Vulnerability:- Adobe Shockwave Player

A critical vulnerability exists in Adobe Shockwave Player 11.5.8.612 and earlier versions on the Windows and Macintosh operating systems.

This vulnerability (CVE-2010-3653) could cause a crash and potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system. While details about the vulnerability have been disclosed publicly, Adobe is not aware of any attacks exploiting this vulnerability against Adobe Shockwave Player to date.

Adobe actively shares information about this and other vulnerabilities with partners in the security community to enable them to quickly develop detection and quarantine methods to protect users until a patch is available.

As always, Tech-da-Hack recommends that users follow best security practices by keeping their anti-malware software and definitions up to date.

WiFi Alliance now certifies WiFi Direct products

First demonstrated at CES 2010, Wi-Fi Direct has taken another step to become part of the Wi-Fi usage spectrum.

The Wi-Fi Alliance, the group that tests and certifies Wi-Fi products to make sure they interoperate, announced today that it has begun certifying products capable of making Wi-Fi-based device-to-device connections and designating them Wi-Fi Certified Wi-Fi Direct.

Traditionally, Wi-Fi clients need to connect to a central place, called an access point, before they can connect to one another in their "infrastructure" mode. Other than that, they can also connect in pairs via a mode called "ad-hoc," which is limited both in range and throughput speed.

Wi-Fi Direct, on the other hand, allows Wi-Fi devices to connect to one another without an access point at the same speed and range of the infrastructure mode. They can also establish a connection much faster via Wi-Fi Protected Setup, a method that enables connecting devices by pressing a button. In other words, Wi-Fi Direct allows Wi-Fi products to connect much like Bluetooth devices but at a much faster speed and a much longer range.

With this flexibility, Wi-Fi Direct devices fill an important hole in daily usage: directly connecting devices for applications such as content sharing, synching, printing, and gaming anywhere, without users having to carry along an access point.

According to the Wi-Fi Alliance, another advantage of Wi-Fi Certified Wi-Fi Direct devices is the fact that they can work with traditional Wi-Fi Certified devices, as they act as a mini access point, to which traditional Wi-Fi products can connect.

The Wi-Fi Alliance say that it formed the test suite for the certification program by using the following products, which are also the first that are designated Wi-Fi Certified Wi-Fi Direct:

• Atheros XSPAN dual-band 802.11n PCIe mini card (AR928x)
• Broadcom BCM43224 dual-band 802.11n 2x2 MIMO PCIe half mini card
• Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6200
• Ralink MIMObility 802.11n 2x2 PCIe half mini card
• Realtek RTL8192CE-VA4 HM92C00 PCIe mini card

The group used the Cisco 2106 Wireless LAN Controller and Cisco Aironet 1240 Series Access Points for the certification test suite.

Source: http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-20020539-94.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20#ixzz13OTTmF00

Print a message as many times you like!

This fun hack is a VB script which will keep on displaying "You are a fool." and even can make the computer to hang as this will keep on displaying for "n" number of times.

For this VB script we just need to type the following command in the notepad::

Set wshShell = wscript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")

do

wscript.sleep 100

wshshell.sendkeys "You are a fool."

loop

and save it as "anyname.vbs".

Enjoy The Fun Of Scripting ...

Public computers are now secure for Facebook

Users who access their Facebook account from public computers can now have some peace of mind when logging in. A new feature from Facebook will send you a password on your registered mobile,and then you can use that password to log in. For getting the password, you'll have to text "otp" to 32665 from the mobile registered on Facebook. The benefit of this password is that it will expire after 20 minutes.
So, if you wish to re-login then you'll have to send the text message again.


Another feature that has been enabled is similar to a feature provided by Gmail. It displays details about all the "Active Sessions" that you may have from other computers. This happens if you had selected the "Stay Signed In" box while logging-in.

Facebook is rolling the feature out gradually, and it should be available to everyone in the coming weeks.

PASSWORD REVEALER

Many people have the habit of saving their facebook, orkut , yahoo passwords on their computer. What if we want to hack their id or know their password,We cannot do that by using any kind of key logger or any such tools. So, What do we do?

In such case we have to look for some other alternative .Now , What can that alternative be?

You don't have to worry about that, as we are always present to help you. The solution is that we use some password revealing software/tool to get the encrypted password revealed .There are many tools available on the Internet. One of such tools is snadboy. This tool helps one reveal saved passwords. It is also very easy to use.

How to get it and use it?

Step 1:Just download this tool from the Internet by a simple google search.(or www.snadboy.com)

Step 2:Install it on the system from which you want to get the password revealed .

Step 3:You will find a symbol(as below) just hold it and drag it on to the saved password and the encrypted message will be revealed in the tool window.

MAC SPOOFING

First of all a question arises that what is MAC address?

MAC stands for media access control address. It is the hardware network address for the network interface cards.

Now why do we have spoof it?

We have to spoof it in the cases when you are performing some administrative task or in case you are performing some kind of crime and you don't want to get caught. As MAC is the physical address it remains constant until and unless you manually change it. And if you don't change it and and perform some kind of unauthenticated task police easily catches you with the help of your MAC number.So, it is essential to spoof your MAC address.

How do we know our MAC address?

To know your MAC address simply go to command prompt and type " ipconfig/all " this will show all the network adapters and interface cards present. And the physical address would be your MAC address.

How do we spoof our MAC?

There are two basic ways of doing so::

1. Manually editing it from the registry.

2. Using some third party software to do it.

1. Manually editing it::

Step 1: Click on run and type regedit.

Step 2: go to

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE -> SYSTEM -> CurrentControlSet -> Control -> Class ->{4D36E972-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}

Step 3: Now under {4D36E972-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318} you will find different subheadings like "0000","0001" and so on. now manually click on each subheading and on the right hand side many options will be shown check for NetworkAddress.

Step4: Once you find NetworkAddress click on it and enter the new 12 digit mac number without gap and click on ok.

Step 5: Once all this is done now goto the control panel -> Network Connections and disable and enable the network card. This will change your MAC address.

How do we get our MAC address back?

In order to get the old MAC address back simply delete the entry which you had made. This way you can get back your MAC.

The MAC spoofing with the help of third party software will be discussed in another post.

Airtel 3G

Airtel has recently launched a page in its domain which shows the benefits of 3G features that Airtel users might be able to access. It has not yet announced any date for the launch of 3G,but the site shows the features of 3G.

This page seems to be an informational page and will be helpful to those consumers who wish to gain more information about 3G and its benefits.

The addition of this page to airtel.in shows that we are soon going to get 3G service from this telecom operator.

Eagerly waiting.....!