As we all know, we can be identified by nearly anything. There is face recognition, voice recognition, fingerprints, DNA, all sorts of biometrics and now they want to add footprints as well. Footprints are as good as fingerprints for identification but it is not only that. The way bare foot hits and leaves the ground while walking creates foot-pressure patterns and those patterns can be used to reveal your identity
If you use windows then you should know that almost everything you do is recorded. Most of the information can be found on windows registry. It has a list with last accessed files, a list with the last programs run, all installed programs, USB activity, user accounts, last visited URLs, a list of the programs that run when the operating system starts and more. With Registry Decoder you can see all that information, it provides acquisition, analysis, and reporting of registry contents
I am starting a new category called “Challenges”. In this category I will post some challenges (Yes, I know that it is obvious!) that I have found on the Internet in the past few years and some new (I hope). I have solved most of them and I enjoyed it a lot. Some people do not appreciate the solving process and how much you can gain from it. The more difficult the problem the more satisfaction you get. It is not only about the satisfaction but I have learned several things while solving them and most of them were very valuable
BackBox Linux version 2 has been released. BackBock is based on Ubuntu and it is used (mostly) by security experts to perform penetration tests and security assessments. It is fast, easy and it has a desktop environment. There are tools for sniffing, spoofing, password cracking, vulnerability scanning, wireless analysis and more
A semiconductor material can be altered and used to produce hydrogen from water using sunlight. The research was funded by the U.S. Department of Energy and the results are published in the Physical Review Journal. The antimony-gallium nitride alloy uses solar light energy to extract hydrogen and oxygen by slitting water molecules
Housing Development Finance Corporation (HDFC) bank is the leading bank in India. zSecure team found a vulnerability in the bank’s web portal on July 15 and they reported it on July 17. They even sent a reminder on July 24 and bank responded on August 08 (22 days later) with
Vulnerability Master is a new tool for security experts and hackers. It scans websites and tries to find if they are vulnerable to SQL injection. It also helps you to generate the query for the SQL injection attack. The creator of this new tool is MaxPain (M@xPain). The tool is for educational purposes only
This beautiful lightning shot was taken by Bertrand Kulik on July 28th 2008 during a storm in Paris. In this photo we can see a lightning striking Eiffel Tower
Twitter started showing ads about from followed companies. Now they will start showing ads from other companies too, not just the ones you follow. The algorithm will be based on the algorithm that shows you who to follow. If you are similar with someone who follows a company that you don’t, you will get ads from that company too
Two founders of Pirate Bay have launched a new file-sharing site called Bayfiles. Bayfiles will respect copyrights. It is very similar to Rapidshare, Megaupload and YouSendit. The site allows users to upload their files and share the link where their file was stored for others to download it. There is not search functionality and therefore the user will have to publish his link so the others can find the file and download it. If you upload copyrighted material, the site will delete the files