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I host most of my pictures I use on this site on flikr, as I was browsing my top pictures list for the first time, I saw a comments on a picture of Adrian Lamo by the man himself. I used this picture on an article I did about a year ago on “Top 10 Black Hat Hackers“. Seems like Adrian is not a big fan of this picture of his, as he writes “If I could make this photograph unexist, I would.” Who is Adrian Lamo? From wikipedia:

I earlier wrote about What is DNS and how it works, also we read How OpenDNS works. Recently US-CERT ( United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team) released the vulnerability note VU#800113 stating that many DNS implementations are vulnerable to DNS Cache Poisoning owing to three main reasons:

I am an avid geek when it comes to network and application security and i truly enjoy reading and executing more about stuff related to these subjects. Earlier, in one of my previous blogpost, i had introduced you to a sandbox system using which you can learn some good to know basics of Hacking. Today let me introduce you to such a system which can help you harden your Ruby on Rails applications by educating you about the various pitfalls.

In my previous educational posts, you learnt how to spoof a Yahoo user and stay safe by not getting Phished. You also learnt What is email spoofing and how you can protect your online identity. However, unfortunately, phishing techniques dont just end here. There are numerous way which can lead you to give away your security details. The latest technique being used by the Phishers is installation of trojan-spy applications which then in turn send the data back to the Phishers.

Recently one of my friend got a mail from his bank, asking him to update his account information. He clicked on the link to fill out the information, and just a few days later, his bank account was emptied. Does this story sound familiar to you? This is called Spoofing / Phishing. In this post, i will explain you the process as to how this works and how you can ensure that you don’t end up revealing your online identity to phishers. [Image Source: Flickr] Email spoofing definition as obtained from the Wikipedia goes like this

"The sections below develop reasons for adoption of free software exclusively for school education. Towards the end, a list of policy guidelines and recommendations are provided for discussion. The document does not cover the pros and cons of using ICT for education. I will try to intervene during the deliberations on these issues. Why Free Software for education? ..."

ESR: "These are people (mainly adolescent males) who get a kick out of breaking into computers and phreaking the phone system. Real hackers call these people ‘crackers’ and want nothing to do with them. read more

This post is about an interesting hack to bypass the login passwords in Windows. Application of this hack will result in Windows logging you on everytime as a certain user ( Please do remember at this point that this trick is useful if you are the sole user of your computer. ) Follow the steps mentioned below to apply this trick

• Click Start -> Run.
• Type Control userpasswords2
• Press Enter.

If you've ever had suspicions that someone may be reading your email but you've never seen proof, weblog MakeUseOf details how to set up an "electronic tripwire" in your email account to keep you...

I have been using Gmail since the day it was launched and have always found it easy and interesting to work with. Also, few days back, i had written a post which described about sorting unread messages in Gmail so that they always appear at the top. Today, in this post, i shall present you with some more Gmail Hacks which can help you get most out of Gmail ( my favorite email engine). Date Search using Gmail

This post is primarily an attempt to bring out 5 posts from the Archives. The posts listed here have been popular with the readers since the time they got published. Hope you will enjoy reading/ glancing through them again.

The motivation behind writing this post came when over the weekend, i got a chance to meet a few friends who happen to work with an IT Giant here in Bangalore. After a cup of coffee and usual discussions, one of them pointed out that they have an interesting situation in their office, wherein the System Admin team has disabled access to the USB Port thereby leaving their iPods, Digi cams, USB Sticks useless in workspace environment. As per the Microsoft knowledge base article 823732 which contains instructions on how to disable USB storage access for a certain group of users this diabling and re-enablement of USB ports is based on a simple registry entry.

WirelessKeyView is an excellent utility to recover all wireless network keys (WEP/WPA) which are stored in your computer by the ‘Wireless Zero Configuration’ service of the Windows XP and by the ‘WLAN AutoConfig’ service of the Windows Vista operating system. It allows you to easily save all keys to text/html/xml file, or copy a single key to the clipboard. In the lasted version of the utility support for deleting the wireless keys of old network adapters has also been added.