Just as honey attracts bears, a honeypot is designed to attract hackers. Honeypots have no production value. They are set up specifically for the following purposes: Providing advance warning of a real attack Tracking the activity and keystrokes of an attacker Increasing knowledge of how hackers attack systems Luring the attacker away from the real [...]
Programmers have a difficult job. Faced with tight deadlines and the need to get products to market quickly, security might be the last thing on their minds. The first series of tests are probably performed by the programmers and quality engineers to get an idea of how applications will function. Beta testing comes next and [...]
You can sign up here: http://skydrive.live.com Here are a few things you’ll find on your shiny new SkyDrive: 25 GB of free online storage Available in 6 more regions and 13 more languages Download entire folders as Zip files (limited release) Gorgeous online slide show for your photos And much, much more!· Check it out [...]
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Google launched translation bots for a lot of language pairs, even more than the ones available at Google Translate. To use them in Google Talk or in any other IM client that supports Jabber, you need to add one of the bots as a friend, start a conversation with the bot and enter the text [...]
Social engineering is the art of tricking someone into giving you something he or she should not. Hackers skilled in social engineering target the help desk, onsite employees, and even contractors. Social engineering is one of the most potentially dangerous attacks, as it does not directly target technology. An organization can have the best firewalls, [...]
Domain hijacking is the process by which internet domain names are stolen from the rightful registrant. Many people confuse domain hijacking with the re-registration of an expired domain by a new party. One is a legal process and one is not. Domain hijacking is theft, while if a name owner does not renew a name [...]
Today morning (Sunday, December 14, 2008 5:45 AM) while searching for some (MCA) project topic for my friends I came across one interesting topic. Concept of project was using open source software and microphone-enabled laptops to listen for specific tonal sequences and run commands. Sounds interesting!!! For many years, computer users have been able to [...]
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Millions of Americans are the victims of credit card fraud every year. A fifth of these people blame the internet. In fact, the top reason people shy away from internet shopping is the fear of theft of personal information. Virtual credit cards, also known as substitute credit card numbers or controlled payment numbers, have already [...]
Gmail Drive is a Shell Namespace Extension that creates a virtual file system around your Google Mail account, allowing you to use Gmail as a storage medium. Gmail Drive creates a virtual file system on top of your Google Gmail account and enables you to save and retrieve files stored on your Gmail account directly [...]
Hello friend’s mobile contacts, sms are really very important for all of us. Every one want some centralized and password protected backup for all this data. Suppose you lost your mobile and you want to restore or regain all you contacts and sms? Yes it is possible now. When I came across such situation my [...]
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