when i meet ANKIT FADIA ! ! !

A bit of a background before I begin this post. Ankit Fadia is zis guy, an alumnus of Delhi Public School R K Puram, who *claims* he’s this hotshot hacker, over whom ‘certain undisclosed security agencies in the USA’ always call using the Bat-signal whenever Osama bin Laden sends an email ordering Viagra.

Anyway, I turn up at the venue  to find nobody to guide people around. Mystified, I found my way around and made it to the auditorium. (Tapadia Auditorium,Aurangabad,MaharashtrA)


AfteR making everyone wait for about 30 minutes beyond the schedule time, this CL guy Harpreet Dhody goes on stage, and makes cheesy lines like (my commentary in square braces)…

If you got an opportunity to meet Einstein or Stephen Hawkins [yup, THAT's what he said], will you give it away? No! Same for Ankit Fadia…blah…blah……a premonition of how bad the evening was gonna be. Anyway, the show must go on, and Mr Fadia came on stage…

How many use the Internet? Stop using it, it’s unsafe…
How many use Google? Stop using it [yay!], because it keeps logs [duh, they need to make money]…
How many use web mail like Yahoo, Hotmail or Gmail? Stop using it, they keep records too…

…and RIGHT there on the screen, in the presentation we had…


Too sad that it was a dark hall, and the pictures didn’t come out well for me to show you guys this.

Anyway, he got on with great relish to start explaining about how privacy is a big issue; and told the case of some woman staying in one-room apartment in Mumbai four years ago who had broadband Internet (Eh? Broadband, FOUR years back? Must’ve been Sify, who still call 64 kbps ‘broadband’), and how some Big Bad Wolf turned on her webcam 24×7 or something. Then he took another case…

…NASA’s systems were hacked by an 11-year old Russian teenager, who diverted a rocket around in space after it was launched…caused billions of dollars in damage as the spacecraft was lost…

He moved on to talking about hiding IP addresses, which he made pretty interesting for the general audience, After that, and after mentioning about proxy servers, proxy bouncing, etc; he decided to speak on anonymising… 


…and then how he saved paying Australian $20-30 at some Sydney hotel because he found unsecured hotspots nearby…

…use encryption standards like WEP…

For the slightly intelligent people out there, you’d probably be knowing that WEP was a standard dropped WAY back in favour of newer stuff like WPA and WPA2; because WEP has flaws which enables stuff like AirSnort and AirCrack to prise open the Wi-Fi clamshell in a short time.…

Next up was email spoofing, where he didn’t even bother to show the theory behind it. Instead, he opened this page; and proceeded, with utmost pride, to show that he knew how to fill an HTML form, explaining each and every step (“press tab to shift focus to the next field” – sounds hi-fi, doesn’t it?), and then finishing with “all you need to do now is click submit”, on a laptop which didn’t have an Internet connection. 

After that, he showed steganography, which is basically encrypting images in innocent looking photos (like that of Avril Lavigne, which he used). Now what he claimed then (and has for quite some time is) that after the 9/11 attacks in USA ‘certain undisclosed security agencies in the USA’ intercepted messages from Al-Qaeda and sent them to our dear friend because they couldn’t figure out what it was. Our dear friend, as he says, couldn’t figure out anything for 3 weeks, and in the 4th week (yay, Google search!) it struck him that it could be this. Our dashing young frood then told his masters in the US, and got the license to have his martini shaken AND stirred. I might add here that the sarcasm + wisecracks here are by me, lest you think he’s a (non)sense of humor.

Amazing story, except for the fact that NO publication except the USA Today ever spoke of US agencies intercepting ‘such messages’ – and I might add that the guy (Jack Kelley) who wrote the story was later fired in 2004 for ‘fabricating false stories and sources’. Hmm.

Mr Fadia then proceeded with a ‘live hacking demo’, where he had installed a trojan (NetBus, in case you’re curious) on his OWN laptop and ‘connected’ to it on his own laptop, and showed its various features (he can be a good salesman). He then proceeded on how India has been losing out in the cyber war against Pakistani hackers…

…they hack 50-60 Indian sites daily, while we can only do 10-20 of theirs…

Don’t try this at home, this IS breaking cyber law, but since it’s Harpeet’s laptop, he’ll be legally responsible if anything is caught…

…during which time that CL guy’s EXPRESSION was (MasterCard) priceless. Anyway, he opened up BSNL’s admin page, and proceeded to do his ‘live hacking demo’, where he entered username as admin and password as ‘=’ OR ‘=--’, which he referred to as the *magic code*. Even on being asked multiple times by some people in the audience. Nothing ‘magic’ about it, it was a simple SQL injection attack.

With that, we came to and end, and I asked for his autograph (AND photo wit); which, BTW, I was not supposed to get unless I’d joined his course, but I haven’t come across too many people who refuse autographs… 

Now I *have* to admit at the end that Ankit Fadia is stunningly brilliant at explaining dry-as-Egyptian-mummies (for general people) topics like proxies to portly gents in an easy manner. He’s also pretty good at keeping audiences engaged with such boring stuff. I’d therefore say…

My rating of how useful Ankit Fadia’s Certified Ethical Hacker Course will be for a normal Joe: 5.9 / 10

As I said, geeks won’t find anything here they don’t know; and the title is pretty pretentious anyway. Yes, for normal people however I’d say this course would be pretty good to get them stuffed with basic knowledge on what the f**k exactly is going on when they use the Internet and HOW they might be conned. However, it WILL sorta give them the feeling that they’re top class hackers now, which they aren’t. That false sense of security isn’t something very good on the Internet.


Ankit Fadia
fadia.ankit@gmail.com

The Charlie Schulz Philosophy

(This is  marvelous!! Scroll thru slowly and read carefully to receive and enjoy full effect) 



The  following is the philosophy of Charles Schulz, the  creator of the 'Peanuts' comic strip. 


You don't have to actually answer the questions. Just ponder on them.

Just read the e-mail straight through, and you'll get the point. 


1. Name  the five wealthiest people in the  world.

2. Name  the last five Heisman trophy winners.

3. Name  the last five winners of the Miss America pageant.

4  Name  ten people who have won the Nobel or Pulitzer Prize.

5. Name  the last half dozen Academy Award winners for best actor and actress.

6. Name  the last decade's worth of World Series winners.



How did you do? 

The point is, none of us remember the headliners of yesterday.

These are no second-rate achievers.

They are the best in their fields.

But the applause dies.

Awards tarnish.

Achievements are forgotten.

Accolades and certificates are buried with their owners. 


Here's another quiz. See how you do on this one:


1. List a few teachers who aided your journey through school.

2. Name three friends who have helped you through a difficult time.

3. Name five people who have taught you something worthwhile.

4. Think of a few people who have made you feel appreciated and special. 

5. Think of five people you enjoy spending time with. 



Easier?


The lesson:

The people who make a difference in your life are not the ones with the most credentials, the most money...or the most awards.

They simply are the ones who care the most 

Check Effectiveness of your Antivirus

Have you ever wondered that is your Antivirus working properly? Do you want to ensure that your antivirus works properly? So don't worry we have got a perfect working solution which will make you to Check Effectiveness of your Antivirus.The test for this purpose is called EICAR Test. This test is used by many antivirus developers to find whether there antivirus is working properly or not.Here is a step-by-step procedure to test your antivirus:


1. Open a new text document, Click start menu goto run and type wordpad or notepad

Type there the following code and save it as virustestfile.com

 

X5O!P%@AP[4\PZX54(P^)7CC)7}$EICAR-STANDARD-ANTIVIRUS-TEST-FILE!$H+H*

 

2. Now run Antivirus scan

If your antivirus detects it as a virus then your Antivirus is working properly and If it does not detect it as a virus then your antivirus is not effective and you need to look for alternatives.

Reality about Password Hacking softwares

You might have heard about some paid password hacking softwares which claim to hack a password on entering the email account .But in reality all those softwares are fake .If you believe what they say then you are just wasting your time and money. These all softwares are fake.If there exists such a software, will there be any security on web.  And all expert engineers at Google, Yahoo and other services are not mad. They are all engaged in ensuring security of their customers ie email account owners. So, no such software exists.
So stop wasting your time and money on these foolish softwares and services and learn real Ethical Hacking methods which hackers use to access email accounts.

All time top hackers

There are numbers of Hackers in the world till date, Few has become famous by their Black hat work and few of them are famous by their Ethical Hacking. Below is separate list of World's All Time Best Hackers and Crackers. Although I represent them by Hackers only because what every they did, was wrong but one thing is sure they were Brilliant. Hacking is not a work of simple mind, only Intelligent Mind can do that.

Gary McKinnon

Gary McKinnon, 40, accused of mounting the largest ever hack of United States government computer networks -- including Army, Air Force, Navy and NASA systems The court has recommended that McKinnon be extradited to the United States to face charges of illegally accessing 97 computers, causing US$700,000 (400,000 pounds; euro 588,000) in damage.

Jonathan James

The youth, known as "cOmrade" on the Internet, pleaded guilty to intercepting 3,300 email messages at one of the Defense Department's most sensitive operations and stealing data from 13 NASA computers, including some devoted to the new International Space Station. James gained notoriety when he became the first juvenile to be sent to prison for hacking. He was sentenced at 16 years old. He installed a backdoor into a Defense Threat Reduction Agency server. The DTRA is an agency of the Department of Defense charged with reducing the threat to the U.S. and its allies from nuclear, biological, chemical, conventional and special weapons. The backdoor he created enabled him to view sensitive e-mails and capture employee usernames and passwords.James also cracked into NASA computers, stealing software worth approximately $1.7 million. According to the Department of Justice, “The software supported the International Space Station’s physical environment, including control of the temperature and humidity within the living space.” NASA was forced to shut down its computer systems, ultimately racking up a $41,000 cost.

Adrian Lamo

Dubbed the “homeless hacker,” he used Internet connections at Kinko’s, coffee shops and libraries to do his intrusions. In a profile article, “He Hacks by Day, Squats by Night,” Lamo reflects, “I have a laptop in Pittsburgh, a change of clothes in D.C. It kind of redefines the term multi-jurisdictional.”Dubbed the “homeless hacker,” he used Internet connections at Kinko’s, coffee shops and libraries to do his intrusions. For his intrusion at The New York Times, Lamo was ordered to pay approximately $65,000 in restitution. He was also sentenced to six months of home confinement and two years of probation, which expired January 16, 2007. Lamo is currently working as an award-winning journalist and public speaker.

Kevin Mitnick

The Department of Justice describes him as “the most wanted computer criminal in United States history.” His exploits were detailed in two movies: Freedom Downtime and Takedown. He started out exploiting the Los Angeles bus punch card system to get free rides. Then, like Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, dabbled in phone phreaking. Although there were numerous offenses, Mitnick was ultimately convicted for breaking into the Digital Equipment Corporation’s computer network and stealing software.Today, Mitnick has been able to move past his role as a black hat hacker and become a productive member of society. He served five years, about 8 months of it in solitary confinement, and is now a computer security consultant, author and speaker.

Kevin Poulsen

Also known as Dark Dante, Poulsen gained recognition for his hack of LA radio’s KIIS-FM phone lines, (taing over all of the station’s phone lines) which earned him a brand new Porsche, among other items. Law enforcement dubbed him “the Hannibal Lecter of computer crime.”Authorities began to pursue Poulsen after he hacked into a federal investigation database. During this pursuit, he further drew the ire of the FBI by hacking into federal computers for wiretap information.His hacking specialty, however, revolved around telephones. Poulsen’s most famous hack, In a related feat, Poulsen also “reactivated old Yellow Page escort telephone numbers for an acquaintance who then ran a virtual escort agency.” Later, when his photo came up on the show Unsolved Mysteries, 1-800 phone lines for the program crashed. Ultimately, Poulsen was captured in a supermarket and served a sentence of five years.Since serving time, Poulsen has worked as a journalist. He is now a senior editor for Wired News. His most prominent article details his work on identifying 744 sex offenders with MySpace profiles.

Robert Tappan Morris

Morris, son of former National Security Agency scientist Robert Morris, is known as the creator of the Morris Worm, the first computer worm to be unleashed on the Internet. As a result of this crime, he was the first person prosecuted under the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. Morris wrote the code for the worm while he was a student at Cornell. He asserts that he intended to use it to see how large the Internet was. The worm, however, replicated itself excessively, slowing computers down so that they were no longer usable. It is not possible to know exactly how many computers were affected, but experts estimate an impact of 6,000 machines. He was sentenced to three years’ probation, 400 hours of community service and a fined $10,500.Morris is currently working as a tenured professor at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. He principally researches computer network architectures including distributed hash tables such as Chord and wireless mesh networks such as Roofnet.

Vladimir Levin

Levin accessed the accounts of several large corporate customers of Citibank via their dial-up wire transfer service (Financial Institutions Citibank Cash Manager) and transferred funds to accounts set up by accomplices in Finland, the United States, the Netherlands, Germany and Israel.In 2005 an alleged member of the former St. Petersburg hacker group, claiming to be one of the original Citibank penetrators, published under the name ArkanoiD a memorandum on popular Provider.net.ru website dedicated to telecom market.According to him, Levin was not actually a scientist (mathematician, biologist or the like) but a kind of ordinary system administrator who managed to get hands on the ready data about how to penetrate in Citibank machines and then exploit them.ArkanoiD emphasized all the communications were carried over X.25 network and the Internet was not involved. ArkanoiD’s group in 1994 found out Citibank systems were unprotected and it spent several weeks examining the structure of the bank’s USA-based networks remotely. Members of the group played around with systems’ tools (e.g. were installing and running games) and were unnoticed by the bank’s staff. Penetrators did not plan to conduct a robbery for their personal safety and stopped their activities at some time. Someone of them later handed over the crucial access data to Levin (reportedly for the stated $100).

David Smith

David Smith, the author of the e-mail virus known as Melissa, which swamped computers around the world, spreading like a malicious chain letter. He was facing nearly 40 years in jail . About 63,000 viruses have rolled through the Internet, causing an estimated $65 billion in damage, but Smith is the only person to go to federal prison in the United States for sending one.

Mark Abene

Abene (born 1972), better known by his pseudonym Phiber Optik, is a computer security hacker from New York City. Phiber Optik was once a member of the Hacker Groups Legion of Doom and Masters of Deception. In 1994, he served a one-year prison sentence for conspiracy and unauthorized access to computer and telephone systems. Phiber Optik was a high-profile hacker in the early 1990s, appearing in The New York Times, Harper’s, Esquire, in debates and on television. Phiber Optik is an important figure in the 1995 non-fiction book Masters of Deception — The Gang that Ruled Cyberspace

Onel A. de Guzman
el A. de Guzman, a Filipino computer student, Greatest Hacker of all time. He was creator of "Love Bug" virus that crippled computer e-mail systems worldwide.

Chen Ing-hau
He was the creator of one of the deadly virus of all time "Chernobyl computer virus " which had melted down many computers worldwide.

Mudge

"Mudge" along with fellow hackers told the committee that computer security is so lax, they could disable the entire Internet in a half-hour.

Tsutomu Shimomura

One of the world's top computer security experts. Shimomura helped Federal officials track down and arrest computer hacker Kevin Mitnickin Raleigh Feb. 15, 1995 in connection with a break-in on Shimomura's computer.

Jon Lech JohansenJohansen, who became a hero to computer hackers and was deemed a villain by Hollywood, is on trial for writing and distributing a program called DeCSS, software which makes it possible to copy protected DVD films. Prosecutors have asked to have his computers confiscated and called for him to pay $1,400 in court costs.

Dmitry Sklyarov

Russian computer programmer who was charged with violating copyrights, Sklyarov was jailed after developing software that allows the user to circumvent the copyright protections in Adobe Systems eBook reader program.

Dennis Moran
Moran, known on the Web as "Coolio," pleaded guilty to hacking into national computer sites last year belonging to the Army, the Air Force and the anti-drug Dare.com.

Famous Three Master Hackers
Some Grand Famous Hackers of Life Time: Richard Stallman

He was the founder of GNU Projects. Stallman, who prefers to be called rms, got his start hacking at MIT. He worked as a "staff hacker" on the Emacs project and others. He was a critic of restricted computer access in the lab. When a password system was installed, Stallman broke it down, resetting passwords to null strings, then sent users messages informing them of the removal of the password system.
Linus Torvalds

Father of Linux is a good hacker of all time.

Stephen Wozniak
"Woz" is famous for being the "other Steve" of Apple. Wozniak, along with current Apple CEO Steve Jobs, co-founded Apple Computer. Woz got his start in hacking making blue boxes, devices that bypass telephone-switching mechanisms to make free long-distance calls. After reading an article about phone phreaking in Esquire, Wozniak called up his buddy Jobs. The pair did research on frequencies, then built and sold blue boxes to their classmates in college. Wozniak even used a blue box to call the Pope while pretending to be Henry Kissinger.

Some Other famous Hackers : Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson
John Draper
Johan Helsingius
Eric Steven Raymond
Ian Murphy
John Perry Barlow
Tim Berner Lee

Virtual Barber (Haircut) - a must listen too. WOW one of coolest sound clips ever !!!

 this is one of the coolest sound clips I've ever heard.

simply download it

and then put it on mp3 player or phone and listen to it with headphones

note: you must listen with headphones

download Virtual Barber :
http://onemansblog.com/2007/05/13/get-your-virtual-haircut-and-other-auditory-illusions/

its soooo goood

let me just say once more, please use headphones otherwise doesnt work aswell and close your eyes and sit in a room of silence for best effect.

film by PHILIP BLOOM

Very touching music and edition, a truly masterpiece!!!