Goolag – GUI Tool for Google Hacking

Thursday, March 13th, 2008

cDc (Cult of the Dead Cow) recently released a GUI driven tool for Google Hacking called Goolag. Google Dorks have been around for several years and have been researched most assiduously by Johnny I Hack Stuff. If one searches the Web, one will find multiple collections of dorks, and also some applications ...

FTP Bug Leaves IE Users Vulnerable

Wednesday, March 12th, 2008

A flaw in the way Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser processes FTP commands could let attackers steal or erase data from a victim's FTP site. The bug, which affects users of IE 6 and the unsupported IE 5 browser, gives an attacker a way of hijacking the victim's FTP sessions. But a ...

YouTube Opens its APIs

Wednesday, March 12th, 2008

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - YouTube, Google Inc's popular video-sharing site, is giving away tools that let Web developers tap the underlying database functions of YouTube, in effect allowing users to build their own YouTubes. The Silicon Valley-based video-sharing site said on Wednesday that it is providing wholesale access to YouTube's extensive ...

Nortel to quadruple network speeds

Tuesday, March 11th, 2008

Nortel Networks said Tuesday that it has developed new optical networking gear that can quadruple the capacity on telecommunications networks. The new technology is designed to help network operators deal with bandwidth-gobbling applications like high-definition Internet video. Nortel, the largest supplier of telephony gear in North America, plans to announce Wednesday that ...

Hacking Backdoor in G-Archiver Found!

Tuesday, March 11th, 2008

A serious Gmail account hacking backdoor, has been found in the popular Gmail archiving software G-Archiver. This application, in all its innocence, allows you to download and backup all emails from your GMail account. But apparently the developer included the code to send an email to his email ID with ...