Your optical mouse contains Camera!

It should come as no surprise your optical mouse contains a very tiny, very low resolution camera. [Franci] decided to take apart one of his old mice and turn that tiny optical sensor into a webcam.
Inside [Franci]‘s Logitech RX 250 is an ADNS-5020 optical sensor. This three wire SPI device stuffed into an 8-pin package is a 15×15 pixel grayscale image sensor. [Franci] started this project by bringing out the Arduino and Ethernet shield. After soldering a pull-up resistor to the image sensor’s reset pin, connecting the rest of the circuit was as simple as soldering a few wires to the Arduino.
The Arduino sketch sends the image data for each pixel to a computer over a serial connection. A bit of javascript and a touch of HTML takes this pixel data and turns it into a webpage with a live view of whatever is directly under [Franci]‘s mouse.

Read More at: http://hackaday.com/2014/01/14/your-mouse-is-a-terrible-webcam/

In this article i will tell you some hacking techniques which is used most commonly and is considered to be best.

We have discussed alot about popular password cracking methods such as Bruteforce, Dictionary attack and Rainbow tables. However a question I get asked frequently is if it's possible to crack a Facebook account. So I wish to clear concepts related to Hacking/Cracking Facebook accounts. First of all "Hacking a Facebook account" and "Cracking a facebook account" are both different terminologies.Hacking a facebook account refers to foolproof methods such as Phishing, keylogging, Social engineering etc.However the terminology cracking refers to the methods such as Bruteforce, Dictionary attacks etc.

1:Brute Force Attacks 

2:Dictionary Attacks

3:Cracking Facebook Accounts

4:Hack A Facebook Account By Exploiting Facebook's Trusted Friend Feature 

5:Keylogging

6:Hijacking Facebook Fan Pages 

7:Hack Facebook Account Status - Facebook Status Vulnerability

8:Facebook phishing

 9:Stealers

10:Session Hijacking

11:Sidejacking With Firesheep

12:DNS Spoofing

13:USB Hacking 

14:Man In the Middle Attacks

15:Botnets

16:Movable Mobile Hacking

Hacking can be used for both defense and offense, which means that you can use hacking in both constructive and destructive ways. You need to know hacking tricks if you want to protect yourself, your computer, email address or websites from evil eyes. There are many e-books and tutorials available on hacking, but none of them reveal the actual hacking methods. Since many people might have been wanting a hacking toolkit that explains the A ti Z ethics of hacking, I planned to come up with a post on hacking tricks.
From the very beginning I want to mention that this is not for those people who want to use it illegally, but for those people who wear a white cap and want to know the ethics of hacking just to keep the things safe and better. The Secrets of Hacking, has been published by an Indian Government certified security company which covers all latest tips and tricks on hacking. You can find a lots of valuable security measures that every computer user, website owner or email address owner should follow.

The Secrets of Hacking is a pack of hacking tools and tutorials. This package comes with a tutorial guide and two pieces of DVDs. You can find more than 1400 security tools (setup files) with 200+ hacking e-book tutorials. These tutorials will help you in understanding the basics of hacking while you can use the set up files to check various security concerns.
This hacking set will describe the following things in a elaborated manner :

1. Introduction to real hacking
2. Windows hacking tricks
3. Malware Research (Advanced)
4. Password Hacking
5. Email Hacking
6. Domain Hacking & Website defacement
7. Mobile and Computer hacking
8. VOIP and Wireless hacking
9. Advanced Hacking Systems
10. Security Systems and Networks

Few of the key features of this hacking toolkit are :

1. How hackers hack Gmail, Yahoo email addresses
2. How to hack into a computer system (Windows, Linux)
3. How to hack into a system remotely using ports
4. How credit card and net-banking passwords are being stolen
5. How they gain access to restricted college or official websites
6. How to keep your computer data secure from hackers

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P.S : This post is not meant to encourage people with new hacking tricks. This is an informational post on how to keep yourself secure by knowing some common hacking tricks. I strongly discourage people from staying away from hacking as it’s illegal and immoral.

RealNetworks Inc. said it would publish a patch later Friday for its RealPlayer media program to protect users from ongoing attacks. Less than 24 hours before, Symantec Corp. had issued a high-level alert that warned of a critical vulnerability in RealPlayer that could be used against anyone browsing the Web with Internet Explorer.

The bug came to light after the NASA space agency warned employees of a spike in attacks that it said originated from advertisements placed on “well-known” but unnamed news sites.

“Real has created a patch for RealPlayer 10.5 and RealPlayer 11 that addresses the vulnerability identified by Symantec on 10/18,” said Russ Ryan, RealPlayer’s general manager for product development, in a posting to a company blog today.

NASA knew first

Late Thursday, Symantec released a warning to customers of its DeepSight threat network that said an ActiveX control installed by RealPlayer was flawed. When combined with Microsoft Corp.’s Internet Explorer (IE) browser — which relies on ActiveX controls to extend its functionality — the bug can be exploited and malicious code downloaded to any PC that wanders to a specially crafted site.

Only systems on which both RealPlayer and IE have been installed are vulnerable.

Symantec hinted that it first found out about the vulnerability by reading a blog that had posted information about the bug Wednesday morning. The blogger, identified only as Roger, claimed that NASA had warned workers not to use IE because of an unspecified problem with RealPlayer.

On Friday, agency spokesman Mike Mewhinney confirmed Roger’s account. According to Mewhinney, who works at the Ames Research Center south of San Francisco, the alert went out Tuesday. Employees were told of a surge in security problems at Ames and other NASA centers, and informed that systems running IE and RealPlayer had been infected, apparently by malicious code downloaded after visiting legitimate sites.

“Recent indicators point to well-known news sites which may be hosting advertisements from ad servers that redirect the users to malware hosting sites,” the NASA warning said. Workers were also instructed to limit their use of IE to browsing NASA’s intranets, and to “Use non Internet Explorer browsers, such as Mozilla Firefox, Opera, etc., for sites external to NASA.”

Symantec ranked the attack as a “10″ on its urgency scale because it confirmed that attacks were being conducted in the wild; those attacks had resulted in malicious code downloaded to victimized PCs. Originally, however, Symantec saw a silver lining, and said in the Thursday warning that: “We are not currently aware of widespread exploitation of this issue,” the company’s warning read.

But then…

By Friday, however, Symantec had changed its tune.

After retracing attacks on one of its honeypots, Symantec said the exploit code was embedded in advertisements served by 247realmedia.com, a New York-based digital marketing company that’s part of WPP Group PLC, a U.K.-based marketing giant with revenues of $12.1 billion in 2006. WPP may be better known for some of the 200+ companies under its logo, including ad agency J. Walter Thompson (now JWT), and the public relations company Hill & Knowlton.

The ads served by 247realmedia, Symantec continued, were shown on Tripod.com, the Web hosting service owned by Lycos. Anyone running IE on a PC with RealPlayer also on board whom then visited any Tripod-hosted site with the URL “name.tripod.com” would end up infected.

“To emphasize the severity of this attack, [the ad-called script] is embedded and called in every tripod.com user webpage,” said Symantec in the Friday follow-up analysis.

Other evidence, said Symantec, indicated that attacks had been going on since at least Oct. 8.

Multiple versions of RealPlayer install the ActiveX control, including the current 10.5 and the beta of Version 11, the only two versions that will be patched. Users running older editions — including RealOne Player, RealOne Player v2 and RealPlayer 10 — must first upgrade to 10.5 or 11 before applying the patch.

The RealPlayer 10.5 and 11 patches are to post to the RealNetworks security page before midnight (Pacific) on Friday.

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