BlogRoll 2011 - Most Popular Tutorials on HackingAlert

Hello Friends. The end of 2011 is approaching. HackingAlert had lots of special memories. lots of tutorials and articles were posted. Some were disliked, some were appriciated and some became a Hit on Internet. This year, Hackingalert posted a total of 156 blog posts which counts to about 3 lakh page views for this year.

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Contribute to HackingAlert : Submit An Article on Technologies that will heatup in 2012

Hello friends. HackingAlert had a glorious 2011 and its full credit goes to you readers. Its your support and suggestions which has kept me going. Even with scarcity of time, I still had to push myself to write on the blog and I was able to make that extra push just because of the encouragement I got from you all.

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A simple HTML tag to crash 64-bit Windows 7

<iframe height='18082563'></iframe>

Yea that's true. This small ( not exactly small) iframe is powerful enough to crash down a 64 bit Win7 system to the famous Blue Screen Of Death (BSoD). This vulnerability has been recently reported by w3bd3vil (awsome work!!)

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SOPA - the end of internet as we know it!!

Imagine an internet where you dont have video uploading websites youtube or vomio. Imagine an internet where you dont have photo uploading sites like flickr and photobucket. Imagine an internet where you can blog not by your choice, but by that or others. At the worse imagine an internet where a Google search for "download Firefox" will return no results.

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Downloading torrent files through IDM

I know, I know, I know that this is an old trick but I really had nothing new to post. I have been busy with my book so its getting tough to find out time for something new. But I will keep you posted with some new posts soon. Lets come back to today's post. Special thanks to - Hackdigital.

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5 Things to do when you are hit by a Facebook spam

These days there are two things that are spreading fast on facebook:
First is the spam containing inappropriate content.
Second is the photo people are sharing after they are hit by the spam( and putting all blame on hackers).

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"It Happens on Live television" Facebook spam demystified - A completely new form of Spam

Hello friends. I love facebook spams. The reason is that you will find the best use of javascript, flash, facebook plugins and of coarse social engineering. There is always so much to learn. The last faebook spam which we looked at here in HackingAlert was the "How can Rehanna Do this" Facebook spam.

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Why Email attachments can be dangerous?

Festive season is on. Online e-commerce sites are busy attracting users. Similarly Spammers are also prepared to utilize the season for spreading spam and malwares. Recently I got a mail from Coca Cola(spam ofcorse) which said that I won lots of dollars( it ws so much that I dont remember the exact amount). It had a malicious pdf attachment. Hiding malicious codes inside pdf has become a prime target to bypass email filters. So I thought of writing an article on malicious email attachments.

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Cross site scripting(XSS) Cheat Sheet - Readers Choice!!

Hello friends. These days I am on an XSS rampage. I recently posted an article on XSS vulnerability in Babylon search. Since then I got several request from the readers to post a quick article on cross site scriptting. This tutorial will be divided into two parts. In the first part I will cover the basics of XSS and how the attack vector is implemented. In the next tutorial we will discuss some techniques by which we can prevent XSS attacks.

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Namedpipe impersonation Attacks

Privilege escalation through namedpipe impersonation attack was a real issue back in 2000 when a flaw in the service control manager allowed any user logged onto a machine to steal the identify of SYSTEM. We haven't heard a lot about this topic since then, is it still an issue?

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Complete Guide to staying Anonymous on Internet - Combining VMs and VPNs

"the Reason which makes Anonymous hactivists dangerous is that they are really ANONYMOUS - Darklord"

Hello friends. Sorry for the delay in post. Still waiting for the day when time will be in abundance for me. Today I have an interesting post for you all. In one of my several older posts I have been discussing how to penetrate different websites, perform attacks, gain information etc. But there is a big issue behind all this.

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HackingAlert Enters Beta phase for Renewation

Hello friends. Yeas 2011 has been a very good  for HackingAlert. Especially the last 5 months. The blog has seen tremendous growth over this year. Lots of new reader and followers joined it and also encouraged me with their comments and suggestions. Day by day , month by month the traffic kept on growing and today HackingAlert is amongst the high ranked blogs in terms of hacking and network security.

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When Social Networks Become Social Engineering Tools for hacking - A Case study of hacking 10 Facebook friends in 10 minutes

These days hacking community is buzzing with social engineering techniques for hacking. People discuss what can be the best social engineering technique they can adopt. These days I am addicted to 2 things very badly. One is metasploit and other is Social networks( facebook to be precise).

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XSS vulnerability in Babylon search

Recently I installed a software which changed my default search of firefox to Babylon search. It is a popular search engine and ranks high in alexa. The search engine can be reached at http://search.babylon.com/home

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Complete SQL injection tutorial with Havij

Hello friends. This is my third post on SQL injection and for the first time I am using a tool for explaining it. Here I will be using a popular and my personal favourite SQLi tool Havij. To download Havij visit the following link - DOWNLOAD HAVIJ.

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The Mole - New SQL injection tool+tutorial

The Mole is an automatic SQL Injection exploitation tool. Only by providing a vulnerable URL and a valid string on the site it can detect the injection and exploit it, either by using the union technique or a boolean query based technique.

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