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Security Flaw Finding Contest – Jan’08

Sunday, August 5th, 2007

Hello Members, Readers, Editors & Visitors,

SecureSlash Team planned to conduct a security flaw finding contest in a Windows XP Home SP2 .

This will be a Security Contest.

Main Objective is, Finding as many security bugs in the Operating System as you can.

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Prize!

1. A page in secureslash.com with winner’s photo & profile with the title of “Geek/Nerd of the Month”

2. iTunes Gift card

3. xBox Gold Membership

4. RapidShare/MegaUpload premium account

5. Paypal/E-Gold transfer

As, We wont say prize will be $100,000 cash & run away. Feel free to suggest a prize.

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Before conducting/promoting, We like to hear your comments. So, Feel free to say anything about contest.

Btw, We are building a perfect judgement team with Geeks & Nerds for selecting a BEST & Worth finding.

Thanks for being with us!

Regards,
SecureSlash Team

The Conscience of a Hacker

Saturday, July 14th, 2007

Another one got caught today, it’s all over the papers. “Teenager arrested in computer crime scandal”, “Hacker arrested after bank tampering”…

Damn Kids. They’re all alike.

But did you, in your three piece psychology and 1970′s technobrain ever take a look behind the eyes of a hacker? Did you ever wonder what made him tick, what forces shaped him, what may have molded him?

I am a hacker, enter my world…

Mine is a world that begins with school. I’ve listened to the teacher explain for the fifteenth time how to reduce a fraction. I understand it. “No, Miss Shaw, I didn’t show my work. I did it in my head…”

Damn kid. Probably copied it. They’re all alike.

I made a discovery today. I found a computer. Wait a second, this is cool. It does what I want it to do. If it makes a mistake, it’s because I screwed up. Not because it doesn’t like me…or feels threatened by me…or thinks I’m a smart ass…or doesn’t like teaching and shouldn’t be here…

Damn kid. All he does is play games. They’re all alike.

And then it happened… A door opened to a world… Rushing through the phone line like heroin through an addict’s veins, an electronic pulse is sent out, a refuge from the day to day incompetencies is sought… A board is found.

“This is it… This is where I belong…”

I know everyone here… Even if I’ve never met them, never talked to them, may never hear from them again… I know you all…

Damn kid. Tying up the phone line again. They’re all alike…

You bet your ass we’re all alike… We’ve been spoon fed baby food at school when we hungered for steak… The bits of meat that you did let slip through were pre chewed and tasteless. We’ve been dominated by sadists, or ignored by the apathetic. The few that had something to teach found us willing pupils, but those few are like drops of water in the desert.

This is our world now… The world of the electron and the switch, the beauty of the baud. We make use of a service already existing without paying for what could be dirt cheap if it wasn’t run by profiteering gluttons, and you call us criminals. We explore… And you call us criminals. We exist without skin color, without nationality, without religious bias… And you call us criminals. You build atomic bombs, you wage wars, you murder, you cheat, and lie to us and try to make us believe it’s for our own good, yet we’re the criminals.

Yes, I am a criminal. My crime is that of curiosity. My crime is that of judging people by what they say and think, not what they look like. My crime is that of outsmarting you, something that you will never forgive me for.

I am a hacker, and this is my manifesto. You may stop this individual, but you can’t stop us all… After all, We’re all alike.

Tom Beam

Fedora – NTFS Read/Write

Saturday, July 14th, 2007

Make Sure To Read All Of This Post Before Doing Anything, If You Don’t Understand It ALL, Do Not Continue

Install NTFS Support
yum -y install fuse fuse-libs ntfs-3g ntfsprogs ntfsprogs-gnomevfs

Check Your Partitions
Use fdisk to list partitions. Most ATA hard drives will be /dev/hda. Drives may also show up as /dev/hdb or /dev/sda depending on your configuration.
fdisk -l
(find all NTFS labels, using the partitions you want below)

Create Mount Points
For every partition in step 2 that you wish to access, you will need a “mount point”. A mount point is just a directory. Common directories are: /media/ and /mnt/. Use whichever, but be consistent.
cd /media/
mkdir c d e

(no spaces for the mount name, put a space between each “folder” you want to make)

Mount Partitions(first time)
Using NTFS-3G, we mount the NTFS partition using read-write.
mount /dev/hda1 /media/c -t ntfs-3g -rw -o umask=0000,force
mount /dev/hda2 /media/d -t ntfs-3g -rw -o umask=0000,force
mount /dev/hda3 /media/e -t ntfs-3g -rw -o umask=0000,force

(remember to only mount NTFS partitions this way, never leave out “force” else fedora may cause partition errors)

Install gedit Editor(including the stars)
yum -y install *gedit*

Fedora Boot Mounting
gedit /etc/fstab

Add mount lines to the END of the file you just opened in gedit
/dev/hda1 /media/c ntfs-3g rw,defaults,umask=0000,force 0 0
/dev/hda2 /media/d ntfs-3g rw,defaults,umask=0000,force 0 0
/dev/hda3 /media/e ntfs-3g rw,defaults,umask=0000,force 0 0

Hints:
hda# should be changed to your drive numbers, delete the extra commands…
c,d,e should be changed to whatever you want JUST NO SPACES IN THE NAMES

Deviating from this tutorial might damage your ntfs, this is proven to work over 9 months

25 rules for a successful Link Building

Tuesday, July 10th, 2007

Doing SEO ?

Consider below 25 things for a successful Link Building.

 

1. Non-reciprocal links only.
2. Page containing link must be listed in Google’s Cache.
3. No directories.
4. No link farms, link-exchange programs, forums, web directories, strictly no FFA’s, gambling, pharmacy, illegal, porn, violent, or hate-based, guestbook’s, classifieds, dynamic links, spam sites, or generally black hat links.
5. All links must be indexed by robots, not blacklisted from Google.
6. Links must be from different Class-C IP addresses.
7. The linking page has to have no more than 50 outbound links.
8. All links must be static, plain, standard a href type links (no cgi etc…) and direct using provided anchor text
9. All links must be indexable by googlebot. no rel=”nofollow”, robots.txt blocking and the like
10. Link page must have a recent Google cache; no less then 30 days old.
11. No hidden links. All links must be visible and readable.
12. No sites using dynamically generated links, MouseOvers or other PageRank-hoarding tricks.
13. All links will point to one domain.
15. Links should not be from framed pages or cloaked links.
16. Links should not be through a javascript.
17. Links should not be through a redirect script.
18. Links should not be on Flash sites or pages.
19. All links should be free and not paid links.
20. All links shouldn’t appear in a paid links slot such as: “sponsored” links, advertisers, links, ads or any other slot links that will show the search engines that it is a paid link.
21. All Links have to be on sites which are NOT penalized or banned by Google.
22.
Links must be permanent and remain active.
23. The anchor text (or title, description) will be different, and will have several options.
24. No use of Automated software (Zeus, Arelis or others)
25. Follow all above 24

I’ve collected this list from web. Suggestions are welcome.