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Monitor Folders for Changes in Windows

Sunday, November 6, 2011 // by Hacking Beast Editor // Labels: knodledge, tech news, technology // 0 comments

Folder Monitor is a free Windows app that can track changes to folders you select. The types of changes include a file being created, changed, renamed, or deleted. When one of those events occur you can have a visual notification appear, a sound played, and a command line action taken.

Monitoring folders for changes is something that can be pretty useful, and is something I use regularly. Here is an example of how I use a program like this:

I upload a text file to my Dropbox account remotely that contains the URL of a file I want to download.
Folder Monitor notices that a file was added to the folder, and executes a custom script I have to download the file locally on my PC.
The text file is automatically deleted from my Dropbox so that I know the script ran successfully.
When I get home the file is on my computer and ready to go.

Using tools like Folder Monitor combined with Dropbox you can come up with some pretty clever things you can do remotely, and there are other reasons you may want to monitor a directory for changes. We’d love to hear about any ideas you come up with!

Folder Monitor Homepage (Windows only; Freeware)

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What is Brute Force - Password cracking ?

Saturday, November 5, 2011 // by Hacking Beast Editor // Labels: Cyber Security, hacking, knodledge, tips and tricks, website hacking // 0 comments

Brute force (also known as brute force cracking) is a trial and error method used by application programs to decode encrypted data such as passwords or Data Encryption Standard (DES) keys, through exhaustive effort (using brute force) rather than employing intellectual strategies. Just as a criminal might break into, or "crack" a safe by trying many possible combinations, a brute force cracking application proceeds through all possible combinations of legal characters in sequence. Brute force is considered to be an infallible, although time-consuming, approach.

Crackers are sometimes used in an organization to test network security, although their more common use is for malicious attacks. Some variations, such as L0phtcrack from L0pht Heavy Industries, start by making assumptions, based on knowledge of common or organization-centered practices and then apply brute force to crack the rest of the data. L0phtcrack uses brute force to crack Windows NT passwords from a workstation. PC Magazine reported that a system administrator who used the program from a Windows 95 terminal with no administrative privileges, was able to uncover 85 percent of office passwords within twenty minutes.

You must have seen in movies how a hacker cracks a password. He take out a small device from his pocket. Connect it to the locker or whatever he wants to crack and then lots of digits and alphabets are shuffled on the device’s screen and in a matter of minutes (and sometimes in seconds), the thing is unlocked. Pretty Impressive but it doesn’t happen that way. Basically a online system (by online system i means a system which requires you to log in to get access) can’t be hacked like that. Even a password stored in a offline file can’t be hacked so easily.

Lets take it as easy as it can get. You want to access a file which is password protected. You create a program that tries every possible combination of alphabets and numbers and then feed it to the file if its the right one. This procedure is repeated till the right combination is accepted by the file. This is what we call as a attack. And this very procedure of trying possible combinations is called Brute Force Attack.

Now executing such a program which is required to provide every possible combination requires a very good computing power. The time that it consumes in breaking a password depends on the length of password and the processor speed. Faster the processor, shorter the time it takes to crack the password. Think it would be easy if you have a dual core or quad core, Think again. On Desktop PCs it can take days to crack a password.

Memory Space Trade Off – It is a situation in which time taken for processing can be reduced at the cost of space and vice versa. To make it very clear, lets see this again with the help of an example. In the previous example, we can process the different combination before hand and then store them in a file. And when you need to break a password, combinations are retrieved from that file and this lessens the load on the processor. The only time consumption in this case is the retrieval of data from that file. This file is what is known as a Rainbow Table. It can break passwords in a few minutes and in even a few seconds depending how strong is the password. It can be obtained from the World Wide Web but beware of its size. Its size is in GBs.

Now even if a hacker has the best of hardware, he can’t hack that easily. Why? Ever entered a password wrong multiple times? It requires you to enter the image to confirm that you are a human and it is not a account and even if that fails (yes there are algorithms that can read the text behind the image), the user is forbidden to enter the password for a fixed amount of time. So, there is no way in hell that a hacker can hack by Brute force or even with the help of rainbow tables. But it surely gets the job done for offline files.

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VOGH: Voice of Grey Hat released their 2 magazine "DEFCON Chennai The Reality"

Tuesday, September 27, 2011 // by Hacking Beast Editor // Labels: knodledge, New Releases // 0 comments

Voice of Greyhat (VOGH) released their second magazine named "VOGH RELEASED II | DEFCON Chennai The Reality"

VOGH RELEASED II | DEFCON Chennai The Reality Contents:-

Introduction

What is DEFCON

Brief History of DEFCON

DECFON Chennai

The Reality

Conclusion

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The american DHHS- Department of Health and Human Services have gone on a huge spending budget for cyber security

Saturday, September 17, 2011 // by Hacking Beast Editor // Labels: Cyber News, Cyber Security, hackers news, knodledge // 0 comments

The american DHHS- Department of Health and Human Services have gone on a huge spending budget for cyber security over the next five years with them awarding Melin international the $40 Million 5year contract .

Merlin has picked up the contract with actually comes from the security sector that is already within the DHHS that looks after all its communications and networking security features and is known as the Computer Security Incident Response Center (CSIRC) which starts to ask the question why do they need to out source?

Merlin International provides cyber security services and solutions to federal government and was started in 1997 and is privatly owned and has around about 100 employees. Merlin holds contracts with many of the U.S Government sectors such as the U.S Army, U.S. Department of Defense,U.S. Department of Labor, U.S. Navy And many more.

So this really does start to raise questions as to why it costs so much to provide cyber security services and solutions and why is the US Government out source for so many different areas of the government and why do they not invest that money to train and start a propoer cyber security sector that actually does more then give away money and make press release statements.

In the statement they say that this will help the cyber security problem of fighting data protection in real ti

Original press statement

What Exactly Defines Cyber Crimes

Saturday, September 10, 2011 // by Hacking Beast Editor // Labels: knodledge // 0 comments

Well in reaction to the last post about Obama administration seeking tougher laws for CyberCrimes i would now like to look at what the hell is really defined as a cyber crime.

It would seem that a lot of people think that minor attacks of hacking nature are crime related therefor cyber crime, this is far from the truth and pretty much off in a world of its own like the governments of the world.

A Lot of the hacking that has been public over the recent months has not at all been Cyber Crimes, Do they class a basic DDoS attack with a premed tool and a random ip some one else gave u a cyber crime? How can they lawfully class any type of computer intrusion as cyber crime when they themselves the government will not enforce any type of security laws for the websites owners? So how can the hackers be breaking a law if there is none there in the first place? this is just totally stupid in all ways possible, unless they are actually stealing money or products there is no crime being done.

Of coarse there is cyber crimes where people loose thousands of dollars and get ripped off in schemes and scams and in all these people should be prosecuted for the crimes they do as they are robbing people. But when it comes to files on a computer, that’s all they are files on a computer.

If the files and data was so important in the first place i do not see why anyone would put it on a peice of technogly that can make duplicates and distrubute it all in one action. So when some one says that they are stealing information they are wrong, the administration should have backups of all data, just like we do and these back ups should be kept offline to prevent any damage to them in case of the main copy’s being destroyed, either way this is not a form of theft of stealing in any way.

Now data leaks are a whole different subject, in all most data leaks are harmless and leak no more information then what the orginal hacker has already seen and obtained, But in few cases u get exact personal details of innocent people being leaked online, this does breach privacy laws and if these certain hackers are caught then they do deserve the punishment they get.

So really until the governments of the world sort something out and force web developers and web administrations, website owners to follow stick guidelines for security of information and user data then they really have no right to legally jail or charge or even arrest some one for DDoS or basic computer intrusion attacks.

And Also until we start seeing these enforcement laws for web developers and administrations we will continue to see data leaks and website hacks roll out every hour from every corner of the world from every government and every site is a possible target if its security is lame.

Qubes OS operating system for security !

Wednesday, August 31, 2011 // by Hacking Beast Editor // Labels: Cyber News, Cyber Security, hackers news, keylogger, knodledge, microsoft, New Releases, softwares, tech news, technology, tools, windows // 0 comments

Qubes is a very effective operating system designed for desktop security .Qubes is based on Xen , Qubes can also run many lunix applications on it !!

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UNIX Special 4: Linux vs. UNIX

Tuesday, August 30, 2011 // by Hacking Beast Editor // Labels: Cyber News, Cyber Security, hacking, knodledge, tech news, technology // 0 comments

INDIA: Although many still consider UNIX the best option for high-demand applications, the technical differences between Linux and UNIX are "going to be pretty minimal" going forward, argued Gartner analyst George Weiss in a recent report.
Things going in favour of Linux were - better hardware features, internal multitasking and multiprocessing, less expensive resource requirements, stronger application independence and other such bullets.

Gabriel Consulting Group takes the same vein.

What it labels as a blinding glimpse of the obvious, GCG puts it forth in these words:

“The Linux operating system has had a huge impact on enterprise computing. It’s being used in closet-sized data centers and massive government research facilities alike – and most all of the IT shops in-between. Linux growth has come from new workloads, Microsoft Server replacements, and – of course – from the commercial UNIX installed base as well.”

No doubt, pressure from Linux-fueled systems has driven the major UNIX solutions toward the high end of the data center. We no longer see racks of Sun, HP, or IBM RISC systems driving file, print, or application servers. In fact, Linux (and to a lesser extent Microsoft) operating systems have completely taken over those functions, along with many others. Systems based on commercial UNIX have moved to a much more mainframe-like role, hosting large applications.
But then has Linux matured to the point where it’s a substitute for commercial UNIX? Does Linux offer the mission critical characteristics that data center customers need for their most important workloads?

GCG tried to attack just these very questions in its survey. Dan Olds, principal analyst tells that it’s important to point out that there’s a place for both commercial UNIX and Linux in the modern data center and that these are both moving targets – so we’re taking a snapshot in time on these issues.

And with that as the silhouette, the survey find out that almost 60 per cent of respondents believe that commercial UNIX is a better choice than Linux for some workloads. It’s a majority, but not overwhelming. Why?

Well, it’s interesting to note that the ‘Not Sure’ responses outweigh both the ‘Disagree’ and ‘Strongly Disagree’ voters. This is a pattern; Dan says they saw on many of the UNIX vs. Linux questions.

A hardcore minority of 20-30 per cent who see Linux as superior to UNIX in every way, and then a reasonably large number of undecided respondents.

For instance, a question asks, from a Linux perspective, if Linux is technically better than UNIX these days. A solid majority of customers (60 per cent) say Linux isn’t quite at the same technical level as commercial UNIX.

Of course, it can be argued that Linux can provide very high application availability when it’s used in a cluster or with applications that scale horizontally rather than vertically, Dan adds.

But that’s not the same thing as the single-system availability that has been the design point for modern commercial UNIX operating systems. Almost half (56 per cent) believed that commercial UNIX-based systems provide higher levels of availability and reliability than the typical Linux distribution.

“I think that the major operating systems will continue to survive, but the bulk of the growth will go towards Windows and Linux – which is natural, given that they are lower cost alternatives. I believe that commercial UNIX systems will continue to grow in terms of usage (bigger and more capable systems being shipped), albeit at a much slower rate.”
From how Dan Olds interprets this quite fairly, anyone who knows Linux would feel fairly comfortable with commercial UNIX these days. This is something that the UNIX vendors need to explore and discuss with prospective customers.
UNIX needs to continue to show how it’s a better platform for mission critical workloads – how it’s more highly available, provides more predictable performance, and is easier to manage vs. Linux.

So the ‘whether’ part in the question of UNIX or LINUX still is in a much larger font size, be it a survey, or a crucial decision looming over an enterprise CIO.

The ink continues to be in grey, rather than in Black or White.

Because, in the survey, there’s still that quarter of respondents who aren’t quite sure which is better, perhaps signifying the ‘moving target’ nature of the two operating environments.

China wants to clampdown on bloggers, 'rumors'

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BEIJING, CHINA: China's state-run news agency demanded on Tuesday that Internet companies, regulators and police do more to cleanse websites of "toxic rumours", adding to signs that the ruling Communist Party wants to tame the explosion of freewheeling microblogs.

The Xinhua news agency's denunciation of Internet "rumour mongering" came after a senior official last week urged Sina Corp and other Chinese companies do more to staunch harmful hearsay among the 200 million or more Chinese who use Twitter-like microblogs to spread information with lightning speed.

China's Internet, with more registered users than any other nation, is a lively forum for public opinion, said Xinhua.

"However, the rapid advance of this flood has also brought 'mud and sand' -- the spread of rumours -- and to nurture a healthy Internet, we must thoroughly eradicate the soil in which rumours grow," it added.

"Concocting rumours is itself a social malady, and the spread of rumours across the Internet presents a massive social threat," it said, noting the capacity of blogs and microblogs to spark the "explosive" proliferation of falsehoods.

A Xinhua comment does not amount to a policy directive, but this one and other recent signals suggest tighter censorship, whether formal or informal, is on policy-makers' minds.

"Fundamentally eradicating the soil in which rumours sprout and spread will demand stronger Internet administration from the responsible agencies, raising the intensity of attacks on rumours," said the Chinese-language Xinhua commentary.

The feverish growth and growing influence of microblogs appear to have unsettled officials, who have complained that such sites can spread baseless rumours unchecked, sowing panic and distrust of government.

The number of Chinese people using microblog sites reached 195 million by the end of June, an increase of 209 percent on the number at the end of 2010, according to the China Internet Network Information Center. But Sina this month reported that its microblogging "Weibo" site, which dominates the scene, alone had grown to 200 million registered accounts.

These microblogs allow people to shoot out short bursts of opinion, presenting a quandary for censors. They fear an uproar if they shut the popular sites, but struggle to keep ahead of the rapid-fire messages that can spread news and opinion the government, wary of any social unrest, would like to contain.

China's state-run television news recently denounced the spread of unfounded rumours on microblogs, called "Weibo" in Chinese, and demanded more be done to staunch accusations of official foul play, corruption and misdeeds that officials have said can spread in spite of no supporting evidence.

Many users of Sina's site leapt on the Xinhua comment as evidence that tighter censorship is coming.

"If this was really about quashing rumours, Internet users would surely welcome that, but I fear that this is not about mere rumours," wrote one user.

"It's more about waving this banner as a pretext to cleanse so-called rumours and ban the people from telling the truth."

Uproar

China's microbloggers showed their potency in a string of recent official scandals, particularly the online uproar in the wake of a high-speed bullet train crash in July that killed 40 people. Microbloggers led the charge in challenging rail officials' evasive accounts of the disaster.

Last week, Sina sent out messages that microblog users had their accounts frozen for a month for spreading false rumours: one saying the Red Cross Society of China profiteered from donated blood; another that the killer of a young woman escaped punishment because of family political connections.

The Communist Party secretary of Beijing, Liu Qi, also weighed in. During a visit to Sina.com's offices in the national capital, Liu both praised and chided the Weibo site.

"Internet sites must actively explore strengthening administration and resolutely blocking the spread of false and harmful information," he said, according to a report in the Beijing Daily.

For critics, such words augur stricter censorship of the Internet, especially news and comment unwelcome to wary party officials, irrespective of whether it is true or false. China heavily filters the Internet, and blocks popular foreign sites such as Facebook, YouTube and Twitter.

Sina and other Chinese microblog operators already deploy technicians and software to monitor content, and block and remove comment deemed unacceptable, especially about protests, official scandals and party leaders.

The Xinhua commentary said police should mete out more punishment to people found culpable of spreading falsehoods.

"To staunch the spread of rumours, have the central leaders face up to their history, have Xinhua end bogus news, have the National Bureau of Statistics end fake data," said one Sina microblog user, denouncing the Xinhua commentary.

"The most effective way to eradicate rumours is openness and transparency," wrote another.

Monitor Folders for Changes in Windows

What is Brute Force - Password cracking ?

VOGH: Voice of Grey Hat released their 2 magazine "DEFCON Chennai The Reality"

The american DHHS- Department of Health and Human Services have gone on a huge spending budget for cyber security

What Exactly Defines Cyber Crimes

Qubes OS operating system for security !

UNIX Special 4: Linux vs. UNIX

China wants to clampdown on bloggers, 'rumors'

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