After the proof-of-concept extension for Google Chrome that steals user’s login details, it is time for Firefox to feel the heat from something similar. Mozilla has announced the a malicious add-on, called Mozilla Sniffer has been discovered. The add-on grabs the the login details and sends it to a remote location. Upon discovery, the plugin [...]

In a major blow to Google Chrome’s claim of being one of the safest browsers, a developer has come up with an extension that he says can steal login details of the user. Andreas Grech has developed an extension for Google Chrome which he says can steal login details of the user. After installing the [...]

Update: Bruce Perens, the creator of the Open Source Definition and co-founder of the Open Source Initiative, has told us that David Heinemeier Hansson, the creator of Ruby On Rails, forgot to renew the domain. So, it was not a hack just a domain expiration afterall. While we were looking at the Ruby On Rails [...]

Recently, many phishing scams have been spreading around in Twitter causing a trouble to a lot of users. These scams relies on one of the basic things behind Twitter – the use of URL shortening services as tweets are limited to 140 characters. By hiding behind these seemingly innocent shortened links, scammers have been passing [...]

With Twitter use exploding at an unimaginable rate, it has created a lot of problems not only with Twitter’s service but also with the users using the service. There has been numerous cases of phishing attacks on Twitter and user accounts getting hacked as a result of this. As tweets are limited to only 140 [...]

The Pwn2Own hacking competition, which is organized annually by TippingPoint Zero Day Initiative, is back again for its fourth year. This year, the total prize money has been increased to $100K. The competition will be at the CanSecWest security conference held in Vancouver, BC on March 24th 2010. If you successfully exploit a target you get [...]

Yes, it certainly seems like Apple is starting to ban iPhone jailbreakers from the iTune App Store. Coming just after the release of the iPhone OS 3.1.3 and subsequent jailbreak shortly afterwards, it seems that Apple has started cracking down on hackers who are responsible for jailbreaking the new iPhone OS.

The Australian Parliament website was attacked by what is believed to be a DDoS attack today. The attack comes two days after a hacking group called Anonymous threatened to attack the Australian government websites over the Australian government’s attempt to impose internet censorship.

We recently covered the hack of the Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) website. After the hack we at Digitizor decided to investigate the identity of the hacker. In this article, we are publishing some of our findings. The first thing we tried to do was track the hacker. Here is what we uncovered regarding the hacker:

Nmap 5.20 was released recently with some exciting changes. However, it is not yet available for Ubuntu. In this article, we will show you how you can compile and install Nmap 5.20 from the source code in Ubuntu. To install Nmap 5.20, simply follow the steps given below:

Nmap, arguably the best network scanning tools available today, got a new release – Nmap 5.20. This is the first stable Nmap release since Nmap 5.0, which was released in July 2009. The new release comes with a lot of new features; most significant among them being the addition of 342 new signatures and the [...]

KDE SC 4.4 RC 1 was released a few days back with a lot of new features. Now it is available for OpenSUSE. In this article, we are tell you how to install KDE SC 4.4 RC 1 in OpenSUSE 11.2. WARNING: THIS IS NOT A FINAL BUILD. SO IT IS RECCOMENDED THAT YOU DO [...]

getdeb has for a long time been a place from where debian users can get the .deb files of the latest softwares before it has been added to the official repository (which usually takes quite some time). Uptil a short while ago, to use softwares from getdeb, users had to go to the site and [...]

NOTE: THIS POST IS FOR JAUNTY NOT KARMIC. If you are using Ubuntu (or any of its variant), chances are you have thought why Grub looks so retro, with its black background and white text, while some other OS like Fedora can have a nice graphical Grub. In this article we show you how to [...]

Firefox is by far one of the best browsers available for Linux and is the prefered web browser of millions. However, if you use Firefox in KDE, you will notice that it sticks out from the rest of the KDE applications and look rather ugly. In this article, we show you how to make a [...]

CHM is a Microsoft Corp baby. This file format according to me is one of the best things to have happened to computing world. CHM file format facilitates archiving of millions of html files into onesingle file, including the images and all. Now, Linux boxes and mac boxes don`t have built-in support for handling CHM [...]

Last.FM has become a phenomena! And there would be very less people who would deny this. I myself is a last.fm fanatic, helps me stay up-to-date with current music trends and latest music from all over the world. Well, music podcasting ( for all budding bath singers ) is another thing that can be done [...]

You may have noticed that, the Firefox versions that ship for Linux, don`t have the ability to select the url in the address bar on single-click of a mouse, whereas this is set by default in Windows versions of Firefox. If, you feel this feature should be there in the linux version of firefox too, [...]

↑ Grab this Headline Animator DareGlobal DB108 is the router which I have been using, since my last Huwaei MT841 Router broke. Now, this temporary replacement which my ISP has done for me, has put me in a fix. The DB108 is one of the most crappy routers I have ever seen. Only one LAN [...]

Open the xorg.conf file in your favourite text editor. This file, xorg.conf lies in the /etc/X11 folder in most standard Linux installations. Then add the following lines at the end of the xorg.conf file:

The DiggBar enables you to Digg, read comments, find related content, and share stuff from any page on the Web. And it’s presented in a short URL format, making it easy to share in emails, on Twitter, and via other services. You can find the DiggBar on all outbound links from Digg.com. This means whenever [...]

The New Facebook design sends updates about what quizzes your friends play and how they perform right on your wall. These notifications show up even you do not want to see them. The Facebook Account Settings also doesn’t have any option for turning off these notifications. If you have many friends on Facebook then this [...]

This is a follow up to the post SQL Injection – An Introduction.  If you are new to this, I stongly suggest you read the introduction first. In this article we shall discuss how to fingerprint the common databases managenet system backend. This forms the first part of a successful SQL Injection attack as different [...]

The Google Image Search is great and it provides images which are very relevant to the keywords you are looking for. The Google image serch now has a new option which allows you to filter your image search results by particular colours. For eg. if you need pics of only black cars, so will you [...]