How Strangers Can Read Your Private Facebook Messages

Here's something you probably didn't know: Facebook has a team of employees who read your private messages if they have been flagged by an automated tool. The tool searches for content that appears to violate their terms of service, namely malicious (infected) URLs or child pornography. It's imperfect, of course — that's where humans come in.

If a private message is flagged, actual people will jump in and read it. If there is something that could be illegal — particularly regarding child exploitation — those people contact law enforcement. The intent here is clear and defensible, yet the fact remains: All that stands between your "private" messages and the eyes of a stranger is the snap judgment of an algorithm.

"There are strong internal controls around the use of these tools to prevent misuse and abuse," Facebook told BuzzFeed, "and stringent guidelines for the way we cooperate with law enforcement."

It's not just Facebook. Dating site OkCupid has humans read private messages that have been flagged by its users.Twitter doesn't monitor direct messages either through automated tools or humans.

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DNS Cache Poisoning attack on Google ,Gmail , Yahoo ,Youtube

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Hacker with nickname AlpHaNiX deface Google, Gmail, Youtube, Yahoo, Apple etc domains of Democratic Republic of Congo. Hacker use strategy so-called DNS cache poisoning.

What is Cache Poisoning

Cache poisoning, also called domain name system (DNS) poisoning or DNS cache poisoning, is the corruption of an Internet server's domain name system table by replacing an Internet address with that of another, rogue address. When a Web user seeks the page with that address, the request is redirected by the rogue entry in the table to a different address. At that point, a worm, spyware, Web browser hijacking program, or other malware can be downloaded to the user's computer from the rogue location

Hacked Websites are:

http://apple.cd/
http://yahoo.cd/
http://gmail.cd/
http://google.cd/
http://youtube.cd/
http://linux.cd/
http://samsung.cd/
http://hotmail.cd/
http://microsoft.cd/

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Maharastra Highway Police Website Got Hacked

                                   Not only International Law Enforcement and Police Under Hacker's attack, Even our Local Police websites and Database also become of Victim of breaches mostly once a day.

A hacker With name "powerin10" take responsibility to hack Maharashtra Highway Police website. A mirror of this hack is available here.

Hacker is member of Bangladesh Cyber Army.

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How to Change MAC Address

In computer networking, the Media Access Control (MAC) address is every bit as important as an IP address. Learn in this article how MAC addresses work and how to find the MAC addresses being used by a computer...

What Is a MAC Address?

The MAC address is a unique value associated with a network adapter. MAC addresses are also known as hardware addresses or physical addresses. They uniquely identify an adapter on a LAN.

MAC addresses are 12-digit hexadecimal numbers (48 bits in length). By convention, MAC addresses are usually written in one of the following two formats:

MM:MM:MM:SS:SS:SS

MM-MM-MM-SS-SS-SS

The first half of a MAC address contains the ID number of the adapter manufacturer. These IDs are regulated by an Internet standards body. The second half of a MAC address represents the serial number assigned to the adapter by the manufacturer. In the example,

00:A0:C9:14:C8:29

The prefix

00A0C9

indicates the manufacturer is Intel Corporation.

How to find MAC Address?

Go to start -> Run ->Type cmd and press Enter

A DOS window will appear. This is also commonly called a Command Prompt

Now type IPCONFIG /ALL at the command prompt and hit ENTER. This window will now display the configuration of all of your network adapters. If you have multiple network adapters in your PC you'll see multiple addresses. The MAC Address you're looking for will be listed under the heading Ethernet Adapter

Now look for the Physical Address. It should look something like 00-50-BA-D1-BA-71

To close the window when you are finished, type EXIT at the command prompt and hit the ENTER key

How to change MAC Address?

Go to Start > Control panel > Network and Internet connections , then right click on the that network connection whose network card’s MAC address you want to change and click Properties.

In the General tab, click on the Configure button.

Then click on the Advanced tab.

In the Property section, you have to see an option saying Network Address or Locally Administered Address. Select it and change the radio button to Value ( Not present means that your network card will use the default MAC address programmed by the manufacturer ).

Now type in a new MAC address and click OK.

Restart the computer.

To make sure that the change is successful go to command prompt ( Start > Run, type in cmd and click OK ) then type in ipconfig /all.

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White hat hacker exposes NASA servers' vulnerabilities

White hat hacker exposes NASA servers' vulnerabilities

A Romanian "white hat" hacker has claimed to have broken into a site of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), and published a screenshot of the compromised server on his site.

White hat hackers are programmers who break into computer systems for the sake of exposing security flaws, instead of exploiting them for malevolent purposes.

In this case, "TinKode" hacked a file transfer protocol (FTP) server related to NASA's Earth Observation System at Goddard Space Flight Center.

"I don't do bad things. I only find and make public the info. Afterwards I send an email to them to fix the holes. It's like an security audit, but for free," TinKode said in an interview posted on NetworkWorld.

The NetworkWorld story said that, after hacking into servir.gsfc.nasa.gov, TinKode sent an email alert of the hack to NASA's webmaster.

His screenshot shows folders like RADARSAT, ASAR, ASAR_Aus, ASAR_Africa, and ASAR_Haiti.

ASAR is short for Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar, a technology used by NASA.

One month ago, TinKode exposed a similar security hole at another space agency by hacking into a server operated by the European Space Agency at www.esa.int.

He then leaked a list of FTP accounts, email addresses and passwords for administrators and editors.

Early this year, TinKode and hackers Ne0h and Jackh4x0r hacked into the Web servers hosting MySQL.com, proving it was vulnerable to SQL injection as well as XSS.

In the NetworkWorld interview, TinKode said making the breaches public makes the companies fix the vulnerability faster.

He also said finding security holes is a "hobby" for him.

"I am doing this because finding security holes represents a hobby for me. If someone wants to hire me, we can discuss, isn't a problem," he said.

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Surf Web Anonymously with TOR

What is TOR ?

Tor-proxy is a free proxy-server service that Internet users can use to hide their IP address while surfing the Web. An IP address is a number used to identify computers on the Internet, and for reasons of safety and security, it may sometimes be desirable to hide the address.

What is Vidalia ?

Vidalia is a GUI (graphical user interface) implementation for Tor, It allows the user to start, stop, and view the status of Tor; monitor bandwidth usage; view, filter, and search log messages; and configure some aspects of Tor.

Difference between an Anonymous Proxy and Tor-proxy

Well you will be wondering and saying what is the need of Tor-proxy when we are able to do the same thing using an Anonymous proxy ?. To clear your doubts lets see how an Anonymous proxy and Tor works

Working of an anonymous proxy

In the above example we are connecting to the web server through a proxy server .So a proxy server hides our identity by acting as an intermediary between us and the web server that we are accessing . But what if owner of proxy server starts reviling our identity.So we are not sure on what proxy-server to relay on to stay anonymous

Working of Tor-proxy

Tor actually works on a deeper level dealing with a computer’s SOCKETS directly.I will

not be going to deep into it as most readers will find it very difficult to understand the

explanation .In simple words Tor network uses a distributed network of nodes – of other

Tor users – to re-route all the packets from your network.What this means is – no single link can identify the source and the destination

In the above example the client passes through three different servers or nodes before reaching the actual web server. The path taken by the client is denoted by green arrows

Node 1 Knows the actual origin(client) but not the actual destination (web server)

Node 5 Neither knows the actual origin nor the actual destination.

Node 9 Knows the actual destination but not the actual origin.

Thus no one exactly knows which client is accessing which web server. So it is highly anonymous.

Using Tor and vidalia to surf the web Anonymously :-

1. First download and Install Tor-bundle which includes Tor and vidalia from Here ,to get the password click Here

2. Open Tor-bundle and check all components as shown , follow the on screen instructions to finish instillation process

3. Now Open Vidalia Control Panel from task bar and Click on Start Tor

4. Now open Mozilla Firefox browser,and click on red highlighted Tor Disabled ON which is at the right hand corner of the browser , now it will turn green and say Tor Enabled.

To check weather your behind a proxy go to www.whatismyip.com you can see a different ip address after setting up Tor

Disadvantages of Tor :-

Since it passes through multiple Tor nodes, the Internet connection can be slow. Even with all this, Tor is not very safe. There are potential pitfalls and security threats. Tor by itself does not encrypt the payload , at the exit node .So a sniffer at the exit node can gather all the information. as show

So Unless the application encrypts data using (SSL), we can gather all the information form the exit node using a sniffer

**This post is taken from hackhaholic

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