The Tech Diary of an IT support geek

How to change your DSLR lens the right way

A lot of digital SLR owners tell me that they rarely change their camera's lens—not because they don't own several, but because they're worried about getting dust or dirt in the camera. That's a reasonable concern: Dirt can collect on the sensor and gunk up your photos. But having interchangeable lenses is the whole point of using a digital SLR, and it's a shame not to get the most from your … [Read more...]

Verify your facebook account ” spam steals authentication token

 Few days after miley cyrus facebook spam, there is new spam that lures user into providing authentication token. Today, i got a notification that one of my friend tagged me in a photo. So , i just take a look into the post, it has a picture with a title "verify your facebook account at [tiny_url]". Quote" Attention Please! WARNING: Announcement from FACEBOOK Verificatio Team. All … [Read more...]

StumbleUpon vulnerable to Reflected Cross site scripting

A security researcher, Rafay Baloch, has discovered Cross site scripting vulnerability in the StumbleUpon , One of the famous social bookmarking website with alexa rank of 149. "Few days before, while i was hunting for vulnerabilities inside stumbleupon.com," Rafay said in his blog post. "Fiddler helped me obtain a non persistent XSS vulnerability inside stumbleupon" He send notification … [Read more...]

Security flaw in Facebook exposes user phone numbers

  Suriya Prakash, an Indian Security Researcher has discovered a serious flaw in the facebook that allows scammers to get phone numbers of millions of Facebook's users. If you are one of those person who say proudly i have made my number as private so i am safe, then you must read this news before shouting. Usually, most of users change the privacy settings in the "Contact info" … [Read more...]

Researcher break into Trojan Application Backdoor.Win32.VB.oyu

 The Vulnerability Laboratory Research Team discovered multiple vulnerabilities in the vOlk-Botnet framework application v4.0 private edition. vOlk-Botnet v4.0 is a remote administration tool, its main function is to manage the HOSTS file of the windows operating systems The code created by [byvOlk] PHP and Visual Basic 6.0. Vulnerability Details: 1.1 The vulnerability laboratory … [Read more...]

How to create Custom URL in blogger

Hurrah..! Blogger has introduced a SEO friendly feature-bloggers will love this. Yes, blogger introduced custom permalinks for blogger posts. Now you can use SEO friendly custom URL for blogger posts. What is the role of Permalink in SEO? Permalink(permanent link) is the unique URL assigned to each of your blog posts. This URL is basically the link that visitors are using to share your … [Read more...]

Orange.co.uk h*cked and Database leaked by Nullcrew

 Nullcrew, The h*cker group known for dumping the database belong to high profile sites, once again h*cked a high profile sites.  They h*cked into the official website of Orange, a mobile network operator and internet service provider in the United Kingdom Orange UK has over 17 million customers through its mobile and broadband services. They have dumped the database in two … [Read more...]

Archive Calendar Widget For Blogger – 2 Themes

 You guys needed more tutorials? There we go with yet another unique and interesting h*ck for blogger Archive Widget. You can see at our sidebar area that the default BlogSpot archive widget is transformed into a Wordpress Type Archive calendar with custom styles and flavors. The easy script and stylesheet today will enable you all to create a calendar archive gadget for your blogs … [Read more...]