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Category Archives: Hacking

Buzz Hack – Using Firefox

10-Feb-10

When everyone around me has buzz, why don’t me? After doing some research here is a simple hack. You do not need any invite. Just follow these instructions and you are in.

Install User Agent Switcher addon in Firefox
Restart Firefox
Go to Options Menu > Default User Agent. Select iPhone 3.0
Log on to https://m.google.com/app/buzz

and you are there… [...]

Gmail Bug with attachent !

14-May-09

Seems like following is a bug in Gmail system. I was investigating over PHP.Backdrop.Trojan and wanted to show malicious installed.php file to my friend. Here is what I did -
1. Created a reply mail (in Gmail).
2. Attached two files. One of them was malicious ‘installed.php’. The attachment was successful.
3. Saved draft.
4. Clicked ‘Send‘ button, and [...]

Beware of Orkut !!!

02-Feb-09

Following is a nice and real story by Mark Gosh. Must read for all Orkut users:
How Google Fails for Net Safety.
I have verified and this trick works!!! Once your account is hacked, even changing the password has no effect either.
Few months back I have written a post about our online privacy. And this is an [...]

How to break or recover password for Tally 4.5 accounts

26-Sep-08

Here is an simple patch for Tally 4.5. If you have lost your password, you can use this tool to unlock/recover tally account/company data file and access them again. It works only for basic security level (if the file is encrypted then this tool does not work).
Complete steps are written in the readMe.rtf inside zip. [...]

GTalk Hacks and Tweaks

19-Sep-08

Here are few hacks to use with Google Talk:

Did you ever wish to run two instances for GTalk? This is possible and plain simple. Navigate to the shortcut that launches Google Talk (if not available, right click on C:\Program Files\Google\Google [...]

code search useful for hackers

06-Oct-06

These days I’m keeping a *big* eye on any new service they launched (any Internet service) and to be the first to use. Yesterday they launched code search, and I tried counter part of it:

here is the code for WinZip 9.0 Serial Key Generator,
a virus/worm that infects [...]

Orkut Blocked! ^ No Worries!

08-Sep-06

Orkut lovers,
Is Orkut Blocked in your organization/network, No worries…. here are some hacks:

Try https://orkut.com
Else, try https://images.orkut.com
Else, try https://images3.orkut.com
Else, use any of the following anonymous web proxies, means virtual browser.

 
Well, if you are using images.orkut.com, it won’t show you images. You might need (if you really want) a plug-in, IE-Orkut.zip, to fix the same. Download and [...]

Custom Search extension for IE7

10-Aug-06

Open registry editor and add a new key under
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\SearchScopes\
This is the place from where IE7 (Microsoft Internet Explorer 7) builds search engine details. Now the things are obvious, add two string values named “DisplayName” & “URL”. For example if you want to add a Google Blog search, use URL as http://www.blogsearch.google.com/blogsearch?q={searchTerms}
Here {searchTerm} is the [...]

AJAX Guide !

31-Jul-06

Johnson compiles a useful list of Ajax resources. It contains resource for PHP/Java/ASP.net.
[Edited: Oct 13th, 2006]
And here we go to hack an Ajax website.

Using ‘Firebug’ (and extension to FireFox) you can discover ajax calls, stack trace of errors, etc;
Using ‘chickenfoot’ provides a programming environment within the browser (ie. simulation of user clicks, etc;)

~ Ankit

Outlook Hack : Empty subject warning

20-Jan-06

How many times you have forgot to write subject of emails you sent through Outlook?? The biggest blunder is Outlook doesn’t show any warning ! Here is a hack/macro for it.
Steps:

Open your outlook
Press Alt+F11. This open the Visual Basic editor
On the Left Pane, one can see “Microsoft Outlook Objects”, expand this. Now one can see [...]