How to Change Your IP Address In Less Then 1 Minute

Change your IP in just a minute

How to Change Your IP Address In Less Then 1 Minute

1. Click on "Start" in the bottom left hand corner of screen
2. Click on "Run"
3. Type in "command" and hit ok

You should now be at an MSDOS prompt screen.

4. Type "ipconfig /release" just like that, and hit "enter"
5. Type "exit" and leave the prompt
6. Right-click on "Network Places" or "My Network Places" on your desktop.
7. Click on "Properties"

You should now be on a screen with something titled "Local Area Connection", or something close to that, and, if you have a network hooked up, all of your other networks.

8. Right click on "Local Area Connection" and click "Properties"
9. Double-click on the "Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)" from the list under the "General" tab
10. Click on "Use the following IP address" under the "General" tab
11. Create an IP address (It doesn't matter what it is. I just type 1 and 2 until i fill the area up).
12. Press "Tab" and it should automatically fill in the "Subnet Mask" section with default numbers.
13. Hit the "Ok" button here
14. Hit the "Ok" button again

You should now be back to the "Local Area Connection" screen.

15. Right-click back on "Local Area Connection" and go to Properties again.
16. Go back to the "TCP/IP" settings
17. This time, select "Obtain an IP address automatically"

18. Hit "Ok"
19. Hit "Ok" again
20. You now have a new IP address

With a little practice, you can easily get this process down to 20 seconds.

P.S: This only changes your dynamic IP address, not your ISP/IP address. With a little effort, this can be traced.

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Android Malware 'Dendroid' targeting Indian Users

 

 

The devices are becoming smarter, therefore the chances to abuse them have increased. As the share of Android has become 87% in the global Smartphone market, so the Android is by far an elementary target of the mobile malware developers.

The number of malware variants has increased rapidly and today 99 out of 100 mobile viruses are targeting Android Devices. Most of the sophisticated malware has the capability to steal keylogs, send text messages to the premium numbers, steal personal data without requesting permission from the device user, also have the caliber to modify SMS and MMS messages and contacts. 

Mobile Malware can modify or steal the content stored on your device's SD card and some advance botnet malware even can give complete remote control of your device to an attacker.

 

DENDROID

Beginning this month, we warned our readers from one such sophisticated android malware toolkit discovered by the Symantec researchers that dubbed as ‘Dendroid’, which runs on HTTP protocol with various malicious features.

 

Dendroid toolkit is able to generate a customized malicious APK file that offers many amazing features such as:

• can delete and modify call logs and contacts
• can open any web page on device browser
• dialing any number
• recording calls
• Intercepting device messages
• uploading images and videos to remote server
• can open an installed application
• able to perform DoS attack from the victim's device
• can change the command and control server location

CERT-IN WARNING ON DENDROID

The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-IN) warned about a currently active Dendroid malware campaign that is spreading across India, targeting Android users.

"It has been reported that a malicious toolkit called DENDROID is being used to create trojanized applications that infects Android-based Smartphones. The malware is created by modifying the required permissions by any clean APK (Android Application Package) with Dendroid RAT functionality that allows detailed management of the infected devices," the Computer Emergency Response Team of India (CERT-In) said in its latest advisory.

DENDROID COSTS $300

Dendroid is an HTTP RAT offers PHP panel, firmware interface, and an APK binder package and can be used to manipulate, locate, and spy on an Android device. The author of Dendroid also offers 24/7 customer support for this RAT and anybody can buy this malware toolkit at just $300.

MEASURES TO PROTECT

• Install applications downloaded from reputed app stores only.
• Keep updating your mobile anti-virus and Firewall solution to protect your device from malware and cyber attacks.
• Always Check applications’ permissions before installing it.

 

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Top 5 Notorious Female Hackers

 

Hacking, the art of writing computer code, and manipulating computer hardware has traditionally kept men at the top of the field, and that is why many are surprised to hear that there are a handful of women that have found a place in this world. It remains an evolving, multi-billion dollar industry as some hackers are often blamed for causing irreparable damage while others are simultaneously credited for some of the biggest breakthroughs in technology. No matter what a hacker may be, they are known for their resourcefulness and their knowledge of complex theory, so here is a closer look at ten of the most notorious female hackers and the impact that they have had on the world.

1. Susan Headley

Susan Headley was a hacker in the 1970's and early 1980's who went by the name "Susan Thunder." She was one of the most well known and successful female hackers of her time, and is still held in high regard in hacker history. She was a member of the hacking group Cyberpunks and was most known for her use of social engineering skills in order to hack into organizations. Thunder began her use of social engineering in the early 1970's to get backstage passes to concerts by pretending to be someone important or close to the band. This led her to become a very well practiced Phreaker at the end of the 1970's since she had already mastered the art of social engineering and manipulating people. She later met up with Ron and Kevin Mitnick, who were both already established hackers of the time. Soon after, Thunder began to specialize in attacking military computer systems. She also used her "abilities" as a woman, such as sleeping with guards to certain companies in order to gain access to information, to demonstrate that female hackers could do things in order to reach their objectives that male hackers could not. Thunder said this "gave her a sense of power" over men and over the organizations she would hack into. She was later suspected in setting up Ron and Kevin Mitnick to get caught by the police, but the police made a deal with her. She witnessed against the two men and both Ron and Kevin were sent to jail for the hacking job. Thunder became an expert in the art of hacking and was considered a "security expert" on military issues due to her access and experience from hacking into military computers. Later, in the mid 90's, Thunder was elected into public office in California as a City Clerk.

2. Gigabyte

Kimberly Vanvaeck a.k.a Gigabyte is a female Belgian who was credited for writing the first ever C# virus which she called 'Sharpei'. She was 17 at that time when she released Sharpei, which is designed to infect computers loaded with the .Net framework. The worm appears in an e-mail with the subject line "Important: Windows update" and the following message attached:

"Hey, at work we are applying this update because it makes Windows over 50% faster and more secure. I thought I should forward it as you may like it."

If the attachment is opened, then the worm uses the Outlook address book to send messages--with a copy of the virus attached--to every address in the book. It then deletes the e-mails from the sent folder and removes the copy of itself.
She lives mostly in Belgium, Brussels, but sometimes she still go home to the town where she was raised, near Mechlin. She recently graduated as a Master of Industrial Sciences (Industrial Engineer) in Electronics-ICT. Before that, she also did a Bachelor in Applied Computer Sciences. Now she works as an advisor in IT, at Erasmushogeschool Brussel.

Facts

A female virus writer with a penchant for media attention.

She was arrested by the Belgian Police a few years ago after she was discovered for creating the worm.

She is also well known for frequent run-ins with ubiquitous AV spokesman Graham Cluley over his sociological analysis of virus writers.

During her last year of Bachelor in Applied Computer Sciences, she went to Hanoi, Vietnam, to participate in a project on Multilayer Traffic Engineering, for her final work

3. Kristina Vladimirovna Svechinskaya

Without question, Krisina Svechinskaya remains one of the most well-known names in hacking. This Russian hacker is also a top-notch New York University student, but most will recognize her fr

om a string of high-end hacking jobs that have potentially resulted in millions of dollars lost. Specializing in the use of Trojan horses, Svechinskaya attacked thousands of bank accounts, most within the United States, and then created a series of fake accounts through both Bank of America and Wachovia. She then utilized nine other people to create fake passports, but was finally caught and is now under threat of multiple charges. Overall, some authorities estimate that she stole $3 million in as little as a few months.

4. Xiao Tian

After feeling female hackers had little outlet for their interest in technology, Xiao Tian created the renowned hacking group China Girl Security Team. Still a teenager, Tian quickly expanded the group to just over 2,200 members, all of which were female girls looking for a community in which they would feel welcome. This female hacking organization now has ties to some of the most infamous hacking groups throughout the world and has become one of the largest Chinese-based hacking groups. As with most well-known and outspoken groups of this nature, Xiao Tian and the rest of China Girl Security Team continue to receive attention from national and international police organizations due to their activities.

5. Raven Adler

Often recognized as one of the most gifted and intelligent hackers in the world, Raven Adler graduated high school at just 14 and got her college degree at 18. As a frequent speaker at hacking and software conferences, Adler was also the first female to ever give a presentation at DefCon, one of the world’s most prestigious gathering of hackers. When asked about her appearance at DefCon, she often replies that she would like to be known for her work, not for being a female in the field. Currently, Adler specializes in

securing data from end-to-end, and this has made her invaluable to both private and public organizations looking to protect sensitive information. She now works as a senior security consultant for a number of companies and continues to give lectures and regularly publish her work in industry magazines. She also works closely alongside a number of federal firms in an effort to secure their online databases.

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Basic Things needed to become a Hacker

 Basic Things needed to become a Hacker

Many noobs in the hacking world are confused what should they do to stat their carrier. So, in short it is discussed here:

What are the things that you need to become a hacker?

1. Programming Knowledge:

* C/C++
*Web designing (HTML/CSS,Javascript,PHP,etc)
*Visual Basic
*VBscript,Batch file programming,Autohotkey script
writing.

2. Basic Networking Knowledge:

* Understanding of various networking protocols (TCP/
IP,HTTP,etc)
*Different forms of network encryption
*Understanding of packets.

3. Experience with UNIX / LINUX Operating Systems.

4. Ability to think like a Criminal

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UC Browser v9.0 Chinese [Translated Unofficial English Version]

 UC Browser v9.0 Chinese [Translated Unofficial English Version]

Hello
This is the English translation of Chinese version of UC Browser 9.0. There is little problems in the translation, so comment here if you find them, so that it can corected.

Important Note:
1. When you will start UC Browser 9 it will initialize and after completion of Init:Update it will give you an error ArrayIndexOutOfBoundException(guess why?)
But you dont have to worry! Everything will be fine after you Restart your UC Browser.
In some phones like sonyerricson after init:update browser will hang, you just need to restart it.
2. There are some problem in bookmarks in this versions, so it is recommended that you sync your bookmarks from uc server to your local bookmark.

New Features in the UC Browser v9.0 :
1.Improved User Interface:
Optimization of design provides an enhancement of user experience.
2.Functional Optimization:
Support for custom background color, shortcut keys, page optimization, copy and other functions.
3.Incognito Browsing:
Your browsing history will not be recorded when you turn on Incognito Browsing.

Screenshots:

Download

Note: Rename the files to .jar

Indian Server:

UCBrowser_V9_0_0_261_Java_351_pf70_(Build13060511)_jar.zip (497.59 KB)

International Server:
UCBrowser_V9_0_0_261_352_Java_pf70_(Build13060511)_jar.zip (497.22 KB)

Indonesian Server:
UCBrowser_V9_0_0_261_Java_350_pf70_(Build13060511)jar.zip (497.22 KB)

Error Fixed Version

UCBrowser_V9_0_0_261_Java_351_S60_FIXED_pf70_jar.zip

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The Hacker Attitude

The Hacker Attitude

 

1. The world is full of fascinating problems waiting to be solved.
2. No problem should ever have to be solved twice.
3. Boredom and drudgery are evil.
4. Freedom is good.
5. Attitude is no substitute for competence.

Hackers solve problems and build things, and they believe in freedom and voluntary mutual help. To be accepted as a hacker, you have to behave as though you have this kind of attitude yourself. And to behave as though you have the attitude, you have to really believe the attitude. But if you think of cultivating hacker attitudes as just a way to gain acceptance in the culture, you'll miss the point. Becoming the kind of person
who believes these things is important for you — for helping you learn and keeping you motivated. As with all creative arts, the most effective way to become a master is to imitate the mind-set of masters — not just intellectually but emotionally as well. Or, as the following modern Zen poem has it:
To follow the path:

look to the master,
follow the master,
walk with the master,
see through the master,
become the master.

So, if you want to be a hacker, repeat the following things until you believe
them:

1. The world is full of fascinating problems waiting to be solved.

Being a hacker is lots of fun, but it's a kind of fun that takes lots of effort. The effort takes motivation. Successful athletes get their motivation from a kind of physical delight in making their bodies perform, in pushing themselves past their own physical limits. Similarly, to be a hacker you have to get a basic thrill from solving problems, sharpening your skills, and exercising your intelligence. If you aren't the kind of person that feels this way naturally, you'll need to become one in order to make it as a hacker. Otherwise you'll find your
hacking energy is sapped by distractions like sex, money, and social approval. (You also have to develop a kind of faith in your own learning capacity — a belief that even though you may not know all of what you need to solve a problem, if you tackle just a piece of it and learn from that, you'll learn enough to solve the next piece — and so on, until you're done.)
 

2. No problem should ever have to be solved twice.

Creative brains are a valuable, limited resource. They shouldn't be wasted on re-inventing the wheel when there are so many fascinating new problems waiting out there. To behave like a hacker, you have to believe that the thinking time of other hackers is precious — so much so that it's almost a moral duty for you to share
information, solve problems and then give the solutions away just so other hackers can solve new problems instead of having to perpetually re-address old ones. Note, however, that "No problem should ever have to be solved twice." does not imply that you have to consider all existing solutions sacred, or that there is only one right solution to any given problem. Often, we learn a lot about the problem that we didn't know before by studying the first cut at a solution. It's OK, and often necessary, to decide that we can do better. What's not OK is artificial technical, legal, or institutional barriers (like closed-source code) that prevent a good solution from being re-used and force people to re-invent wheels. (You don't have to believe that you're obligated to give all your creative product away, though the hackers that do are the ones that get most respect from other hackers. It's consistent with hacker values to sell enough of it to keep you in food and rent and computers. It's fine to use your hacking skills to support a family or even get rich, as long as you don't forget your loyalty to your art and your fellow hackers while doing it.)
 

3. Boredom and drudgery are evil.

Hackers (and creative people in general) should never be bored or have to drudge at stupid repetitive work, because when this happens it means they aren't doing what only they can do — solve new problems. This wastefulness hurts everybody. Therefore boredom and drudgery are not just unpleasant but
actually evil. To behave like a hacker, you have to believe this enough to want to automate away the boring bits as much as possible, not just for yourself but for everybody else (especially other hackers). (There is one apparent exception to this. Hackers will sometimes do things that may seem repetitive or boring to an observer as a mind-clearing exercise, or in order to acquire a skill or have some particular kind of experience you can't have otherwise. But this is by choice — nobody who can think should ever be forced into a situation that bores them.)

4. Freedom is good.

Hackers are naturally anti-authoritarian. Anyone who can give you orders can stop you from solving whatever problem you're being fascinated by — and, given the way authoritarian minds work, will generally find some appallingly stupid reason to do so. So the authoritarian attitude has to be fought wherever you find it, lest it smother you and other hackers. (This isn't the same as fighting all authority. Children need to be guided and criminals restrained. A hacker may agree to accept some kinds of authority in order to get something he wants more than the time he spends following orders. But that's a limited, conscious bargain; the kind of personal surrender authoritarians want is not on offer.) Authoritarians thrive on censorship and secrecy. And they distrust voluntary cooperation and information-sharing — they only like ‘cooperation’ that they control. So to behave like a hacker, you have to develop an instinctive hostility to censorship, secrecy, and the use of force or deception to compel responsible adults. And you have to be willing to act on that belief.
 

5. Attitude is no substitute for competence.

To be a hacker, you have to develop some of these attitudes. But copping an attitude alone won't make you a hacker, any more than it will make you a champion athlete or a rock star. Becoming a hacker will take intelligence, practice, dedication, and hard work. Therefore, you have to learn to distrust attitude and respect competence of every kind. Hackers won't let posers waste their time, but they worship competence — especially competence at hacking, but competence at anything is valued. Competence at demanding skills that few can master is especially good, and competence at demanding skills that involve mental acuteness, craft, and concentration is best. If you revere competence, you'll enjoy developing it in yourself — the hard work and dedication will become a kind of intense play rather than drudgery. That attitude is vital to becoming a hacker.

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Exploring the TCP/IP's

Introduction to TCP/IP.

 

That means packets! Datagrams! Ping oversize packet denial of service exploit explained. But this hack is a lot less mostly harmless than most. Don't try this at home...

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If you have been on the Happy Hacker list for a while, you've been getting some items forwarded from the Bug traq list on a new ping packet exploit.

Now if this has been sounding like gibberish to you, relax. It is really very simple. In fact, it is so simple that if you use Windows 95, by the time you finish this article you will know a simple, one-line command that you could use to crash many Internet hosts and routers.

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YOU CAN GO TO JAIL WARNING: This time I'm not going to implore the wannabe evil genius types on this list to be virtuous and resist the temptation to misuse the information I'm about to give them. See if I care! If one of those guys gets caught crashing thousands of Internet hosts and routers, not only will they go to jail and get a big fine. We'll all think he or she is a dork. This exploit is a no-brainer, one-line command from Windows 95. Yeah, the operating system that is designed for clueless morons. So there is nothing elite about this hack. What is elite is being able to thwart this attack.

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NEWBIE NOTE: If packets, datagrams, and TCP/IP aren't exactly your bosom buddies yet, believe me, you need to really get in bed with them in order to call yourself a hacker. So hang in here for some technical stuff. When

we are done, you'll have the satisfaction of knowing you could wreak havoc on the Internet, but are too elite to do so.

A packet is a way to send information electronically that keeps out errors. The idea is that no transmission technology is perfect. Have you ever played the game "telephone"? You get a dozen or so people in a circle and the first person whispers a message to the second. Something like "The bun is the lowest form of wheat." The second person whispers to the third, "A bum is the lowest form of cheating." The third whispers, "Rum is the lowest form of

drinking." And so on. It's really fun to find out how far the message can mutate as it goes around the circle.

But when, for example, you get email, you would prefer that it isn't messed up. So the computer that sends the email breaks it up into little pieces called datagrams. Then it wraps things around each datagram that tell what

computer it needs to go to, where it came from, and that check whether the datagram might have been garbled. These wrapped up datagram packages are called "packets."

Now if the computer sending email to you were to package a really long message into just one packet, chances are pretty high that it will get messed up while on its way to the other computer. Bit burps. So when the receiving computer checks the packet and finds that it got messed up, it

will throw it away and tell the other computer to send it again. It could take a long time until this giant packet gets through intact.

But if the message is broken into a lot of little pieces and wrapped up into bunches of packets, most of them will be good and the receiving computer will keep them. It will then tell the sending computer to retransmit just the packets that messed up. Then when all the pieces finally get there, the receiving computer puts them together in the right order and lo and behold, there is the complete, error-free email.

TCP/IP stands for Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol. It tells computers that are hooked up to the Internet how to package up messages into packets and how to read packets these packets from other computers. Ping uses TCP/IP to make its packets.

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"Ping" is a command that sends a feeler out from your computer to another computer to see if it is turned on and hooked to the same network you are on. On the Internet there are some ten million computers that you can ping.

Ping is a command you can give, for example, from the Unix, Windows 95 and Windows NT operating systems. It is part of the Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP), which is used to troubleshoot TCP/IP networks. What it does is tell a remote computer to echo back a ping. So if you get your ping

back, you know that computer is alive. Furthermore, some forms of the ping command will also tell you how long it takes for a message to go out to that computer and come back again.

But how does your computer know that the ping it just sent out actually echoed back from the targeted computer? The datagram is the answer. The ping sent out a datagram. If the returning ping holds this same datagram, you know it was your ping that just echoed back.

The basic format of this command is simply:

ping hostname

where "hostname" is the Internet address of the computer you want to check out.

When I give this command from Sun Release 4.1 Unix, I get the answer "hostname is alive."

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TECHNICAL TIP: Because of the destructive powers of ping, many Internet Service Providers hide the ping program in their shell accounts where clueless newbies can't get their hands on it. If your shell account says "command not found" when you enter the ping command, try:

/usr/etc/ping hostname

If this doesn't work, either try the command “whereis ping” or complain to your ISP's tech support. They may have ddiabled ping for ordinary users, but if you convince tech support you are a good Internet citizen they may let you use it.

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NEWBIE NOTE: You say you can't find a way to ping from your on-line service? That may be because you don't have a shell account. But there is one thing you really need in order to hack: A SHELL ACCOUNT!!!!

The reason hackers make fun of people with America Online accounts is because that ISP doesn't give out shell accounts. This is because America Online wants you to be good boys and girls and not hack!

A "shell account" is an Internet account in which your computer becomes a terminal of one of your ISP's host computers. Once you are in the "shell" you can give commands to the operating system (which is usually Unix) just

like you were sitting there at the console of one of your ISP's hosts.

You may already have a shell account but just not know how to log on to it. Call tech support with your ISP to find out whether you have one, and how to get on it.

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There are all sorts of fancy variations on the ping command. And, guess what, whenever there is a command you give over the Internet that has lots of variations, you can just about count on there being something hackable in there. Muhahaha!

The flood ping is a simple example. If your operating system will let you get away with giving the command:

-> ping -f hostname

it sends out a veritable flood of pings, as fast as your ISP's host machine can make them. This keeps the host you've targeted so busy echoing back your pings that it can do little else. It also puts a heavy load on the network.

Hackers with primitive skill levels will sometimes get together and use several of their computers at once to simultaneously ping some victim's Internet host computer. This will generally keep the victim's computer too

busy to do anything else. It may even crash. However, the down side (from the attackers' viewpoint) is that it keeps the attackers' computers tied up, too.

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NETIQUETTE NOTE: Flood pinging a computer is extremely rude. Get caught doing this and you will be lucky if the worst that happens is your on-line service provider closes your account. Do this to a serious hacker and you may need an identity transplant.

If you should start a flood ping kind of by accident, you can shut it off by holding down the control key and pressing "c" (control-c).

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EVIL GENIUS TIP: Ping yourself! If you are using some sort of Unix, your operating system will let you use your computer to do just about anything to itself that it can do to other computers. The network address that takes you back to your own host computer is localhost (or 127.0.0.1).

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