Most of the times, employees at work will not be able to download softwares from the internet which might not be related to the work they are doing. The companies’ firewalls act upon the files based upon the extensions. This is where Download at Work steps in to help by routing the downloads through their [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, August 28, 2008
Using only information from Facebook, blogs, and resumes, security expert Herbert Thompson hacked into his friend’s bank account in minutes. Makes you want to seriously rethink your answers to lost password “challenge” questions.
Continue reading...Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Have you ever felt the need to run multiple instances of GTalk? Personally, I do. One has my personal friends list and the other one professional. Follow the steps to run two instances of GTalk client simultaneously: Locate the existing GTalk shortcut or icon (It should be on your desktop or start menu or quick menu). Once located, [...]
Continue reading...Monday, August 25, 2008
Airtel and Apple have worked closer together on the iPhone 3G than previously known. In an interview with Indiatimes, Bharti Airtel’s CIO and IT director Jai Menon claimed that the Airtel version of the iPhone 3G was hacker-proof. Apparently the Airtel-specific applications on the iPhone have been developed closely with Apple and “suitable levels of [...]
Continue reading...Monday, August 25, 2008
NetResView is small free utility which when executed gets the list of all available network resources that are available through LAN. This includes even the admin and hidden shares from all workgroups and domains. This is a pretty useful tool that you can use to find all the list of available resources available in the network [...]
Continue reading...Friday, August 22, 2008
POST EDITED: Thanks to Shreevardhan, I have decided to remove this post as it encourages hacking. Personally I am fine with minor hacks which doesn’t harm anyone but this post was encouraging stealing of usernames. Extremely sorry for publishing it in first place and thanks to Shreevardhan and others for alerting me.
Continue reading...Thursday, August 21, 2008
Have you ever wanted to edit the web pages of another website? This simple line of code makes it possible. Of course you can’t actually edit the actual web page but you can edit the page as you see it on your screen. This is one of the ways scammers create fake screenshots, fake Adsense & [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Just a month back I had posted on how the security is compromised in GMail and how to make it more secure. If you haven’t done that yet, do it right away. A tool that automatically steals IDs of non-encrypted sessions and breaks into Google Mail accounts has been presented at the Defcon hackers’ conference in [...]
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Monday, September 22, 2008
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