Thursday, March 25, 2010

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The Twilight Saga: New Moon [Blu-ray] (2009)

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Wednesday, March 17, 2010

vishing

Vishing is the criminal practice of using social engineering over the telephone system.
most often using features facilitated by voip, to gain access to private personal and financial information from the public for the purpose of financial reward. The term is a combination of "voice" and phishing. Vishing exploits the public's trust in landline telephone services, which have traditionally terminated in physical locations which are known to the telephone company, and associated with a bill-payer. The victim is often unaware that VoIP makes formerly difficult-to-abuse tools/features of caller ID spoofing, complex automated systems (IVR), low cost, and anonymity for the bill-payer widely available. Vishing is typically used to steal credit card numbers or other information used in identity theft schemes from individuals.
Vishing is very hard for legal authorities to monitor or trace. To protect themselves, consumers are advised to be highly suspicious when receiving messages directing them to call and provide credit card or bank numbers. Rather than provide any information, if speaking to a human ask them for an incident number and then hang up. Then place a call to the number printed on your credit card or billing statement from a telephone number the bank has on file, usually your home land line. While consumer caller id is trivial to fake the bank's call center gets much more reliable billing information provided by trunked 1-800 service and thus both parties have high confidence the other party is who they claim to be.
There is technology that monitors all public switched telephone network (PSTN)-based traffic and can identify vishing attempts as a result of patterns and anomalies in call activity. One example is a multiple calls from a limited set of skype numbers to call centers.

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

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Use a robots.txt file. Web crawlers are supposed to follow the robots exclusion standard.This standard outlines the procedure for "politely requesting" that web crawlers ignore all or part of your web site. I must note that hackers may not have any such scruples, as this file is certainly a suggestion. The major search engine's crawlers honor this file and its contents. For examples and suggestions for using a robots.txt file

TIP

Consider removing your site from Google's index. The Googlewebmaster faqprovides invaluable information about ways to properly protect and/or expose your site to Google. From that page: "Please have the webmaster for the page in question contact us with proof that he/she is indeed the webmaster. This proof must be in the form of a root level page on the site in question, requesting removal from Google. Once we receive the URL that corresponds with this root level page, we will remove the offending page from our index." In some cases, you may want to remove individual pages or snippets from Google's index.

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  1. Step 2
    Keep all virus protection up to date. Employees should complete a virus scan daily from their workstation. The person responsible for the LAN should also run virus protection daily on the server.

  2. Step 3
    Be very specific about the types of passwords that you allow. Make sure all passwords are an alphanumeric combination. Also make sure to change individual passwords on a regular basis. Keep the admin password to yourself.

  3. Step 4
    Limit access to files. If someone is responsible for working on only one project, then he doesn't need access to every file on the LAN or on your website.

  4. Step 5
    Run only current scripts for your web pages. Hackers look for dated scripts that are more likely to have holes in them.

  5. Step 6
    Take steps to disable employees' passwords as soon as they leave your employ, preferably before they even leave the building. Also close any accounts they might have with the company. This helps you protect the website from any damage from a disgruntled former employee.

  6. Step 7
    Set up a firewall and take steps to keep it secure. This is the only way to protect your website from hackers on the outside once you connect to the Internet.

How to Protect a Website Against Hackers

o protect your website from hackers, you must take a proactive stand on a daily basis. Just when you think you have everything covered, you can bet the hackers are already on their way into your data. Remember, hackers can do damage from inside the company as well, so take steps to protect yourself.
1 Maintain your servers in a locked location. Only allow designated personnel near them. Restrict access to computer drives. Remove computer drives totally from terminals where they are not necessary for job performance.

Protect Yourself

Rather than using the provided link in the email, you should copy the link and email it to the legitimate company or business, asking if the email is legitimate. If it is frudlante this could help shut down phisher faster.
Only use the address that you have used before, or start at your normal homepage.
Most companies require you to log in to a secure site. Look for the lock at the bottom of your browser and “https” in front of the Website address.

Phishing "Protect urself" Know What Hackers Do !

Phishing continues to be one of the most significant security threats facing Internet users. During 2007, scammers distributed millions of phishing scam emails that targeted many different entities. Phishing attacks are sure to continue in 2008 and scammers will use such attacks to steal money and identities from many new victims around the world. Armed with a little knowledge about how phishing scams work, however, you can ensure that you do not become one of these victims. 
A phishing scam is one in which victims are tricked into providing personal information such as account numbers, passwords and credit card details to what they believe to be a legitimate company or organization. In order to carry out this trick, the scammers often create a "look-a-like" webpage that is designed to resemble the target company's official website. Typically, emails are used as "bait" in order to get the potential victim to visit the bogus website. The emails use various devious ruses to trick readers into clicking on the included links, thereby opening the bogus website. Information submitted on these bogus websites is harvested by the scammers and may then be used to steal funds from the user's accounts and/or steal the victim's identity.

Phishing scam emails are created to give the illusion that they have been sent by a legitimate institution. Emails may arrive in HTML format and include logos, styling, contact and copyright information virtually identical to those used by the targeted institution. To further create the illusion of legitimacy, some of the secondary links in these bogus emails may lead to the institution's genuine website. However, one or more of the hyperlinks featured in the body of the email will point to the fraudulent website.

Links in phishing scam messages are often disguised to make it appear that they lead to the genuine institution site. The sender address of the email may also be disguised in such a way that it appears to have originated from the targeted company. Because they are sent in bulk to many recipients, scam emails use generic greetings such as "Dear account holder" or "Dear [targeted institution] customer". If an institution needed to contact a customer about some aspect of his or her account, the contact email would address the customer by name.

Phishing scam emails use a variety of ruses to explain why it is necessary for recipients to provide the requested information. Often, the messages imply that urgent action on the part of the recipient is required. Some of the most common ruses are listed below. The scam emails may claim that:
  • The customer's account details need to be updated due to a software or security upgrade.

  • The customer's account may be terminated if account details are not provided within a specified time frame.

  • Suspect or fraudulent activity involving the user's account has been detected and the user must therefore provide information urgently.

  • Routine or random security procedures require that the user verify his or her account by providing the requested information.
The entire purpose of a typical phishing scam is to get the recipient to provide personal information. If you receive any unsolicited email that asks you to click a link and provide sensitive personal information, then you should view the message with the utmost suspicion. It is highly unlikely that a legitimate institution would request sensitive information in such a way. Do not click links or open attachments in such messages. Do not reply to the senders. If you have any doubts at all about the veracity of the email, contact the institution directly to check.

This article focuses primarily on email based phishing. However, it should be noted that phishing attacks on social networking sites are also becoming more common. Scam messages may be posted as comments or via personal message systems on social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace. The messages often contain seemingly innocent invitations to click an included link to view images or read member profiles. However, clicking links in these bogus messages will open a fake version of the social networking site's login page. Victims who login to the fake page will be inadvertently sending their login details to scammers who will then have complete access to their accounts.

Generally speaking, people become victims of phishing scams simply because they do not know how such scams operate. You can help by ensuring that friends and colleagues are aware of such scams and what to do about them. The power of such "word-of-mouth" education is substantial. You CAN make a difference by sharing your knowledge of phishing scams with other Internet users.


Know About Cyber Crimes and Protect Yourself From Hackers

In the world of cyber crimes, one has to be very vigilant to prevent loss of highly sensitive information from their system. If you wish to protect yourself from online scams, it is essential to have knowledge about hackers and various cyber crimes.
Hackers
Hackers are individuals who intrude into others system without permission in search of information (hacking). They can be categorized into three groups depending on the degree of their ability to commit cyber crimes. Beginners are generally kids, who intrude for fun. The other two groups include intermediate and advanced where the advanced hackers are difficult to trace.
Cyber crimes
Hacking: Hacking means intruding into other's system without permission and this is the most common cyber crime we come across.
Process of Hacking:
To intrude into a system, the hacker follows the following steps:
·Identifies system that is vulnerable to hacking. In case of large corporations, hackers keeps dialing the extensions associated with that office to find out a phone that is connected to the computer. He uses that system for hacking sensitive information about the company.
·After identifying a vulnerable system, he makes attempts to break the password. If he succeeds in his attempts, he will have all the files of the company under his custody.
·To protect from being identified, the hacker deletes the log file of the system every time he intrudes the system.
In addition to hacking, there are many other cyber crimes that cause huge losses if unidentified.
Phishing cyber crimes:
These crimes are committed by setting up a site that is identical to a genuine bank site or sites like PayPal. Then, the phishing site sends out a mail requesting for bank or credit card details with link to the bank website. If the user clicks on this site, he will be directed to a phishing site which grabs all the details he enters. The hacker can make use of this information to carryout transactions.
Another phishing crime is to request the customers to purchase articles from a phony online store. The offender collects few orders and disappears without delivering the goods.
Trojan Phishing is a phishing scam in which the criminal sets up a connection with Trojan infected systems and continues to obtain information from the systems. He may even install software such as keylogging software, which provides information about each and every keystroke. This sort of cybercrime involving the keylogging software is highly dangerous.
The above cyber crimes can be prevented by practicing the below given two simple measures:
·Proper identification of the URL of the site before logging into the site.
·Use of updated versions of firewall, spyware, browsers and the operating system.
Last note, beware of hackers and avoid becoming victims of cyber crimes. Government bodies throughout the world are working together to identify solutions for cyber crimes.

Protect Yourself Against Wi-Fi Hackers

You're about to see just how vulnerable wireless networks are to hackers.
Security experts show us how they can spot credit card numbers -- and even crack passwords.Wireless networks let you move around with a laptop and surf the Web from anywhere at home.Surveys show nearly half of all home broadband users now connect by Wi-Fi.We discovered how easy it is for hackers to tap into your network and watch everything you do online.We drove through Federal Way with computer science student Dan Gamble."In that short drive we've picked up an additional 30 networks," he said.Each green dot on his laptop is a Wi-Fi connection in a home or business."We have 45 sitting right here," he said.Many of the networks don’t have a padlock icon."I'd say one in four is unencrypted," Gamble said.That means the owner never set up basic security protections.Using readily-available software, Gamble can spot who simply pulled the hardware out of the box."They plugged in their router. They said, 'All right, we have wireless. We're good.'"But there are dangers. Without encryption, anyone can borrow your connection.Worse, there's nothing to slow down a hacker from tracking your activity online -- and stealing your identity."There are malicious people out there. They will take advantage of your Internet connection," Gamble said.There are two kinds of Wi-Fi encryptions: WEP and WPA.But even they can be cracked.Damon Cortesi and Walter Pearce showed us how.At the security company Ioactive, they're professional “hackers.”"Yes, but the good kind," Cortesi said. "We're there to help and protect."They had me put in a password as if I were setting up a home network with WEP encryption.I chose "Molly" -- the name of my dog."You set it. We don't know what it is," Pearce said.With software easily found online, Pearce ran a statistical analysis.Twelve minutes later:Pearce: "There we go."
Johnson: "Those numbers are the name of my basset hound?"In computer language, "Molly" is actually this: 9ec73e76.With this code, Pearce spied on my Wi-Fi connection. Cortesi -- logged in as me -- went shopping.Pearce showed us how he can spot log-ins and credit card numbers.Just imagine what he'd see if Cortesi was filing his taxes.It took even less time to crack the password for a WPA encryption, which is considered more secure."This software will try to guess passwords at hundreds of passwords a second at the very minimum," Cortesi said.The program simply found the password in a dictionary.So, with Wi-Fi encryptions, this easy to crack. What should you do?The key is how you pick your password.Use something that's definitely complex. If it uses special characters, that's even better.Here's the idea: Instead of typing "molly," use a sentence. The longer your password -- the harder it is to crack.A combination of upper and lower case letters also helps.You can bet something like "mOllYbASsETisthe#1Drooler" won't be in any dictionary.This will be harder to remember, but Windows will save your password so you don't have to retype it every time