Archive for the ‘ Internet ’ Category

Trick Socialoomph.com for free unlimited professional upgrades, and how they can fix it. *UPDATED

Socialoomph.com, a virtual smorgasbord for spammers and impersonal twitter-users who are too ‘busy’ or too lazy to care about their followers. With Socialoomph at your side, you can auto follow those that follow you, auto follow people that post certain keywords, auto unfollow those that unfollow you, auto direct message people that follow you and [ READ MORE ]

The Holy Grail of Pirated Software: Microsoft COFEE leaked online. *UPDATED*

What is COFEE? “Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor (COFEE) Easily captures important “live” computer evidence at the scene in cybercrime investigations, without special forensics expertise.” That basically means COFEE extracts all important passwords, network connections, internet history, documents, photos and whatever else  it thinks is important from any computer with a USB port. It’s a pretty [ READ MORE ]

Faking it: How to pretend to be someone else using their email address, and how to spot if it happens to you.

Email addresses, much like the caller-id on a phone, are something most people just take for granted as being correct. What if I was to tell you that with 30 seconds of time someone could change their email address to yours (or anyone’s, for that matter) and email whomever they wanted? It’s called Email Spoofing, [ READ MORE ]

How I plan on stealing your password, and how you will stop me.

In the past few years people have become more aware of the danger of having their passwords stolen. Email, facebook, and twitter passwords are especially easy to acquire without any “crazy hacks” and by simply using some good old fashioned detective work and a little social engineering.  I’m going to outline some things that most [ READ MORE ]