Monday, 12 September 2011

Simple Movie Searching Trick with Google

While this post is not anything other than just another simple google dork for advanced google users, it still will help a lot of net beginners to search movies using google.

The trick for searching movies is just another usage of directory browsing feature in many webservers. So our text would be something like below:

"index of /" "parent directory" "movie name"

Just replace the movie name with the name of your movie and you are good to go. Moreover, you can customize this dork to include extensions(such as .avi, .mkv). Just be creative and you'll find most of the movies to download just by using google. And for download, I use axel or sometimes FatRat under linux.

For example, check the first result in the following dork for sniper movie. Yeah it is simple and really works.

"index of /" "parent directory" inurl:movies "sniper" ".avi"



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Nixory - A Light Antispyware Tool

Nixory is a light and handy open source antispyware tool aimed at removing malicious tracking cookies. It currently supports Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and Internet Explorer and it runs on all major OS including Windows, Linux and MacOSx.

For more information and download, visit nixory sourceforge page.




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LinuxFoundation.org, Linux.com and their subdomains hacked

Linuxfoundation.org, linux.com and their subdomains have been compromised by the hackers and the linux foundation has taken all the related servers down for clean-up.

The index page of linuxfoundation.org and linux.com both state:

Linux Foundation infrastructure including LinuxFoundation.org, Linux.com, and their subdomains are down for maintenance due to a security breach that was discovered on September 8, 2011. The Linux Foundation made this decision in the interest of extreme caution and security best practices. We believe this breach was connected to the intrusion on kernel.org.

We are in the process of restoring services in a secure manner as quickly as possible. As with any intrusion and as a matter of caution, you should consider the passwords and SSH keys that you have used on these sites compromised. If you have reused these passwords on other sites, please change them immediately. We are currently auditing all systems and will update this statement when we have more information.

We apologize for the inconvenience. We are taking this matter seriously and appreciate your patience. The Linux Foundation infrastructure houses a variety of services and programs including Linux.com, Open Printing, Linux Mark, Linux Foundation events and others, but does not include the Linux kernel or its code repositories.

Please contact us at info@linuxfoundation.org with questions about this matter.

The Linux Foundation




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Monday, 5 September 2011

Solving MySQL Connection Error In Non-standard Bundles

For a standard MySQL installation from software repository, there won't be much problem in using MySQL for different connections however if you install some other bundles such as LAMPP, you are most likely to see an error Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' however the solution to this is as easy as making a symbolic link of MySQL socket.

In my case, I had LAMPP installed and the MySQL socket was in the folder /opt/lampp/var/mysql/mysql.sock and your might be different so first figure out the location of this MySQL socket and then just enter the following commands and you're done.

samar@Techgaun:~$ sudo mkdir /var/run/mysqld/
samar@Techgaun:~$ sudo ln -s /opt/lampp/var/mysql/mysql.sock /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock

That should work as a charm. I hope this helps :)


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Saturday, 3 September 2011

Javascript Linux Emulator

JS/Linux is a javascript linux emulator developed by Fabrice Bellard and I believe its a very creative concept. Anyway, check the javascript linux here. Isn't it fun to have linux in the browser :D




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Tuesday, 30 August 2011

XSS Vulnerability in Ladypopular.com

The popular girl's online game play site ladypopular.com suffers from a cross site scripting vulnerability. The GET parameter "error_message" is not properly sanitized and allows the injection of HTML and javascript code.

Check the vulnerable URL.


I've notified the ladypopular team about the vulnerability.



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Monday, 29 August 2011

More Multi-Tabbed Putty Tools

In the previous post, MTPuTTY(which was written in native win32 code) was introduced as the solution for multiple tabs in Putty. But there are few other solutions already for multiple tabs in PuTTY which I am introducing in this post.

Both the tools I am talking about require .NET framework 2.0 to function which was not the necessity of MTPuTTY.

The first one is PuTTY Connection Manager addon. PuTTY Connection Manager is a free PuTTY Client Add-on for Windows platforms which goal is to provide a solution for managing multiple PuTTY instances.


For more details and downloads, visit official site.

Another tool is PuTTYTabs which reads the Registry information of PuTTY and opens a new tab for each opened window by the user. The source code of PuttyTabs is also available for download.

For more details and downloads, visit official site.



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Putty with Tab using MT-Putty

If you are familiar with SSH, you've most likely used Putty for SSH logins, tunnelling, etc. One bad thing about putty is we need to open separate windows for each connection but TTY Plus has developed MTPuTTY as solution for this.

MTPuTTY (Multi-Tabbed PuTTY) is a small free utility enabling you to wrap unlimited number of PuTTY applications in one tabbed GUI interface. You are still continue using your favorite SSH client, but you are no longer messing around with PuTTY windows - each window will be opened in a separate tab. However, as of now, it is for only windows system.

Features:

All PuTTY features
Supports all PuTTY protocols - SSH, Telnet, Rlogin, Raw. Supports PuTTY session. You can control and change PuTTY command line parameters. You can run PuTTY configuration from within the program.

Automation
Can automatically login the remote servers and "type" your passwords. Can run any script after login. Can "type" a script in several PuTTY tabs simultaneously.

Easy to use
Clear tabbed user interface. Servers are grouped in a sidebar. Taskbar to quick access to basic program tasks. Any PuTTY tab can be detached and converted into a general PuTTY window.

Smart code
Native Win32 code - no need to have any libraries (like .NET, VB etc). Multithreaded automation tasks - freezing in one PuTTY tab will not freeze the other ones.

Download MTPuTTY


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