Monday, 16 December 2013

Play Around With Your Registry!!

The registry can be a fun place to be. If you know what you're doing.
It's an amusement park of sorts for the average computer geek.
Here's a little trick .
Remember what happens when you right click on something? The first option is open. You think you can change it?

Friday, 13 December 2013

Kevin Mitnick and Social Engineering

Social Engineering

Well as the name suggests, social engineering is the process of engineering socially.
What? No.
When you can manipulate a person and he willfully agrees to divulge information that he wouldn't under normal circumstances, you're a social engineer.
Hackers are called social engineers if they have the uncanny ability to make people tell them their usernames,passwords and other sensitive information.
Kevin Mitnick? He's to social engineering what Zidane is to football.

Tuesday, 10 December 2013

Windows Registry

The Windows Registry is the catalogue or reference source for a computer. When you open a program, the computer asks the registry details about where the program is stored. The registry stores references to settings and values for the operating system,system hardware etc. Basically, everything going out and coming into the computer is stored in the registry. It is like an index or a table of contents for a thick text book.

 Only those with a thorough knowledge of the registry should fiddle with it. Before playing with the registry, make sure that you back up your computer's data and settings. If you make a mistake while changing the registry and it isn't backed up, you might lose important information that makes your computer misbehave.

The 5 cheapest android tabs that you can get!

Lets have a countdown here.

Number 5:
iBall slide

Specifications

Cloud Flare





CloudFlare is a Content Delivery Network(CDN),ie,a large distributed system of servers deployed in multiple data centers across the internet, created by Matthew Prince, Lee Holloway, and Michelle Zatlyn in 2009

Monday, 9 December 2013

Web Archiving

Web archiving is basically preservation of the world wide web.
It is the process of collecting portions of the web to ensure the information is preserved in an archive for future researchers, historians, and the public

Web archivists typically employ web crawlers to capture webpages due to the massive size of information on the web.
Web Crawlers are internet bots, or software programmes developed to systematically perform tasks on the internet. Typically web indexing and saving web pages.

As of now the largest web archiving platform available is the Internet Archive which is trying to create an archive of the entire world wide web.It was formed by Brewster Kahle and Bruce Gilliat.
The Internet Archive uses an archive called the "Wayback Machine" to archive the world wide web.Over a period of 12 years, ever since it was started in 2001, it has managed to save over 368 Billion webpages from the web.

Google's Project Shield.


Many websites in the world are the only way people can speak,express and be free.Websites such as those that host content regarding news,human rights, elections etc are such websites.

The problem here is that, such websites being small and independent, are susceptible to attacks. More specifically, DDoS attacks, preventing access to important information.