CEH Certified Ethical Hacker More Than 100 Success Secrets (e-book)

The Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) is a professional certification provided by the International Council of E-Commerce Consultants (EC-Council.) An Ethical Hacker is one name given to a Penetration Tester. An ethical hacker is usually employed by an organization who trusts him to attempt to penetrate networks and/or computer systems, using the same methods as a hacker, for the purpose of finding and fixing computer security vulnerabilities. This book is a perfect review for people who are knowledgeable on the subject of ethical hacking, desire certification, and want that last minute review and prep guide before going in for the exam. It is cost effective and to the point! Many guides already exist to teach the subject of ethical hacking.

A Hacker's Life Starter - Benjamin James (e-book)

How many people have you seen with the fantasy of learning hacking? A lot right? Now how many books you read with the material of hacking that didn't enlight you step-by-step?A few right? The A hacker's Life Starter will be demonstrating the most demanding topics used everyday in the society hacking world. In has everything a beginner or a professional would like to exercise and play with everyday. Because every single exercise are structured step-by-step. You will learn things like: The Hackers Tool Making Virus Cracking File Passwords Backtrack/Kali Hack Smart Phones Break .rar file SQL injection Phishing Denial of Service Wireless Hack Securing yourself And much more..

FL Studio Producer Edition 11.1.1 (32-64 bit) (Reg R2R)

Introducing FL Studio 11

FL Studio 11 is a complete software music production environment, representing more than 14 years of innovative developments and our commitment to Lifetime Free Updates. Everything you need in one package to compose, arrange, record, edit, mix and master professional quality music.

FL Studio 11 is the fastest way from your brain to your speakers.

What can FL Studio 11 do?
* Audio editing and manipulation including pitch correction, pitch shifting, harmonization, time-stretching, beat-detection & slicing, audio warping and standard audio manipulation (cut/paste etc).
* Automate most interface and all plugin parameters by recording, drawing, spline-based automation curves, automation generators with formula based control of links.
* Be hosted in other DAWs as a VST or connected through ReWire.
* Live music performance including video effect visualization.
* Mix and remix audio including apply real-time audio effects including delay, reverb & filtering.
* Multi-track audio recording up to the limit of your audio-interface inputs.
* Record & play MIDI input recording from keyboards, drum pads and controllers.
* Sequencing and arranging with pattern and linear workflow possible.
* Synthesizer & effect plugin hosting VST 32 & 64 bit, DX and FL Native formats.

Resource Hacker 3.6.0.92

Resource Hacker is a freeware utility to view, modify, rename, add, delete and extract resources in 32bit Windows executables and resource files (RES). It incorporates an internal resource script compiler and decompiler and works on Win95, Win98, WinME, WinNT, Win2000 and WinXP operating systems.

Viewing Resources: Cursor, Icon, Bitmap, GIF, AVI, and JPG resource images can be viewed. WAV and MIDI audio resources can be played. Menus, Dialogs, MessageTables, StringTables, Accelerators, Delphi Forms, and VersionInfo resources can be viewed as decompiled resource scripts. Menus and Dialogs can also be viewed as they would appear in a running application.

Windows 7 Sp1 Ultimate en-US (x64)

If you want to run Windows 7 on your PC, here's what it takes:

• 1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor
• 1 gigabyte (GB) RAM (32-bit) or 2 GB RAM (64-bit)
• 16 GB available hard disk space (32-bit) or 20 GB (64-bit)
• DirectX 9 graphics device with WDDM 1.0 or higher driver

Additional requirements to use certain features:

• Internet access (fees may apply)
• Depending on resolution, video playback may require additional memory and advanced graphics hardware
• Some games and programs might require a graphics card compatible with DirectX 10 or higher for optimal performance
• For some Windows Media Center functionality a TV tuner and additional hardware may be required
• Windows Touch and Tablet PCs require specific hardware
• HomeGroup requires a network and PCs running Windows 7
• DVD/CD authoring requires a compatible optical drive
• BitLocker requires Trusted Platform Module (TPM) 1.2
• BitLocker To Go requires a USB flash drive
• Windows XP Mode requires an additional 1 GB of RAM and an additional 15 GB of available hard disk space.
• Music and sound require audio output

Product functionality and graphics may vary based on your system configuration. Some features may require advanced or additional hardware.


PCs with multi-core processors:

Windows 7 was designed to work with today's multi-core processors. All 32-bit versions of Windows 7 can support up to 32 processor cores, while 64‑bit versions can support up to 256 processor cores.


PCs with multiple processors (CPUs):
Commercial servers, workstations, and other high-end PCs may have more than one physical processor. Windows 7 Professional, Enterprise, and Ultimate allow for two physical processors, providing the best performance on these computers. Windows 7 Starter, Home Basic, and Home Premium will recognize only one physical processor.

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Maximum Security - A Hacker's Guide to Protecting Your Internet and Network (e-book)

Now more than ever, it is imperative that users be able to protect their system from hackers trashing their Web sites or stealing information. Written by a reformed hacker, this comprehensive resource identifies security holes in common computer and network systems, allowing system administrators to discover faults inherent within their network- and work toward a solution to those problems.

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Machine Learning For Hackers (e-book)

If you’re an experienced programmer interested in crunching data, this book will get you started with machine learning—a toolkit of algorithms that enables computers to train themselves to automate useful tasks. Authors Drew Conway and John Myles White help you understand machine learning and statistics tools through a series of hands-on case studies, instead of a traditional math-heavy presentation.

Each chapter focuses on a specific problem in machine learning, such as classification, prediction, optimization, and recommendation. Using the R programming language, you’ll learn how to analyze sample datasets and write simple machine learning algorithms. Machine Learning for Hackers is ideal for programmers from any background, including business, government, and academic research.

-  Develop a naïve Bayesian classifier to determine if an email is spam, based only on its text
-  Use linear regression to predict the number of page views for the top 1,000 websites
-  Learn optimization techniques by attempting to break a simple letter cipher
-  Compare and contrast U.S. Senators statistically, based on their voting records
-  Build a “whom to follow” recommendation system from Twitter data

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Back | Track 5 R3

The time has come to refresh our security tool arsenal – BackTrack 5 R3 has been released. R3 focuses on bug-fixes as well as the addition of over 60 new tools – several of which were released in BlackHat and Defcon 2012. A whole new tool category was populated – “Physical Exploitation”, which now includes tools such as the Arduino IDE and libraries, as well as the Kautilya Teensy payload collection.

Building, testing and releasing a new BackTrack revision is never an easy task.Keeping up-to-date with all the latest tools, while balancing their requirements of dependencies, is akin to a magic show juggling act. Thankfully, active members of our redmine community such as backtracklover and JudasIscariot make our task that much easier by actively reporting bugs and suggesting new tools on a regular basis. Hats off to the both of you.



We would like to thank Offensive Security for providing the BackTrack dev team with the funding and resources to make all of this happen. Also, a very special thanks to

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Back Track 4 R2

“BackTrack is a Linux-based penetration testing arsenal that aids security professionals in the ability to perform assessments in a purely native environment dedicated to hacking. Regardless if you’re making BackTrack your primary operating system, booting from a LiveDVD, or using your favorite thumbdrive, BackTrack has been customized down to every package, kernel configuration, script and patch solely for the purpose of the penetration tester.“



This is the official change log for the update:

-  Kernel 2.6.35.8 – *Much* improved mac80211 stack.
-  USB 3.0 support.

-  New wireless cards supported.

-  All wireless Injection patches applied, maximum support for wireless attacks.
-  Even *faster* desktop environment.
-  Revamped Fluxbox environment for the KDE challenged.
-  Metasploit rebuilt from scratch, MySQL db_drivers working out of the box.
-  Updated old packages, added new ones, and removed obsolete ones.
-  New BackTrack Wiki with better documentation and support.
-  Our most professional, tested and streamlined release ever.This release comes with faster Desktop       responsiveness, better hardware support, broader wireless cardsupport, streamlined work                  environment. It also has the new kernel.

This release comes with faster Desktop responsiveness, better hardware support, broader wireless cardsupport, streamlined work environment. It also has the new kernel.



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Kingpin - How One Hacker Took Over (e-book)

Former hacker Kevin Poulsen has, over the past decade, built a reputation as one of the top investigative reporters on the cybercrime beat. In Kingpin, he pours his unmatched access and expertise into book form for the first time, delivering a gripping cat-and-mouse narrative—and an unprecedented view into the twenty-first century’s signature form of organized crime.

The word spread through the hacking underground like some unstoppable new virus: Someone—some brilliant, audacious crook—had just staged a hostile takeover of an online criminal network that siphoned billions of dollars from the US economy.

The FBI rushed to launch an ambitious undercover operation aimed at tracking down this new kingpin; other agencies around the world deployed dozens of moles and double agents. Together, the cybercops lured numerous unsuspecting hackers into their clutches. . . . Yet at every turn, their main quarry displayed an uncanny ability to sniff out their snitches and see through their plots.

The culprit they sought was the most unlikely of criminals: a brilliant programmer with a hippie ethic and a supervillain’s double identity. As prominent “white-hat” hacker Max “Vision” Butler, he was a celebrity throughout the programming world, even serving as a consultant to the FBI. But as the black-hat “Iceman,” he found in the world of data theft an irresistible opportunity to test his outsized abilities. He infiltrated thousands of computers around the country, sucking down millions of credit card numbers at will. He effortlessly hacked his fellow hackers, stealing their ill-gotten gains from under their noses. Together with a smooth-talking con artist, he ran a massive real-world crime ring.

And for years, he did it all with seeming impunity, even as countless rivals ran afoul of police.

Yet as he watched the fraudsters around him squabble, their ranks riddled with infiltrators, their methods inefficient, he began to see in their dysfunction the ultimate challenge: He would stage his coup and fix what was broken, run things as they should be run—even if it meant painting a bull’s-eye on his forehead.

Through the story of this criminal’s remarkable rise, and of law enforcement’s quest to track him down, Kingpin lays bare the workings of a silent crime wave still affecting millions of Americans. In these pages, we are ushered into vast online-fraud supermarkets stocked with credit card numbers, counterfeit checks, hacked bank accounts, dead drops, and fake passports. We learn the workings of the numerous hacks—browser exploits, phishing attacks, Trojan horses, and much more—these fraudsters use to ply their trade, and trace the complex routes by which they turn stolen data into millions of dollars. And thanks to Poulsen’s remarkable access to both cops and criminals, we step inside the quiet, desperate arms race that law enforcement continues to fight with these scammers today.

Ultimately, Kingpin is a journey into an underworld of startling scope and power, one in which ordinary American teenagers work hand in hand with murderous Russian mobsters and where a simple Wi-Fi connection can unleash a torrent of gold worth millions.

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Nik Software - Silver Efex Pro 2 Review

Create Stunning Black and White Digital Photos

(You can now get 75% off of the original price of the ENTIRE NIK Collection from Google when you use Coupon code KENK)

While there are countless ways to create black and white digital photographs today, Nik software’sSilver Efex Pro 2 stands out as my preferred method of creating Rich and beautiful black and white images in the digital darkroom.

I spent many years in real darkrooms back at the beginning of my career in photography. I think that having that background allows me to have a deeper appreciation of what is possible to do with digital images today on a computer. We are living in a golden age of photography where the possibilities for creating incredible images is near limitless.

While programs like Lightroom, Aperture, and Photoshop are quite capable of creating excellent black-and-white images, Silver Efex Pro 2 offers incredible diversity along with simplicity for the user. Anyone who is serious about black and white photography needs to try this excellent plug-in.

Luckily, there is a 15 day free trial of the software that allows you to test the full version with no limitations.

Intuitive Flexibility and Versatility

This software can be as intricate or as simple as you would like it to be, making it a solid choice for both amateur and professional photographers.

Some of my favourite features of the software are the possibility to emulate types of film, adding filters, total control of “film” grain, controlling image structure, one-click toning, and Nik’s U Point® Technology. While I’m using Silver Efex Pro 2 as a Photoshop plug-in, you can also use it as a stand alone product or in Lightroom and Aperture.

Let’s take a closer look.

Open up a colour image in Photoshop

The Silver Efex 2 workspace

The workspace is divided into 3 basic parts:
  1-  The Presets
  1-  The Image Preview
  1-  The Adjustment Panel or Tools

While you get a somewhat passable result in the neutral, there is no one button solution to creating a striking black and white image. The quick and easy way is to test some of the presets. If you want a quick conversion then one of the dozens of presets may very well be all you need to use. If however, you are more like me, then starting with one of the presets is a good place to begin before fine tuning the image with the robust adjustment tools at your disposal.
Each preset contains adjustments in brightness, contrast, structure, tone, film grain, and more. The serious photographer can use some of these presets as a starting point but will want to edit and fine tune the image more specifically to his or her needs.

Silver Efex Pro 2 presets with a split before & after preview screen

Less is more

As with so many other image editing plug-ins (as well as in Photoshop itself) going to the extreme possibilities can lead to destructive results to your image. Knowing when to stop is one of the keys of producing high-quality digital photographs. The controls in Silver Efex Pro 2 are extremely in-depth yet simple enough to use.

                                                         Global Adjustments

Global Adjustments

In this panel you control the typical brightness and contrast within the image. Two excellent features within this panel our dynamic brightness and soft contrast.

With the dynamic brightness slider Silver Efex Pro 2 does some of the thinking for you. The unique algorithms within the software assesses the different areas of your image and takes that information into consideration to give you a much smoother blending of overall brightness.

The soft contrast slider also will intelligently assess the overall contrast of your image and allow you to make subtle yet striking changes to the photograph you are working on. You really have to play with this slider in order to fully appreciate what you can do for you. It is a great addition to the plug-in.

Structure is one of my favorite parts of this software. Partly a sharpening tool, partly a depth tool; structure adds that extra bit of “oomph” to a photograph that takes it to the next level in terms of image detail.

                                               Silver Efex Pro 2 control points

Control Points

I love this feature. Control points allow you to selectively manipulate global adjustments in specific areas of your image. You can add as many control points as you wish to the image you are editing and control the size of each one individually. The top slider is the size slider which controls the area that you wish to adjust. The adjustment area is represented by the circle you see in the photo above. Dragging the slider left and right allows you to increase and decrease the size of each control. Below that slider are the enhancement sliders that give you full control over global adjustments in each individual control point.

With pinpoint precision you can adjust everything from brightness, contrast, structure, and even add color back to specific parts of your image. The selective adjustment control point tool is a very powerful feature yet amazingly easy to use.

                                                             Original Image

Filter Efects

Filters

Back when we were all still using film cameras, it was customary to use coloured filters on our lenses in order to achieve certain books to our black-and-white images. The same effects can now be achieved in Silver Efex Pro 2 with the colour filter palette. In fact you have far more control now than ever before since you can manipulate these filters from 0 to 200% intensity as well as select any color in the spectrum by using the hue slider to choose any colour you could possibly want.

Once again starting with the presets is a good starting point but certainly not a one-button solution. Carefully selecting hue and strength allows you to have incredible control over the colour filter tool. In the thumbnails above you will see how each filter reacts to a vividly colourful photograph at 100% intensity. Using the colour filters in conjunction with global adjustments, selective control points, film grain, and toning allow you to make stunning black-and-white or monochromatic images.

                                                      Silver Efex Pro 2 Grain

Grain Engine

Like so many of the other features in Silver Efex Pro 2, the grain engine is extremely versatile and delivers near unlimited possibilities in terms of grain structure within your black and white images. When are used to shoot with film I was a big fan of high grain films from Kodak, Fuji, and Ilford. Today I gravitate much more towards high definition low grain images. There still is a place for grain in photography though, especially in black and white photographs. With precision control of the grain engine it has never been easier to create beautiful high grain black and white digital photos.

                                         

                                          Toning menu with drop-down presets



Toning

I’ve always been a big fan of sepia and selenium toning of black and white photographs but I sure never enjoyed the horrible chemical smells especially when working with sepia toners in a traditional darkroom. This is just one more reason why I love working on digital imaging which gives me far more versatility and is far better for the environment as well. Like the other tools in Silver Efex pro 2 the toning tools are quite extensive.

You can use any of the 24 different presets for toning your images or create your own unique tones and save those as presets as well.

                                          Sepia Toned Image with Custom Vignetting




Vignettes and Burnt Edges

Creating custom vignettes has never been easier. Using the vignette and burnt edges tool allows you to darken or lighten the edges of your photo with good accuracy. Once again you can start with one of several presets and fine tune the results quite nicely with the different adjustment sliders.

                                                      Image Border sample




Image Borders

This is one of the only parts of the software that I find lacking. Image borders are tricky and also very subjective in terms how people judge them. Is a border really necessary? I’d say that in 100% of commercial professional photography applications the answer would be no. They just risk looking tacky. While I do like the use of image borders in iPhone or Android photography, those are just fun and playful ways of sharing snapshots. If your professional images require a fancy border to make them good, then it’s not saying much about the images.

These borders are customizable to a degree . There are several standard presets that you can fine tune but you can’t save your favourites as custom presets. Even if I doubt that I’ll use this feature much, the borders are relatively well done and certainly fitting in style for use along with black and white photography. There is room for improvement here though.

Presets

Silver Efex Pro 2 allows you to use any of its already existing presets but you can also create your own. Once you achieve an overall look that you enjoy, clicking the “Add Preset” button at the bottom left of your screen will allow you to save and name your own custom presets. Now with one click you can re-create your favourite overall looks on any new image that you are working on.

Creating and naming your own custom presets by using the selective tools can be a great time saver for future projects.

Pros and Cons

If when you are reading this review you feel like I’m not finding anything wrong with the Silver Efex Pro 2, you’re close to being correct. While I don’t do a lot of black and white work anymore, when I do, this is my go to software.

On the plus side

 - Amazing Versatility
 - Speed
 - Ease-of-use and navigation
 - Pinpoint accuracy in adjusting select parts of your photograph with Nik’s “U point technology”
 - Excellent overall image presets and toning presets
 - Infinite possible end results
 - The intuitive history browser similar to Photoshop’s history pallet
 - Nik’s intelligent dynamic brightness, fine structure, and soft contrast sliders
 - Compatibility with Photoshop, Lightroom, and Aperture
 - Film Emulation with grain control

The down side

Image Borders don’t support transparency on PNG files
It isn’t possible to see the original colour file while Silver Efex Pro 2 is active*
*Editor’s note: You can see the original colour image as was pointed out to me by the Nik team. I find the solution to be complicated and would love to see a simple “See Original Image” button that would allow you to revert to the colour image you began with as a preview at any point during your editing.


Here is the solution as given to me from Nik Software:


How to see the original colour file


a. Go to the History browser.

b. Click Compare once, this will have the History State Selector show up (this may seem like an odd UI, but when we always displayed the history state selector in the single image view mode, everyone that tested the software got really confused since the control didn’t do anything. It’s always visible in the side-by-side and split-view modes).

c. Drag the History State Selector to Original Image

d. Press and hold the Compare button

Wrap up

Nik Software offers some excellent tools for digital photographers and Silver Efex Pro 2 to me is their flagship plug-in. Not only does it work well and offer high end results that top photographers around the world are using but it is a lot of fun to work with. I do not say that about most software I use for work.

I’ve been wanting to share my Nik Silver Efex Pro 2 review for a while now but I kew it would take some time to cover all the features properly. This is a powerful and robust piece of software aimed at professional photographers and proficient amateurs. If you’re looking to take your black and white photography to the next level, then this software is exactly what you are looking for. Try the full product with no limitations for 15 days to see if it’s right for you.
Explore, Learn, Grow

Nik Software also offers several ways to learn how to use their products more efficiently. They offer webinars hosted by top professional photographers, on demand video tutorials, and a blog full of valuable hints and tips. All of this material is available for free.

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HOW TO TRACE ANY IP ADDRESS AND LOCATION

So, in this post I will show you how to trace any IP address back to it’s source.

In fact, tracing an IP address back to it’s location is a lot simpler than what many people imagine. There exists many online tools using which you can accomplish this job. One of my favorite site is IP2Location.com.
Just go to http://www.ip2location.com and enter the IP address that you want to trace in the dialog box and click on “Find Location”‘. With just a click of a button you can find the following information for any given IP address:

* Country in which the IP is located
* City to which the IP address belongs to
* Latitude/Longitude of the IP’s location
* Zip Code of the region to which the IP belongs to
* Time Zone associated with the IP
* Name of the ISP to which the IP address belong to
* Internet Speed of the computer associated with the IP
* Weather Station associated with the region of the IP
* Domain name associated with the IP address

A sample snapshot of the results from ip2location.com is given below:

You can also visually trace route any IP address back to it’s location. For this, just visit http://www.yougetsignal.com and enter the IP you want to trace in the dialog box and hit the “Proxy Trace” button. Wait for few seconds and the visual trace route tool displays the path Internet packets traverse to reach a specified destination. Hope this helps. Please pass you comments.

Instroduction to Computer Hacking

WHAT IS HACKING?

Hacking is the process of taking advantages of weakness in a computer or computer network to accomplish his goal. The person who is engaging in hacking activities called as 'Hacker
'. Hackers may be motivated by a multiple reasons, such as profit, protest, challenge or just for fun.

                                                         computer hacking




CrackersOne who breaks security on a system. Coined ca. 1985 by hackers
in defense against journalistic misuse of hacker (q.v., sense 8). An
earlier attempt to establish ‘worm’ in this sense around 1981–82
on Usenet was largely a failure.

Use of both these neologisms reflects a strong revulsion against
the theft and vandalism perpetrated by cracking rings. While it is
expected that any real hacker will have done some playful cracking
and knows many of the basic techniques, anyone past larval stage
is expected to have outgrown the desire to do so except for immediate,
benign, practical reasons (for example, if it’s necessary to get
around some security in order to get some work done).
Thus, there is far less overlap between hackerdom and crackerdom
than the mundane reader misled by sensationalistic journalism
might expect. Crackers tend to gather in small, tight-knit,
very secretive groups that have little overlap with the huge, open
poly-culture this lexicon describes; though crackers often like to
describe themselves as hackers, most true hackers consider them a
separate and lower form of life.

It’s clear that the term cracker is absolutely meant to be derogatory. One
shouldn’t take the tone too seriously though, as The Jargon File is done with a
sense of humor, and the above is said with a smile. As we can see from the
above, illegal or perhaps immoral activity is viewed with disdain by the “true
hackers,” whomever they may be. It also makes reference to cracker being a
possible intermediate step to hacker, perhaps something to be overcome.


Script Kiddie
The term script kiddie has come into vogue in recent years. The term refers to
crackers who use scripts and programs written by others to perform their intrusions.
If one is labeled a “script kiddie,” then he or she is assumed to be incapable
of producing his or her own tools and exploits, and lacks proper
understanding of exactly how the tools he or she uses work. As will be apparent
by the end of this chapter, skill and knowledge (and secondarily, ethics) are the
essential ingredients to achieving status in the minds of hackers. By definition,
a script kiddie has no skills, no knowledge, and no ethics.


Phreak
A phreak is a hacker variant, or rather, a specific species of hacker. Phreak is
short for phone phreak (freak spelled with a ph, like phone is). Phreaks are
hackers with an interest in telephones and telephone systems. Naturally, there
has been at times a tremendous amount of overlap between traditional hacker
roles and phreaks.


White Hat/Black Hat/Gray Hat
White Hat Hacker:

White Hat hackers are good guys who does the hacking for defensing. They probably work an organization for providing security.


Black Hat Hacker

Black hat hackers are bad guys(the malicious hackers or crackers). They usually steal the other bank information and steal the money.
They use their skills for illegal purposes.
They are creators of viruses,malware,spyware.
They will destroy your pc.


Gray Hat Hackers
Grey hats are hackers who may work offensively or defensively, depending on the situation.
This is the dividing line between hacker and cracker. Both are powerful forces on the Internet,
and both will remain permanently. And some individuals qualify for both categories. The
existence of such individuals further clouds the division between these two groups of people.
In addition to these groups, there are self-proclaimed ethical hackers, who are interested in
hacker tools mostly from a curiosity standpoint. They may want to highlight security problems
in a system or educate victims so they secure their systems properly. These hackers are
doing their “victims” a favor. For instance, if a weakness is discovered in a service offered by
an investment bank, the hacker is doing the bank a favor by giving the bank a chance to rectify
the vulnerability.

MICROSOFT ASKS FOR UBUNTU 8.10 REMOVAL FROM HOSTING SERVICE CLAIMING COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT

Microsoft has been made responsible for the removal of an Ubuntu image from a Polish file hosting service.


Most of the legit file hosting services try to discourage people from uploading illegal files, such as pirated Windows 8 images or games, but they rarely dispute the claims made by the parties involved.

This seems to be the case with the Polish file hosting website Chomikuj.pl, which received a copyright infringement letter from Microsoft regarding one of the files hosted on their servers, ubuntu-8.10-desktop-i386.iso.

According to di.com.pl, the hosting website immediately removed the files, leaving its owner wondering what he had done wrong.

Most likely, the files have been discovered by a search algorithm, which can look at several factors. The name, which in this case contains 8.10, might have been a trigger, which is also the most likely explanation.

On the other hand, it might have been an illegal copy of Windows 8.1 renamed to Ubuntu 8.10, and the search algorithm just looked at the size and hash sum.

In any case, it would be interesting to see how far these Microsoft infringement letters can go. Is everything with 8.10 in the name now in danger if it's hosted in the cloud?

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Used memory sticks being sold online contains sensitive Government data

Selling an used memory sticks often pose an information security risk- We might be thinking that we completely erased the data from it, but it is possible to recover the files that are not properly deleted with the help of some tools.

A recent study found that "old memory sticks" being sold online contain sensitive Australian Government data.

The research paper which is to be presented at a cyber security conference in Perth reveals how researchers discovered the confidential Government data while they are researching the used memory sticks, The Australian news reports.

The study found that sellers are sending memory cards without properly erasing the data. The recovered data not only contains a personal info but also appears to be information belong to Australian government.

"It is evident that actions must be taken by second hand auction sites, and the media to raise awareness and educate end-users on how to dispose of data in an appropriate manner," the study says.

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Google to Businesses: Don't Use Google+ (Yet) !

Twitter isn't just about tweeting what you had for lunch, and there's more to Facebook than 'poking' your friends and growing your farm. If you're a business owner, social networking is a great tool for promoting your brand, and at some point, Google+ will join the fray. For the time being, however, Google is asking businesses, universities, and other organizations not to bother with its social networking service.
"Right now we're very much focused on optimizing for the consumer experience, but we have a great team of engineers building a similarly optimized business experience for Google+," Christian Oestlien, product manager for Google+, said in a YouTube video. "We are very excited about it and we hope to roll it out later this year."

Oestlien said the business version will include things like rich analytics and the ability to connect a business profile to other parts of Google, such as AdWords.
"We will be doing some testing," Oestlien said. "We're going to take a small group of brands, businesses, and other entities and create profiles for them and see how users interact with them via circles, through the stream, and even how they communicate through hangouts."
In the meantime, Oestlien asked businesses to refrain from creating consumer accounts, warning that Google+'s policy team will actively work with profile owners to shut down non-user profiles.

Google Plus invite or Facebook video calling: What do you prefer !

What would you prefer, Google Plus invite or Facebook video calling? If you ask this question to anyone, the unequal response is known to us all. It will be Google+

It has not been launched yet. Nonetheless it is being talked about in very positive words and everyone seems to be smitten by it. So are we closer to yet another great product from Google, the search and advertising czar.

Google started off as a search engine. Initially it tried to find ways to satisfy its investors about its viability and its ability to generate fund and make profit. But when it discovered the moneymaking ability through its small adds on every other page on the internet, everything else fell in line.

Now it is the biggest advertisement agency along with being the largest search engine with close to sixty five percent of the search engine market across the world.

For the last two years there has been increased talk of Facebook overtaking Google not just in its reach but business as well. Facebook at one point of time was increasing its membership at menacing speed.

But now things are changing. Even before Google Plus became a talking point, there were reports that Facebook membership in its key markets in Europe and USA was declining. In the last few months alone Facebook lost close to 16 million users in the US market. And mind you, US market is financially most important market in websphere followed by Europe.

Now with Google Plus, facebook is now facing an existential threat from the internet giant that has killed many big time players in websphere. Yahoo, Hotmail, MSN just to name a few were among the top players. But they don’t remain at the same level any more.

So is it the turn of Facebook to face the onslaught from Google with Google Plus? During the more than a week it seems that everyone has been smitten by Google plus and its affiliates including Hangouts, circles besides other Google Plus adages.

Linked In Confirms Data Breach, Here's What You Can Do !

Phishers are coming out of the woodwork trying to bait panicked or otherwise unsuspecting LinkedIn users into supposedly 'confirming' their account, but what they're really doing is hijacking login credentials. They're also compounding the situation, whereby LinkedIn has now confirmed it suffered a data breach in which encrypted user passwords were compromised. Here's what you should do.
First and foremost, log into LinkedIn by typing the site's address directly into your browser and change your password. Don't click on any links in emails, even if they appear to be legit, which some of them do. It's unclear whether or not LinkedIn has begun notifying its members of the data breach via email, but according to security firm ESET, plenty of legitimate looking phishing emails are making the rounds.

The next thing you should do is change your password on any other site that uses the same login credentials. You should be using different passwords for different sites anyway, but if not, now's a great time to get into the habit of separating your online accounts.
According to reports, around 6.5 million LinkedIn passwords fell into malicious hands, so there's a good chance yours is one of them. If you want to know for sure, LastPass has an online tool that will compare the SHA-1 hash of your password with those that have been compromised. But is it safe to fork over your LinkedIn password to LastPass?

"The above tool asks you to enter your LinkedIn password, and then computes its SHA-1 hash and sends the result to LastPass.com to search the list of 6.5 million leaked password hashes. A hash is a mathematical function that is simple to perform in one direction, but very difficult to reverse. Meaning, the tool will convert your password into a series of characters in such a way that it will be very difficult to re-construct your original password," LastPass explains.
LastPass says that only the hash of your password is sent to LastPass.com's servers, not your actual password. And according to Mashable, LastPass doesn't store your hash on its servers. Still, if you're feeling uneasy, go ahead and change your LinkedIn password regardless.

World IPv6 Launch Gives Crowded Internet Much Needed Breathing Room !

If you're reading this, you must be online, and if you're online, let us say 'Welcome to a larger Internet.' Today kicks off theWorld IPv6 Launch event organized by the Internet Society and intended to bring major internet service providers (ISPs), home networking equipment manufacturers, and web companies around the world together to enable and embrace the IPv6 protocol for their products and services.
Count Google among them. As the sultan of search points out, few could have imagined that the Internet today would serve nearly 2.5 billion people and 11 billion devices when it was launched operationally back in 1983. But that's what happened, and suddenly the Internet is running out of addresses.
As constructed, there's room for around 4.3 billion addresses. Internet Protocol version 6 expands that number exponentially, to "about 340 trillion, trillion, trillion!," Google says.
"Today's World IPv6 Launch, coordinated by the Internet Society, marks the day that participating websites, Internet Service Providers (ISP), and network hardware manufacturers switch on IPv6 permanently in parallel with IPv4," Google said in a blog post. "We’re proud to be one of the founding participants; virtually all Google’s services have been available over IPv6 for a while, but IPv6 access was only available to networks participating in the 'Google over IPv6' program. From now on, they will be made available to any IPv6 network on the Internet (well, almost any).
IPv6 still has a ways to go in terms of widespread adoption. Most ISPs haven't embraced the new standard yet, and the same is true for many websites. Not all home network equipment supports IPv6 either, though some can be upgraded with a relatively simple firmware updates. Others will need to be replaced entirely.
Are you ready? If you want to test your setup and infrastructure, head here.