Launching my first website AllBlogThings.com

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Hacking Someone's Facebook Password Using Some Software Or Website? No Sir You Can't!

Do you know there are over thousands of websites and software that claim to hack Facebook password of any account? They'd ask you the victim's profile ID, maybe your credentials and some money too and will reportedly tell you the password which, to be honest, never works. Ever wonder why? Let me tell you why, they're FAKE! They're a scam which tricks you somehow in losing your money or your own Facebook account. Just give it a thought, why would Zuckerberg and his team spend Billions of Dollars on Facebook if one could hack it in less than a minute? Today, we'll take a look at this topic in detail with some example websites and software and get answers to some common related questions.

Back in 2005, I came across a mechanism that reportedly hacked Yahoo mail password for a user using some simple tricks. It didn't work for me for obvious reasons but I didn't stop believing the possibility until I grew up to realize how helpless I am here. One of the major concerns of large organizations like Facebook and Yahoo is security because of the super sensitive information about people they have. Several hundred million dollars are spend yearly by these organizations to ensure security and then there's these websites that claim to undo all that protection in less than a minute.

The Facebook password cracking Websites and Software

Let's start with some examples here. I googled the subject and picked the top results without order. Didn't care to search harder because there are thousands such and I know that all are FAKE.

So let's look at this GETFBHACK.com.

Their FREE Facebook hacker program is said to be capable of cracking the password of any Facebook user within a day. Sounds cool, I could try it out, but my Norton Antivirus rejected the file straight away.

I also picked up another one. This Hack-Fbook-Password asks me to enter the profile ID of a user and it will crack the password. I said Okay and began the process.

It ran certain algorithms to determine the password and finally landed me on a page that said I could DOWNLOAD the password IF I fill an online survey first. Those of you who've been redirected to surveys would know they don't work and are put just so to get traffic and earn money.

I said maybe I should leave the website now but hey, they gave me a prize!

So I just became the luckiest person in my city just like that!

Now tell me, how can a sane person believe in all this?

The truth!

Let me get this straight to you, these websites do nothing at all just waste your time and are never able to do the job. In fact, downloaded programs just make the situation worse when you run them. I had my Norton Antivirus to guard me otherwise I could be in severe danger currently.

These software are mostly keyloggers and tracking programs that record your keystrokes and action and steal personal information from your computer in the background and send it to their master servers. So ultimately a hacker wannabe gets hacked, how ironic!

From now on in the post, I'll be using the word 'Hacker' for these websites and software since you're no more in the position to be called that.

Why do these 'Hackers' do all that?

Setting up websites, maintaining them and developing software is not an easy task. It requires some money. So why do these 'hackers' do all the hassle? It's because they get equivalent or more money in return. They can extract your credit card details and other banking info from your system and use it for their advantage. They can hack your account and use it for wrong purposes. Give me one reason why one wouldn't steal money and hack accounts for no loss.

Why people fall in their webs?

Why do people try to use such unreal hacking procedures? It's because it's unreal to me, it's unreal to you but not to those who are not much familiar with the working of a software. They get in the web of these hackers and eventually get screwed up pretty bad without consent.

The websites give guarantees and also portray their 'imaginary' happy customers so as to trick a reader. Such tactics are simple but really powerful and serves to their advantage in most cases. This is also why there are thousands of such websites available.

So is Facebook account an 'unbreakable fortress'?

Well, NO. Facebook accounts can be hacked. No online service is foolproof and that is because of the flaws and bugs in their software. There are several ACTUAL hackers in the world who can analyse a website's security and use that against it thus making hacking a reality.

But I'm 100% sure none of them uses these scam and fake websites that claim to do the impossible. You can check out our hacking section to know more.

I'll end the 'lesson' with an idiom, "look before you leap". Focus, think and then follow. In case of any queries or confusions head over to the comments section. Cheers :)

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Opening Number Of Websites Using Python

So you just started in python programming, and want to prank your arch nemesis. Here i will teach you how to open any website on his computer using python.

Before you begin download and install python from Here

Step 1:
open notepad and type

import webbrowser

In python the "import" statement is used to add a module to your project. In this case we want to add the webbrowser module.

Step 2:

webbrowser.open('http://SITE HERE!.com')

This is calling the open function on your default web browser. You pass it an url in the form of a string.

Possible usages:
You can add as many websites as you want like show below

webbrowser.open('http://coolhackingtrick.com')
webbrowser.open('http://google.com')
url = "http://coolhackingtrick.com";
webbrowser.open(url)

The complete code will look something like below

import webbrowser
webbrowser.open('http://coolhackingtrick.com')
webbrowser.open('http://google.com')
webbrowser.open('http://yahoo.com')
webbrowser.open('http://facebook.com')

Step 3

Save the file as visus.py
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Cordell Wildermuth is a young blogger. He loves Blogging on high quality secutiy and hacking tutorial. He is currently running his security blog infosmuggler

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How Does The Free Services And Softwares Can Cost High?

Of course it is awesome to get something totally free of cost, isn�t it? But are you aware that the free thing can cost you much more in near future. How? Let us study. Many of the service and softwares are sold free of cost just to populate it in a large number of people. Some �business minded� individuals thought that it would be �cool� to add some advertisements to such applications to earn money. As �Excess of anything is bad�, too much of greed and rise in difficulty in advertising led to the birth of adware and spyware.

Adware is type of malware, which misleads, corrupts and harasses the users by popping out unwanted or irrelevant advertisements. They sometimes consist of viruses and Trojans. While the spywares, justifying its name, spies on the user�s activities and online behaviour and reports to the concerned person.

How bad they can be?

Adwares and spywares being malware can affect you and your website or system to a greater extent.

• They can help intruders add viruses and Trojans into website and system.
• They can help other malwares to be injected into your website and system.
• Can slow down your website/system�s performance.
• Clashes with other softwares and tools.
• Help hackers gain access to your credentials.
• Can result in to theft of your valuable data and sometimes even money.
• If you are an adware-spyware victimized website, you may become the source of spreading the viruses and Trojans and hence can get blacklisted and ultimately can lose reputation.

How can you prevent being a victim?

Now, that you aware regarding the ill-effects of the adwares and spywares, you should be cautious while exploring the Internet.

Following points will help you keep a safe distance from adwares and spywares:

• Avoid visiting on suspicious website: Don�t get into those websites which is not trustworthy or is famous or experienced as a spreader of malwares. Stay away from Piracy; often the pirated softwares contain viruses and Trojans (avoid sites like warez).
• Don�t click on the pop-ups and other ads: Never get drifted away by the pop-ups and ads especially those asking �click here� or �Yes or No� even asked while installing the software.
• Give a little test to pass: Softwares like Spychecker can help you out to find whether the software you are going to install is bugged with a spyware or not.
• Secure your system: Install anti-virus softwares and keep them updated. They will help you around detecting the viruses and Trojans and will also help remove them.
• Use Firewall: Firewall helps prevent entry of hackers and will always ask permission before allowing any traffic to enter. As in the case of Adware and spyware they definitely need to deliver their information collected and with Firewall on, you can successfully stop them doing so.
• Scan your website/system: Get a malware/adware/spyware scanner installed. Scanning will not only help you detect the injected malicious substance but also removes them, if found any. Ad-Aware is one such program.

Security is very sensitive matter for both the IT service providers and users. One should proceed very carefully. As for the IT service providers like software publishers, website owners, e-commerce website owners, e-mails service providers and so on should install SSL certificate for better performance and uninterrupted growth.

For users, well, always look for two symbols �https� and a green padlock in the address bar. Download softwares from the real authors only and stop propagating piracy.

Abel Wike is a head of fraud prevention team at ClickSSL who enjoys the challenges of creativity and pay attention to different security aspect. She is always looking for evolving technology news especially on security and its prevention ideas which can help user to avoid prospect attacks. Follow her on Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter.

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Averaging Congress Correctly

Today I saw another interesting article from the Huffington post that averaged the faces of all the members of congress together. You can find it here.

Unfortunately, its not a good averaging for many reasons I'll state below. So, I created my own, shown here:

I noticed a couple things about the Huffington Post image. It was a really cool idea, but it was extremely blurry so I investigated. It seems the website the creator got the images from has over 800 images for members of the house (I'll let you figure out what is wrong with that). It turns out it had a bunch of copies and black and white images mixed in. Also none of them were aligned. When averaging images, especially facial ones, it is always important to align them.

So I wrote a quick crawler in bash just to get the images from the wikipedia page for congress. Then I wrote some C++ code using OpenCV and my own modification of flandmark[1] to align the facial images. Once aligned, I then averaged them.

You can find the crawler code, the original and aligned images, and the alignment and averaging code on my Github at https://github.com/StevenHickson/AverageFaces. I used CMake, OpenCV, and Boost if you want to test it.

Feel free to use this image as long as you cite this page.

Update:
I was asked who was the closest and furthest away from the mean. The results are as follows:
Closest to the mean (left being the closest):

Stephen Fincher

John Shimkus

Xavier Becerra

....
Furthest from the mean (left being the furthest):

Terri A. Sewell

Corrine Brown

Betty McCollum

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[1] M. Uricar, V. Franc and V. Hlavac, Detector of Facial Landmarks Learned by the Structured Output SVM, VISAPP '12: Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications, 2012.

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Hackers Outside Hollywood - How Hacking Really Began?

Before Hollywood took the hacking phenomena under its wing, unless you were a clued-in techy, the world of hacking would be unfamiliar territory. In recent years, movies like The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Matrix and The Italian Job have managed to glamourize the high-tech thrill of breaking into servers, cracking door codes and hijacking security networks.

But before television brought the hacker technology into our general knowing, hacking was still an occurring reality for some. So what is the history of hacking and where did today's sophisticated hacking begin?

Late 1950s � The MIT Start Off with a Bang

Hacking wasn�t always about computers. In fact, the first �hackers� were roof and tunnel hackers, which the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was instrumental in introducing. These were people who entered roof and utility tunnel spaces without authorization, in other words getting into a place they shouldn�t be in � which is where computer hacking got its name when people started using technology to get into data systems they shouldn�t have access to!

Roof and tunnel hacking was initially intended as practical jokes and saw the hanging of banners from tall places and the popular placing of a model car on the top of a university building. Unsecured entry points would be used to gain access and cause mischief as per the desire of the hacker.

Early 1970s � The Era of Phone Phreaking

The telephone network was the first technological victim of hacking know as Phone Phreaking. It was ingeniously discovered that whistling down a phone in a specific tone could in fact force a switchboard to allow calls. The exploitation of telecommunications systems using audio frequencies was further enhanced by the use of tone-generating devices to permit even free long-distance calls.

�Phone Phreaks� were committed to gaining unauthorized access to telephone systems, which quickly saw the evasion become a criminal offence.

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Mid 1970s � A New Level of Virus Sophistication is Met

In 1975, several Motorola staff unearthed a way to crack the security system on the Xerox machine using a simple programming strategy. They reported the problems as a matter of urgency to Xerox but when no action was taken to resolve the loophole, Motorola staff mischievously installed programs named Robin Hood and Friar Tuck.

These programs were designed to cause mischief in the system such as printing insulting messages to each other or making huge old disk drives �walk� across the floor, and the programs prevented the system operator from aborting them by protecting each other and persistently reappearing after rebooting of the system.

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2007 � The Return of Urban Exploration

The 1950s exploration of physical spaces returned with Parkour and free-running as a more creative mode of accessing abandoned and forbidden places. Parkour involves running, jumping, swinging and vaulting over obstacles in the hope of trespassing � all in the name of creativity and freedom, and all, technically, a form of �hacking�.

The Present Day � 'Information wants to be free'

Technology activists and the availability of free online schools has encouraged the illicit access of information. Online schools such as Udacity, Codecademy and Khan Academy have provided people with the tools required for coding and have led to an increase in the number of code-literate individuals. With a booming number of techies, breach of online security systems has also proportionally risen.

It seems that with the advancements in technology and the evolving of hacking with time, we can anticipate a nightmare future of computer hacking. Prevailing hackers are likely to turn their attention to governmental projects and entering mainstream security systems by clever impersonation. Computer coding has become child's play for many and it is anticipated for budding hackers to seek opportunities to enter the world of biohacking, where even the software of life and our DNA itself remains unsafe!

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What do you think will be next in the world of hacking?

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Gregg Townsend is passionate about everything from gadgets to web-design and likes to keep up to date with the latest news regarding hacking. Connect with him here on Twitter.

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Hacking Snapchat's people verification in less than 100 lines

I woke up this morning and saw this article detailing Snapchat's new people verification system.

(Credit: Screenshot by Lance Whitney/CNET)

You may have seen it but if not I will summarize it for you. They basically have you choose each image with the Snapchat ghost to prove you are a person. It is kind of like a less annoying captcha.

The problem with this is that the Snapchat ghost is very particular. You could even call it a template. For those of you familiar with template matching (what they are asking you to do to verify your humanity), it is one of the easier tasks in computer vision.

This is an incredibly bad way to verify someone is a person because it is such an easy problem for a computer to solve.

After I read this, I spent around ~30 minutes writing up some code in order to make a computer do this. Now there are many ways of solving this problem, HoG probably would have been best or even color thresholding and PCA for blob recognition but it would take more time and I'm lazy (read: efficient). I ended up using OpenCV and going with simple thresholding, SURF keypoints and FLANN matching with a uniqueness test to determine that multiple keypoints in the training image weren't being singularly matched in the testing image.

First, I extract the different images from the slide above, then I threshold them and the ghost template to find objects that are that color. Next, I extract feature points and descriptors from the test image and the template using SURF and match them using FLANN. I only use the "best" matches using a distance metric and then check all the matches for uniqueness to verify one feature in the template isn't matching most of the test features. If the uniqueness is high enough and enough features are found, we call it a ghost.

With very little effort, my code was able to "find the ghost" in the above example with 100% accuracy. I'm not saying it is perfect, far from it. I'm just saying that if it takes someone less than an hour to train a computer to break an example of your human verification system, you are doing something wrong. There are a ton of ways to do this using computer vision, all of them quick and effiective. It's a numbers game with computers and Snapchat's verification system is losing.

Below is an example of the output of the code:

Found a Ghost!

And you can find the code on my github here: https://github.com/StevenHickson/FindTheGhost


Note: This just relates to Snapchat's new captcha system. The reason they implemented this was because of the past hacks by people who put way more time and thought into a harder problem. They can be found here:
Graham Smith - https://twitter.com/neuegram - http://neuebits.com/
Adam Caudill - http://adamcaudill.com/2012/12/31/revisiting-snapchat-api-and-security/
Gibson Security - http://gibsonsec.org/

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