9 Suggestions which Apple gave to Samsung

Well, yeah i warmly accept that this time i am writing rubbish, but after looking at this, i cnt stop myself to blog it out.


Saturday, The Verge reported that Apple, in their usual arrogant way, felt they needed to tell Samsung how to design their devices. The list is quite humorous and completely outrageous.
Apple has told Samsung that, in order not to infringe on their design, Samsung should create a design with:

• Display screens that aren't centered on the front face and have substantial lateral borders.
• No front bezel at all.
• Non-horizontal speaker slots.
• Thick frames rather than a thin rim around the front surface.
• Profiles that aren't thin.
• Front surface that isn't black.
• Overall shape that isn't rectangular, or doesn't have rounded corner.
• Front surfaces with substantial adornment.
• Cluttered appearance.

 It must be however be noted that Apple's Ipad never followed a perfect tablet PC's design. In order to gain maximum profits, they made it all the simplest and ignored the actual path for making a Tablet.


Instead of improving their work, they are suggesting Samsung people. LOL. :D

9:30 AM by Shubham Mittal · 0

Google Graph Calculator : Use Google as a Graphics Calculator

Having learned a lot about Google's power with Google dorks, this time we came up with something cool which Google again offers and can be damn useful, specially to those who work on graphs etc a a lot. This is one of the latest Google's feature.


Yeah, u guessed it right. Its just about a simple query which you can hit to get a graphical output and that too mathematically.  


So here we go. 


The first demo case i am writing for Engineers [ as i studied with them and then eventually got my stream apart from those]. Lets write a simple Sin(x) function.


Simple Functions


x/2, (x/3)^2

 

Trignometric Functions 

sin(x)+1/2 sin(2x)+2/3 sin(3x) 

 

Sin(x), Cos(x), Tan(x)

Exponential Function


(exp(x)-exp(-x))/2

There are many other operations which can give you some appropriate output as per your requirement.


And the best part lies in the fact that "You can zoom in and out and pan across the plane to explore the function in more detail. You can also draw multiple functions by separating them with commas, "This feature covers an extensive range of single variable functions including trigonometric, exponential, logarithmic and their compositions, and is available in modern browsers".


You can also use Google Chart API Calculator developed by Jon Winstanley. Here is the link : http://www.jonwinstanley.com/charts/

11:49 PM by Shubham Mittal · 0

Safari, IE Go Down First At Hacking Contest Pwn2Own

Safari and Internet Explorer were successfully hacked on the first day at the annual Pwn2Own hacking contest in Vancouver, BC, reports "The Inquirer"(http://macte.ch/qu5pb).

"Safari goes down first at Pwn2Own!" tweeted Aaron Portnoy, manager of the security research team at Pwn2Own sponsor Tipping Point. Insecurity research company Vupen broke into the Safari browser, running on a fully patched version of Mac OS X, by successfully exploiting a zero-day flaw, says "The Inquirer."

The hack happened even though Apple issued a last-minute security patch for Safari. Apple is supposedly adding more focus on security for the upcoming Mac OS X Lion.

10:24 AM by Shubham Mittal · 0

Huntington Teams Up with FBI Cyber Crimes Expert to Host March 23 Webinar on Fraud Protection

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SOURCE Huntington Bancshares Incorporated

COLUMBUS, Ohio, March 10, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Corey Collins, an expert from the Federal Bureau of Investigation's (FBI) cyber crime and technical services unit, and Carla Wilson, aHuntington treasury management product manager, have teamed up to discuss "Protecting Your Company from Fraud" as part of a free one-hour webinar.  The live webinar, which will feature a question and answer period for attendees, will be held on Wednesday, March 23 at 12:30 p.m. ET.

The program will cover the risks that can be found inside and outside a company and ways businesses can prepare to detect and protect against fraud.  

"With three out of four companies reporting attempted or actual fraudulent activities, fraud prevention should be top of mind for all business owners," said Doug Hartsema, treasury management director for Huntington. "We're committed to working with our business customers to ensure they have the very latest tools and services to protect themselves against fraud, and ourMarch 23 webinar is just one way we're doing that."  

To register for the webinar, go to www.huntington.com/webinars.

10:16 AM by Shubham Mittal · 0

Major websites (gov,mil,edu) are Hacked and Up for Sale

The list includes (with original hacker's typos):


The "traffic" probably stands for the number of records within the DB tables.  The "goods" in this case are probably the needed information for the "Level of Control."  For "full site admin" – probably the credentials and the URL of site administrator interface.
The hacker is also selling info personally identifiable information (PII) from hacked sites, for $20 per 1K records:


 For example, here they want to sell a list of UConn staff:
 

In the screenshot below, the hacker tries to show proof of accessing the administrator interface for a major university:
 

The victims' vulnerabilities were probably obtained by SQL injection vulnerability automatic scanner and exploited in automatic manner, as the hacker published his methods in a post in some hacker forum – see screen shot and explanation:
 

In the screen shot above we can see IRC "chat" between the SQLi "master" = @evil which issues the scanning commands and the exploiting "x0wner" which performs the commands.  In this specific case @evil issues command for to x0wner to obtain DB tables names ("!tbls") from vulnerable link ("www.site.gr/athlete.php?id=...") x0wner reports its findings  - the tables "activities","admin",…

11:03 PM by Shubham Mittal · 0