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Protect Your Data From Heart Bleed Bug

It's been a while since there was a computer security bug we all had to worry about.

Unfortunately, it seems like we may all have been facing one for two years and not even realized it.

The day before yesterday, security researchers announced a security flaw in OpenSSL, a popular data encryption standard, that gives hackers who know about it the ability to extract massive amount of data from the services that we use every day and assume are mostly secure.

This isn't simply a bug in some app that can quickly be updated - the vulnerability is in on the machines that power services that transmit secure information, like Facebook and Gmail.

We've put together the following guide to the "Heartbleed bug" for those who want to understand what all the fuss is about and how they can protect themselves.

What is the Heartbleed bug?

Heartbleed is a flaw in OpenSSL, the open-source encryption standard used by the majority of sites on the web that need to transmit data users want to keep secure. It basically gives you a "secure line" when you're sending an email or chatting on IM.

Encryption works by making it so that data being sent looks like nonsense to anyone but the the intended recipient.

Occasionally, one computer might want to check that there's still a computer at the end of its secure connection, so it will send out what's known as a "heartbeat," a small packet of data that asks for a response.

Due to a programming error in the implementation of OpenSSL, the researchers found that it was possible to send a well-disguised packet of data that looked like one of these heartbeats to trick the computer at the other end of a connection into sending over data stored in its memory.

The flaw was first reported to the team behind OpenSSL by Google Security researcher Neel Mehta, and independently found by security firm Codenomicon. According to the researchers who discovered the flaw, the code has been in OpenSSL for approximately two years, and utilizing it doesn't leave a trace.

How bad is that?

It's really bad. Web servers can keep a lot of information in their active memory, including user names, passwords, and even the content that user have uploaded to a service. According to Vox.com's Timothy Lee, even credit card numbers could be pulled out of the data sitting in memory on the servers that power some services.

But worse even than that, the flaw has made it possible for hackers to steal encryption keys, the codes used to turn gibberish encrypted data into readable information.

With encryption keys, hackers can intercept encrypted data moving to and from a site's servers and read it without establishing a secure connection. This means that unless the companies running vulnerable servers change their keys, even future traffic will be susceptible.

Am I affected?

Probably, though again, this isn't simply an issue on your computer or phone itself - it's in the software that powers the services you use. Security firm Codenomicon reports:

You are likely to be affected either directly or indirectly. OpenSSL is the most popular open source cryptographic library and TLS (transport layer security) implementation used to encrypt traffic on the Internet. Your popular social site, your company's site, commercial site, hobby site, sites you install software from or even sites run by your government might be using vulnerable OpenSSL.

According to a recent Netcraft web server survey that looked at nearly 959,000,000 web sites, 66% of sites are powered by technology built around SSL, and that doesn't include email services, chat services, and a wide number of apps available on every platform.

So what can I do to protect myself?

Since the vulnerability has been in OpenSSL for approximately two years and utilizing it leaves no trace, assume that your accounts may be compromised. You should change passwords immediately, especially for services where privacy or security are major concerns.

Meanwhile, the researchers who discovered the flaw let the developers behind OpenSSL know several days before announcing the vulnerability, so it was fixed before word got out yesterday. Most major service providers should already be updating their sites, so the bug will be less prevalent over coming weeks.

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Best Android Hacking Tips and Tricks

                                                       Android Hacking Tips and Tricks

Android is the Linux based operating system designed primarily for touch screen mobile phones. Now a days android phones are so much popular that they covered almost 65% of total mobile phones market.They are rich in functionality as well as user friendly. Many android users don’t know much about the hidden features of android phones. Today we are sharing an article which will tell you the best secret android tricks and hidden features of android phones. Different versions of android versions support different set of android tricks, so try all the following android tricks. I am not sure which will going to work on your handset.


 1) Force reboot: 
Many times android users face a problem of freezing of mobile phone, In case your android phone is frozen, you can reboot it using an android trick.

Just press Power Button+ Home Key + Volume up button simultaneously.

2) Quick Google Access:
Android phones built primarily for internet, many of android users don’t know that android phones provide a way by which we can access Google search in just a single click. To use this android trick,

Press menu key and hold it for couple of seconds, it will launch the Google search.

3) Reboot Android in safe mode: 
As like computers, we can also reboot android phones in safe mode. The latest android jelly bean version provides an option to reboot in safe mode, if something goes wrong.
To reboot your android in safe mode, follow the below given instructions.


*Long press the power button
*Long press on the power off option.

Android phone will show a confirmation message about rebooting it in safe mode, if we reboot android phone in safe mode then all the 3rd party application will be disabled. These applications can again be enabled when we reboot our phone normally. This is a great android utility in case when, one of your 3rd party application is causing trouble for you and you want to hunt it.

4) Unlock android phones by face detection: 
This is a cool android trick by which you can unlock your phone by using face detection, In the jelly bean version, android provides a way by which android phone can be unlock using face detection, to make this feature more secure, jelly bean version added another layer of protection in which android phone can be unlocked only when the face is matched as well as we have to blink eyes in order to unlock phone. Blinking eyes tells the android security system that person is live and it’s not an illegal attempt of unlocking using a still image.
To activate this,

Go to Settings > Security > Screen lock > Face unlock.

5) Get detailed information about phone status:
We can get the detailed statistics like phone information, battery information, usage statistics and WiFi information by just dialing *#*#4636#*#*

This is a handy USSD to get the details about battery usage, DNS check, Ping, Application time usage time and so on.

6) Move android apps to SD card: 
Its good idea to install android apps in SD card, but what if you installed apps on your phone memory. Don’t worry android phones provide a way by which we can move our apps to SD card. To move apps to SD card, follow these steps:

Go to settings > Application settings > Manage application > Select the application, You will see the option “Move to SD card”.

7) Hard Reset and Factory reset your android phone: 
This android trick comes handy at the time of selling an android phone. Android phone can be formatted in two ways

Factory reset
Hard reset

a) Factory reset: In factory reset, your phone is being formatted to factory level. Means all the settings will go by default and all the internal data will be deleted. To factory reset a phone dial *#*#7780#*#*.

b) Hard reset: To hard reset a phone dial *2767*3855#, this will delete all the data (including internal and External SD data) as well as settings of android phone. Don’t try this code for testing purpose, until you are not sure. It will not ask for a confirmation.

8) Context menu in android:
long press on the screen, will show you additional options for customizing android phones. This context menu is somewhat similar to the right click menu of most operating systems.

9) Taking screen shots on android phone:
 Android phones offer a great feature by which we can take the screen shot without using any 3rd party application. However the screen shot android tricks vary from one android version to another version.

Press the Home button + power button (This trick work on most android phones.)
For Galaxy Nexus: Power button + volume down button.
For Galaxy Note 2 and S3: Swipe your palm on the screen to take screen shot.

10) Android Version Animation: 
This is another cool android trick to play with your android phone.
To use this android trick, Go to settings > about phone > Tab repeatedly on ‘Android version’.
After sometime, the android version will be animated.

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Themer – the Best android Application to Customize your Smartphone 

When you get the new android device the first thing you would like to do is customize its look to speedup your work flow and make it look more awesome!

There are many applications are available in the Google Play Store which helps you to customize the look and feel of your Android Smartphone.

There are many launchers are available in the Google Play Store like Nova Launcher, Solo Launcher and many more. But the thing is once you have installed the one launcher then you have to use the same theme i mean you can customize it but you can’t customize the theme well.

Themer Is an Awesome android application which will give the cool look to your android Smartphone.

You can get the Themer from here and you can install the Themer in to your android device.

Themer is a set of the themes there are many themes available and you can find it after the installing the Themer android application.

As you can see in the bellow snapshot you can find the trading themes for the android device and you can easily apply the same theme by just tapping apply button :) and then the theme will start downloading and it will be applied within 2 minuets.

Before browsing and applying theme you have to set “Themer” as your default launcher and then your grid view of the application will also get awesome appearance like this.

You can also categorize the application so if you have installed many applications then it will make it easy for you to navigate your applications. 

There are lots of themes are available in the Themer android application, i personally recommend to use this launcher to change the look of your android Smartphone and amaze your friends!

If you have any questions then feel free to ask! :) stay connected with hackingandtips.blogspot.in for more awesome android tips, android application development and much more things about the android.

 

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Happy Republic Day 2014

                                          Happy Republic Day 2014

Waking Up Every Day In A Peaceful Nation
Is Not As Easy As It May Seem To Be.
We All Need To Be Proud Of
The Peaceful Atmosphere In Our Nation.
Happy Republic Nation.

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HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014

      HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014

Lets welcome the year which is fresh
Lets welcome the year which is fresh and new,
Lets cherish each moment it beholds,
Lets celebrate this blissful new year

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Merry Christmas

                                                                Merry Christmas

May the good times and treasures of the present become the golden memories of tomorrow.
                                              Wish you lots of love, joy and happiness.
                                                           MARRY CHRISTMAS

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How To Disable Ads/Promotions in uTorrent.

Many of us don’t like Ads/Promotions in the applications we use the most.
As we all know it’s being quite a long time that u Torrent Developers have enabled Ads/Promotions in the Client.
Here is a well known and simple solution to Disable Ads/Promotions in u Torrent

Now, Disable Ads in u Torrent

1). Open up your u Torrent Client.
2.  Go to Options and Click on Preferences.





3. Then go to Advanced and Change the Options as given below in the image



4. After changing your settings according to the image given above Exit u Torrent from the System Tray and Open it Again.

Enjoy u Torrent Without Any Ad or Promotions.

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How to prevent Unwanted tagging on Facebook

How to prevent Unwanted tagging on Facebook

Facebook has a features of tagging your friends in images or pics but this tagging feature can become headache and annoying if you are tagged again and again in various pics .The pics or videos appears in your timeline and visible to all of your friends . Also , when you are tagged in a particular pic or video , you are further annoyed by the notifications that comes every time a people comment on that pic . Don't worry , in this post i am going to show " How to prevent unwanted tagging on Facebook and approve Tags manually ".  Facebook doesn't allow you to stop tagging completely but you will get notified for the tag approval , whether you want that tag to appear in your timeline or not. Follow the steps below to enable this feature.

Enable Review Tagged posts on Facebook : Follow these steps 

1.Firstly go to the top right area of your profile (as shown in the screen shot below) and click the Privacy settings option from the drop down menu.

2.After Clicking on Privacy settings , Privacy settings will open. Various options will be there as shown in the screenshot. Choose the "Timeline and tagging" option.

3.Click on Edit settings after Timeline and tagging to enable tagging review option . Save the settings as shown below.Choose ON option to enable review posts whenever somebody tag you.

Now whenever somebody tag you , you will get a notification regarding same. You need to accept or decline that tag review to allow tag to appear in your timeline and vice-versa.

I have already told you that facebook doesn't allow you to stop tag completely but using these steps you can hide them from your timeline. 

How to remove a tag completely or permanently ?

If you want to remove a tag completely then open that particular pic or video and at the bottom there is an option report/remove tag. Click that option , a new window will open , select the and click on continue button to remove the tag permanently.

Remove a particular tag permanently

Click continue and remove tag.

Another Good option of  preventing undesired tag is Blocking that particular friend.After blocking him/her you can prevent yourself from being tagged in pics / videos.

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