anyone here know how to track down an IP address to see where exactly the location is? any help would be a appreciated. thanks!

 

What's the IP? Lots of tools to locate it.

 

Can't find exact locations but only cities in all the things I have tried. But I can ping a router so much that it will crash if I have the IP.

 

http://www.wikihow.com/Trace-an-IP-Address

 

the ip address is a bit weird from others that i have seen. a while ago, my facebook account was hacked by someone. and now, it was hacked again. the ip address that it shows that was hacked from is http://www.facebook.com/l/feb1a/75.36.182.38
i have no clue on what kind of ip that is..

 

http://www.geobytes.com/IpLocator.ht...s=75.36.182.38

 

http://www.ip2location.com/free.asp

 

alright so i now know its in newark. so pretty close to me. i cant really get a more exact location yet though but i will try. thanks guys!

 

the stuff you see in the movies where an IP will lead to a physical street address within seconds is just bull****.

1. just about every home leases an IP address.
2. you need a court order to get the ISP to get a physical address at a current time of day. and even then, the ISP might have a hard time doing so, or will give you a hard time...

 

maybe you need to strengthen your FB password...?

think of a favorite song line. now take the first letter of each word in that sentence, so it should be complete garbage.

then take the year you first got laid and modulus it by the number of partners you've had up to now.

concat the 2 strings together...

so for me, i like the line from the song CLOSER by NIN: "i want to f*** you like an animal."

so it would be I W T F L A A.

year i first got laid: 1874.

total number of partners: 281.

final password: IWTFYLAA188

 

LOL! Good advice though!

 

ive never heard anything so creative. lmao. but yeah i just changed the password and stuff again. something a lot harder to crack. thanks again guys!

 

be aware though. just about every single system out there does NOT store the password as it.

they run the password through a hashing function. what does that mean? there could be a good chance that if a hacker runs a force brute attack, there is a chance that another string, when hashed, has the same value as your password.

for example, this forum uses PHP. there is a function usually called to do this, CRYPT. this is a one way hash, meaning, once the password string has been hashed, you cant run it backwards to get the original string back.

what does this all mean?

like my sample given above, the password IWTFYLAA188 isnt stored like that in the database. it might look something like "$1$r35.Y52.$iyiFuvM.zFGsscpU0aZ4e."

now, a very slim chance can exist that another string might be hashed and that output might be exactly like your password.

i ran in situation a few years ago. a coworker left the office. but she password protected the excel file. she couldnt be reached. so her boss authorized me to buy password cracking program. it took my machine over a week, running 24/7 to crack the password.

the string that the program found was some random set of letters and numbers. meanwhile the real password was someone's name. both allowed me access to the file.


so in the end, even the longest and "strongest" password might still be hacked. the ultimate file protection, IMO, is adding a physical way of authenticating the user. like a biometric means, from retina scans, to fingerprint. on a side note, my avatar is from the cartoon DUCKMAN. one episode, a company used a sphincter scanning device to gain entry to secured room... lol...

 

HAHA. I laughed so hard. I've been meaning to get one of those finger scanners for my computer, just because they are hella cool.

 

i forgot to add... 100% loss could also be because of a firewall