Competition time again!
As you know we started the Darknet Commenter of the Month Competition on June 1st 2007 and it’s been running since then! We have just finished the fourteenth month of the competition in July and are now in the fifthteenth, starting a few days ago on August 1st - Sponsored by GFI.
We’ve successfully [...]

Competition time again!
As you know we started the Darknet Commenter of the Month Competition on June 1st 2007 and it’s been running since then! We have just finished the thirteenth month of the competition in June and are now in the fourteenth, starting a few days ago on July 1st - Sponsored by GFI.
We’ve successfully [...]

Competition time again!
As you know we started the Darknet Commenter of the Month Competition on June 1st 2007 and it’s been running since then! We have just finished the twelfth month of the competition in May and are now in the thirteenth, starting a few days ago on June 1st - Sponsored by GFI.
We’ve successfully [...]

Competition time again!
As you know we started the Darknet Commenter of the Month Competition on June 1st 2007 and it’s been running since then! We have just finished the eleventh month of the competition in April and are now in the twelfth, starting a few days ago on May 1st - Sponsored by GFI.
We are [...]

Competition time again!
As you know we started the Darknet Commenter of the Month Competition on June 1st 2007 and it’s been running since then! We have just finished the tenth month of the competition in March and are now in the eleventh, starting a few days ago on April 1st - Sponsored by GFI.
We are [...]

Competition time again!
As you know we started the Darknet Commenter of the Month Competition on June 1st and it ran for the whole of June and July. We have just finished the ninth month of the competition in February and are now in the tenth, starting a few days ago on March 1st - Sponsored [...]

Competition time again!
As you know we started the Darknet Commenter of the Month Competition on June 1st and it ran for the whole of June and July. We have just finished the eigth month of the competition in January and are now in the ninth, starting a few days ago on February 1st - Sponsored [...]

Competition time again!
As you know we started the Darknet Commenter of the Month Competition on June 1st and it ran for the whole of June and July. We have just finished the seventh month of the competition in December and are now in the eight, starting a few days ago on January 1st - Sponsored [...]

Happy New Year to everyone and cheers to a fantastic 2008.
Let’s hope the year is buzzing with security news, there are interesting and exciting new developments and tools and the Darknet community can grow and become more active.
If you can help us promote the site we’d appreciate it! Just drop a mention to friends, link [...]

I’d just like to take this opportunity to wish you all a jolly and safe Christmas, enjoy some time with your families and friends.
Relax, have some food, some drinks and some fun.
I’d like to thank you all for your continued support, reading, rss subscriptions and especially to those who actively comment.
I really enjoy each and [...]

Competition time again!
As you know we started the Darknet Commenter of the Month Competition on June 1st and it ran for the whole of June and July. We have just finished the sixth month of the competition in November and are now in the seventh, starting a few days ago on December 1st - Sponsored [...]

Competition time again!
We unfortunately lost quite a few comments due to the server crash in early October, but activity after that was pretty good with some excellent quality comments.
As you know we started the Darknet Commenter of the Month Competition on June 1st and it ran for the whole of June and July. We have [...]

So I’ve got a VPS set-up for Darknet, it’s not quite a dedicated server or a co-lo but it’s pretty close and it’s much more affordable!
Can’t beat a bit of root access so I can rysnc things off to another box.
The box will be backed up off-site every day anyway, and I’ll pull back-ups daily [...]

Ok I’ve just painstakingly restored all the posts I could find since September 10th until now from Google Cache.
I’ve worked out the maximum posts missing would be 1 as I could get the cache back to September 12th and the latest post before that is September 10th, or I might not have posted on September [...]

There was a massive failure on our web-host resulting in almost 100% data loss, our own back-up was from September 10th so we are trying to restore the site to full capacity as we speak.
It’s in a bit of a mess at the moment, but we’ll get it back up to speed at latest by [...]

Competition time again! It wasn’t that close this month, activity seems to have dropped off a bit, but we had a wider variety of comments and some good quality - which is important!
As you know we started the Darknet Commenter of the Month Competition on June 1st and it ran for the whole of June [...]

Ah it’s that time again! It wasn’t as close as last month, but it was pretty close again.
As you know we started the Darknet Commenter of the Month Competition on June 1st and it ran for the whole of June and July. We have just finished the third month of the competition in August and [...]

Daniel has received his prices for winning the June competition.
Doesn’t he look smart!

He’s happy! I want a silver PSP too *sigh* so sad they give it to other people haha.

So keep commenting guys and keep up the good discussion, in the world of blogs you ‘tip’ the author by leaving comments. It makes us happy [...]

So, I guess you guys are wondering who has won the July contest? It was a pretty close call.
As you know we started the Darknet Commenter of the Month Competition on June 1st and it ran for the whole of June, we have just finished the second month of the competition in July and are [...]

Ah so this is what you’ve been waiting for!
As you know we started the Darknet Commenter of the Month Competition on June 1st and it ran for the whole of June, we are now in the second month of the competition with new runnings starting yesterday, July 1st - Sponsored by GFI.
We are offering some [...]

The best commenter of the month competition is now running, as sponsored by GFI the best commenter of the month will win a PSP or iPod each month!
More details will be revealed as we go along.
Along with that you get the chance to win some pretty cool GFI merchandise, they sent some to me, [...]

From now on we will be having a commenter of the month competition here at Darknet to encourage quality comments and discussion.
We hope to get more interactive here and we will be giving out prizes sponsored by GFI such as PSP’s iPods and other cool stuff bundled with goodies from GFI such as mugs, key-chains [...]

Apologies for the recent down-time at Darknet, the longest we’ve had so far I think.
The disk-array crashed completely, hardware fault, so rebuilding and recovering the data from the bad disk, then restoring everything was a fairly long process.
The site was back up quite early but the database inaccessible due to the taxing of the processor [...]

Yes it’s been exactly one year since Darknet was relaunched in it’s new form supported by Wordpress and a variety of posts about tools, tutorials and the latest news from the information security and specifically ethical hacking areas.
The first post of the new site:
Welcome to Darknet - The REBIRTH
It’s been an interesting year with 2 [...]

It’s been a good year for Darknet since the relaunch in February and I’d like to take this chance to thank you for your readership, with over 2300 RSS subscribers during the week the readership has grown into a solid base.
I’d like to thank you all for reading, commenting and linking to Darknet and supporting [...]

If you aren’t using RSS you can now subscribe to Darknet via e-mail, you will receive a daily update of the posts published in the last 24 hours.

Enter your Email

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Might be useful if you don’t have frequent access to check the site too.
Cheers!
SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “Darknet - Subscribe by E-mail”, url: “http://www.darknet.org.uk/2006/07/darknet-subscribe-by-e-mail/” });

Well the original Gouki (also known as Akuma) is a character from the Street Fighter game series. I started using this handle approximately 10 years ago, when I was a big fan of the game.
The Gouki behind the keyboard
Personal Homepage
I was born in Portugal and unfortunately, that’s where I currently live. Lisbon, to be accurate. [...]

As I’ve been Digged about 5 times now…and somehow got Slashdotted (whilst I was sleeping) until my server crashed and my host started crying..and my bandwidth went out.
I can give a reasonable comparison between Slashdot and Digg traffic.
From what I’ve seen Digg traffic is between 4,000 and 20,000 hits depending what time it hits the [...]

Im a tinkerer. I can’t say I’m expert in anything more than ASP and MSSQL, but I make a point of playing and learning anything new and wanky. I’ve tweaked dBase, fiddled with Python, installed Apache, destroyed MS2003 server, plugged in SUN boxes, screamed at VisualStudio, urinated on Fedora, set fire too Game [...]

Shaolin introduced him self, and said he had asked every one to do like wise. News to me mate or did that slip my mind? Can’t see how it could but one never knows…
So, any way, who the hell am I? I have known Shaolin for years, he might have some idea how many, [...]

Well seen as though I tell the others to do some kind of introduction, probably I should do one for myself too.
Then
I started out with a Spectrum ZX-81 back in the olden days, typing whole games out of the Spectrum magazines I picked up from charity shops.

Yah it had no tape drive, no disk drive, [...]

Interesting to see which RSS aggregators and readers Digg users are using.
As you can see after being ‘digged’ on Monday February 27th, the RSS subscriber base spiked from about 21 up to 182 at the highest point, after a day it receded back to around 150, and now it’s about 130.

The biggest Agent in the [...]

Following the recent post by backbone, I decided to post a short introduction as well.
Background
I am from The Netherlands, Europe — a country most people probably have heard about. Either because of the legendary HackTic-foundation that later started the ISP XS4ALL and otherwise undoubtably because of our liberal stance towards soft-drugs and prostitution.
I have [...]

This is just an introductory article about myself, nothing interesting (for the most of you) will be revealed in this article, I re-edited it because it had to meet the EU standards (you know Romania will be part of it on 1st of January 2007).
A long time ago…
…I was a big game addict, computers had [...]

You can find the famous Darknet Links list here:
Hacking and Information Security Links
You can find the tools/guides/hacking tutorials here:
Hacking Tools, Tutorials, Papers Guides and more
How to Secure Windows 2000/Win2k
How to Install Debian Guide/Tutorial
Darknet Hacking/Cracking Trojan & Virus TCP/UDP Port List
All this information will be replaced with new updated versions as we work on the site [...]

Darknet is currently undergoing a relaunch, it has been rebuilt from scratch in a new style using a powerful and extensible open source CMS called Wordpress.
If you wish to contribute please contact us for access to the site.
We are looking for people to write articles about anything to do with Hacking, Cracking or Information Security.
Topics [...]

Hi….
It is a nice idea. I hope we all can put up some stuff, something that we are interested in and something that will get our grey cells working.
Maybe someday …. just maybe…this will evolve into an idea….a killer app!
SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “Get the ball rollin’”, url: “http://www.darknet.org.uk/2006/02/get-the-ball-rollin/” });

Next to do:
1) Think up some ideas for posts
2) Get some members to join up as authors
3) Get some input on the site design
4) Write the about page (Dig up those old memories, perhaps go back through the old Darknet HTML site)
5) Get some incoming links
6) Get some sites to promote the relaunch of Darknet [...]