Sunday, September 20, 2009
I am really thankful to all my readers who stayed with me for so long.This is to inform you all that we soon will be moving!!
Change is what in this world is permanent and some changes are needed to make things better.
I have booked the domain ankitkumaragarwal.com (please bookmark it) and the site is already in construction. Hope to see you There.
Thanks
Ankit
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Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Disclaimer : The information provided below is for educational purpose only. The author is not responsible for any misuse of the information and discourages any illegal use of it.
Bsnl DataOne Broadband continues to grow as one the most popular broadband services in India with high speed facilities of upto 2 mpbs. But a large number of users of this service are vulnerable to hacker attacks because discovering and hacking the vulnerable victims of this network is shockingly simple. If you are a Bsnl Broadband user then immediately assess the security of your internet connection and take appropriate steps to secure yourself.
First lets see how simple it is to hack bsnl dataone broadband usernames and passwords. For this you shall need a ipscanner tool called Angry IP Scanner http://www.angryziber.com/ipscan/ or anything similar.
Ok so lets begin... Get your IP from :
www.ipmango.com
Step 1 : Start Angry IP scanner and goto options > ports. Type in 80 in the first ports textbox and click ok.
Then goto options > options ; in the display section select "only open ports" and click ok&save.
Now on the main screen put in the ip scan range as something 59.*.0.0 - 59.*.255.255 (for e.g. 59.95.2.3) and click the start button. And the list that shall follow next are the victims. In this example we choose the range 59.95.0.0 - 59.95.255.255. You will be surprised at the number of victims you discover.
Step 2 : Pick the ip-address of any of them and open up your browser and type in http://59.*.*.* (the * should be replaced by the values from the ip you are using. A box will popup asking for username and password. Enter the username : admin and password : admin .There is a high chance that you will be able to login with that username and password.
admin-admin is the default username and password that is set while manufacturing the adsl modem devices.
What follows next is the modem administration panel.
Simply search for the "WAN" option and click it. On the next page you will find the username and password of that user. now right-click on the page and click view source. in Mozilla/Opera This frame -> view frame source
Now in the source code search for this : INPUT TYPE="PASSWORD"
and the value field of this input element will have the password
if its not there as in case of D-Link DSL 502T ADSL Routers the search for this
input type="hidden" name="connection0:pppoe:settings/password" value="password" id="uiPostPppoePassword"
and the value field will have the password
Well each steps take less than 1 minute so getting username passwords wont take even 2 minutes and is easier than sending a mail.
And this exposes the weak security of bsnl broadband users.
Well this is not a weakness but more of a mis-configuration which leads to insecurity. If you understand networking then you would probably realise that it was merely logging into the remote administration service of the modem and nothing else. This was not really hacking but a simple search of victims who are absolutely ignorant of their weak security on the internet.
Most routers have an option where remote management can be disabled. In other words, you can only connect to the configuration interface from the internal network, not the WAN(Internet) side. You would definitely want to make sure remote management is not active to protect yourself.
Note : On SmartAX MT880 eventhough Remote Management is disabled , it permits remote logins from over the Internet. So change your mode administration passwords immediately.
The problem is that the professionals at Bsnl are ignorant of such simplicity of networking and unable to advise the users or guide them to take proper security measures leaving their customers and themselves absolutely unsecure.
Now lets check a few more options related to this issue. A bsnl broadband modem can be used in two modes. RFC Bridged mode and pppoe mode.
In the RFC Bridged mode the device behaves like a modem device that is attached to your computer and you use some dialup software to dial into the isp through this modem.This is PPPOE from the PC and the adsl device is a good modem. This mode is safer as the username password are on your pc and nothing is on the modem.
In the PPPOE mode the adsl device becomes a router - a distinct network device with many features enabled. In this mode the username password is stored in the modem which will dial to the isp and establish the internet connectivity. The computers will just connect to this router who would be their primary gateway. Now this is the mode where the risk exists.
If remote administration is enabled the remote users from the internet can login to this modems administration panel. Now the main problem is the default admin username-password which most users dont change due to ignorance. "admin-admin" is pair that works in most cases giving you full access to the modems internals. What follows next is simple as drinking a glass of orange juice.
Many users install firewalls and think they are safe, but they fail to understand that the firewall protects their PC not the "router" since the topology is like
(PC) -> router -> internet
So how should you secure yourself ?
1. Use RFC Bridged mode if it is sufficient for you.
2. Change the default admin password of your modem.
3. Disable wan ping reply . ( this will prevent the hackers from directly discovering your pc when it is on the internet)
4. Disable remote configuration feature.
5. Check your broadband usage on a regular basis and compare it with your own surfing schedules to check whether someone else has used it or not. If suspiscious usage is indicated then immediately change your bband password as well. Or a better suggestion would be to change broadband passwords on a regular basis.
Try to spread the security awareness to your friends and other relatives who are using Bsnl broadband and encourage them to secure their internet connectivity.
Disclaimer : The information provided above is for educational purpose only. The main purpose of the author is to spread awareness amongst users. The author is not responsible for any misuse of the information and discourages any illegal use of it.
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
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 1950's technobrain, ever take a look behind the eyes of the 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'm smarter than most of the other kids, this crap they teach us bores me...
Damn underachiever. They're all alike.
I'm in junior high or high school. I've listened to teachers explain for the fifteenth time how to reduce a fraction. I understand it. "No, Ms. Smith, 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. If it makes a mistake, it's because I screwed it 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 seek after knowledge... 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, 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.
note:-this was origianlly written by +++The Mentor+++
Written January 8, 1986
here the hacker usually represnets a black hat hacker
Sunday, April 12, 2009
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Saturday, April 11, 2009
Microsoft has large range of free software around 150...i am trying to list here as many as possible...so enjoy!!
you might want to check out my previous thread of free downloadable softs here.
Merlin, Peedy, Robby & "Custom") to appear during specific help or instruction. (Support FAQ)
Location Finder turns a regular WiFi enabled laptop, Tablet or PC into a location determining device without the addition of any separate hardware. Location Finder uses WiFi access points - or reverse IP lookup when WiFi is not available - to center and display the person's location on the Windows Live Local.
Virtual Machine is Microsoft's Java Virtual Machine for Internet Explorer, allowing you to view java applets on Web pages.
Terminals is a "tabbed" terminal services/remote desktop client used for controlling multiple connection simultaneously.
Promqry is a command line tool that can be used to detect network interfaces that are running in promiscuous mode.
Friday, April 10, 2009
A FEW PROGRAMMERS' PROVERBS
(COLLECTED OVER NET)
A clever person solves a problem.
A wise person avoids it.
-- Einstein
André Bensoussan once explained to me the difference between a programmer and a designer:
"If you make a general statement, a programmer says, 'Yes, but...'
while a designer says, 'Yes, and...'"
No matter what the problem is,
it's always a people problem.
Jerry Weinberg
Wexelblat's Scheduling Algorithm:
Choose two:
* Good
* Fast
* Cheap
Craziness is doing the same thing and expecting a different result.
Tom DeMarco, rephrasing Einstein, who said
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
"There's no time to stop for gas, we're already late"
-- Karin Donker
Deming's 14 points
1. Create constancy of purpose.
2. Adopt the new philosophy.
3. Cease dependence on mass inspection to achieve quality.
4. Minimize total cost, not initial price of supplies.
5. Improve constantly the system of production and service.
6. Institute training on the job.
7. Institute leadership.
8. Drive out fear.
9. Break down barriers between departments.
10. Eliminate slogans, exhortations, and numerical targets.
11. Eliminate work standards (quotas) and management by objective.
12. Remove barriers that rob workers, engineers, and managers of their right to pride of workmanship.
13. Institute a vigorous program of education and self-improvement.
14. Put everyone in the company to work to accomplish the transformation.
We know about as much about software quality problems as they knew about the Black Plague in the 1600s. We've seen the victims' agonies and helped burn the corpses. We don't know what causes it; we don't really know if there is only one disease. We just suffer -- and keep pouring our sewage into our water supply.
-- Tom Van Vleck
The Troops Know
* The schedule doesn't have enough time for maintenance in it.
* A lot of bugs get past the tests.
* Most old code can't be maintained.
To go faster, slow down. Everybody who knows about orbital mechanics understands that.
-- Scott Cherf
Everybody Knows:
* Discipline is the best tool.
* Design first, then code.
* Don't patch bugs out, rewrite them out.
* Don't test bugs out, design them out.
Everybody Knows:
* If you don't understand it, you can't program it.
* If you didn't measure it, you didn't do it.
Everybody Knows:
If something is worth doing once, it's worth building a tool to do it.
Your problem is another's solution;
Your solution will be his problem.
Everybody Knows:
* If you've found 3 bugs in a program, best estimate is that there are 3 more.
* 60% of product cost comes after initial shipment.
The significant problems we face cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them.
-- Albert Einstein
On the radio the other night, Jimmy Connors said the best advice he ever got was from Bobby Riggs:
* do it
* do it right
* do it right now
It is not enough to do your best: you must know what to do, and THEN do your best.
-- W. Edwards Deming
A leader is best when people barely know that he exists.
Less good when they obey and acclaim him.
Worse when they fear and despise him.
Fail to honor people, and they fail to honor you.
But of a good leader, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
they will say, "We did this ourselves."
-- Lao-Tzu
You must be the change
You wish to see in the world
-- Gandhi
Experiment escorts us last,
His pungent company
Will not allow an axiom
An opportunity.
-- Emily Dickinson
when the cart stops
do you whip the cart
or whip the ox?
Q: How many QA testers does it take to change a lightbulb?
A: QA testers don't change anything. They just report that it's dark.
Kerry Zallar
Q: How many software engineers does it take to change a lightbulb?
A: Just one. But the house falls down.
Andrew Siwko
One test is worth a thousand opinions.
"If you didn't write it down, it didn't happen."
This saying is popular among scientists (doing experiments), but I believe it applies to software testing, particularly for real-time systems.
--Larry Zana
We reject kings, presidents, and voting.
We believe in rough consensus and running code.
--Dave Clark (1992)
I am a design chauvinist. I believe that good design is magical and not to be lightly tinkered with. The difference between a great design and a lousy one is in the meshing of the thousand details that either fit or don't, and the spirit of the passionate intellect that has tied them together, or tried. That's why programming---or buying software---on the basis of "lists of features" is a doomed and misguided effort. The features can be thrown together, as in a garbage can, or carefully laid together and interwoven in elegant unification, as in APL, or the Forth language, or the game of chess.
-- Ted Nelson
Software is Too Important to be Left to Programmers, by Meilir Page-Jones.
"If you think good architecture is expensive, try bad architecture."
-- Brian Foote and Joseph Yoder
Abraham Lincoln reportedly said that, given eight hours to chop down a tree, he'd spend six sharpening his axe.
-- TidBITS 654, quoted by Derek K. Miller, via Art Evans
... while we all know that unmastered complexity is at the root of the misery, we do not know what degree of simplicity can be obtained, nor to what extent the intrinsic complexity of the whole design has to show up in the interfaces. We simply do not know yet the limits of disentanglement. We do not know yet whether intrinsic intricacy can be distinguished from accidental intricacy.
-- E. W. Dijkstra, Communications of the ACM, Mar 2001, Vol. 44, No. 3
You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
-- Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) " The Man who was Orthodox", via Paul Black
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