FACEBOOK THIEVES

Social networks like Facebook are getting very popular nowadays and most of the people spend their times to communicate with their friends and family members via this virtual community. A new weblog named FBHive created a discussion board for the users to introduce the security gaps in Facebook. According to the recent news which this weblog alerted the users about that is a new security hole in Facebook which will let the hacker to view the basic information of the users such as Location, Gender, Relationship status and … .

In the first look it doesn’t seem too much critical but it will be a problem when you find out that this basic information can be the password hint for user’s accounts. The same problem was reported by this blog last year which was solved by the Facebook several months ago.
This weblog tries to introduce such the problem to Facebook security team to fill the gaps as soon as possible.

Source:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10270002-36.html

WELCOME TO HACKER SPACE FESTIVAL

The first and second  hacker space festival was held  in France in  June 2008 and 2009.It should be suggested that during  festival  week in 2008, about 300 people came to visit and participate. This festival was  A good mix of Art, Hack, Politics and even Religion (Worship the Hot Potato!) along with excellent self-organization make very good memories.By regarding success of this festival the next ceremony has been considered split in three monthes of April ,May and july in this year.

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UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS TO SARAH PALIN'S YAHOO PASSWORD

After guessing sarah palin's Yahoo password  last week,her former student in U-T Knoxville  was convicted to unauthorized access in a federal jury .NEWS +  VIDEO
Professor Joseph Kizza believes :"People tend to use very simple passwords, like their dogs names or daughters and sons names and birthdays and so on".Kizza mentioned that good passwords have three features including length of eight characters or more,Complexity and combination, like upper and lower case, symbols, and numbers. Kizza added :"t is highly unlikely that somebody who has come close to password trying to guess it would know the first word, the first character is in capital letters, the next one is lower and so on and so on".
Professor Kizza says that due to professional using of internet somebody needs 15-passwords built one solid string, and then cycling the back to the front to create new key.

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A KIND OF SPOOFING PROBLEM

Spoofing is a engage in a profession whereby the user on the internet attempts to hide its IP address to conceal its true identity. Many crackers steal databases of credit cards or other sensitive information.

The concept of IP spoofing, was initially discussed in academic circles in the 1980’s.While the popularity of such cracks has decreased due to the coming to the end of the services they exploited, spoofing can still be used and needs to be addressed by all security administrators.

For example Buffalo Spammer is an infamous spammer who was accused of sending more than 800 million unrequested emails from illegal earth link accounts.

He also stole credit cards and identities to fraudulently by 343 earth link accounts to send shady and unsolicited mails to different people. On long investigation the identity of this spammer was found to be that of Mr. Howard Carmack who sent out millions of emails that included advertisements for computer virus scripts, software for bulk mailing and list of addresses to be used by other spammers. He was arrested in New York.

COMPUTER VIRUS

Dr Gasson, A computer specialist at University of Reading tested a new threat for human beings recently. As using the micro-chips in different parts of human bodies to improve their health is becoming worldwide this researcher tried to implant one of these chips to his body to see how much vulnerable could it be in case of malfunction of the chip by a computer virus.

Nowadays using these micro computers in medical science makes the scientist to be worry about the threats that these electronic devices might have for human beings. Dr Gasson attached one of these micro-chips to his hand to make a secure connection with his university building and his mobile phone. As he mentioned when this device implanted in his body it became a part of his body and whatever happened to the function of this device will affect him. The results of his experience as the first human being who has infected by a computer virus were presented at the IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society in Australia in June 2010.
This scientist threatens us about the dangers we might encounter in the near future because of using such the technologies to enhance ourselves.

BLOGGER WAS BLOCKED IN IRAN

By:Abbas Saghali

Blogger as one of the most popular web sivices in the world was blocked in Iran.Government of Iran  from yesterday morning blocked this web service and iranian bloggers cannot use it to poblish their blogs legally.It should be suggested that Iran has most number of bloggers in the globe of cyber space..Some of internet services such as you tube and face book has had undeniable role to develop Iranian green movement after recent presidential election.Blogfa is another web service that is used by Iranian bloggers.Some internet users believe security of blogfa is not sufficient to keep bloggers profile information secured.

PREVENT OF BANK ACCOUNT HACKINGS

These days the hackers are looking for the ways to earn some money as well as destroying and making problem for the websites. One of these way is to penetrate the users bank account and transfer and steal money from their accounts. As we see nowadays most of us are doing our banking activities via internet so in case we won’t be precautious we may lose all our assets. There are some hints which might help us to prevent our bank accounts and credit card from being hacked. Some of them are as follows:

· Try to use OS like Linux instead of windows as this OS is the most vulnerable one.

· Try to use the most secure web browsers and email services.

· It would be necessary to install a firewall and antivirus program on your system.

· Using Wi-Fi connections just in the secure place like your office and your home.

· Encrypting all your valuable information on your hard drives including your bank account passwords.

· Social networking websites such as Twitter and Facebook can be another source of being hacked, so try to be very cautious while surfing these websites.

· Last but not least, try to use strong password by combining alphabets and numeric in your password.

As a conclusion the bank all over the world are trying to make their websites as much secure as they can, but still the carefulness of the costumers is required to decrease such the events.