How to Protect Your Web Server From Hackers.?

 

 

 

Good Evening Friends.....

I know creating a website is not simply about putting some pages and information online.

Ensuring the security of your website is a bigger and highly crucial task.

Most websites these days have a dedicated web server that gives them the leverage to grow and develop further. Basically the websites with a high volume of web traffic, a heavy database and complex application specifications require an exclusive web server. It is extremely important to hack proof your web server in order to protect your website and business.

There are a great number of hackers out there in the web world who are looking for opportunities to exploit your web server and cause serious damage. These hackers look to deface the websites with malicious content, use the scripts on the server to send out spam or phish out the personal sensitive information of the website users. Such attacks also attempt to tamper with parameters and gain access to confidential files or cross-site scripting or cookie poisoning to alter the customer data. These kinds of invasions can prove to be fatal for e-commerce and finance based websites. To prevent your web server from falling prey to such web attacks, here are some important recommendations and anti hacking tips.You need to follow a two-pronged approach to safeguard your web server from any hackers.

The first layer is a firewall that exists to block any unwarranted unused Internet ports. A good firewall will use a rule based access system to allow only the legitimate users to enter and filter out as well as obstruct any malicious traffic from accessing the server. Also create strong passwords that use a combination of characters, numbers and special characters in order to keep the password hackers at bay.

The second element is to put in place an intrusion protection service. This is a more sophisticated approach to deal with hackers wherein you stop the illegitimate entry of users at the source itself. If a firewall works on the front line, an intrusion protection system works on the back end to deal with the enemies. This involves putting all the compromised hosts in the quarantine section and letting the genuine users move through efficiently. But setting up such an anti-hacking arrangement is only the first step. The hackers are moving fast and ahead with newer techniques to break into and sabotage the web servers. So, you need to continually update and monitor the filters, blacklists and all other aspects.

How to Solve Blue Screen of Death Problems

good evening friends...
today i am posting about a very serious problem of windows, that is BSOD
Blue Screen of Death is a very common error that occurs in all the versions of the Windows OS, be it Win XP, or Win Vista or Windows 7.
Blue Screen Of Death (also known as BSoD or bluescreen), known officially as a Stop Error. A lot of major as well as minor hardware and software related issues can lead to Blue Screen of Death (BSOD). However, many times the BSOD screen won’t allow you to reach the desktop or even if you have reached the desktop, the BSOD screen can appear all of a sudden while you are doing something important on your PC.



BSODs appear when Windows encounters a serious problem and stalls the operating system. You can easily fix BSOD issues by examining all the factors that has triggered it. Here are some things you should do when you encounter a BSOD:
1. Some BSODs are so bad that you may end up installing fresh copy of Windows on your system. If you are not able to access your data after the occurrence of BSOD, you may also end up losing all your precious data. So, you need try your best to reach the desktop. You can try the ‘Last Known Good Configuration’ option or by going into the Safe Mode. You can try both of these options by pressing the F8 key before the appearance of the Windows loading screen. If you do it correctly, you will see the ‘Windows Advanced Options Menu’ screen where you will see options like Safe Mode, Safe Mode with Networking and Last Known Good Configuration.

2. When you see the BSOD, you should read the message that appears on it carefully. Usually, the error screen contains a ‘STOP ERROR’ code that consists of numbers and alphabets. The code varies depending on the problems that have caused the respective BSOD error. So, the first thing you need to do is make a note of the error code.

3. If your system is displaying the BSOD screen after recent installation of hardware or software, you can try uninstalling the hardware or software and see if that resolves the issue. After uninstalling the software that caused the problem, you can perform virus scan on your system. Repairing registry errors by making use of registry applications can help in getting rid of BSODs that are caused by software. Alternatively, you can also try the System Restore option to go back to a date when your system was working perfectly fine.

4. The next thing you need to is to find out what has caused the BSOD by researching on the internet. You can do this on your secondary PC. All you need to do is type the STOP ERROR code on Google and find out what solutions are available. A very good way to find solution for all kinds of BSOD errors is to visit the Microsoft Support website. At Microsoft Support, you will get all the possible solutions that you can try to get rid of the BSOD screen.

TOP 10 Hacking Tools

HELLO FRIENDS!!!
MY 5TH SEMESTER IS OVER NOW....
NOW I AM ENJOYING MY VACATIONS AT HOME.
SO TODAY I AM POSTING ABOUT TOP 10 HACKING TOOLS
1)Nessus
In computer security, Nessus is a proprietary comprehensive vulnerability scanning program. It is free of charge for personal use in a non-enterprise environment. Its goal is to detect potential vulnerabilities on the tested systems.


The “Nessus” Project aims to provide to the internet community a free, powerful, up-to-date and easy to use remote security scanner for Linux, BSD, Solaris, and other flavors of Unix.
2)Ethereal
Ethereal is a free network protocol analyzer for Unix and Windows. Ethereal has several powerful features, including a rich display filter language and the ability to view the reconstructed stream of a TCP session.
3)Snort
A free lightweight network intrusion detection system for UNIX and Windows.
Snort is an open source network intrusion detection system, capable of performing real-time traffic analysis and packet logging on IP networks.
4)Netcat
Netcat is a computer networking service for reading from and writing network connections using TCP or UDP.
Netcat has been dubbed the network swiss army knife. It is a simple Unix utility which reads and writes data across network connections, using TCP or UDP protocol
5)Hping Hping is a command-line oriented TCP/IP packet assembler/analyzer, kind of like the “ping” program (but with a lot of extensions).
6)DNSiff
DNSiff is a collection of tools for network auditing and penetration testing. dsniff, filesnarf, mailsnarf, msgsnarf, urlsnarf, and webspy passively monitor a network for interesting data (passwords, e-mail, files, etc.).
7)GFI LANguard
GFI LANguard Network Security Scanner (N.S.S.) automatically scans your entire network, IP by IP, and plays the devil’s advocate alerting you to security vulnerabilities.
8)John the Ripper John the Ripper is a fast password cracker, currently available for many flavors of Unix.
9)OpenSSH
OpenSSH (OpenBSD Secure Shell) is a set of computer programs providing encrypted communication sessions over a computer network using the ssh protocol. It was created as an open source alternative to the proprietary Secure Shell software suite offered by SSH Communications Security.
OpenSSH is a FREE version of the SSH protocol suite of network connectivity tools, which encrypts all traffic (including passwords) to effectively eliminate eavesdropping, connection hijacking, and other network-level attacks.
10)TripWire
Tripwire is a tool that can be used for data and program integrity assurance.
     

Microsoft Mathematics 4.0 for Office 2007 and Office 2010

good news for windows user.....

Microsoft Mathematics 4.0 is now available for free download.Microsoft Mathematics provides a set of mathematical tools that helps both college and school students to solve complex calculation quickly and easily.

This tool is very useful for doing math and science studies.

Brief Description

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Microsoft Mathematics provides a graphing calculator that plots in 2D and 3D, step-by-step equation solving, and useful tools to help students with math and science studies.

 

Few months back Microsoft relea Free Chemistry Add-in For Office Word 2007 & 2010.Now the latest release of Mathematics 4.0 makes students work simple.Students can understand the concepts  faster  ;)

With Microsoft Mathematics, students can learn to solve equations step-by-step while gaining a better understanding of fundamental concepts in pre-algebra, algebra, trigonometry, physics, chemistry, and calculus.

“Microsoft Mathematics includes a full-featured graphing calculator that’s designed to work just like a handheld calculator. Additional math tools help you evaluate triangles, convert from one system of units to another, and solve systems of equations”.

It comes with cool Graphical user Interface and very user friendly

Download:

Microsoft Mathematics 4.0

Secret Items In Windows 7 Send To Menu | send to menu extended

today i have a amazing trick for send to menu
How To View the Secret Items
1. When you right-click on a file you will find only few default items in Send To Menu.
2. Hold down the Shift key while right-clicking on the file, and see the Send To menu…you can find all sorts of extra options!

3. If you want any of those to show up normally without holding down the Shift key, you can create shortcuts in the Send To folder.Just type the following into the Address bar,
shell:sendto

4. And then drag shortcuts to your preferred folders into this folder.

how to hide text in notepad | Trick To Hide Text

happy weekend
today's post is so simple and funny....
A Superb Trick To Hide Text In Notepad
Here is a small trick to hide text inside your windows default text editor i.e Notepad using command prompt, but this trick works only on NTFS file system.

Steps to hide text in a Notepad
1. Open your command prompt Start–>Run and Type cmd
2. Type cd.. to move to C:\> drive or Type cd desktop to move to your desktop.

3. Type the below code in your command prompt
notepad filename.txt:hidden
4. Write some data and save(Ctrl+S) the file.
5. Browse to the file location and Open filename.txt you cannot see any data in the file.
6. To retrieve the hidden data open command prompt and type the same command.
notepad filename.txt:hidden

Watch Cricket World Cup 2011 Live | online cricket match

Watch Cricket World Cup 2011 Live
IN INDIA CRICKET IS VERY POPULAR, AND IT IS MY FAVORITE GAME.

ICC Cricket World Cup 2011,starts on 19th Feb 2010. 14 countries are participating in ICC Cricket World Cup 2011. The Cricket World Cup 2011 final will be played on Apr 2 at Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai.

ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 Group A Teams – Australia, Sri Lanka, Zimbabwe,Pakistan, New Zealand,  Canada and Kenya.
ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 Group B Teams – India, England, Bangladesh, South Africa, West Indies, Netherlands and Ireland.

There are many websites from where you can watch world cup cricket live streaming online for free.Check the below lists of websites
Crictime.com One of the most trusted website to watch cricket online for free. Serves many live streaming for world cup 2011 matches.
http://www.ustream.tv/discovery/live/sports-cricket World cup cricket on the net
Justin.tv Search for the appropriate channel to watch ICC world cup 2011 live online for free.
Freedocast.com: You can search here for ICC world cup 2011 live matches online. There are number of live streaming channels available to watch world cup 2011 live online for free.
Webcric.com: Just like the above two websites, it provides many live streaming channels to watch world cup 2011 cricket matches online
enjoy cricket........

how to open blocked sites

every time in college, school and in organizations access denied message  appears when we open a blocked site.....
it really sucks!!!!
but every problem have a solution, so for this a solution is here....

1. Go to Google
2.Type transparent free proxy address free
3.Click on the transparent proxy fresh transparent proxy list
4.Look for a proxy address with port 8080
5.Now go to tools menu of internet explorer
6.Go to internet options
7.connections tab
8.click Activate use a proxy server for ur LAN options
9.Put that number that you found in the website with 8080 port and hit Ok
10.Again Ok Now open any websites.

The PlayStation Phone now comming soon

Sony PlayStation Phone: Release Date Update – March?

It's hard to believe that what we're looking at is real -- but we assure you, the picture above is in fact the PlayStation Phone you've long been waiting for.

the device you see is headed into the market soon, likely boasting Android 3.0 (aka Gingerbread), along with a custom Sony Marketplace which will allow you to purchase and download games designed for the new platform. The device snapped up top (and in our gallery below) is sporting a 1GHz Qualcomm MSM8655 (a chip similar to the one found in the G2, but 200MHz faster), 512MB of RAM, 1GB of ROM, and the screen is in the range of 3.7 to 4.1 inches. Looking almost identical to the mockup we hit you with this summer, the handset does indeed have a long touchpad in the center which is apparently multitouch, and you can see in the photos that it's still bearing those familiar PlayStation shoulder buttons. For Sony buffs, you'll be interested to know that there's no Memory Stick slot here, but there is support for microSD cards.

What’s odd is the fact in the engadget leak about this story there is little mention of Sony Ericsson, in fact none. But they didn’t need to say anything. This product is a result of Sony getting two major divisions to work together to create something, which has always been so difficult in the past.
In some ways, the PlayStation Phone almost seems like the successor to the PSP, otherwise known as the PSP 2. With so many differences between this and what we have now, this seems like the platform and hardware the PSP 2 will run on. So what kind of games could you expect on the PlayStation Phone? It’s hard to tell. PlayStation 2 quality? Higher?
I’ also have a feeling that Sony may play a phone and a non-phone and similar specs. Seems logical for maximum impact.

 

how to Delete friends in Facebook

Facebook is by far the best social networking website I have ever been on.
but some time we want to delete friends...

What should i do?

Simpe, Remove them from the friend list.


How do i delete them from my friends list?

Follow the Steps:
1 : Go to your friends wall
2: Scroll Down to Bottom
3: On the left hand side, just below the friends list
4: You will find the  link called Unfriend : (Check image in the left of this article)
5:Click on that & that friend will no longer remain a friend

what is alexa rank and how to improve alexa ranking

Alexa is a web company that collects data on websites and publishes the ranking of website...

Where do they get there data from?

They have several million users that use the Alexa toolbar. The toolbar sends data back to Alexa each time a user visits a website. Several million users sounds impressive which has led many to put a lot of credibility to the Alexa rankings, but is it really that credible? No its not. The several million users are
biased population.
They tend to be more technologically savvy than the average web user (only those who are technologically savvy will likely download and install the toolbar), so the Alexa results will be heavily biased toward the web site that the technologically savvy tend to visit. Also anyone with a website can install the toolbar (and get a few buddies to do the same thing) and visit their own website several times a day, just to inflate the Alexa ranking of their own website!

Increase Alexa Ranking

I’ve summarized the 6 strategies that I’ve discovered and applied to my own website to increase my Alexa ranking. Apply these strategies to your own website and see your ranking climb towards the top.

1.Download Alexa toolbar free use it every day to visit your own website. Alexa even gives you the ability to co-brand the toolbar with your own logo and give it away. You can download the toolbar here: http://pages.alexa.com/prod_serv/associatetoolbar.html

2. Encourage your website visitors to add their positive testimonials on Alexa’s detailed listings page for your website. This can be done by placing a link to the appropriate Alexa page on your website and asking visitors to “Click here to rate this website”.

3. Write your own site reviews on the top 100 rated Alexa sites and include your redirect URL. The top 500 domains, according to Alexa can be found at http://www.alexa.com/site/ds/top_500 When you write a review, be sure to use the redirection URL we discussed in number 2 above specifically for your website

4. Download the Alexa ranking button, traffic history graph, info links, and other traffic counters onto the page of your website that receives the most traffic.

5. Get listed on as many search engines as possible by placing a free listing in DMOZ. This is the largest human edited directory on the web and is co-branded among hundreds of thousands of sites. Be patient though, it often takes up to 5 months before you see your website listed after submission. Even though it takes longer than it should, you have little say in the matter because it’s so widely used across the Internet.

6. Write content related to webmasters. This is because most of the webmasters use Alexa toolbar. You may write and post articles related to SEO, webmaster tools. Webmasters always look for new tools and may revisit your website to gain access to the tools. Promote your articles on webmaster forums and social networking sites.

7. Write about Alexa and post in your blog. Bloggers love to know about different ways of increasing their Alexa rank. This may eventually increase traffic and your rank.