Archive for the ‘Security’ Category

No More Cheating in the college exams-Spy Camera monitors your every activity-Beware Now..

Sunday, July 11th, 2010

University of Central Florida is fully equipped by surveillance cameras that will monitor every single activity inside the campus. Beware of doing any falsified activities during class or in exams. You will get caught.

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Google Webmaster Tools Offers Notifications for Hacking and Abuse

Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010

 

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Continuing with their effort to provide more useful information to webmasters, Google today announced that they will be sending more notifications to webmasters through Webmasters Tools’ Message Center regarding potential security issues on the sites they own.

Google Webmaster Tools seems to be the most important tool for any webmasters and bloggers for FREE and it is among the top tool now on the internet together with Yahoo Site Explorer and Bing Webmaster Tool.

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Twitter Hacked and Defaced by iranian Cyber Army

Friday, December 18th, 2009

This is not so secure World Wide Web, as the news buzzing the blogosphere and twitter is about twitter being hacked or defaced by group of people known to be coming from Iran.
Few hours ago Twitter looked like this ,
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New Captcha System based on Images and Text Combined to prevent Spammers

Friday, September 4th, 2009

A new captcha system and a complete user authentication management system vidoop is out there for corporate and business users that can sure prevent  spammers from spamming while still being easy on humans , you can try a demo for yourself at demo.vidoop.com and decide for  yourself that if you would be using it for you next web project or not .

 

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Require Password to Open any Windows Exe Program or Software

Tuesday, April 14th, 2009

You have an important software related to your Official work and you want to keep it safe from kids hand who might accidentally open it and change some settings etc. then here you have a perfect solution , you can try any of these two software which are free to download and use and will instantly secure any Exe file with a password

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Get All Passwords Saved in Chrome Browser easily and Automatically !

Friday, February 20th, 2009

Chrome has a serious security flaw and that is no master password for all the passwords saved inside a chrome browser, so if you have been saving your Login information in chrome then anybody who has access to your computer virtually or physically can just use this nice free password retrieval utility  Chrome Pass and  get all your passwords in seconds , you can do it either way  too, just go to  options and you can find all your saved passwords there .

I hope guys at Google fix this soon , else I do not know about others but I would be the first person to stop using chrome or rather stop saving my passwords inside chrome .

Vulnerabilities/Bugs in Chrome – Issues till Now !!

Friday, September 5th, 2008

image Chrome beta has received mixed responses from the blogging world but now it is time for outlining some vulnerabilities and issues with Chrome ( that’s why a beta is launched :) ) Here are some I found out through various Security websites ..

1. Open Chrome and type ":%" without quotes and it crashes , it happens for any  URL too, so even if you type "Google.com:%" it will crash …

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How to remove New Folder.exe (sohanad) Virus

Tuesday, July 29th, 2008

Also known as sohanad virus , this virus is generally found on USB drives, and your shared documents folder . This virus actively infects other people on LAN, if they have their write access enabled and in this manner it can propagate in LAN environments very rapidly .

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Watch Open network cameras around the world

Friday, July 18th, 2008

I still can not believe that , in this era of Internet why do people tend to forget to set passwords and take measures to protect their privacy . Here we have a perfect example of laziness or ignorance of people who buy network enabled cameras and forget to set passwords .

Just enter any of these query’s into Google search box and visit any of the results ,

inurl:"viewerframe?mode=motion"
inurl:indexFrame.shtml "Axis video server"
inurl:lvappl intitle:liveapplet
intitle:"wj-nt104 main"
intitle:"snc-rz30 home"

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few cameras will allow you to even pan, zoom and rotate them to have a broader look , look for the controls on the left .

This article is for educational purposes only , aiming to open the minds of such lazy people who tend to ignore security !!