Showing posts with label Interesting Post. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Interesting Post. Show all posts

Monday, May 18, 2009

Command-line reference A-Z

To find information about a command, on the A-Z button menu at the top of this page, click the letter that the command starts with, and then click the command name.

In addition to the tools installed with Windows XP, there are over 40 support tools included on the Windows XP CD. You can use these tools to diagnose and resolve computer problems. For more information about these support tools, see Windows Support Tools For information about installing support tools, see Install Windows Support Tools

For more information about changes to the functionality of MS-DOS commands, new command-line tools, command shell functionality, configuring the command prompt, and automating commmand-line tasks, see Command-line reference

Some command-line tools require the user to have administrator-level privileges on source and/or target computers.

Command-line tools must be run at the prompt of the Cmd.exe command interpreter. To open Command Prompt, click Start, click Run, type cmd, and then click OK. To view help at the command-line, at the command prompt, type the following:

A

Arp

Assoc

At

Atmadm

Attrib

B

Batch files

Bootcfg

Break

C

Cacls

Call

Change

Chcp

Chdir

Chkdsk

Chkntfs

Cipher

Cls

Cmd

Cmstp

Color

Command shell overview

Comp

Compact

Convert

Copy

Cprofile

CScript overview

D

Date

Defrag

Del

Dir

Diskcomp

Diskcopy

DiskPart

Doskey

Driverquery

I will post command line from (E to L) on my next post

Sunday, May 17, 2009

Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Top Five (5) Best Criminal Computer Hackers of All Time.

The Black Hat Hackers - Criminals

These hackers are the ones that you've seen in shackles arrested for cybercrimes when they were just getting out of puberty. Some have done it for financial gain others just for fun.

1. Kevin Mitnick.
Mitnick is perhaps synonymous with Hacker. The Department of Justice still refers to him as "the most wanted computer criminal in United States history." His accomplishments were memorialized into two Hollywood movies: Takedown and Freedom Downtime.
Mitnick got his start by exploiting the Los Angeles bus punch card system and getting free rides. Then similar to Steve Wozniak, of Apple, Mitnick tried Phone Phreaking. Mitnick was first convicted for hacking into the Digital Equipment Corporation's computer network and stealing software.
Mitnick then embarked on a two and a half year coast to coast hacking spree. He has stated that he hacked into computers, scrambled phone networks, stole corporate secrets and hacked into the national defense warning system. His fall came when he hacked into fellow computer expert and hacker Tsutomu Shimomura's home computer.
Mitnick is now a productive member of society. After serving 5 years and 8 months in solitary confinement, he is now a computer security author, consultant and speaker.

2. Adrian Lamo
Lamo hit major organizations hard, hacking into Microsoft and The New York Times. Lamo would use Internet connections at coffee shops, Kinko's and libraries to achieve his feats earning him the nickname "The Homeless Hacker". Lamo frequently found security flaws and exploited them. He would often inform the companies of the flaw.
Lamo's hit list includes Yahoo!, Citigroup, Bank of America and Cingular. Of course White Hat Hackers do this legally because they are hired by the company to such, Lamo however was breaking the law.
Lamo's intrusion into The New York Times intranet placed him squarely into the eyes of the top cyber crime offenders. For this crime, Lamo was ordered to pay $65,000 in restitution. Additionally, he was sentenced to six months home confinement and 2 years probation. Probation expired January of 2007. Lamo now is a notable public speaker and award winning journalist.

3. Jonathan James
At 16 years old, James gained enormous notoriety when he was the first minor to be sent to prison for hacking. He later admitted that he was just having fun and looking around and enjoyed the challenge.
James hit high profile organizations including the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, which is an agency of the Department of the Defense. With this hack he was able to capture usernames and passwords and view highly confidential emails.
High on James list, James also hacked in NASA computers and stole software valued at over $1.7 million. The Justice Department was quoted as saying: "The software stolen by James supported the International Space Station's physical environment, including control of the temperature and humidity within the living space." Upon discovering this hack, NASA had to shut dow its entire computer system costing taxpayers $41,000. Today James aspires to start a computer security company.

4. Robert Tappan Morris
Morris is the son of a former National Security Agency scientist named Robert Morris. Robert is the creator of the Morris worm. This worm was credited as the first computer worm spread through the Internet. Because of his actions, he was the first person to be prosecuted under the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
Morris created the worm while at Cornell as a student claiming that he intended to use the worm to see how large the Internet was at the time. The worm, however, reproduced itself uncontrollably, shutting down many computers until they had completely malfunctioned. Experts claim 6,000 machines were destroyed. Morris was ultimately sentenced to three years' probation, 400 hours of community service and assessed a $10,500 fine.
Morris is now a tenured professor at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. His focus is computer network architecture.

5. Kevin Poulsen
Frequently referred to as Dark Dante, Poulsen gained national recognition for his hack into Los Angeles radio's KIIS-FM phone lines. These actions earned him a Porsche among many other items.
The FBI began to search for Poulson, when he hacked into the FBI database and federal computers for sensitive wiretap information. Poulsen's specialty was hacking into phone lines and he frequently took over all of a station's phone lines. Poulson also reactivated old Yellow Page escort telephone numbers for a partner who operated a virtual escort agency. Poulson was featured on Unsolved Mysteries and then captured in a supermarket. He was assessed a sentence of five years.
Since his time in prison, Poulsen has worked as a journalist and was promoted to senior editor for Wired News. His most popular article details his work on identifying 744 sex offenders with Myspace profiles.

Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Top 10 Most Popular Torrent Sites of 2008

1. The Pirate Bay

It has been a good year for The Pirate Bay. The number of visitors spiked, despite efforts in Denmark and Italy to block access the site. Last month, The site celebrated its 5th anniversary, just after it broke the 25 million peers mark. At any given point in time, more than 25 million peers actively trade files thought the Pirate Bay tracker.

2. Mininova

Mininova has seen a steady rise in visitors in 2008, and more than 3 billion torrents were downloaded from the site in the past 12 months. In addition to user uploaded content, the Mininova team has started to focus more on premium publishers with their content distribution platform.

3. IsoHunt

Despite being ensnared in legal proceedings with the MPAA and CRIA, isoHunt is continuing to grow. This year they partnered with the Creative Commons music distribution site Jamendo, and just like The Pirate Bay, isoHunt added SSL encryption to the site, making it impossible for your ISP or the authorities to monitor users’ activities.


4. Torrentz

Torrentz.com, one of the oldest torrent sites around, celebrated its 5th anniversary in July. The site added a “verified torrents” feature this year, and inspired many other meta-search engines to do the same. Last month a “hacker” caused some problems after it took over the torrentz domain, but luckily this issue was resolved in a few hours.

5. TorrentReactor

TorrentReactor redesigned and optimized the site throughout 2008, which resulted in a significant increase in visitors. In addition, the TorrentReactor launched TorrentPrivacy, a service that allows BitTorrent users to download torrents anonymously.

6. Demonoid

After being forced to go offline following threats from the CRIA, Demonoid returned this April after 6 months of downtime. Since then it is business as usual, and most of the members returned quickly.

7. BTjunkie

In December 2007 BTjunkie was forced to leave their ISP following a takedown notice from the Dutch anti-piracy outfit BREIN. This year there were no troubles, and the site continues to go strong.

8. SumoTorrent

In 2007, SumoTorrent quickly settled itself among the top torrent sites, and traffic continued to increase this year. The pop-ups and redirects are new though, and don’t make it one of the most convenient sites to browse.

9. BTmon

BitTorrentMonster, BTmon for short, debuted in 10th place last year, and managed to climb a spot. Other than that, there is not much news surrounding the site.

10. TorrentPortal

Not much news about TorrentPortal this year either, but for BitTorrent sites that is usually a good thing. Traffic seems to be stable, although the site is not growing as fast as the other BitTorrent sites in this list.

Wednesday, May 6, 2009

PhotoFunia | Bring your photographs to life

I came across this amazingly super cool website PhotoFunia when I was checking the updates of my friends on orkut.It is uses face detection technology to pick your face from the photograph and then use your face in other photograph. This is the best website i have come across in the recent times. I have nothing more to say about this site, the photo below speak

PhotFunia

Friday, May 1, 2009

Did you know that……

Did you know that the flight number of the plane that had hit WTC …on
9/11 was Q33N ….Open your Notepad in ur computer and type the flight
number i.e Q33N… Increase the Font Size to 72, Change the Font to
Wingdings. U will be amazed by the findings

Translate Your Outlook Emails into Other Languages

Microsoft’s translations

Re-use free Microsoft translations View animated tutorial here support.multilizer.com

Blackberry®Smartphones

There Is A Blackberry® For Everyone Find Your New Blackberry Now. IN.BlackBerry.com

If you have a contact in another country who frequently uses non-English words in her emails or if you are subscribed to an newsletter that’s written in some foreign language, here’s how you can quickly translate email messages into your native language without leaving Microsoft Outlook.

Microsoft has released a tiny utility that, upon installation, will add the Live Search translation service into Outlook, Word and all other Office programs.

You can then select individual words, paragraphs or the entire text of your email message and translate into any other language through the "Translate" command in the contextual menu or from the Research task pane of Office.

Anything new? Language translation is available in all Office programs by default but it was powered by WorldLingo - now that Microsoft has developed their own Language translator, the above utility will simply replace WorldLingo and that may mean some addition language pairs for your Office. Hat tip Kip Kniskern.

Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Top 10 Online Video Sites and Various Video Sharing Websites

Online video sites that allow users to upload and share videos have been increasingly popular and gaining tremendous Internet traffic. According to HitWise (the same technology research firm that said MySpace is most visited website in North America), the current top 10 online video sites where surfers look and search for video clips are as following. Among them, Youtube even commanded more than 100 million times of video clips viewers and watchers a day, about 43% of the video market share.

1. YouTube youtube.com
2. MySpace Videos vids.myspace.com
3. Yahoo Video Search video.search.yahoo.com
4. MSN Video Search video.msn.com
5. Google Video Search video.google.com
6. AOL Video us.video.aol.com
7. iFilm ifilm.com
8. MetaCafe metacafe.com
9. Grouper grouper.com
10. GoFish gofish.com

Other than the above top 10 free video clips searching, hosting and sharing sites, there are hundreds more of Youtube wannabes or similar alternatives around, with some of the online digital video services provide much more than simple video hosting and video sharing services, with additional features such as video editing and video mixing. Some of the free video sites are as below with brief description or tagline.

  • Revver revver.com (Make and earn money by sharing video.)
  • Frozen Hippo frozenhippo.com (Funny Clips, Funny Videos, Funny Movies)
  • Blennus blennus.com (Your driveling idiot)
  • Eefoof eefoof.com (Earn money while make and post the videos)
  • Veoh veoh.com (Internet Television Peercasting Network for video contents distribution in original format)
  • Guba guba.com (Watch, share and upload Flash, iPod and PSP videos with premium movies and television series from Warner Bros. and Sony available for download, including “Memoirs of a Geisha”, “Spider-man 2″, “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire”, “The Matrix” and “The Jetsons”.)
  • MediaScrape mediascrape.com (Internet news broadcast)
  • Blip.tv blip.tv (Allow videobloggers to record, upload, share and broadcast the video clips on their blogs)
  • Ourmedia ourmedia.org (upload, store, share, publish and discover DIY or grassroot media i.e. video, audio, image and etc)
  • Eyespot eyespot.com (Simple Video Sharing and Mixing where users shoot, upload, mix with eyespot mixer to edit and combine your videos, music and photos online, and share the mixes)
  • Jumpcut jumpcut.com (True to its Make Amazing Movies Online, users can upload videos, photos and music, and create their own video or remix other’s video, beside watch, grab and explore shared videos.)
  • VideoEgg videoegg.com (Video publishing on your websites and blogs.)
  • Vimeo vimeo.com (A really good site for people who like video, and other people.)
  • vSocial vsocial.com (The Video Clip Sharing Community)
  • ClipShack clipshack.com (Community for videophiles where users can post and share video clips for general public viewing and comment and post video to blogs. Videos can be uploaded straight from webcam and camera).
  • PutFile putfile.com (Upload Video and Upload Images)
  • Streamload Mediamax.streamload.com (Online storage on the Web that gives private and secure place to upload, store, access, and share personal videos, photos, movies, music, and files.