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Social Networking or Spamming ?

Hi5, Myspace, Orkut and recently Facebook everyone seems to be enjoying the social networking manai. Yes, just seems to be enjoying, what they never tell you is how much spam they are getting daily after joining those network. No offence against who are enjoying those network service and the owners, but have you guys ever […]

Fastest Oracle Password Cracker released !

SoonerOrLater just released new version of Oracle password cracker under GPLv2 License. We advice our readers to first understand the terms and condition of the release license [http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.txt] before start playing with it, specially those crackerjacker tinytots and scirpt kiddies, else you might face severe consequences and losses.
You can download both source and the […]

Captcha - Stop spam on your blog, forum or any PHP based websites

A CAPTCHA (IPA: /?kęp?t??/) is a type of challenge-response test used in computing to determine whether the user is human. “CAPTCHA” is a contrived acronym for “Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart”, trademarked by Carnegie Mellon University. A CAPTCHA involves one computer (a server) which asks a user to complete […]

Catch Peeping Tom in Windows XP

Are you a typical user who is working in a small peer-to-peer network with less than 10 hosts? Since, this type of network is devoid of servers, every workstation is configured to act as if it is a client and a server. Every host is forced to share its resources which make it highly […]

Top Ten administrator passwords you should avoid

Researchers at The Univerisity of Maryland recently completed a study in which four Linux servers were set out as bait to see the frequency of attacks.They found out that there were 269,262 attempts in a 24-day period (ref: http://www.darkreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=117302). Michel Cukier, a professor of the University of Maryland led the study on the most frequently-used […]

ABC of a secure wireless network

As wireless networks become more and more common these days, networks are becoming easier to break into. The problems stem from the fact that WLANs are very easy to set up and configure. Another reason is that most of the networks are set up with default factory setting which understandably has no restrictions. However, I […]