Ashish Bobade on September 24th, 2008

A keylogger, sometimes called a keystroke logger, key logger, or system monitor, is a hardware device or small program that monitors each keystroke a user types on a specific computer’s keyboard. As a hardware device, a keylogger is a small battery-sized plug that serves as a connector between the user’s keyboard and computer. Because the [...]

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Ashish Bobade on September 16th, 2008

It’s a very cool trick but I believe that terrorist must have used this method to convey messages across the world. I just found out that it is possible to hide TEXT messages in any images file. It can be encrypted and the text can’t be viewed easily. Hiding text in images is called Steganography [...]

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Ashish Bobade on September 16th, 2008

Accessing you bank accounts or any confidential accounts like DEMAT, online banking in cyber café will be insecure as your PC may be attacked by sniffers. Sniffers are a powerful piece of software. They have the capability to place the hosting system’s network card into promiscuous mode. A network card in promiscuous mode can receive [...]

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Ashish Bobade on September 11th, 2008

This is one of the interesting posts from Dharmesh Mehtas blog. Application Hacking is the trend of the industry. It started with viruses and worms – The age of anti-virus. It evolved with the internet as more corporations developed internal and external networks – The age of Network Security. Now as industry has been powered [...]

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Ashish Bobade on September 10th, 2008

Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner (WVS) is an automated web application security testing tool that audits your web applications by checking for exploitable hacking vulnerabilities. Automated scans may be supplemented and cross-checked with the variety of manual tools to allow for comprehensive web site and web application penetration testing. If web applications are not secure, then [...]

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Ashish Bobade on September 5th, 2008

Hi all. I had some situation to limit my USB usage.. .I was looking for some free software for doing the same. I found some magical steps which I want to share with you for enabling the USB drives support. Yes, In big companies they will play with reg. settings else in BIOS to disable [...]

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Ashish Bobade on September 5th, 2008

Hi all as we know about XSS attack there should be some method to prevent XSS attack. While surfing on internet I came across some code to filter PHP XSS attacks. License: This code is public domain, you are free to do whatever you want with it, including adding it to your own project which [...]

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Ashish Bobade on September 2nd, 2008

Cross Site Scripting is a condition in which data that is sent in a request to a web server, at some point either immediately or at a later time, is re-displayed to a user, typically unaltered. If this data contained any HTML syntax it would be interpreted by the user’s web browser. This data can [...]

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