Indian AP CID Website Hacked by Pakistani Hackerz

Indian - Andhra Pradesh CID website http://www.cidap.gov.in/ is hacked by a Pakistani group Hacker named ZombiE_KsA. This group recognized as a Pakistani terrorist group. When you opened this site, first its displaying a blank screen and then a message scroll from left to right stating that site hacked by ZombiE_KsA. Now this site is offline and you will "The page cannot be found" screen. As per sources this site having the information of Big Boys and ISI agents. This group have the history of hacking some popular websites including police sites, Government sites and TV Channel sites.

There are many sites that are hacked by this group, in that http://www.tourdental.com/ is also one, When we opened this site, a message displays saying "Hacked By Zombie_KsA" . This hackers group deletes the all files and database information after hacking. Generally hackers take advantage of the vulnerabilities in a particular website and then the server. This risk factor is higher specially when you are using Open source. So if you are using any Open source code for your website, update the code upto date and keep follow the webmaster forums and security sites to cover the loop holes in the Open source, Also don't forget to take back up of your site once in every 3 days.

Beware of YouTube similar kind Porn Sites

Over Internet its very common that if there is a good site, then definitely there will be copied or similar kind of website will be there. These fake sites want to cash the popularity of original sites by stealing the users. previously these type of fake sites limited to registering similar domain with the small change in spelling. For example if you type http://www.youtube.com/ you will go to the main Original site of YouTube. If you type http://www.youtube.net/ its directed to a porn site will be having listings all porn related stuff. At this point Google and Yahoo are managed these types of problems. For google when i tried with these domain names gooogle.com, googlee.com its successfully redirected to the original site. Similarly if you type http://www.yahooo.com/ it takes you to the original site.

This copying culture not only limited to the Domain Names. Now extended to copying the templates and logos of original sites. There are some porn sites with looks exactly similar to the YouTube including the similarity in the titles too. For example check the below Logos.

Original Logo

Similar Logo

If it is limited to the copying template then the user is in safe side, but some sites download Trojan virus into your system and starts stealing your personal information. When you try to browse these sites, when you click on any video to watch, it pop ups a window asks you to download the video codecs to play these videos. As soon as you accept codecs to download, it downloads a software with the name Virus Heat 4.3 along with a trojan virus. Virus Heat then displays fake system alerts or fake security alerts to trick user to buy the paid version of Virus Heat. The window of the Virus Heat looks like as shown below.

Likely error messages for Virus Heat may include, “Your computer is infected with Spy ware. Your Security and Privacy are in Danger” or “Spy ware programs can steal your credit card numbers and bank information details. The computer can be used sending spam and you may get popups with adult or any other unwanted content” or “System has detected a number of active spyware applications that may impact the performance of your computer. Click the icon to get rid of unwanted spyware by downloading an up-to-date antispyware solution.” Not only does it cause your machine to slow down dramatically, it would also put your privacy and data in risk. And also you can find a status bar in the Internet explorer showing the risks status.

If you want to remove these Virus Heat, download the free malware remover from the follwoing site http://www.malwarebytes.org/. After downloading just install the software with default settings, and then run the software by leaving the system in idle position. It cleans the all malware stuff including this Virus Heat virus.

Another interesting acquisition by Google

Google acquired another company which is providing services to manage voice communications. The name of this company is Grand Central. GrandCentral is an innovative service that lets users integrate all of their existing phone numbers and voice mailboxes into one account, which can be accessed from the web. Grand Central helping you to link all phones (home, office, personal etc...)to a phone number that generated in this website, you can set to ring all, some, or none of your phones, based on who's calling. This way, your phone number is tied to you, and not your location or job. Similary you will get central Voice Mail box, you can listen all these voice mails either online or from any phone, forward them to anybody.

Other than these Grand Central having the features of Call recording, Blocking unwanted callers, Receive voicemail notifications via email or SMS, voicemail greetings and many more.... This product is still at the beta stage, and now it is acquired by google, we can expect lots more features when it is available to every one.

At present only limited number of invitations are available to register for a Google GrandCentral beta account. If you have a U.S. telephone number, you can sign up for an invitation at

Bigadda.com now in Regional Languages

Most of you know Bigadda is social networking youth site for Indians, After orkut many sites are started with the same concept of connecting the people. Social networking sites are a platform for people to connect. There are more and more people using the Internet everyday who want to connect and communicate at various levels, even if it's with their colleagues sitting next to them or friends who they otherwise meet everyday.

Bigadda is fast growing social Networking sites over Internet with in the short duration it has got 1.24 million users in just five months and more than 15,000 people signing every day.

Siddhartha Roy, chief operating officer (COO) of BigAdda.com, said 'There are many reasons. To begin with, we are a very young site with 60 percent of our users below the age of 25. Besides creating profiles and inviting friends to join you, we also offer a platform for people to connect, on the basis of their interest, be it fashion, books, movies, photography, art or music. Also we will soon be making the site available on wireless and mobile phones. The basic purpose of the site is to help people connect and since the mobile phone has become such an inseparable part of our lives with over 450 million users, it only makes sense to make available the service to such devices as well. Also, we will introduce eight different regional languages in the site such that one can scribble in one language, say Hindi, and the other will have the option to read that message in some other language like Tamil, Telugu, Gujarati, Marathi, Bengali, etc....

NComputing - Share 1 PC with 7 to 30 Members

NComputing is a new solution for utilizing all available PC resources upto the max. NComputing manufactures a device which can be connected to a central processing unit (CPU). It can then be to connected to more than 30 computers, allowing multiple users to share a single CPU, thus bringing down the cost of infrastructure, installation and maintenance. NComputing is a perfect solution for schools, e-governance and businesses that presently cannot afford the high-cost of computing hardware.

Instead of deploying (and having to maintain) multiple systems, an organization can install a single server (or PC) and roll out an nComputing PC Expanion device, mouse, keyboard and monitor to each user, thereby enabling the user to take advantage of the capabilities that single system provides.

Some of the advantages using Ncomputing. Single PCcan access the multiple users, It reduces the maintainence cost and software updation in multiple PCs, Windows 2000 (Professional and Server)/XP Home/XP Professional/XP Media Center Edition/Server 2003 and Linux are supported etc..

For more informaiton check the Ncomputing site.

Anit Hacking Company at the age 18

At 18 years of age he is one of the world's youngest Microsoft Certified Systems administrators. His claim to fame, however, stems from the fact that his organisation endeavours to reduce cyber crime.

He gives lectures to officers of the Indian Army and Indian corporates on how to safeguard their networks and the Internet infrastructure backbone from potential raids by malicious cyber hackers.

As a mark of appreciation, Microsoft Corporation chairman Bill Gates invited him to the launch of Biztalk servers in India in 2006.

Meet Vineet Kumar, the founder and CEO of the Global Ethical Hackers Association (GEHA) and the National Anti-hacking Group (NAG); the latter is a non-government organisation which 10,000 hackers have joined as members since its inception back in 2003).

Vineet and these NAG members belong to a category of hackers that take pride in calling themselves 'whitehat hackers' These are ethical individuals who are opposed to the abuse of computer systems by malicious hackers known as 'blackhats'.

Interestingly, despite his expertise in a field as arcane as hacking, Vineet has had no formal training in his trade. He was attracted to computers as a child and managed to get the hang of surfing the Internet and chatting online. During one such session in an online chatroom, he met his mentor, who he refuses to name.

"He was a 'greyhat' hacker," reminisces Vineet. "He was based out of Chicago and gave me hacking lessons over IRC (Internet Relay Chat)."

How does Vineet know that his mentor was somebody based out of Chicago?

"I used some of the techniques he taught me on him," chuckles Vineet, explaining that one can obtain the IP address (Internet Protocol address) of a machine without its owner knowing. "I did it for fun and to know if it actually works."

It's hardly surprising, then, to learn that this mischievous streak caused Vineet's teachers to brand him 'naughtiest kid in school' back when he attended the Army High School in Ranchi, his hometown. By his own admission, he misses those school days. Today he is pursuing a four-year course in Information Technology and Infrastructure Management Services, ITIMs, from Sikkim Manipal University.

Courtesy : http://www.rediff.com/

Google My Location

This information is little bit old but latest hot topic accross the Internet Users. Google recently started a new type of service that provides Google Maps users who do not have GPS on their cell phone with approximate positioning information based on cell phone towers. The name of this service is My Location. My Location is a new beta technology from Google that uses cell tower identification to provide you with approximate location information, so it will work on phones without GPS. Simply fire up Google Maps for mobile, press [0], and the map will indicate your approximate location by centering on a blue circle like this:

If you do have a GPS-enabled device, My Location can actually complement it. My Location kicks in faster than GPS in most cases, so you can access your location even faster on the map. It also works reliably indoors (unlike GPS) and doesn't drain your phone battery at the rate that GPS does.

If you'd like to learn more about the My Location technology, take a look at this short video:



To give Google Maps for mobile with My Location a try, text "MYLOCATION" to 33669, or head to www.google.com/gmm on your mobile browser.

Of course, this feature is in beta, which in this case means a few different things: First, although accuracy and coverage may vary, both will improve over time as more and more people use Google Maps for mobile.