What are you WAITING for…….!!!!!!!!! Lets Explore the world of Hacking….

 What is hacking?

Your computers is like a house and a hacker is someone with pointy metal hats who charge the gate, scale the walls or use stolen keys to get inside to steal your most prized possession or damage your property.

A hacker can mean different things depending on how the term is used. Every programmer dreams of being a hacker. The hackers are programming code jockeys that can throw together bits of miraculous pieces of programming seemingly at will.

Being a hacker can also be a bad thing. A hacker or hack can sometimes be someone that has no grace or elegance in his work and throws his projects together haphazardly.

Thanks to Hollywood, people think that a hacker is a person who gains illicit access to a computer and steals stuff or breaks into military networks and launches missiles for fun and with no conscience.

Hackers aren’t always bad people wanting to ruin your lives. There are White-hat-hackers and Black-hat hackers.

White-hat hackers are ethical hackers who are computers security experts who attempt to gain access to a computer or network to detect vulnerabilities so that they can be patched. White-hat hackers are also called sneakers, red teams or tiger teams.

Black-hat hackers’ gain unauthorized access to a computer or network with malicious intent. They’re also called “crackers”. For simplicity we’ve used the popular mass media definition of hackers interchangeably with crackers.

 Who are the hackers??

Looking into hackers minds, you have to be open to the social aspects behind the way they think. Often portrayed as loners, hackers can be socially involved and fit into what is considered “normal” everyday lives. Regardless of the kind of lifestyle lead, every hacker has a knack for solving puzzles and an attitude to push himself to the limit. Their motivations may be different. Some do it for money, some for a social or political cause and some just do it for a sheer adrenaline rush.

Hackers usually use social engineering to gain most of their knowledge. “Social Engineering” is the act of getting someone to disclose sensitive information through trust.

“Brute force”, “exploit” and “dictionary attacks” are usually started through the use of software on the hacker’s computer.

What do they want?

A hacker can have many reasons for doing what he does. Here’s a list of what hackers are generally after:

• Spam: Most hackers are interested in getting their code onto personal computers so that they can be turned into spam machines. This way they can publicize useless products for which they get paid by the company. If you can hijack thousands of other computers to do the spam-sending, you retain your anonymity and have a spam network that’s hard to shut down because each sending machine has to be blocked one at a time.
• Corporate data: Corporate networks are highly protected because they have a very sensitive data. A breach knows tis and hacks into the system to extort or blackmail the company. He can also steal data and sell it in the black market.
• Personal Computer: Your PC has a lot more important data than you think. Although personal computers are not prime targets for elite hackers, they still remain an attractive target for the script kiddies. Most often they look for your financial account details to rip you off your money. Some of them might just want to snoop around in your inbox. Others might want to take control of your laptop.
• Mobile Phones: mobile phones are usually hacked to make free calls while the victim is charged for them. However with the new smart-phones, your phone can be targeted for your account details , your personal documents, photos etc.
• Web Servers: Any web site is hosted on a web server. If the web server is compromised, the hacker can deface the web site to display information of the hacker’s choice to the public.
• Hacktivism: Hacktivism is a form of vandalism or electronic civil disobedience with a political agenda. This usually has altruistic motives.

HACKERS YOU SHOULD KNOW..!!!

 Anonymous

Anonymous is a group of hackers that came about in 2008 and grew famous for its hacktivism incidents. It has no leader or controlling party and relies on the collective power of its individual participant acting in such a way that the net effect benefits the group.

When the whistle-blowing web site, WikiLeaks came under fire, Anonymous extended its support to WikiLeaks and launched DDos attacks against Amazon, PayPal, MasterCard, Visa and the Swiss bank PostFinance, in retaliation to perceived anti-WikiLeaks behaviors. Anonymous called it Operation Avenge Assange. On April 2,2011 Anonymous launched an attack named #opsony on the media giant Sony,

in retaliation to the legal action it took against George Hotz (or GeoHot), the coder behind a popular tool that allows homebrew software to run on the PlayStation3. Anonymous claimed the attack to be a success after it took down the PlayStation Network and other related PlayStation web sites.

the group also hacked the Tunisian government web site to support Arab Spring and Department of Justice-managed web sites to retaliate against the shutdown of MegaUpload. Anonymous has been in the news of its hacktivism since the past 2 years.

 Jonathan James (c0mrade)

He was sent to prison for hacking at the age of 16, becoming the first juvenile to be sent to prison for hacking. He targeted high-profile organizations such as the America’s Department of Defence. He created a backdoor that enabled him to view sensitive emails and capture employee usernames and passwords. He also cracked into NASA computers, stealing software worth approximately $1.7 million. He said that he downloaded the code to supplement his studies in C programming but the code wasn’t well written and definitely not worth the $1.7 million. He committed suicide in 2008.

 Kevin Mitnick

When he was just 12, he used social engineering to bypass the punchcard system used in the Los Angeles bus system. Later he used social engineering as his primary method of obtaining information, including usernames and passwords and modem phone numbers. He was convicted for hacking into multiple systems of the Digital Equipment Corporation to view Virtual Memory System (VMS) code which cost it $160,000.

At the time of his arrest, he was the most-wanted computer criminal in the United States. Kevin also admitted to stealing software from Motorola, Novell, Fujitsu, Sun Microsystems and other companies, in addition to altering the computer systems of the University of Southern California. After serving his sentence, he decided to mend his ways . He started Mitnick Security Consulting and is now turning a profit as a White hat.

Stephen Wozniak (Woz)

 A white-hat hacker, he was also called the other Steve of Apple. Along with Steve Jobs he co-founded Apple Computers. He started hacking by making blue boxes-devices that bypass telephone-switching mechanisms to make free long distance calls. He and Jobs researched frequencies, then built and sold blue boxes to their classmates in college.

He came up with the preliminary Mac, and Jobs had the bright idea of selling the computers as a fully assembled PC board; thus creating one of the most important breakthroughs in computing technology. He no longer works for Apple and devotes his time and money to philanthropy.

 Ankit Fadia

India’s very own ethical hacker who shot to fame after authoring The Unofficial Guide to Ethical Hacking at the age of 15. He’s an independent computer security consultant and also advises the government on matters of cyber security.

Fadia has also led several investigations pertaining to national security and cyber terrorism. He’s currently pursuing his Bachelors in Computer Science with specialization in Information Security at Stanford University, USA.

Dr. Vashishth Narayan Singh is the greatest Mathematician alive, who travelled a lot in journey of his life from a typical undeveloped village in Bihar to USA.

He did his village from a primary school to one of the top schools of Bihar named Netarhat, Science College Patna and then University of California, Berkley, the life of name and fame to the life of mental disturbance and poverty.

The mathematician who challenged works of Great Scientist Albert Einstein. It was related to his Theory of Relativity (E=MC².)

• His Village – Basantpur,(12 Km. from ARA), Bhojpur, Bihar
• Family – Poor Family, Father Constable in Bihar Police.
• Class X – Netarhat  Vidyalaya – Gold Medalist in his passing year
• Class XII – Patna Science College

He is the record holder for Bihar Board in Matriculation Examination and Bihar Intermediate Education Council for Intermediate Exams Science College.

In early mid 1960′s Bihar College of Engineering, Patna, was in much better shape and world class faculty members used to visit the College. There was some Mathematics Conference in Bihar College of Engineering during mid 60′s where Prof John L. Kelley, HOD University of California, Berkley (UCB)  was also present. He had given a list of 5 most challenging problems in Mathematics and you will surprised to know that Vasistha Narayan Singh solved all of them and that too in different ways.

Prof. John L.Kelley , Berkley professor got impressed and requested him to come to Berkley for further study. Vashishth Narayan Singh told him that it would be difficult for him to come to US on his own. Professor promised all the help and kept the word. He arranged the visa and flight ticket for him and got him into University of California, Berkley.

He took good care of Vashishth Narayan Singh at University of California, Berkley as Vashishth Narayan Singh is a shy person. Vashishth Narayan Singh did not let down the professor words and did his PhD with style and went on to work for NASA.

His PhD Dissertation Title was: Reproducing Kernels and Operators with a Cyclic Vector.

In the meantime, Family was asking him to come to India and get married. But Vashishth Narayan Singh had some nationalistic dreams and thought of doing his services towards India, rather to stay in US as his Professor and NASA wanted him to do.

There was a rumor that he had an affair with the daughter of his Professor at University of California, Berkley and wanted to marry her but due to his parental pressure and nationalistic dream of doing India proud took precedence and he came back to India. It was also rumor that he had started taking some drugs when he was in Berkley and it continued till he came back to India.

He came back and his parents got him married to an Army Officer’s Daughter with some good dowry. His father-in-law belongs to Jaipur. Due to some reasons which are yet unknown, marriage did not work out and his wife left him after sometime and never come back again in his life. This left him heartbroken and made his condition worst. He worked at ISI Cal, IIT K and TIFR Bombay. He had a tough time at ISI Cal and was disillusioned at other places also.

Soon after that, He lost his mental balance and was admitted to Mental Hospital, Kanke, Ranchi. But Dr.  Jagannath Mishra got him out of Kanke as he had to get some other person admitted there, in the VIP ward.

His family did not have enough money to support his treatment and Bihar Govt. threw him out of Kanke which made his condition worse. After that he went to Meerut hospital and after sometime, he ran away. He was suffering from Schizonfrania a type of Mental Disesase. He had been treated by NIMHANS, Bangalore. It appears that he fled from Meerut Mental Hospital and was untraceable for many years until someone from his village saw him as a ragpicker in Chapra in mid 90s and informed his family.

His elder brother and others went for cross checking the facts and to see him. They were happy to see him alive but sad to see his misery. He was brought back to his village in late 80s or early 1990s.

Medicinal help is not much of help in this disease. He needs a proper environment to come back to normal life. Age is also a factor in recovery. A proper nutrition and lifelong medication can re-vitalize his life. But he needs a research related assignment and academic environment to be normal; besides having a loving family. Mentally, he is still living in the age of 20-30, though he may be 75 + as of today.

Sometimes we wonder to see our documents in a different form or with different content and start remembering whether I change the document earlier or not? Or somebody else made changes in it…

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Scientists have decoded the secret of spider silk’s strength and what makes the fiber at least five times as tough as piano wire. Even I always wondered about it.

Where does that come from? Is that from spider’s shit? Well, No. Its spider’s silk.

Researchers at Arizona State University (ASU) found a way to obtain a wide variety of elastic properties of the silk of several intact spiders’ webs using a sophisticated but non-invasive laser light scattering technique.

“Spider silk has a unique combination of mechanical strength and elasticity that make it one of the toughest materials we know,” said Professor Jefferv Yarger of ASU’s department of Chemistry and Biochemistry. Now I can really say how Spiderman moves around in the New York City.

“This work represents the most complete understanding we have of the underlying mechanical properties of spider silks,” Yarger said.

Spider silk is an exceptional biological polymer, related to collagen. This polymer has been predicted as an extremely strong and stretchable material.

Patel, 77, spends her retired life in an old bungalow in Ahmedabad, close to the Sabarmati riverfront. Her husband died six years ago and she doesn’t have children. She lives with her young niece Preeti. Although the house is secluded the two women, have little to fear. They have several four-legged companions. No less than 150 dogs and 5 cats romp about in the eight-roomed bungalow and its huge garden.

Of the 150 dogs, 149 are strays with one Doberman. The natural enemies live in harmony with Patel’s attention distributed equally. Patel has filled her home and her heart with dogs of all hues and sizes from different parts of the sizes from different parts of city. Strays that were willing to stay with her as well as those injured in accidents and even some caught by dog catchers were all welcomed into her bungalow.

Patel’s companions have a free run in all the eight rooms of the bungalow and the garden outside.”I found many of these dogs homeless and injured. I was more than happy to give them a home. They are loving and caring beings,” Patel said.

Now, she has been employed a cook especially for her companions. The cook has strict orders to supply their daily quota of rotis, rice or whatever is preferred by her pets. For the puppies, milk is brought in large quantities everyday.

Java applications are typically compiled to byte code (class file) that can run on any Java Virtual Machine (JVM) regardless of computer architecture. Java is a general-purpose, concurrent, class-based, object-oriented language that is specifically designed to have as few implementation dependencies as possible. It is intended to let application developers “write once, run anywhere” (WORA), meaning that code that runs on one platform does not need to be recompiled to run on another.

Java is currently one of the most popular programming languages in use, particularly for client-server web applications, with a reported 10 million users.

The Java™ platform has historically been the province of object-oriented programming, but even Java language stalwarts are starting to pay attention to the latest old-is-new trend in application development: functional programming. In this new series, Ted Neward introduces Scala, a programming language that combines functional and object-oriented techniques for the JVM.

Along the way, Ted makes the case for why you should take the time to learn Scala — Software development today is embracing functional programming (FP), whether it’s for writing concurrent programs or for managing Big Data. Where does that leave Java developers?

This concise book offers a pragmatic, approachable introduction to FP for Java developers or anyone who uses an object-oriented language. Dean Wampler, Java expert and author of Programming Scala (O’Reilly), shows you how to apply FP principles such as immutability, avoidance of side-effects, and higher-order functions to your Java code.

Each chapter provides exercises to help you practice what you’ve learned. Once you grasp the benefits of functional programming, you’ll discover that it improves all of the code you write.

• Learn basic FP principles and apply them to object-oriented programming
• Discover how FP is more concise and modular than OOP
• Get useful FP lessons for your Java type design—such as avoiding nulls
• Design data structures and algorithms using functional programming principles
• Write concurrent programs using the Actor model and software transactional memory
• Use functional libraries and frameworks for Java—and learn where to go next to deepen your functional programming skills concurrency, for one — and shows you how quickly it will pay off.

Technical Skills

• Knowledge of OOPS Concept, J2EE, J2SE, J2ME, EJB, JSP etc.
• General understanding of distributed computing architectures (for example, Client/Server, Internet/Intranet, Enterprise).
• A good understanding of the underlying operating system e.g. Windows Server 2003, Solaris, etc.

General Skills

• Strong organizational skills
• Strong logical and analytical thinker
• Ability to concentrate and pay close attention to detail
• Ability to think broadly and consider impacts across systems and within the organization
• Good team player.

Certification

• OCJP (Oracle Certified Java Programmer)
• OCWC (Oracle Certified Web Component )

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The main reason behind this incident is still unknown. Although a lots of hypothesizes have been put forward for both the cause of ignition and the initial fuel for the ensuing fire. This incident sets a negative view towards the Giant Passenger airship and leads to the end of the Giant airship era.

Hindenburg began its last flight on May 3, 1937  carrying 36 passenger  and 61 officers, crew members, and trainees. The ship left the Frankfurt airfield at 7:16 PM and flew over Cologne, and then crossed the Netherlands before following the English Channel past the chalky cliffs of Beachy Head in southern England, and then heading out over the Atlantic the very next day.

Hindenburg passes the southern tip of Greenland and crossing the North American coast at Newfoundland.  Headwinds delayed the airship’s passage across the Atlantic, and the Lakehurst arrival. In the Afternoon on May 6th the ship had reached Boston.

Then ship flew south from New York and arrived at the Naval Air Station at Lakehurst, New Jersey at around 4:15 PM, but the poor weather conditions at the field concerned the Hindenburg’s commander, Captain Max Pruss, who sent a message to the ship recommending a delay in landing until conditions improved.

 Captain Pruss departed the Lakehurst area and took his ship over the beaches and coast of New Jersey to wait out the storm.  By 6:00 PM conditions had improved, Rosendahl sent a message to the captain Pruss telling the current condition of the weather, temperature etc.

Finally at 6:22 Rosendahl send a message through Radio to the Captain Pruss that now you can land the airship and at 7:08 Rosendahl sent a message to the ship strongly recommending the “earliest possible landing.”

Hindenburg approached the field at Lakehurst from the southwest shortly after 7:00 PM.  Since the wind was from the east, after passing over the field to observe conditions on the ground, Captain Pruss initiated a wide left turn to fly a descending oval pattern around the north and west of the field, to line up for a landing into the wind to the east.

At 7:25 PM, the first visible external flames appeared. Reports vary, but most witnesses saw the first flames either at the top of the hull just forward of the vertical fin (near the ventilation shaft between cells 4 and 5) or between the rear port engine and the port fin (in the area of gas cells 4 and 5, where Ward and Antrim had seen the fluttering).

For example, Lakehurst commander Rosendahl described a “mushroom shaped flower” of flame bursting into bloom in front of the upper fin.  Navy Lt. Benjamin May, the assistant mooring officer, who was atop the mooring mast, testified that an area just behind the rear port engine (where Ward and Antrim reported the fluttering) “seemed to collapse,” after which he saw streaks of flame followed by a muffled explosion, and then the entire tail was engulfed by flame.  Navy ground crew member William Bishop described seeing flames “inside” the ship a little above and aft of the rear port engine car.

 Several witnesses inside the ship also saw the beginning of the fire.  Helmsman Helmut Lau, who was stationed at the auxiliary control stand in the lower fin, heard “a muffled detonation and looked up and saw from the starboard side down inside the gas cell a bright reflection on the front bulkhead of cell No. 4.”

The fire spread so quickly and consuming the ship in less than a minute. That survival was largely a matter of where one happened to be located when the fire broke out.

Passengers and crew members began jumping out the promenade windows to escape the burning ship, and most of the passengers and all of the crew who were in the public rooms on A Deck at the time of the fire and close to the promenade window. Those who were deeper inside the ship, in the passenger cabins at the center of the decks or the crew spaces along the keel, generally died in the fire.

John Pannes (Passenger) and his wife Emma, who had returned to their cabin for her coat. Both died in the fire. Mr and Mrs Hermann Doehner and their three children (Irene, 16; Walter 10; and Werner, 8 ) were also in the dining room watching the landing, but Mr Doehner left before the fire broke out.  Mrs Doehner and her two young sons jumped to safety, but Irene left the dining room in search of her father, and both died as a result of the crash.

The GTX 690 comes packed with so many things that in one word it can said it’s “BLADOW”. Words are less to describe the awesomeness of this product. This product is much feature rich in a small compact design, it shows what kind of technology is coming in this present world. This GPU is right now the most highly priced GPU chip in the planet. It supports every game published n released for Desktop PC till date and will be able to support any game at high quality for the next 4 – 5 years very easily.

Nvidia GeForce GTX 690 : Technical Specifications

The hardware is very mouth-watering and attractive and with a big load of features and supporting activities associated with it. Starting from the memory to cores to GFLOPS to display resolution, everything is so terrific and different, that performance mongers will definitely do anything to get a hand on this for their desktop.

The GTX 690 comes with  2*2048 mb of memory i.e. to say it is a 4gb GPU card with 512 Bit DDR5 interface. No doubt that the Desktop which can hold this Monster will also be very highly priced but it’s worth it when the thing comes to performance, quality and power.

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