Rauf 's blog

10 Nov 2011

Steps to keep your organisation secure

The following are a few Anti-Hacking tips that will help in keeping your systems secure.

Changing the location of special folders

You can modify the registry to change the location of special folders like:
My Documents
Favorites
My Pictures
Personal
Start Regedit
Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders
Double click on any locations you want to change and alter the path
Logoff or restart for the changes to go into effect
Note: TweakUI from Microsoft will allow you to make these changes from a dialog box as well

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Be careful while using ctrl+ c & ctrl+v

We all copy various data by using ctrl+c/Copy for pasting elsewhere.
This copied data is stored on clipboard and is accessible over the net by a combination of Javascripts and ASP.

Just try this:
1) Copy any text by ctrl+c
2) Click the Link: http://www.friendlycanadian.com/applications/clipboard.htm
3) You will see the text you copied on the Screen which was
accessed by this web page.

Moral:
Do not keep sensitive data (like passwords, creditcard numbers, PIN etc.) in the clipboard while surfing the web. It is extremely easy to extract the text stored in the clipboard to steal your sensitive information. If sufficient data is stored by mistake it would give away confidential and important information without you knowing about it.

To Avoid This
To avoid this, follow these steps:

1. Go to internet options->security

2. Press custom level

3. In the security settings, select disable under Allow paste operations via script.
Now the contents of your clipboard are safe.

Pass this information on to create an awareness of the same.

Safe Browsing

9 Nov 2011

Firefox 8 final download

What's new in Firefox 8

The HTMLImageElement crossOrigin property has been added.
The HTML5 "context menu" feature (contextmenu attribute), which lets you add custom element specific items to native context menu, is now supported. (the implementation is still experimental awaiting changes in the specification,
The insertAdjacentHTML method has been implemented.
Two bugs fixed when text insertion cursor is at the beginning of an editable text:
resolution now accepts <number>, not just <integer> values as per the specification.
Hyphenation is now supported in many more languages
New threading model for Audio and Video
Video thread stack size has been reduced
The geckoversion flag can be used in the chrome.manifest to specify Gecko version compatibility.