Protect yourself from being hacked by hackers.!!

Introduction

Smaller URL's or untrusted websites will seem to sometimes convenient and informative but we never know that they also hide the original address or some vulnerable script behind which install a malicious software while loading that website or URL and than you may be hacked. Today many peoples like us got trapped into this malicious link and there  all of valuable information reach into the hands of attacker that's the way they get hacked. So the most common question every internet user ask that what he can do for protection of my computeror to avoid hacking or avoid to get hacked. So here your answer lies within to protect yourself from being hacked.

To avoid such situation or illegal hacking many developer's came forward and created many websites ,tools,vulnerability scanners and plugins which can help you to avoid you getting hacked and avoid hacker letting your personal information into their hands.Many of such tools I have discussed below to save from hacking.

1. Unshorten.it

It is one of the good website to unshorten any URL. It also gives you an screenshot of the site which will be going to open so that you can easily trust on particular website and don't click on the malicious site blindly which might result in getting yourself hacked. It also gives a trustworthy rating according to our convenience so we can differentiate between which site is original or which is fake or used by hackers to do hacking.

                             It is available for Chrome and mozilla only in the market. Support for others browser will also be released soon.

To download for Mozilla you can goto this link.

To download for chrome you can goto this link.

    2. Longurl.org

An another good one URL longner which longens the URL so that you have idea that you are not clicking any site which result yourself to get hacked.. It also expands the shorten URL and gives the screenshot of it .

To download it for Mozilla goto this link.

3). WOT

There are also many variety of site checkers which help you to find out whether the site is trustworthy or not. One of these is WOT. It will help you providing useful rating and comment of many users to provide you a better choice to enter a particular website or not.

      You can goto this link  and download it. It is available for browsers like chrome, Mozilla. 

4)Swiftpreview.com

An another good plugin for Google users. It's easy and simple. just take your mouse over any link and it will give you the preview of it without opening it.

You can download it from this link to install swiftpreview to your chrome.

                This know URL is available for chrome users also. You can download it here.

There are many other sites which you can refer like:

• Unshorten.com
• Unshort.me
• knowurl.com

6) Free Website Vulnerability Scanner and Tools

You have saved yourself from being getting hacked but what about if your website is being hacked. What will you do if somebody have access to your website, as it is the most common part in website hacking that attacker uses your admin passwords to access your website. The main question arises how the attacker got the password. Than we have many free online web auditing site which will help you to scan any website vulnerabilities for free and tell which way you can be attacked.

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One of the best free web vulnerability scanner is Web Cruiser Web Vulnerability Scanner which is free to download. You can download it from link given here.

More will be added soon. Stay connected with us. 

7). Use Dropbox and other online cloud storage to store your important data.

Dropbox is an best online secure cloud storage operated by Dropbox Inc. Technology of Dropbox is totally depends on Cloud basis which includes file synchronization , and client software.It allows user to create a special folder on their computer which is synchronized on their cloud network.

If you store your data here and even if your computer is hacked and all data is deleted or attacker fill up your computer with viruses than it is better to keep your data safe and secure over the best and free online cloud storage to protect your data. 

Here hacking of dropbox is merely impossible because of encryption algorithm it used AES-256 one of worlds unbreakable encryption technique.

     There are many best alternative other than Dropbox like Google Drive, Box Sync are available with free of cost.You can see here how to install it. 

8).Encrypt your Data with best encryption software available in the market.

In any case you have been hacked, so now what about the data.So you'll want to make sure if your important data is safe or not.So with the help of True Crypt which is free and open source lets your data to be encrypted. It is of the best encryption software, I came acroo with which is available for your both Mac and Windows.

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Conclusion

Today spamming, hacking, phishing etc are very common nowadays. If user privacy is not protected than it will be very difficult to surf on the net. So to protect user privacy and avoid attacks we have these sites and plugins to help us out.

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Author-Shubham Kedia

Top 10 tips that can help you gain traffic for your blog

Why am I writing this post?

In this world, everyday many new bloggers join and become a part of the blogging family. However, all of the bloggers are not able to impress and drive traffic to their blog content.

This is because they are not able to present their knowledge in front of the readers in a manner that the readers enjoy.

Thus, I am writing this post with an aim to help those bloggers who have enough knowledge, but are lacking in presentation skills.

By reading this post, and applying them in their blogging habits, they can get more traffic, and thus their knowledge would start getting its true worth in the form of appreciation from the readers..

The following are a few tips which I think can help a lot of bloggers: -

   1)      Never make use of long paragraphs. It makes the reader bored and thus he tends to skip most of its contents.

   2)      Highlight the important/key words in your article. This attracts the reader’s attention directly to the main point.

   3)      Use as many images as you can to make things simple for the reader. It becomes very easy to understand a topic, if it is supplied with suitable images. Hence, providing images wherever possible should be practised.

   4)      If possible, provide the readers with links of similar types of articles. This will give the readers a chance to know more about the same topic.

   5)      Never forget to ask your readers to post their comments/queries on the article.

   6)      Whenever you explaining some steps, always write small paragraphs, and write the points in bullets or number them.

   7)      Always try to begin your article with an image/logo, which can attract the readers, and at times it can also explain the users about the content in the topic.

   8)      If possible, provide the readers with you tube videos related to the topic.

   9)      The grammatical errors in the contents of your blog must be very less. You should always get your articles checked by some websites, which can point out your grammatical errors, so that you can correct them.

  10)  You should never use heavy vocabulary in your articles. You should always make your articles simple and easily understood by the readers.
      
      If you should follow the above tips in the writing of your blog post, then you may drive more traffic to your blog.

If you have any queries related to this post, then you may comment below..

Author - Pallav Jain

How to enhance your security in Gmail account?

Just imagine that if someone else gets to know your Gmail account password, but still he is not able to log into your account. How can you do this?

Well, Gmail has even provided its users with a facility named as 2-Step Verification, which helps making your account more secured.

Why you should use 2-step verification?

The 2-step verification system significantly reduces the chances of having the personal information in your Google account stolen by someone else because hackers would have to get not only your password and your username, but also your mobile phone.

In this verification system, other than the usual password verification, the user while logging in also gets a random 6 digit verification code on his mobile number, which needs to be entered to get access to the account.  

How can you enable this 2-Step verification system in Gmail?

The process of enabling this facility is very simple: -

·         First, open your Gmail account and then click on the name of your mail ID written at the top right of the webpage.

·         Then, click on Account. Thus, a new tab gets opened in your browser. Then, click on Security.

·         Thus, we get 3 options on the screen – Password management, 2-Step verification and Authorizing applications and sites.

·         Then, click on Edit button in the 2-Step verification option.

·         Then, Gmail will ask your password again, re-enter your password to proceed further.

·         Then, a webpage appears. Now, click on See how it works button to continue the process further.

·         Next, click on Start setup button to begin the setup of 2-Step verification system.

·         Then, enter your mobile number in the space provided as shown in the image.

·         Then, click on Send code button to get a 6 digit verification code from Google on your mobile phone.

·         Then, click on Verify. Then, Gmail will ask you whether to trust this computer on or not. If this is your personal computer, then retain the tick in the given box. Else, unmark it.

·         Next, click on next button. Then click on Confirm.

·         After doing this, Gmail will ask you to re-enter your password. After you get logged in again, the 2-step verification is successfully enabled in your account.

If you have any queries related to this post, then you may comment below.

Author- Pallav Jain 

Acces your facebook through your linux command line

Today in this world almost everyone is on Facebook. Today all our friends and relatives all can be found on Facebook. All of them use Facebook simply from their browser.

But, still a real ultimate geek may not want to access his Facebook account in a way other normal people use. he might try some other different ways to open his Facebook account. So in this post I will tell you that Geeky way to access it.

That most geeky way to access any social networking site is to use it from Linux terminal.Its seems impossible but a bit of PHP script makes it possible.

Introduction-About FBCMD

The thing which i m going to use is a tool called fbcmd which is pre-written in the PHP. It all PHP which drive it.This script allows us to perform all actions which we generaaly perform through our GUI of facebook.It takes command from the terminal like to post a status, to message, to chat etc. and perform that activity accordingly.

What all you need?

To use this script you dont need any special skills. You should have met the system requirements. They are some PHP modules to be installed into your account.To check that goto your file system --> usr--> bin --> and than search for PHP. If it is there than you are ready else you have to install it by issuing simple commands i.e. sudo apt-get install php5-cli php5-curl for all Linux distribution.

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Once PHP modules is installed download the fbcmd from this link here (right click it and choose Save As) otherwise do it by command line by  issuing the command as :
 wget https://raw.github.com/dtompkins/fbcmd/master/fbcmd_update.php.
You can have look at more commands like this here.




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Once that file is downloaded,run this coomand to install fbcmd sudo php fbcmd_update.php install.

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How to setup fbcmd?

Fbcmd need to authenticated by Facebook, but it doent use any trival method we generally use.Instead of that we should be passed through a series of steps to be get authorized.

Run fbcmd and you’ll be seeing some instructions printed into the terminal on getting started.

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Step 1:Start with fbcmd go access which will take to you to fb page to create a session which shows suceess if session is succesfully created.

Step 2:Type fbcmd go auth which wiil take you to the page to create an authentication code which you will be using further to get connected. Press Generate to generate your authentication code. It will change after each session you create.

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Then type the fbcmd auth [code], here code is what you get after generation.

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Now you have to add permissions for fbcmd use fbcmd addperm by this you will be able to do 

anything from your terminal.Allow that permission you want to give or cross if you don't want.




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To check for permissions using fbcmd showperm. It will show the granted permission.

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Usage of Fbcmd

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Now when you are set up its time to use the fbcmd to its full capacity.

• Post a new comment using command fbcmd status [message] for a word or use double quotes to use multiple words in your status. E.g. fbcmd status "hello there".
• If you'd like to see the posts others have made on your wall, use fbcmd mywall. 
• To get a list of all friends use fbcmd friends and for specific friend use fbcmd friends "[string]". (remove the square brackets but include the quotation marks).
• To see who is online from your friend use fbcmd fonline. 
• To show the last messages in inbox you can use fbcmd inbox X, where X is the number of messages you want to show.
• To check your news feed use fbcmd stream and to like someones post use fbcmd like[postID].
• To upload a picture to your Facebook, use fbcmd addpic [path of image] [optional album ID] [optional tag].

You can have more commands and there usage b y typing help fbcmd. It will give you full set of commands and its usage.To check out more Linux commands like this also see here.

What you learn matters.!!

I think this is pretty cool doing all this  via command line but it is not suitable for all users.It is more for big-time geeks. So use this if you dare, but it's pretty cool once it is successful.

How cool you like this a way of accessing a Facebook through command line let us know by your comments. What would be your favorite way of accessing the Facebook let us know.

Author-Shubham Kedia

Five portable antivirus and antimalware tools to carry at all times.

Hello friends, today every person uses computer for performing day to day work and here comes the role of anti viruses to protect your system from various infections .Antivirus prevents  unwanted access and infection in your system. It’s very usual  that people often  open files,  install cutesy apps and go to the sites where they shouldn’t  when they do these things there system gets infected and ultimately results in losing data or financial theft unless they are using  right tools.

Sometimes the antivirus tools installed on our system aren’t sufficient. When that time comes you’ll be glad you have one (or more) tools on your USB drive to help you out. I’ve found five such tools that could certainly get you out of a serious pinch. All of these tools are portable.

1. Clam Win Portable

Clam Win Portable is free, open source and performs a great job of cleaning the disinfectant files from system. It has a very high detection rate and being open source it is regularly gets updated therefore providing better security and has an easy to use graphical user interface. The only caution of using Clam Win is that it does not provide real-time scanner which is not an issue for portable version. This can be viewed as ready –to-go portable virus scanning software.

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2.  Sophos Anti Rootkit Portable

Sophos Anti Rootkit Portable is best suited for localting rootkits  especially for portable app. Sophos scans, detect  and remove rootkits from system., it is 100% free and works along with your antivirus I have found Sophos reliable  enough to use even while the PC being scanned in use.

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 3.  Emsisoft Free Emergency Toolkit

Emsisoft Free Emergency Toolkit  is a powerfull malware tool that can scan for, and remove, over five  million dangers to your PC. With this toolkit, you not only get the malware scanner, you also get HiJackFree and BlitzBlank as well. Emsisoft offers the free download, or you can purchase a pre-compiled USB stick. Emsisoft Free Emergency Toolkit has both a GUI and a command line version, so you can scan your machine even if there are problems with the GUI.

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4.  Vipre Rescue

Vipre Rescue it is a tool which can be used in case of severe infection. Vipre  is run in safe mode and does not depend upon a GUI tool for use.Just Double click on the executable  and a command window opens with the scanner  detecting infectious files on your system. If you already use the full version of Vipre, you can still run this tool should your machine become so infected, Vipre will not run.

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5. Spybot Search and Destroy Portable

Spy Search and Destroy Portable it is the portable version of  highly popular  full Spy Search and Destroy. It is good in detecting and removing malicious softwares all from your flash drive .Spybot  has a unique feature of backing up your registry before starting the scan in case of removal of any registry file.

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If you have any queries related to this topic, you can comment below........

Author- Deepak Sharma

Install your favourite Linux Distribution 'ubuntu' in your new Nexus 7 tablet..

I think you all know about how mobile are changing to an revolutionary devices called smartphones, tablets etc. I think than Nexus doesn't require any introduction.Now nexus 7 has not only supported by its factory installed Jelly Bean version of Android OS but can be installed by the latest and popular Linux Distribution Ubuntu. The major company in field of supporting Linux 'Canonical' has now able to set an Ubuntu OS instead of Jelly Bean.

This post will help you out to how to install the Ubuntu into your Nexus 7 by just following simple steps.The best part of the Nexus 7 is that you can revert back to Google Android Jelly Bean if needed.

1) Gathering of tools required to perform installation.

Arrange all basic tools to start installation procedures like your device,usb's,ubuntu os etc.

Get your Ubuntu nexus 7 installer by running these commands below on your linux machine.

I hope you have a Linux installed in your system else you would not reading this post.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-nexus7/ubuntu-nexus7-installer
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-nexus7-installer

It will install installer on your machine. Be patient as it takes some time to download and install.

2) Now it's time to unlock your nexus 7

As it's not so easy as you thought but also not so hard that you can do it. Be patient and follow the steps carefully.As Nexus 7 ships with a locked boot loader we must unlock it in order to install custom images to our device. It is required only once. Once we get it onto its boot loader we can load any OS we want to install.

 Special Note**:If you unlock the boot loader than it will erase all the data and reset it to factory defaults. So be aware of tha. Comfuge.org is not liable in any condition responsible for any loss of data.

Step 1 :Reboot the Android device into the Android boot loader. To do this, hold the volume down
             button and press the power button. Continue holding the volume down and power button
             until you see the boot loader UI.

Step 2: Plug in your device with your laptop with your micro-usb cable,the device now displays the boot
              loader GUI, which looks like this:

                     

1. Verify the fastboot lists on the device.To check run in a terminal on your laptop:

   $ sudo fastboot devices
   1234567891234567        fastboot

2. Now start the boot loader unlock process as:

   sudo fastboot oem unlock

3. Now you are prompted on screen to unlock the bootloader on the Android device screen. Follow the on-screen directions to continue. Your screen should now look like this:

                                   

  4. Complete the process by rebooting:

• sudo fastboot reboot-bootloader

Or simply press the power button.

When device is reboots you will ee "Lock State-Unlocked".

3)Installing Ubuntu on your Nexus 7

Once every thing is  setup, the installation can now start. To install, ensure the Nexus 7 is in fastboot mode.

Note**: All other device should be disconnected so as to avoid any disharm to other devices.

Find for the installer in the dashboard or search for nexus 

Installer will provide a GUI for installing Ubuntu.It will download the latest image automatically, and flash it accordingly. The flashing step nearly takes about 2 minutes. Once the flashing is complete, the device will reboot and finish the installation.These steps may take 10-15 minutes.

Here I have taken snaps of various phases which will go on during the installation of the Ubuntu. It will then give the real idea what comes next and what to do. If any thing goes wrong they you can easily identify it. 

                         

                               

                               

                                

                 

                             

                               

4)If any things goes wrong than you can return back to your Android

If any mishap happens or you are unable to get the Ubuntu than there is solution for you.Go to this link and download the factory Android for nexus: https://dl.google.com/dl/android/aosp/nakasi-jro03d-factory-e102ba72.tgz
Follow these simple steps to get back to your original jelly bean.

Once download finishes than uncompress the tarball with following commands

tar zxvf nakasi-jro03d-factory-e102ba72.tgz

Then, place your machine into fastboot mode and run the resulting script(I have told you how to do it):

cd nakasi-jro03d/
sudo ./flash-all.sh

On installing you will get following errors which you should ignore like:

archive does not contain 'boot.sig'
archive does not contain 'recovery.sig'
archive does not contain 'system.sig'

5)Checking and troubleshooting your install

If you have any problems than follow these steps. I hope you will got your answers.

1. Detaching of USB cable and re-attaching it after a restart in a fastboot mode.
2. If still any problem persist than reboot your host PC might it is one of the cause of failure.
3. Still having any issues use different USB cable.
4. If 16G tab image doesnt work than use the 8G image might it will solve the problem.
5. If you still having succesive failures than return back your device to factiry image and try again.
6. If none of it works fell free to ask any question. Dont't worry i will not keep you wait longer or you can raise your problem on Ask Ubuntu or in a #ubuntu-arm channel on freenode. If you believe that it's a bug then file a bug against ubuntu-nexus7 in Launchpad.
   
   
   

Author-Shubham Kedia