Honeypots
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 network
Categories: Concept, Internet Security Tags: hacker trap, security testing, www.honeynet.org
Buffer Overflows
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 might be performed internally and externally by prospective users, but after that it’s off to market. There might still be some bugs, but these things can be caught by the consumers and patched in subsequent versions or updates.
Categories: Concept, Internet Security, Security Testing Tags: Buffer Overflows, flaws, testing, threats
SkyDrive: 25 GB of free online storage
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 and let us know what you think.
Categories: Concept Tags: 25 GB of free online storage, data backup, free online data storage, online drive
Translation Service for Google Talk
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 you want to translate. Google’s bots have a simple format for addresses: [original_language]2[destination_language]@bot.talk.google.com
Social Engineering
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, IDS, network design, authentication system, or access controls and still be successfully attacked by a social engineer. That’s because the attacks target people. To gain a better understanding of how social engineering works, let’s look at the different approaches these attacks use, discuss how these [...]
Categories: Concept, Internet Security Tags: primary defense to social engineering, Social Engineering
Domain Hijacking
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 he or she is no longer the owner and it is available for someone else to register. There are many websites on internet which keep publishing list of expired domain names or domain names which will be expired soon. Using this information domain hijacking is [...]
Categories: Concept, Internet Security Tags: Domain Hijacking, domain theft, expired domain threat
Whistle while you work to run commands on your computer
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 run processor-intensive speech recognition applications executing commands based on voice processing and requiring extensive configuration. While recent advances in processing power and algorithms have brought about user-independent voice recognition with reduced error rates, excellent opportunities exist for a simple tone pattern-based recognition system.
Categories: Concept Tags: innovative projects, sndpeek program, voice command programming
Virtual Credit Cards
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 been around almost seven years but have never caught on despite being a free and effective layer of protection. Now in India also several banks provide virtual credit card facility. After HDFC Bank and Kotak Mahindra Bank, ICICI Bank have launched Virtual Credit Card (VCC) [...]
Categories: Concept, Internet Security Tags: credit card security, Virtual Credit Cards
GMail Drive
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 from inside Windows Explorer. Gmail Drive literally adds a new drive to your computer under the My Computer folder, where you can create new folders, copy and drag and drop files to.
Categories: Concept Tags: free online data storage, GMail Drive, gmail tips & tricks
ZYB: How keep your mobile contacts and sms data safe
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 friend Sandeep suggested me one site www.zyb.com It’s really free and cool portal which will help you to backup all your mobile contacts and sms to ZYB account. The only thing necessary is that you must have GPRS or WAP service active in your mobile [...]
Categories: Tips Tags: mobile data backup, online phone storage, online phonebook backup, ZYB
