Using some very basic tricks we can find the IP address of any remote computer and then you can start your further hacking into the remote system like port scanning and finding vulnerabilities to enter in to the system and hack it. There are several methods to get an IP address of the victim but i will share few and specially the best one's that can tell you IP address in just few clicks and also all are free methods and special thing is about it is all are manual methods that means you did not require any tool.
4 ways to get the IP address of the Victim or another Computer:
1. Using PHP notification Script
2. Using Blogs and Websites
3. Using Read Notify service
4. Sniffing during Gmail and yahoo chat sessions
As
we are here to learn concepts so i will first explain what is an IP
address and what's its importance. So friends very basic question What
is an IP address? Why its important for hackers and security
professionals?
What is an IP address?
Basically IP address (Internet Protocol address)
is a unique numerical value that is assigned to any computer or printer
on a computer network that uses an internet protocol for communication
purpose. Protocol is basically rules( for Network its rules for
communication).
IP address serves for two basic purposes:
1. Host or network interface identification
2. Location Addressing
For exploring more about IP addressing read on wikipedia.
How to Find IP address of another computer?
1. Using PHP notification Script
Using this Notification script you can get the IP address in just seconds. Steps of using this PHP script:
a. Download the PHP notify script and extract files.
b. Now you will get two files IP.html and index.php . You need to upload these two files to any free web hosting server.
Example:
i used www.my3gb.com to upload these two files. Create an account there
and upload these two files there as shown below.
c.
Now you will need to send the link of index.php to the victim whose
password you want to get. to get the link click on index.php shown in
above snapshot. Now a new window will open copy the link in the address
bar and send to the victim whose IP address you want.
d.
Now when the victim opens the above link nothing will open but his Ip
address is written into the ip.html file. So open the ip.html file to
get his IP address.
e. That's all this method... I hope you liked it.
2. Using Blogs and Websites
This method is for those who have their blogs or websites. Normal users can also do this as blog is
free to make. Make a new blog and use any stats service like histats or
any other stats widget. Just add a new widget and put histats code
there and save template. And send the link of your blog to your friend and get his IP.
That's only.
3. Using Read Notify service
This is an email based service. Steps to use Read Notify service:
a. First open the Read Notify website : RCPT
b. Now register on this website and then it will send you confirmation mail. Verify your account.
c. Once your account is activated.
Do the following steps use this service:
- Compose your email just like you usually would in your own email or web email program
- Type: .readnotify.com
on the end of your recipients email address (don't worry, that gets
removed before your recipients receive the email). Like this: shiviskingg@gmail.com.readnotify.
com - Send your email
- don't send to and from the same computer
- if your email program 'auto-completes' email addresses from your address book, you'll need to keep typing over the top of the auto-completed one to add the .readnotify.com
- if you are cc-ing your email to other readers, you must add tracking to all of them
4. Sniffing Yahoo and Gmail Chat sessions
With
the help of Sniffers like ethereal, wireshark etc we can sniff the
Gmail, and yahoo chat sessions while we are chatiing to any our friend
and extract the IP address from there. I will explain this trick in detail in my next article as its a long article in itself.
5. Bonus Method for Online Gamers
We
can also get the IP address from online games like counter strike, age
of empires in Game ranger etc.. Many counter strike servers use amx
mode. Just view which people are connecting and whats their IP addess as
plugins show the IP address of people connecting to the game server.
If you have more access to counter strike server you can use status
command in console. Just go to console and type "status"(without quotes)
and press enter there you can see all players details his steam ID and
much more depending upon server.Now you have IP address but what you can do with an IP address. Ahhaah everything, that i will explain in my next article.
Protecting
Identity over Internet is need of the hour and the first step towards
it is by masking your actual Ip address.By masking IP address you will
show fake IP address to online hackers.Everytime you visit a website
your IP address is saved into the log of the website which can be
abused by some evil minds if they gain access to website database.
Security of laptops and notebooks have been evolving with new technologies like fingerprint readers,eye scanners,face recognition etc but what about the personal computers?
If
you want to block certain websites on your computer without any
software then this trick can be very helpful to you.You can block any
number of websites and if blocked they cannot be opened in any browser
like google chrome,firefox,opera and Internet explorer.
Sometime back someone decided to create ‘Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope’ in command line interface so
that you can watch it on DOS .There is no sound associated with this
movie but the dialogues are written alongside the screen.It is real fun
to watch starwars movie in DOS.This trick requires that you should have
internet connection.As this trick is in command line interface so it
doesn’t need high speed internet connection and even dialup
connections will work smoothly.
We
usually update our facebook status with a quote or share a line about
our day.All of us want to get attention of others to our status.In one
of my earlier post I wrote about the 
