Consider the following situation. You are at your friend's place with your laptop and you want to access your home computer to do something. May be you want to start a download or you want to run a program right away. What would you do in this situation? Will you go all the way to … Continue reading What Is SSH?
Category: Security
Decrypting Cryptography
What's the first thing that came to your mind when you read the title? How do you perceive the term 'cryptography'? It has something to do with secrecy and hiding right! Anyway, cryptography is the art of protecting information by transforming it into an unreadable format. Only the people who have the secret key can … Continue reading Decrypting Cryptography
The Art Of Password Cracking
The elusive art of password-cracking has enticed many a mortal! Everyone has, at one point or the other, contemplated cracking someone's password to get access to their private information. Whenever people hear the term 'hacking', the first thing that comes to their mind is 'cracking passwords'. A lot of people think that password-cracking is the … Continue reading The Art Of Password Cracking
The Computer Infections
Do you remember getting incensed because something slowed down your computer? You don't remember what you did, but your computer is now slow, buggy and some of the things are not working the way they are supposed to. Sounds familiar? A layman would say "your computer has been infected with a virus". Is that right? … Continue reading The Computer Infections
Hack Me Once, Shame On You. Hack Me Twice, Shame On Me.
We hear the word 'hacking' all the time. Most people think that hacking is something smart, cool and wrong. But what exactly is hacking? Is it just smart coders breaking into websites? The hacking culture is great and it inspires creativity, but why limit it to just a few people? People actually do it everyday … Continue reading Hack Me Once, Shame On You. Hack Me Twice, Shame On Me.
The Linkedin Debacle
If you are following tech news, you might very well be aware of the fact that there was a security leak in Linkedin recently. A Russian hacker leaked around 6.5 million Linkedin passwords along with 1.5 million passwords from a dating website (possibly eHarmony) to get the total to around 8 million. If you haven't … Continue reading The Linkedin Debacle
Exposing The SSL Encryption
In my previous blog post, I couldn't discuss much about SSL encryption. I didn't want to deviate from the main topic. So here, I discuss about the loopholes in the protocol. I have tried to simplify it as much as possible. SSL stands for Secure Sockets Layer and it is a protocol for secure communication … Continue reading Exposing The SSL Encryption
Deconstructing The Geek Talk In The Movie ‘The Social Network’
Recently, I was watching a random Youtube video and I stumbled across a video which showed a scene from the movie 'The Social Network'. This is a conversation between Mark Zuckerberg and Eduardo Saverin. In this scene, Zuck is interviewing candidates for the internship job in California for his company. It goes something like this: … Continue reading Deconstructing The Geek Talk In The Movie ‘The Social Network’
Perpetual Enigma 