10 Interesting Facts About Facebook

The growth of facebook even surpised the founderMark Zuckerburg. We know, facebook has become one of our favourite place to share and display our ideas. But the real facts behind this success social networking site is really amazing. According to Popular Identity Survey, Fb is the second largest ¨nation¨ bypopulation. 6 out of 10 of youth are member in facebook. Let´s see the top10 facts behind the working of facebook.
1. Facebook claims to havemore than 800m active users: almost 13 times the population of the UK. Over half of those log in to the site every single day.
2. In March last year Facebook claimed it was deleting 20,000 profiles daily for infractions of its terms of service including inappropriate images, spam or suspected underage users (Facebookis only available to those who declare themselves tobe over 13).
3. The average Facebook user has 130 friends and is connected to 80 community pages, groups or events.
4. There are more than 70 languages used on the website, and content was translated by 300,000 volunteer Facebook users using a specially created application.
5. More than 350m users access Facebook on mobiledevices such as iPhones.
6. Facebook employs just over 3,000 staff at offices in Chicago, Dallas, Detroit, New York, Washington DC,Dublin, Hamburg, Hong Kong, Hyderabad, London, Madrid, Milan, Paris, Selangor, Singapore, Stockholm, Sydney, Tokyo and Toronto.
7. Facebook received$500,000 of investment in 2004, $12.7m in 2005 and$27.5m in 2006.
8. In October 2008 the company announced that the 10 billionth user photograph was uploaded. More than 250m new photos are currently beingadded to the site each day.
9. Around 4bn items are shared on Facebook daily.
10. It is estimated that Facebook saw revenue of$4.3bn last year, mostly from advertising, and profit of $850m.
so,, i think,, before you dosay or yell out to anyone that,, “”  i spend 10 hoursper day @ fb’s mafia wars”"
you would like or prefer tosay,, “” yo yo homies,, i do know 10 fascinating facts of fb,,, don’t you,,”"  lmfao….
have fun,, n dont get youreyes hurt.. moniters do emit gamma rays,, i think,,:lol,

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400,000 Yahoo accounts hacked by ‘d33ds’,Published Online

Plently of yahoo accounts have been hacked by the hacker groups this morning and the security credentials of the user’s passwords were published online.


Hackers hacked 400,000 yahoo account usernames and password have stolen and published online. According to the Security researcher and the red team member Mr.Rom Fuller,the group ‘d33ds’ took the credentials,kept in clear text were hacked.
Its been always a SQL injection attack most of the time and now its the same. The account credential breack appeared to be a SQL injection attack  to extract the sensitive informations from the database,said TrustedSec.
The full text was available on the group’s website, and currently its found offline.Yahoo7 referred SC to the united states Yahoo office for contact,and the company does not promote Yahoo! Voice Locally.The most common passwords were ‘password’ and ‘welcome’ and ’123456′ and ‘P@ssw0rd’.
-iTechGroup.

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Update Windows Offline !!!

Microsoft frequently releases Security and other essential updates for windows.These updates fix newly discovered bugs and flaws and increases efficeny and protection of Windows.If you don’t have internet connection or have slow internet then you can’t get the updates directly from microsft instead you have to use a third party utlity calledAutopatcher.

AutoPacher allows you to download for your windows Operating system and saves it for offline installation.This gives you the liberty to update any computer without internet connection.

How to Update Windows OS Without Internet Connection:

• Carry your Pen Drive and Go to your nearby Cyber Cafe then download Autopatcher software from here.
• After downloading this software just install and run it.
• It will prompt you to select the OS for which you want to download the updates and click on Next button.
• Now Select your OS whether it is 32-bit or 64-bitsupported. If it is 32-bit then select X86 otherwise select X64 and click on Next button.
• A list of all updates for your OS will be shown.
• Select all the Updates and click on Download button.
• After finishing the download just copy/paste all the downloaded updates in your Pen Drive.
• Now insert this Pendrive into your system for which you have downloaded all these updates and install them.

That’s it! This is the best method to install the updates in Offline mode and secure your PC. This works for all windows OS (Window 7/Vista/XP).

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4 Ways to Identify Safe Websites On the Internet

On the whole Internet, there are approximately more than 150 million active websites up and running. As a result, it often becomes a real challenge for the users to identify safe websites that are trustworthy and reputed. Have you ever wondered to know the reputation of a website before placing the order? Need to know whether a given website is child safe? Well, here are some of the ways to identify safe websites on the Web.

1. WOT or Web Of Trust (www.mywot.com):

WOT is a great place to test the reputation of your favorite website. WOT gives real-time ratings for every website based on the feedback that it gets from millions of trustworthy users across the globe and trusted sources, such as phishing and malware blacklists. Each domain name is evaluated based on this data and ratings are applied to them accordingly.

• Trustworthiness signifies the overall safety of the website. A poor rating may indicate that the site is associated with threats like Internet scams, phishing, identity theft risks and malware. For more information on phishing,
• Vendor reliability tells you whether a given site is safe for carrying out buy and sell transactions with it. An excellent rating indicates superior customer satisfaction while a poor rating indicates possible scam or bad shopping experience.
• Privacy indicates about “to what extent the site respects the privacy of it’s users and protects their personal identity and data”.
• Child Safety indicates whether the content of a given site is appropriate for children. Site contents like sexual material, nudity and vulgarity will have a poor Child Safety rating.

In most cases, the WOT ratings are found to be highly accurate. To check the reputation of any given website, just visit www.mywot.com type-in the address of your favorite website and click on “Check now”. This tool alone can tell you a lot about the reputation and safety level of a website. However, in addition to this, I am giving you another 3 handy tools to identify safe websites on the Web.

2. McCafee SiteAdvisor:

McCafee SiteAdvisor is a free tool that is available as a browser add-on. It adds safety ratings to your browser and search engine results. You can download it from www.siteadvisor.com.

3. StopBadware:

Using this tool, you can check whether a given site is said to have involved in malware activity in the past. To check this, go to SB Website Clearinghouse and enter the URL or domain name of a website and click on “Search Clearinghouse ”. If the search does not return any result, that means the site was never involved in any of the malware activity in the past.

4. Google Pagerank:

Google PageRank is another great tool to check the reputation and popularity of a website. The PageRank tool rates every web page on a scale of 1 to 10 which indicates Google’s view of importance of the page. If a given website has a PageRank of less than 3, then it is said to be less popular among the other sites on the Internet.

However, PageRank will only tell you how much popular a given website is and has nothing to do with the safety level of a website. So, this tool alone cannot be used to evaluate a website’s safety and other factors.

PageRank feature is available as a part of Google Toolbar. You can download the Google Toolbar and install it to avail this feature.

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How to Hack Symbian S60 Phones to Install Unsigned Applications

If you own a Nokia Symbian S60 phone, you will most likely be aware of the fact that it is not possible to install applications on it unless they are signed using a valid certificate. Have you been trying to install applications on your S60 3rd or 5th edition phone but ending up getting a certificate error? At times, this can be really annoying; but here is a smart solution to this problem!

Here in this post, I will show you how to hack your Symbian S60 3rd or 5th edition smartphone, so as to modify the phone’s firmware and completely bypass the mandatory signing requirement. So, once you are done with this one time hack, you should be able to install any compatible application including unsigned and those with an expired certificate.

What is the Need for Signing Applications?

From the 3rd edition onwards, all the Symbian S60 applications need to be signed in order to ensure their integrity, so that it would not be possible for a third party to tamper with the application. Also, signing ensures that you always install applications from a trusted source.

However, there are many freeware and beta applications that come unsigned as the developers cannot afford to buy a symbian certificate. Hence, it can be a real nightmare for the users who need to install such applications on their phones. So, here is a step-by-step procedure to hack your phone and permanently disable this security feature:

1. Download the latest version from the HelloOX2 Ofiicial Website.
   HelloOX2 is an excellent tool to hack Symbian S60 3rd, 5th and Symbian^3 smartphones which makes it possible to install a root certificate by gaining full access to the phone’s system files. With this capability, you can install anything you want on your phones without the need to worry about the annoying certificate error!
2. The signed version of HelloOX2 demands for a donation and hence, only the unsigned version is available for free download. So, if you have the unsigned version, you need to sign it before installing on your phone. In order to sign any application, you need to have the certificate and the key file which can be obtained as follows:
   • Go to the OPDA Website, get registered and login to your account.
   • Click on the “Apply Certificate” tab, enter the model number and the IMEI of your phone and then click on “Submit and Upload” button.
   • It will usually take up 24 hours for your certificate and key file to be generated and uploaded. To check the status of your certificate click on “My Certificate” tab. If the certificate is ready for the download, you will see something as follows:
   
   • Download the certificate and the key file on to your computer. Also download the SisSigner tool to sign your HelloOX2 application.
   • Open the SisSigner, load the HelloOX2.sis, certificate and the key file as shown below and click on “Sign”. Leave the “Key File Password” field blank.
   
   • Your HelloOX2 application is now signed and ready for the installation.
3. Install the signed HelloOX2 application on your phone and run it to start the hacking process, which is completely automatic. Within a minute your phone will be hacked. Once this is done, say goodbye to the annoying certificate error and install any application.

I hope you like this post. Express your opinion through comments. Enjoy!!!

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How to install Windows Server 8 Beta VM on VirtualBox

These directions are for setting up a Windows Server 8 VM guest on a Windows 7 Ultimate Host using VirtualBox. These instructions may work on other platforms.
1. If you haven’t already, download and install Oracle VirtualBox.
2. Download the Windows Server 8 Beta Virtual Machine from Microsoft.  Note that you may be required to register.  This is how my download looks:

3. Run this file to create the Virtual Hard Disk (VHD) containing Windows Server 8.  Take note of the VHD’s location on your hard drive.  You will need this later.

4. Open VirtualBox.  Click “New” to create a new virtual machine.
5. Enter a name for the VM.  Select “Microsoft Windows” for the operating system and “Windows 8 (64 bit)” for the version. Click Next.

6. Select the amount of memory to allocate to the Windows 8 Server VM.  How much ram should you use for the Windows Server 8 VM? I’m starting out with 2GB.  If I find that I need more ram, I’ll report back here. Click Next.

7. On the virtual hard disk (VHD) screen, select “Use existing hard disk”. Click the folder icon  to locate and select the VHD you created in step 3. Click Next.

8. Click “Create” to create the new virtual machine.

9. Right click on your new VM and click “Settings…”.

10. Click “System” in the menu on the left. See the settings I used below.  These settings may or may not be required for your set up.


Note that you may have to enable VT-x or AMD-V support in your computer’s BIOS.

11. Click “Storage” in the menu on the left. Below is what I saw by default.

Please note that the first time I attempt to start the Windows Server 8 Beta VM, VirtualBox kept experiencing crashes.  I got the error, “Oracle VM Virtualbox Manager has stopped working“. To get around this error, I deleted the virtual disk above from the SATA Controller pictured above and added the VHD to the IDE Controller. Below are the steps I performed:

1. Right click on the VHD under the SATA controller and select “Remove Attachment”.
2. Right click on the IDE Controller and select “Add Hard Disk”.
3. Click “Choose Existing Disk”.
4. Locate and select the VHD you created in step 3.
5. Click “OK” to save your settings.
   

12. Right click on your new VM and click “Start”.

After a few step up steps, you should now have Windows 8 Server VM installed and running in VirtualBox!

I think that Windows Server 8 virtualization will be very popular.  I’m looking forward to setting up some Windows 8 server VMs at work.
I hope you found this VirtualBox Windows 8 Server tutorial helpful.  If you have questions about these instructions, please post them in the comments section.

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