Microsoft Releases So.cl Network to the Public

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Microsoft’s "experiment in open search", so.cl, is now open to anyone.

 Launched back in May amidst very little fanfare, so.cl (pronounced "social") was initially offered only to students and billed as an experiment in learning.

 Redmond has recanted those restrictions, today telling world+dog they’re free to pile in and enjoy the fun, as so.cl is now "a service where people connect over shared interests."

 So.cl is rather unlike other social networks inasmuch as a post starts with a search. The results of that search can then be assembled into a post that

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Is Your Mobile Device Hacker-Proof?

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If it's connected to the Internet, it can be hacked. For years, this was mainly a concern to PC users and IT guys, but anything that achieves mainstream usage and market share will eventually attract black hat types. From greedy cyber-criminals to malicious joy riders, the latest lure is the Internet-connected device in everyone's pocket.

 Unfortunately, the very things that make our Smartphone’s and tablets so appealing to us -- mobility, ease of use, always-on communications -- render mobile devices even more exposed to the hijinks of hackers. Plus, let's face it -- most of the people walking around with tablets and Smartphone’s aren't going to take the same basic security precautions that have become second-nature to "serious" PC and IT folks.

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Are Social Networks Putting You At Risk????

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Friends,
Consumers share a significant amount of personal information on various social networking sites and as a result are putting themselves at greater risk for identity fraud. So how can you protect yourself? Follow these simple steps and decrease your chances of falling victim to identity thieves.

 Are Social Networks Putting You at Risk?
 There is no denying that in today’s world there isn’t much that can be done without using the internet. A person can very easily perform their banking needs, complete a graduate degree, find a job and even find

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Why These Days Hacking Is Easy And Everyone Is Hacked?

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This is among the most common questions which seem to be troubling the modern day generation. People with even some basic computer and internet knowledge can understand the severity of this issue. However, hacking is not an easy nut to crack; it requires lots of skills and efforts and is considered among the tougher tasks. Yet, these days, hackers have created whole lot of mess by simply cracking passwords of emails, bank accounts, and other similar things. This has emerged as a serious threat in the present context especially when you transfer money online, and carry out countless things on the web. The following are few possible reasons why hacking is becoming a rampant phenomenon where so many people

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Five Hacks To Make Using Your iPhone Easier

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The iPhone is one of the most advanced personal electronic devices in the world. One little machine can do so many things. But there are ways to make using the iPhone even easier and more efficient. Here are the top five hacks for your iPhone to make it faster, do more things, and unlock more features.

 Many of these hacks can also be done to other smartphones, such Androids or Windows Phones. The exact steps may be different, but accomplish the same thing.

 Root/Jailbreak your iPhone

Doing this is not for the faint of heart and can void your warranty, but will allow you to use the iPhone's

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Get 5GB Free Online Storage With Google Drive

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Watch out Dropbox, Amazon Cloud and Microsoft SkyDrive! Google introduced today its free, 5GB cloud storage service, Google Drive. Available to anyone with the Google account, Google Drive enables users to upload, share, collaborate on files stored in their Google Drive account.
If you’re familiar with Dropbox, you’ll be right at home with Google Drive. In addition to accessing the service from within your Google Docs account, you can also download the PC and Mac Google Drive client that launches as a folder on your computer. All files, including videos, photos, PDFs, and Google Docs, dropped into the Drive folder get synchronized to your account. You can also opt to not sync selected folders to one or more of your computers.

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Nmap 6 Released For Download - Network Discovery & Security Auditing Tool

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It’s been a while since the last major release of Nmap. The latest major version has just been released, version 6 – and is now available for download!

Nmap (Network Mapper) is a security scanner originally written by Gordon Lyon used to discover hosts and services on a computer network, thus creating a "map" of the network. To accomplish its goal, Nmap sends specially crafted packets to the target host and then analyzes the responses. Unlike many simple port scanners that just send packets at some predefined constant rate, Nmap accounts for the

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How To Undo Send An Email Till 30 Seconds After Sending It in Gmail

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Much ago, Gmail launched a feature named “Undo send” . It is a feature of the Gmail Labs. Gmail Labs has many cool features, some are for fun and some are really very useful. So, one of the feature, Undo Send, allows us to undo the sent email even after 30 seconds of pressing the send button. So isn’t that cool. If you pressed the send button and later on notice that you made a mistake or wanted to alter something , then you can straight away press the Undo button and the email will be saved in the Drafts folder.

Steps to activate the undo send feature in Gmail :

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New Dropbox Update Lets You Easily Share Files & Folders With Anyone

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Sharing large files is becoming increasingly easier, and even more so with this new update from Dropbox. The new update adds the ability to share any file or folder in your Dropbox with anyone, with just a few simple clicks.
Up until now, you could share your Dropbox content with other Dropbox users, or share the content of your public folder with non-Dropbox users. This is no longer the case. Now, all you have to do in order to share a folder is to access it using the Dropbox desktop client or the web interface, and from the Dropbox context menu choose “Get Link”. This will generate a public link for your content.

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Google Launches Google Play: One Place for Apps, Music, Movies & Books

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Android Market Place is now called as Google PLAY and its Official now. So it means that very soon, the logo and overall feel of Android Market Place will be changed to that of an all new refreshing “Google PLAY”. So while others wait for the update for Android Market Place to come, you can directly manually apply the Google PLAY Update. Please make a note that to apply this update manually it is not necessary that your device has to be rooted or on any of the custom ROM firmwares. Even on stock / factory firmware versions, this update can be applied.


So without wasting much time, lets head to the detailed tutorial with which you can easily apply this Google PLAY update.

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Make Free Calls To Mobile or Landline

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EvaPhone provides you to make internet telephone calls for free.Here is a free VoIP call solutions.This free VoIP service lets you to make PC to phone free international calls.For this you need internet connection and adobe flash player 9 or higher.

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Hackers gain unauthorized access into Linux source code site

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As Linux Users and fans know, there are two kinds of hackers: the good guys who develop free software, such as the Linux kernel, and the bad guys who break into computers.

The bad guys paid the good guys an unwelcome visit earlier this month, breaking into the Kernel.org website that is home to the Linux project. They gained root access to a server known as Hera and ultimately compromised "a number of servers in the kernel.org infrastructure," according to a note on the kernel.org website Wednesday.

Administrators of the website learned of the problem Sunday and soon discovered a number of bad things were happening on their servers. Files were modified, a malicious program was added to the server's startup scripts and some user data was logged.

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What Is A Satellite Mesh Network?

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A wireless mesh network is a communication network made up of radio nodes that is organized in a mesh topology. It is often consist of mesh routers, mesh clients, and gateways. The mesh clients are often cell phones, laptops, and other wireless devices. The mesh routers forward traffic to and from the gateways that may but not necessarily connected to the Internet.

The network works independently in such a way that it recognizes and adds new devices as it discovers them. This means that networks can be extended and weak signals as well as dead zones can be eliminated by simply adding new devices.

The dynamic assignment of satellite bandwidth according to the immediate IP packet loads significantly reduces the total bandwidth consumption compare to the static assignment of circuit switching.

Furthermore, the VSAT also compressed the packet headers to create further bandwidth savings.

Some applications of satellite mesh network include:

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Seven Steps to become a professional computer Engineer

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This post is dedicated to all the fellow computer engineering students who are still having a good time by bunking the classes but not doing good enough to become a world class computer engineer otherwise.

But what can I do?

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How to become a better Programmer

This will give you a few hints and some help to becoming a better programmer. So read on and enjoy! Programming can be a lot of fun.

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Researchers discovers keylogging threats in Mozilla

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Security researcher Mario Heiderich reported to the maker of Firefox last year that he had found an unusual vulnerability in the browser and two other Mozilla products that run on the Gecko engine, Thunderbird, and SeaMonkey. Based in the relatively new technology that allows for animated complex vector graphics in the browser, called SVG animation, the vulnerability allowed for a malware writer to detect key strokes even when JavaScript was disabled.

Basically, he found a way to turn innocuous Web pages into keyloggers. Mozilla patched the vulnerability in Firefox 9, Thunderbird 9, and SeaMonkey 2.6. Then, as is standard operating procedure,

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THC SSL DOS/DDOS Tool Released For Download

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A German group of Hackers known as Hackers Choice have released a program they assert will allow a single computer to take down a Web server using a secure connection

THC-SSL-DOS is a tool to verify the performance of SSL.Establishing a secure SSL connection requires 15x more processing power on the server than on the client. THC-SSL-DOS exploits this asymmetric property by overloading the server and knocking it off the Internet.

This problem affects all SSL implementations today. The vendors are aware of this problem since 2003 and the topic has been widely discussed. This attack further exploits the SSL secure Renegotiation feature to trigger thousands of renegotiations via single TCP connection.

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BarsWF :- Worlds Fastest MD5 Hash Cracker

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The MD5 Message-Digest Algorithm is a widely used cryptographic hash function that produces a 128-bit (16-byte) hash value, Md5 is an encryption that cannot be reversed, the only successful way to find out the content of a md5 hash, is by running a Brute force Attack

BarsWF Worlds Fastest MD5 Hash Cracker

Barswf is a program designed to crack md5 hashes. It combines old with newer CUDA technologies. So, it

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What is MD5 Hash, and How to Use It

Hi friends,
Today I will explain you about one of my favorite and interesting cryptographic algorithm called MD5 (Message-Digest algorithm 5). This algorithm is mainly used to perform file integrity checks under most circumstances. Here I will not jump into the technical aspects of this algorithm, rather will tell you about how to make use of this algorithm in your daily life. Before I tell you about how to use MD5, I would like to share one of my recent experience which made me start using MD5 algorithm.

Recently I made some significant changes and updates to my website and as obvious I generated a complete

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Simple Yet Effective Security Tips Against Website Hackers

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The internet is a very vast place with all kinds of people surfing it. With growing awareness for internet and web based services it is now the responsibility of website owners to protect their websites against any risk or security threat from anyone else. Further, the customer information, such as credit card details and other sensitive personal information etc should be properly protected.

Hack attempts are very common phenomena now and it has been noticed that around 90% of the hackers use the simplest technique for it, i.e. human negligence. However, it is the responsibility of every software development company offering software development services to create secure websites and educate the website owners about various strategies and methods that would help them in securing their website from hack attempts. We are going to offer some very simple yet effective security tips for website owners that will help them in protecting their websites against hackers without applying any advanced security measures.

Create Strong Passwords: While this may sound absurd but it is one of the most targeted area by hackers. They rely on the fact that most of the users are not really aware about the concept of strong passwords. A weak password is usually the weakest link in the chain and hackers try to exploit it. The first thing that you need to do is create a very strong password.

Some of the passwords and password making techniques that should never be used are:

• Never use the name of your website or the domain name as the admin password.

• Predictable and simplest combinations such as admin123, abc123, QWERTY etc should be strongly avoided as hackers are definitely going to try them as the first thing.

• The username and the password should never be similar or have slight variations. This may sound foolish but many users keep their username and passwords same or very similar. For example, admin/admin123, George/george11 etc.

• Words such as password, secret, admin, go, start, begin etc are also in hackers top list.

• Also, avoid using words that are from dictionary as there are some programs that would match every word in the dictionary against a user name in order to find a password.

Your passwords should be at-least six characters long with a mixture of upper and lowercase letters combined with numbers and special characters. Further, make sure that you have unique passwords for each login and they are changed at-least once a month.

Do Not Save The Passwords: Avoid saving the passwords when you log into your site. The browsers save the password and hackers target them to fetch any file named saved passwords or similar words. They usually send out a Trojan that scans whole computer software for such files and sends them to the desired location.

Rename Your Admin Folder:  Renaming the “admin” folder is another simple yet effective technique to save you website from hackers. Once you change the name of admin folder the hackers won’t even have a clue to reach your admin panel. However, the new name of the folder should not be containing dictionary words or the site name. Further, try to include number and special characters to make the name tougher to guess.

These are some of the simplest tricks to enhance the security of your website without requiring much technical help or expertise. However, website owners should include third party softwares and solutions to make the website secure.

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