What is HackLessons

HackLessons is a website dedicated to bringing hacking, modding, lock picking, etc resources/tutorials straight to your feet. The internet contains information on everything, however it’s hard to scour through. While we’ve spent a ton of time on HackLessons overall, we’ve spent a large portion of it on making the articles and videos. The reason behind this is that we want to provide the most clear, concise, easy to read and understand tutorials out there.

Some categories we currently cover or will be covering:

  1. Video Game System Modding
  2. Database SQL Injections
  3. Lock Picking
  4. WEP Cracking
  5. Password Sniffing
  6. File Sharing(Torrent, Usenet, etc)
  7. Ways to Better Protect Yourself
  8. And much more!

There are some very important goals/motto’s/guidelines or whatever you want to call them, that HL has at it’s foundation. While this might be a bit convoluted and incoherent, let me share them with you:

  1. Ease of use. Every article needs to explain things in easy terms. HL isn’t attempting to be the most indepth badass hacking tutorial website. What we’re attempting to do is make things that could be considered difficult, easy to understand for anyone. This means trying to provide an introduction article to every category, so that people can first get a simple grasp on the subject if they haven’t already. This also means providing videos (when possible) in every spot that people might get stuck.
  2. Categorization. This is the number one flaw Cracked Productions (which links here now) had, and it’s the same thing Hak5 (and others) have. They are doing things by Seasons, which sounds great, but the problem is that as time goes on, it becomes very hard to find exactly what you want because it may be in Season 5 – Episode 3, or maybe it isn’t… So for HL, we’ve decided to try to at least have some type of category system that is somewhat coherent. To be honest, you’ll probably see it evolve and change a lot as time goes on and as we expand. The more articles/tutorials we have, the harder it’ll be to keep everything easy to find. But we’re dedicated to adapting.
  3. Focus. We’re all about focus at HL. You may or may not agree with where we are going to focus ourselves, but nonetheless, we hope you can understand the why. We will be focusing all content towards two areas:
    1. Towards hacks that stay consistent across the board. I showed how to use dsniff+easyarp (and another video of Cain and Abel) to poison LAN DNS over 6 years ago. It still works. We show the same exact process on this site now. We won’t be showing specific hacks that only apply to some certain version of something. It’s too damn narrow.
    2. We will also be focusing on hacks that the average person could (and would want to) use. Examples are things like video game modding, lock picking, bypassing proxies to browse freely and play video games, and in general protecting yourself. You may say hell with the laymen, leave them be. But it’s my wish to raise the total awareness of hacking as a whole, and the best way to do that is to bring the least technology-inclined to a higher level. There are much more of those people than 1337 |-|4X0R5.

Is the information you’re sharing/teaching legal?

All information portrayed or taught on this website is indeed 100% legal and cannot be contested because the information is taught in useful legal manners. What this means is that when something is taught on HackLessons, it is taught in a way that you could definitely use it for a good legal purpose, even if other purposes may exist. If I taught how to use guns would you assume I was teaching people to kill? No, there are many good legal reasons to use guns: hunt, sports, self-defense, etc.
Please read our disclaimer to fully understand that we are not in any way responsible for any actions you take.

Can/Should I try to hack you?

While this site is all about hacking, I’d prefer you not to attempt to hack this site. I make no bold statements that this site can’t be owned or that I have an ultra secure setup. The truth is, there is nothing safe on the internet. All site’s, computers, etc are vulnerable to some form of exploit in one way or another, even if that exploit hasn’t been discovered/founded yet. I’m not attempting to dedicate my time to creating the most ultra secure site possible, I’m attempting to create some sort of knowledge base where any one can learn something new.

Besides, this site is more about trying to spread knowledge and less about trying to have an ego. Though if you do happen to find an exploit (or something), I’d love to know about it and wouldn’t mind giving credit where credit is due. Plus, if we come out with a premium version of the site, you’ll get it for free! 😀

Why don’t you charge?

I thought about it long and hard, and I decided it’s just not worth it. There are all kinds of issues that come up, so I decided it’d be best to simply put everything out there for free but with ads. This means that while yes, there are ad’s on the site, at least you’re not directly forking over cash. (Though we’ll gladly take a donation).

I will mention that we are looking into a premium service for down the road. It’s almost 100% likely that the premium service would offer no extra content. We’d like to provide the content to everyone, for free. However, we might offer tools and services that you can sign up for. Maybe a a premium package to access a package of all Hack Lessons services (none yet, but looking bright) for one monthly price. You don’t need the service anymore? You just unsubscribe. Anyways.. this is all hypothetical right now.

Who created HackLessons?

Zyaga is the brain behind the scenes. He’s the core founder of Hack Lessons but not the sole contributor. Some of you may remember him if you’re familiar with “Cracked Productions”, which now redirects to here. Zyaga ran Cracked Productions for 2 years, producing around 24 episodes, essentially two seasons worth of video content. But Cracked Productions was messy and insanely uncategorized. This is basically the next level up. Hack Lessons is meant to redefine what Cracked Productions was trying to do. Content will be taken from Cracked Productions as well, when it’s of at least moderate quality.