your own programs. This section won't include a discussion on best practices, so the scripts you'll be writing in this book won't be works of art. But, they'll work. This book is not intended as a comprehensive book about PHP we'll simply be using PHP to achieve our own hacking-related ends.

The following section, Dig Up All The Dirt on Your Visitors, will teach you everything you need to know to start extracting information from your website's visitors. We'll learn about how IP addresses work and how we can program our servers to extract data from them even if the visitors are using software to block online trackers. We'll also talk about getting visitor data from third-party services and APIs on the fly and making it available for use inside our scripts.

The Storing Tracking Data in a MySQL Database chapter is about saving all of your visitors' information into a database for easy viewing and retrieval. You'll learn about how to use PHP to communicate with a MySQL database and how to interact with that database using an open source software tool called phpMyAdmin.

The next section, Hacking with Tracking, will then explain how to deploy tracking against visitors. It will walk you through how to trick someone into giving you their IP address, how to identify fake IPs, how to geolocate website hits and track people's location, how to trick someone into revealing their real location, how to see who's trying to hide by installing a JavaScript tracker on your website, how to correlate tracking data to infer conclusions about who people behind IP addresses really might be, how to prank people by showing them different content based on reported data like their IP, and much, much more.

The final section, Weaponizing PHP , will be all about weaponizing PHP for offensive purposes. This section will show you a way to hijack a website using an iFrame, how to make a fake login screen to trick people into emailing you one of their passwords, how to hijack a contact form, and how to code a backdoor into a web application.

I want to note that all the apps, services, and websites mentioned in this book may not be around by the time you read this. If that's the case, it should be easy to find alternatives online. I have made it so that all the guides in this book are written to work with any similar app, service, or website you'd like to use, so the knowledge should still be valid even if the actual tools I'm mentioning have long since been shut down.

I hope you enjoy reading this book as much as I did writing it.

- ghost4815

1. You have a cyberstalker and you want to get evidence that they're stalking your web pages and social media, or to find a way to just block them entirely. This entire book was inspired by years of having to deal with my own wild experiences with a cyberstalker, along with dismissive members of family, friends, and law-enforcement, as well as, later on, fully complicit coworkers who were actively communicating with the criminal. In this book, you will learn how to become your own private detective, allowing you to expose a cyberstalker, block them, and collect hard evidence against them. Its not uncommon to hear victims report that an ex or ex-friend is still stalking them online 25 years after their last in-person contact. If that is your situation, first off, I'm really sorry. And second, the guides in this book will help you take a proactive approach to dealing with the threat, to get this person to leave you alone, or, failing that, to gather enough evidence to put them in prison if it goes on long enough to become a criminal matter.

1. You're a member of law enforcement and you want to learn how to deal with cyberstalkers, hackers, or pedophiles who are using tools such as Virtual Private Networks (VPNs), VPS servers (Virtual Private Servers), or tracking blockers to stay anonymous online. You might also want to learn how cybercriminals can weaponize the internet against their victims, allowing you to spot cybercrimes in the future. You'll discover all sorts of interesting ways to expose cybercriminals even though their IP address is bogus, allowing you to bring them to justice no matter how hard the bastards try to stay hidden.