[Technology] Counter attack to the Firesheep !!

The world of hack yesterday can be totally different from today's. Few days ago, the release of Firesheep, which is a hacking add-on for Firefox that able to steal other people's login information of facebook, twitter and etc makes those so called 'hackers' happy. But today, with the release of Fireshepherd, those 'hackers' are again unhappy.

The Fireshepherd was developed by an engineering student, Gunnar Atli Sigurdsson from the University of Iceland. The Fireshepherd is a small console program that can floods the network with packets that designed to crash the Firesheep program in the same network. However, malicious users can patch up the Firesheep's flaw that Fireshepherd exploited but the creator of Fireshepherd, Gunnar Atli Sigurdsson has vowed that he will fight Firesheep until the end.

Personal advise to you all, no matter what will happen between the Firesheep and Fireshepherd, just try to avoid from connecting to a public Wi-Fi access point. Remember that there is not only Firesheep, there are few more 'not so friendly' (do not have friendly GUI) packet sniffing programs actually can be used by hackers that able to capture other people's login information.

More information on Firesheep please refer to my previous post:
http://hengchuen.blogspot.com/2010/10/technology-public-wi-fi-destroyer.html

[Mystery] Time-traveler spotted in silent firm in 1928

It is not surprising when you see a modern building in a TVB drama while the drama's settings is actually few hundreds ago, right? How about this, a woman hold a hearing device (mobile phone) in a silent firm??

Do watch this video.




For more information, kindly view http://edition.cnn.com/2010/TECH/web/10/28/charlie.chaplin.circus.time.travel/index.html?npt=NP1

[Technology] Public Wi-fi Destroyer - The Firesheep

How often do you go to a coffee shop with a laptop along with you to have a taste of coffee? Will you login your facebook? or twitter or whatever that required you to enter your ID and password? Then, how secure do you think your information is?



Not really secure before October but it is much more dangerous after October. Yes, With the recent release of Firesheep, which an addon for firefox browser, it really enables a really NOOB computer user able to steal other people login information damn easily.



What the Firesheep do are just filtering packets that are not from port 80/8080 (HTTP), get the login information from the hexadecimal packet and create a GUI for users so the can get the login information of others in just a few clicks. What you really have to worry is that the program behind that actually executes the commands, the Wincpap ( or Unix Libraries). It will actually captures every single packet in the Wi-Fi network. However, the packets are basically unreadable by novices. But with the existence of Firesheep, the world of hack changed again.



For your information, the director of Firefox stated that his team will not do anything on the Firesheep since the Firesheep did not really exploit any vulnerabilities of their browser. So, it is totally on your own responsibilities to prevent your information from getting hijacked now.



After reading the post, will you still login your Facebook, Friendster or Twitter in a public Wi-Fi network in the future?

[Personal Sharing] I don't speak doesn't mean I'm stupid

" I don't speak doesn't mean I'm stupid " I believe that this is a very common quote among the Chinese.



The quote is simple to understand, but difficult to implement it in our life. This is especially important when you are interacting with someone.



When someone is speaking, the content may not be the 100% true and not that really important, you can choose to decline what he says and correct him or not. Yet, correcting other persons' mistake in a good manner is another story, which it is actually requires some skills in order to avoid conflict. Not declining guarantees peace between you and the speaker. If what he says is still acceptable, better don't decline it. You probably don't want to take risk even you are good in interacting with others.



However, if the false message, or so called "acceptable" message is important or the delivery of message to another person does really happens. You better decline it and correct them in a good manner with fact, not with your imagination or whatever. This is to avoid the spreading of false message.

[Lucky Draw Competition] Stand a chance to win the hot items in the town !!!

Stand a chance to win the hot items in the town !!

go http://www.facebook.com/CIMBMalaysia?v=app_127982550583310

1. Choose the 2 items you like the most (ex. IPHONE AND HTC DESIRE), next
2. Like the group, next
3. Enter your handphone number, next
4. Scroll down and there is a link beside 'Share link', copy the link and send to me via one of the methods mentioned below, I need the link.

example of the link: http://apps.facebook.com/cimbtoogoodtobetrue/receiving.php?h1=9520c593b732641359c84edbf0258755&h2=6b440cd1bcf3d16b57dc7d43901fcbcc&sid=xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Methods:
1. e-mail to hengchuen@live.com
2. send a message to www.facebook.com/hengchuen (recommended for facebook user)
3. message me in msn messenger if you will to add me as your friend in msn


Will only call you if you won the contest! Do not worry about spams.

You will have a chance of winning the 2 items you choose.