While I was handing over my credit card to the waiter in a restaurant, my mother was staring at me in shock. She asked me “what if they draw out all the money from your account?” Just then a question came to my mind; we rarely do even think twice before handing over our credit cards to a waiter or a store clerk, then why do we often feel jittery while purchasing something online, or going for online banking? What … Read the full article
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We all enjoy privacy in our personal matters. But when it comes to our cyber life, we hardly care whether we are being spied or tracked. Why is it so?
Most people in our country believe that working in a secluded room with a personal computer is all they need to maintain privacy. Well… the actual situation out there in cyberspace is quite grave and you might just turn out to be an arbitrarily chosen victim.
There has been much … Read the full article
Here we are back again with some more new stuff to learn. In our first article we went through an Introduction to CMD, its benefits and limitations. In second article we went through the basic CMD commands like creating, copying, renaming, deleting files using CMD.
In this article we will get into some networking stuff like looking up IPs, checking your internet connection and much more.
SYSTEMINFO
It works as it sounds, it gives you all available hardware information about … Read the full article
The main security risk of having a website is being hacked. Many believe that since their website is not in limelight, or since it does not hold any sensitive information it is not a target of the fraudsters.
Get your notions corrected. Hackers are after everything that your website has. They might hack a website to host and transfer warez and other forms of illegal files, so that they can use free bandwidth, which you pay for. Or they can … Read the full article
In our last article we went through an Introduction to CMD, its benefits and limitations.
In this article we will go through the basic CMD commands.
So lets get started !
NOTE : Click/Open image to view it properly and understand the working of commands.
OPENING CMD AND HELP OPTION
First thing first! How to open command prompt (CMD)? Open start menu and search ‘cmd’ and it will show up ‘cmd.exe’ open it, as simple as that.
If a user … Read the full article
What comes to your mind when you think about the word “HACKING” ? Is it a black screen with green text on it? Then you are imagining the CMD terminal!!
Command Prompt is popularly known as CMD. It is used to write several system commands in “Command Line Interface (CLI)” to perform various tasks as mentioned in the article below.
What it CMD?
Sounds and looks like some complicated hacking stuff right? But it is way easier to understand and … Read the full article
The concept of “Google Hacking” can be traced back to 2002, when Johnny Long started collecting extraordinary Google search queries that revealed vulnerable systems and/or sensitive information disclosures – branding them as googleDorks.The list of googleDorks grew into a dictionary of queries, which were eventually categorized into the Google Hacking Database (GHDB) in 2004.
In simple terms, it is a method of computer hacking that utilizes Google Search and other Google applications to locate security loopholes in the configurations … Read the full article