Firesheep Makes Facebook Hacking Easy

Recently a new firefox addon Firesheep have been a cause of thousands of email accounts, As reported by techcurnch, Firesheep has been downloaded more than 104,000 times in roughly last 24 hours, With Firesheep the hacker can control any account without even knowing the username and password of the desired account, As Facebook is worlds most popular Social Networking website, therefore it has been the major victim of it, Firesheep uses Http Session hijacking attack to gain unauthorized access to a Facebook or any other account


What is Session Hijacking?


In a Http session hijacking attack an attacker steals victims cookies Cookies stores all the necessary Information about one’s account , using this information you can hack anybody’s account and change his password. If you get the cookies of the Victim you can Hack any account the Victim is Logged into i.e. you can hack Facebook Google, Yahoo, Orkut, Flickr etc or any other email account


How can a Hacker use Firesheep to Hack a Facebook or any other account?


1. First of all download Firesheep from the above link and use the openwith option in the firefox browser.

2. Once you have installed firesheep on firefox web browser Click on view at the top, then goto sidebar and click on Firesheep.

3. Now click on the top left button "Start capturing" and it will start to capture the sessioncookies of people in your wifi network, This will show you the list of those people whosecookies are captured and have visited unsecured website known to firesheep, Double click on the photo and you will be logged in instantly.

link for downloading FIRESHEEP 

http://github.com/downloads/codebutler/firesheep/firesheep-0.1-1.xpi

You need to download a software called WINPCAP in order to make FIRESHEEP works.You can download it from the following link

http://www.winpcap.org/install/default.htm

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Can Hackers still Hack facebook?

Facebook Security team are constantly taking steps to avoid hackers from gaining unauthorized access to Facebook accounts.Recently Facebook has introduced 2 new security features.
The first feature allows Facebook users to identify and name the devices from which they access the site, and then receive notifications whenever someone attempts to log in under their names from other devices.
The second feature will automatically block suspicious logins.Facebook will record your IP address of the computer through which you log in to your Facebook account and if you try to gain access to your facebook acount from another IP they can ask you to answer your secret question , identify your pictures etc
Here is the official statement by Facebook:

When we see that someone is trying to access your account from an unusual device, we’ll ask the person to answer an additional verification question to prove his or her identity as the real account owner

Can Hackers still Hack Facebook Account?


So the question arrives here will it stop hackers from Hacking your Facebook account.The answer is no, you see that vulnerabilities are discovered so there is no way you can prevent it from happening.There are still alot of methods which hackers can use to gain access to yourFacebook account.If you are not a victim you could be so you should take steps to secure yourFacebook account.

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Dual-screen Acer Iconia laptop

At a Manhattan press event on Tuesday, Acer announced a dual-screen multitouch laptop that, while looking like a concept computer in the flesh, also looks like it's trying to get the best of two worlds at once. Iconia is a 14-inch laptop with an additional 14-inch screen where a keyboard would normally be.The twin Gorilla-glass-enforced multitouch displays seem to work like the iPad's panels, with support for 10-finger simultaneous touch.Iconia is, at its heart, a Core i5 laptop with familiar specs: up to 4GB of DDR3 RAM, integrated Intel graphics, a hard drive up to 750GB, and Windows 7 Home Premium. Ports are also typical for a high-end laptop: two USB 2.0, one USB 3.0, HDMI, and VGA.

No specific availability or pricing has been announced either--Acer is calling Iconia a "concept device," which seems to place it firmly into the same experimental/expensive category that the Toshiba Libretto W105 fell into. Most importantly, we've yet to see a Windows 7 touch device that's really been easy or useful to operate. Will Iconia break the mold? We'll have to wait and see.

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Apple to Give Away $10,000 to One Lucky App Store Customer

While the Mac App Store might be all the rage right now, let’s not forget its predecessor. If you’ve visited the Apple website recently, you’ll notice things are a little different right now. Apple have posted a live counter on the website, one which tracks the app purchases and downloads on Apple’s App Store. It’s nearing 10 billion downloads and Apple wants to, and I quote, “thank” their customers.

How will they go about it? Well, by doing the same thing they did when the digital store was nearing 1 Billion downloads back in 2009. They gave away a $10,000 iTunes voucher to a thirteen year old boy, along with a Macbook Pro, iPod Touch and a Time Capsule backup device. The 10 billionth downloader will receive a $10,000 voucher as well, but Apple haven’t said anything about the other goodies they might have on offer.
We’re planning on trying our luck, to be honest. What do you think we should do, wait it out until it gets really, really close or just hit download and hope our luck gets us the magic number? Either way, the counter is moving at a frighteningly fast pace and is on track to reach 10 billion by next weekend.

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Facial Recognition-based Search Announced

Knowing how random the results are from the current image search engines, Swedish company Polar Rose has announced the launch of a visual search engine that should hopefully make image searching a lot more accurate.

Polar Rose uses facial recognition and 3D imaging software to provide a whole new method for web-based image searches. A beta of the software will be available for public use, by February next year.

Polar Rose is also working on a plugin for the Firefox and Internet Explorer, which pops up a small symbol when the browser opens a Web page containing a photo of a face. When a user clicks on the symbol, the Polar Rose service looks for matching photos in its database. Users also can tag existing photos in the database to help train Polar Rose's matching engine.

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Microsoft Unveils Mobile Web Browser

Microsoft Corp. has recently unveiled a new Web browser called Deepfish for mobile phones. The software is designed to enhance web browsing for smartphones. Microsoft says the software will make browsing full-sized Web pages faster and easier.

The software is designed to adjust a normal desktop webpage into a smaller image for mobile screen. It also has a function for users to zoom in on the part of the page they want  to read or click on.

The software runs on technology borrowed from  Sea Dragon, a software company that Microsoft recently acquired. Seadragon has made a statement that Deepfish is capable of living up to the following:

• Speed of navigation is independent of the size or number of objects
• Performance depends only on the ratio of bandwidth to pixels on the screen.
• Transitions are smooth as butter.
• Scaling is near perfect and rapid for screens of any resolution.

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AdBlocker and NoScript:Add-Ons for firefox

The most annoying thing for any user today, while surfing is adds. Go to any site and you are virtually assaulted by them. Now while they are a necessary evil, since its advertisements that allow sites to actually continue functioning, they can also be the target of malware developers and hackers who can use these ads to unscrupulously turn your PC into a “Zombie Bot” for their own nefarious use.


To prevent this from happening, there are two simple add-ons that can actually help you prevent this from happening. The first is Adblocker Plus. This add-on is a comprehensively maintained project, which after install strips out adds from a webpage. This speeds up browsing by a great degree as web pages load up faster. The add-on is also very customizable. In the case of say a banking site, the add-on can be set to 
be disabled on that particular address or domain. Download it here.


The second add-on is Noscript and is a powerful tool in securing Firefox.What it does is that it allows JavaScript, Java, Flash and other plugins to be executed only by trusted web sites (e.g. your online bank) and prevents malicious scripts from running by the use of a simple database that it maintains, which allows it to recognize particular vulnerabilities that could be used to exploit your PC.  The addon is actively being developed and further details about it can be found here.

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New Kamasutra Powerpoint Spreads a Virus

According to a report by security firm Sophos, a new virus is on the prowl on the interwebs. A PowerPoint containing ‘information’ on the Kamasutra, which once opened by a user inserts malware into the system and allows hackers to steal data as well as be used to send spam or attack other websites.
Sophos says “The malware comes as a file called Real kamasutra.pps.exe (the old double-extension trick). In other words, you may think you are directly opening a PowerPoint slideshow, but in fact you're running an executable program."

The PowerPoint slide deck (which ironically is itself "clean" from the malware point of view) is then dropped onto your Windows PC as a decoy while malware silently installs onto your computer as AdobeUpdater.exe, alongside some other components (called jqa.exe and acrobat.exe).
Once this is done,  the Trojan called ‘Troj/Bckdr-RFM’ is installed and the madness begins. So while words like kamasutra and the ‘wheelbarrow’ position may interest you, just be sure you stay safe and avoid this Trojan horse. 

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