How does Anonymous hack websites and find information etc?
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Software (be it website code like WordPress or server-run code/operating systems like Windows) can be incredibly complex and often has bugs. Some of these bugs are innocuous or can’t be triggered remotely. However, some can be triggered by sending information to the website, formatted in a certain way. By doing this, depending on the bug, you can fool the server into running any code you want, change data values, save files to the server, etc.
Programmers are constantly seeking these bugs out and fixing them. Unfortunately, not everyone updates the code they use. Suppose I was running a website using WebSiteSoftware Version 5. The makers of this found some serious bugs and released version 5.1. However, I didn’t update. Hackers find out that I’m running version 5 and, since they know what bugs were in that version, will know how to abuse the bugs to gain access. Then, they take control of the site and change the home page to say whatever the hackers want.
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