Archive for January, 2010

VisualRoute

Traceroute is a famous program to draw the route taken by packets from your computer to any destination you chose. It uses UDP or ICMP echo packets with TTL value of one, then continuously increase it until it reaches the destination, this way it can get time exceeded responses from every hop in the pathway.

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Bots are in fact applications which are able to run automated tasks over the internet. There are many types of them categorized based on the way we use them, for instance google bot is used to effectively fetch and analyze information from web servers, this is known as web spidering. Other bots are designed to replace humans in different online environments such as gaming, chat (chatterbot) etc

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Introduction

Are you looking for a safe way to encrypt your files and messages? What if there is a method that can do all that and more and yet it is FREE to use? If you are interested, keep reading to know about encrypting and exchanging files safely with GPG and PGP.

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by Declan McCullagh

“A recent court case provides a rare glimpse into how some federal agents deal with encryption: by breaking into a suspect’s home or office, implanting keystroke-logging software, and spying on what happens from afar.
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MD5 (Message-Digest algorithm 5) can be used effectively to verify files integrity and authenticity by computing and checking MD5 hashes.

In Windows: MD5summer can be used to perform the task.

While in Linux: The famous md5sum utility is usually used.

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FlipV and FlipH filters can be used to flip images vertically or horizontally in IE (These filters works in IE only). the following code shows you how to control an image by using the HTML Select Tag to FlipV, FlipH or Apply both filters at the same time. Read the rest of this entry »

IT security professionals are only marginally more likely to use passwords than standard users, according to a new survey.

A concerning 35 per cent said that they just don’t get around to using a password on their business smartphones, compared to 40 per cent of the general population. Read the rest of this entry »

by Bogdan Calin

An anonymous user posted usernames and passwords of over 10,000 Windows Live Hotmail accounts to a web site called PasteBin. PasteBin is currently down for maintenance but I managed to get a copy of the list, and quickly generated some statistics from these passwords. Read the rest of this entry »

Seoul: The first Internet addresses containing non-Latin characters from start to finish will soon be online thanks to today’s approval of the new Internationalized Domain Name Fast Track Process by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers board. Read the rest of this entry »

This article introduces steganography and explains some of its techniques and methods supported by examples. My objective was to make this post as short as possible while covering all important information. Your comments are welcome for any possible enhancements or for future articles about steganography by me or other people.
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Steganography

Steganography is all the techniques used to exchange secret messages without drawing attention. It is the science of hiding information. Read the rest of this entry »