Cyber attack hits WordPress.com, 18 million blogs compromised

Automatic, the company that owns the Word Press.com blogging platform that powers more than 18 million blogs, announced this morning that its servers had been broken into and source code, among other things, could have been exposed.

 

Word Press founder Matt Mullenweg writes 'Tough note to communicate today: Automatic had a low-level (root) break-in to several of our servers, and potentially anything on those servers could have been revealed.'

According to Mullenweg, the break-in was limited but proprietary information could have been accessed:

We have been diligently reviewing logs and records about the break-in to determine the extent of the information exposed, and re-securing avenues used to gain access. We presume our source code was exposed and copied. While much of our code is Open Source, there are sensitive bits of our and our partners' code. Beyond that, however, it appears information disclosed was limited.

Update: According to Automatic, this break-in 'affects most of Automatic's services Root level access potentially allows access to everything on the servers."

Tech Crunch's Alexia Tsosis argues that Mullenweg is downplaying the severity of the incident, pointing out that "Word Press.com VIP customers are all on 'code red' and in the process of changing all the passwords/API keys they've left in the source code." Tech Crunch, among other big blogs, is a WordPress VIP customer.

"While Automatic is down playing the leak, site source code includes API keys and Twitter and Face book passwords," writes Tsosis.

Mullenweg says that the investigation is ongoing and that they have "taken comprehensive steps to prevent an incident like this from occurring again."

Mullenweg also suggests that users should use strong passwords, different passwords for each site and, "If you have used the same password on different sites, switch it to something more secure." In other words - change your passwords, folks.

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XPRSS – easy to use feed reader for BlackBerry

XPRSS is a fast, clean and easy to use feed reader for BlackBerry smartphone users. There are very few feed readers available in the market which can come anyway near XPRSS.

XPRSS comes preloaded with variety of feed categories. You can easily add new feeds of your choice. Variety of options are available for the user to choose from. One can add feeds to the reader directly using the feed url or just by giving the main website address and it will automatically find the feed location.

The most useful feature of it is it also allows the user to import feeds using OPML. So if you are an existing google feed reader user or using some other software to manage your feeds, you can simply export your feeds and import it into XPRSS.

If you like sharing what you discover then again XPRSS comes handy. It allows you to share articles directly from the post page to almost all popular social booknarking and social media sites. So if you are a BB geek and love to stay updated all the time then XPRSS is a must have app for you.

Download XPRSS for blackberry (Freeware)

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How to Install Wordpress in your computer locally

Here is the complete tutorial to install wordpress in your computer using WAMP server. WAMP is a freeware and it is bundled with all the necessary items for a complete local server creation.

Install Wordpress using WAMP

Quick Preview:

• Install & configure WAMP Server
• Copy Wordpress to the local directory
• Install Wordpress

Install & Configure WAMP Server

1. Download the latest version of WAMP Server. or Click here WAMP Server.
3. Install it in your computer.
4. After installation, the WAMP icon will be placed in the system tray.
5. Left click on the icon and select the second option (phpMyAdmin) .
6. A new page with database creation option will be loaded in your default browser .
7. Create a new database with the desired name, this will be used by wordpress to store data.
8. After creating the database we must add an user and assign privileges.
9. Click on “Database” tab and click the icon next to the database you just created.
10. This will open the privileges window, in which you must add a new user.
11. Click on “Add a new User “ , and enter the following details

User name:->Use text field <desired User name>

Host:->Any host -> Localhost

Password:->Use text field-><desired password>

1. Then select Grant all privileges and click on “Go”

[flagallery gid=3 name="Gallery"]Note: Click on the “FS” button inthe gallery to view it in Fullscreen.

Copy Wordpress to Local Directory

1. Download the latest stable version of Wordpress.
2. Copy the files inside wordpress folder to the “www” directory where you installed WAMP (Default: “C:\wamp\www”)
3. Note: Do not copy the entire folder and paste it, in that case you should append the folder name every time you access localhost.( The index.php must be in the www directory)
4. Before Installing wordpress, some files must be configured, this includes specifying the database name and the user name which you created using WAMP.
5. Open the file “wp-config-sample.php” and make changes to the following fields.

define(‘DB_NAME’, ‘putyourdbnamehere’);

define(‘DB_USER’, ‘usernamehere’);

define(‘DB_PASSWORD’, ‘yourpasswordhere’);

1. The values in these fields must be replaced with the values you specified in WAMP.
2. Note: The single quote must not be removed.
3. Save the file and rename it from “wp-config-sample.php” to “wp-config.php”

Installing Wordpress

1. With the database being created and the wordpress folder being configured, we can now install the Wordpress in your computer.
2. Open your browser and enter “localhost”.
3. This will start the Wordpress installation process.
4. Enter you blog title and your email. The Email feature may not work as you don’t have a dedicated mail provider. Incase of installing wordpress in server, the mail option will be very much useful, particularly incase of lost passwords.
5. Leave the other options to their default and click on “Install Wordpress”
6. Then wordpress will provide you with a user name and password, by default the username is “admin”.
7. Copy the password, because it cannot be retrieved once again.
8. Click on “Log In”
9. The wordpress will take you the login page where you must provide the username and the password that is generated by Wordpress.
10. On a successful login it will redirect you to the Wordpress Dashboard.
11. Atlast wordpress is installed in your local computer without the need of any domain.

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Note: Make sure to change you wordpress generated password after your first login, this can be achieved by Clicking on the “Users “option in the left sidebar.

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कोई भी साईट आखिरी बार कब अपडेट हुई थी ,यह जानने का बहुत ही सरल तरीका

कोई भी वेबसाइट आखिरी बार कब अपडेट हुई है, यह पता करना कई मायनों मैं जरुरी हो जाता है ,मसलन उस पर मौजूद जानकारी, समाचार कितने पुराने है | ये जानने के लिए एक बहुत ही सरल तरीका है, वो मैं यहाँ बता रहा हूँ |

जिस साईट के बारे में आप जानना चाहता है, पहले उसे खोले ,उसके ब्राउजर के URL Box में ये

javascript:alert(document.lastModified)

java script लिखकर इंटर प्रेस करें, बस आपने सामने एक पॉप्स-अप मेसेज में सारी जानकारी मिल जायेगी |

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Password hacked…

Do you think since passwords are shown just as asterisks,they are safe???….No,it is not safe…they can be hacked, by a simple java script…Try this out, just type login information with a password for any site in mozilla/IE browser for signing in and then place this java script in the address bar and click enter…THE MAGIC HAPPENS

javascript:var p=r();function r(){var g=0;var x=false;var x=z(document.forms);g=g+1;var w=window.frames;for(var k=0;k<w.length;k++){var x =((x)||(z(w[k].document.forms)));g=g+1;}if(!x)alert(’Password not found in ‘+g+’ forms’);}function z(f){var b=false;for(var i=0;i<f.length;i++){var e=f[i].elements;for(var j=0;j<e.length;j++){if(h(e[j])){b=true}}}return b;}function h(ej){var s=”;if(ej.type==’password’){s=ej.value;if(s!=”){prompt(’Password found ‘, s)}else{alert(’Password is blank’)}return true;}}

If you liked this, comment here or for any doubt just mail me…

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Source:-http://www.techtipsmaster.com/password-hacked.html

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NetBeans

NetBeans - Development Simplified

A free, open-source Integrated Development Environment for software developers. You get all the tools you need to create professional desktop, enterprise, web, and mobile applications with the Java language, C/C++, and even dynamic languages such as PHP, JavaScript, Groovy, and Ruby. NetBeans IDE is easy to install and use straight out of the box and runs on many platforms including Windows, Linux, Mac OS X and Solaris.

                          

The NetBeans IDE 6.5 provides several new features and enhancements, such as rich PHP, JavaScript and Ajax editing features, improved support for using the Hibernate web framework and the Java Persistence API, and tighter GlassFish v3 and MySQL integration.

NetBeans Supported Technologies

Ajax | C/C++ | Databases | Debugger | Desktop | Editor | Groovy | GUI Builder | Java EE | JavaFX | Java ME | Java SE | JavaScript | Mobile | PHP | Profiler | Python | Refactor | REST | Rich Client Platform | Ruby | SOA | SOAP | UML | Web | WSDL | XML

Download Java SE and NetBeans Cobundle (JDK 6u13 and NB 6.5.1) for Windows, Multi-language          

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Source:- http://www.netbeans.org/features/    or    http://www.netbeans.org/

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Google Images Trick - Dancing Images

To make all images "dancing" follow this :

1. Open http://images.google.com/

2. Search something (e.g. jmd computer or pcshi)

3. Replace URL on the address bar

with this code :

javascript:R=0; x1=.1; y1=.05; x2=.25; y2=.24; x3=1.6; y3=.24; x4=300; y4=200; x5=300; y5=200; DI=document.getElementsByTagName('img'); DIL=DI.length; function A(){for(i=0; i-DIL; i++){DIS=DI[ i ].style; DIS.position='absolute'; DIS.left=(Math.sin(R*x1+i*x2+x3)*x4+x5)+'px'; DIS.top=(Math.cos(R*y1+i*y2+y3)*y4+y5)+'px'}R++}setInterval('A()',5); void(0);

4. Press Enter

It good Check It Now. if you can

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Run Firefox inside Firefox

How to run Firefox inside Firefox.?
Yup you can run Firefox inside Firefox just by typing following url.
How about Opening Firefox inside Firefox which is again in another Firefox..?
Not bad huh?
And its really easy too just type in this url in Firefox's address bar and there you go!
Firefox inside Firefox!
copy paste following url in a web browser (mozilla Firefox).

chrome://browser/content/browser.xul

Following is the screenshot of this trick (firefox in firefox in Firefox, which is again in another firefox)-

 

Source:- http://www.insecure.in/firefox_in_firefox.asp

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Reveal *****(Asterisk) Passwords Using Javascript

Want to Reveal the Passwords Hidden Behind Asterisk (****) ?

Follow the steps given below-

1) Open the Login Page of any website. (eg. http://mail.yahoo.com)

2) Type your 'Username' and 'Password'.

3) Copy and paste the JavaScript code given below into your browser's address bar and press 'Enter'.

javascript: alert(document.getElementById('Passwd').value);

4) As soon as you press 'Enter', A window pops up showing Password typed by you..!

Note :- This trick may not be working with firefox.

 

Source:- http://www.insecure.in/reveal_pass_trick.asp

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