Tips to Protect Facebook Account from Crackers

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /> <div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://virscent.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/facebook-security.gif" style="color: #15527e; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="" class="alignright size-full wp-image-847" height="205" src="http://virscent.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/facebook-security.gif" style="border: 0px; display: inline; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; padding: 0px;" title="facebook-security" width="200" /></a>Facebook, the social networking website or we can say our virtual world. Most of the people live more in this virtual world than their real world. We share our photos, moods and thoughts with our friends. But with the increase in use of Facebook, hackers are also very active and they always try to hack innocent people’s facebook account.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;">Many people do not care about their Facebook account security. According to them, “There is no loss to me if my facebook account is hacked.” But they easily forget that they also have some of their private information. And if there is no private information, the account represents you. These are the people who never care about their account security and then request me to help in getting back their facebook account because some one is using it and doing abusive things.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;">Why should you always try to protect your account: Facebook is your <strong>online identity. </strong>If you account is hacked, you will have to face following problems:</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;">1. Now someone else is living your life in Facebook. All the abusive and criminals activities done by the cracker will represent you.<br /> 2. He will ruin your reputation.<br /> 3. Your private photos can be misused in porn industry.<br /> 4. Your personal data will be sold to the internet marketing firms<br /> 5. If you are a girl, then i do not think i have to explain the problem.<br /> <strong><br /> Myths about facebook hacking: </strong>Some people think that hackers have some nice hacking tools which easily grab their passwords. So they can not do any thing to protect their account. There is not a single percent truth in this. No tool exists which can grab your password. Yeah some hackers use facebook security services as a security bug to take over your facebook account. But facebook has given so many ways to recover facebook account. You are never going to lose your facebook account if you will follow all the security points which i am goinf to describe in this post.<br /> Most of the time hackers use phishing and keyloggers to hack facebook account. Protection against these attacks are easy.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;"><strong>Security settings for facebook:</strong></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;">1. Hide your primary Email account and phone number from your profile. This should only be visible to you. It should not be available to your friends too.<br /> To do this click on your name on the top navigation bar and go to your time line. Now click on About to open your profile info. Here scroll down to contact info and click on Edit. Here you will see some icons with a down arrow key in front of each info. click on drop down in front of emails to change it to “only me.”</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;">You must hide your email id and phone number and change the visibility to “only me” option.<br /> Hackers can use your email id and phone number to perform phising attack.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;">2. Go to “Account settings” and then Security tab. Turn on “Secure Browsing”. Click on Edit to enable the setting.<br /> Enable “login notifications.” This wil help you to know the unauthorize activity each time your account has been tried to access by you or someone else.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;">3. Add your phone number as a recovery option. This is the best way to recover the password.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;">4. Use a good Antivirus and internet security to protect system from keyloggers and trojans. Most of the internet security tools also warns against phishing page.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;">5. Regular update your browser and windows for latest patches. Updated browsers has inbuilt security tools which protects against malicious downloads and phishing links.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;">6. Avoid clicking on suspicious links and spams on Facebook. There are various type of scams running on the Facebook which attracts users by many offers.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;">7. For girls, avoid adding strange smart boys.. profile pics can be fake. And if added any, never reveal your personal information such as address, phone number, about family and some other which can cause a trouble for you. Because many fake boys started blackmailing girls by saying that they will mail chats to her father or post pics on public websites.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;">These are some facebook security tips which must follow in order to protect your facebook account.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;">Share the post if you like it.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;">Note: The term hacker has been used just for your easy understanding, the people who do such kind of hacking are not called hackers, there is a term known as crackers.</div></div>

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Android Application Development – Get Your System Ready – part 2 By Tajinder Kalsi | Published: September 4, 2012

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /> <div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;">In the <em><strong><a href="http://hack-a-thon.blogspot.in/2012/09/android-application-development-get.html" style="color: #15527e; text-decoration: none;" title="Android Application development - part 1">previous article</a></strong></em>, you had learnt about how to download and configure the <strong>Java JDK</strong> and the <strong>Android SDK</strong>. Now we will see how to setup <strong>Eclipse</strong>.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;">Talking of Eclipse, you would be having a zip file of Eclipse, which you must have download earlier. If not, visit <strong><a href="http://linkc.at/T0uk3K" style="color: #15527e; text-decoration: none;" title="Eclipse IDE">here </a></strong>to download <strong>Eclipse</strong>. Now, simply extract the contents of the file to a folder. After this your folder should be as shown in image.<br /> <a href="http://virscent.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/eclipse-ide.png" style="color: #15527e; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="" class="size-medium wp-image-821 aligncenter" height="257" src="http://virscent.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/eclipse-ide-300x257.png" style="border: 0px; display: block; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="eclipse-ide" width="300" /></a><br /> Now the last step is to <strong>install the ADT plugin for Eclipse</strong>.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;">- Run Eclipse from the folder, where you had extracted the zip file of Eclipse.<br /> - Go to Help -> Install new Software -> Click Add, in the top-right corner.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://virscent.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/eclipse-01.png" style="color: #15527e; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-822" height="226" src="http://virscent.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/eclipse-01-300x226.png" style="border: 0px; display: block; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="eclipse - 01" width="300" /></a><br /> - In the Add Repository dialog that appears, enter “ADT Plugin” for the Name and the following URL for the Location:<br /> <span style="color: red;"><em>https://dl-ssl.google.com/android/eclipse/</em></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://virscent.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/eclipse-02.png" style="color: #15527e; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-823" height="225" src="http://virscent.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/eclipse-02-300x225.png" style="border: 0px; display: block; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="eclipse - 02" width="300" /></a><br /> - Click OK.<br /> - In the Available Software dialog, select the check-box next to Developer Tools and click Next.<br /> - In the next window, you’ll see a list of the tools to be downloaded. Click Next. Read and accept the license agreements, then click Finish.<br /> <strong>Note</strong>: If you get a security warning saying that the authenticity or validity of the software can’t be established, click OK.<br /> - When the installation completes, restart Eclipse.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;">After restarting Eclipse click on Windows -> Preferences</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://virscent.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/eclipse-03.png" style="color: #15527e; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-824" height="225" src="http://virscent.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/eclipse-03-300x225.png" style="border: 0px; display: block; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="eclipse - 03" width="300" /></a><br /> - In the left side click on Android<br /> - Now in the top, it would be asking for the SDK Location. Simply browse to the folder, where you had installed/extracted the Android SDK – Click OK.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://virscent.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/eclipse-04.png" style="color: #3275a8;"><img alt="" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-825" height="300" src="http://virscent.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/eclipse-04-275x300.png" style="border: 0px; display: block; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="eclipse - 04" width="275" /></a><br /> - Now click “Apply” in bottom-right.<br /> - Once done, it should load a list of the available SDK platforms.<br /> - Click OK.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;"><strong>Congrats! Now your system is configured for Application Development in Android.</strong></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;">In the next article, we will learn how to develop our First Android Application.</div></div>

Android Android Application Development – Get Your System Ready – part 2 By Tajinder Kalsi | Published: September 4, 2012

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Android Application Development – Get your system ready

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /> <div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;">Hello Friends,</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;">From today onwards, I will be updating articles about <strong>Android Application Development</strong>. And here is the first of the series.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;">To begin with Application development in Android, you need to<strong> setup the Development Environment</strong> on your system accordingly.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;">So lets get the<strong> Nuts and Bolts for Application Development in Android</strong>.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;">1. Your system should have the <strong>Java JDK</strong> installed. <a href="http://linkc.at/ZHBPck" style="color: #15527e; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Java JDK">Click here</a> to get the latest version of the same.<br /> 2. Then Download the <strong>Android SDK</strong>. Get it from <a href="http://linkc.at/Ge04Sq" style="color: #15527e; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Android SDK">here</a>.<br /> 3. Now you need <strong>Eclipse</strong>. Eclipse is a  free and open-source IDE used for writing the application code. <a href="http://linkc.at/SSguCb" style="color: #15527e; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Eclipse IDE">Clic<span id="goog_875207933"></span><span id="goog_875207934"></span>k here</a> to get Eclipse for free. Prefer choosing the Classic version of Eclipse.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;">Once you are done with downloading all the above mentioned tools, let start with their configuration process.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;">Installing the Java JDK should not be tough for you, as you must have already worked on it earlier. Simply double-click the setup file and follow the on-screen process.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;">Once you have downloaded the Android SDK (it could be the<strong> installer or the compressed zip file</strong>), simply run the installer and follow the on-screen instructions, or extract the contents of the compressed zip file into a folder. After the completion of this step, you should be having a folder with contents as shown in the image.<a href="http://virscent.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/android-sdk1.png" style="color: #3275a8;"><img alt="" class="size-medium wp-image-813 aligncenter" height="257" src="http://virscent.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/android-sdk1-300x257.png" style="border: 0px; display: block; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="android-sdk" width="300" /></a></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;">The Android SDK separates tools, platforms, and other components into packages you can download using the<strong>Android SDK Manager</strong>. The original SDK package you’ve downloaded includes only the SDK Tools. To develop an Android app, you also need to download at least one Android platform and the latest SDK Platform-tools.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://virscent.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/android-sdk-manager.png" style="color: #15527e; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="" class="size-medium wp-image-812 aligncenter" height="221" src="http://virscent.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/android-sdk-manager-300x221.png" style="border: 0px; display: block; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="android-sdk-manager" width="300" /></a></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;">Next step is to configure the Eclipse software. Check here for the step-by-step process.</div></div>

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Taking Screenshots in Windows 8 is much easier

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /> <div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;">Windows 8 adds a much easier way to take screenshots. Instead of using the Print Screen and then pasting into any third party software ( Paint or any other). You can automatically save a screenshot to the Pictures folder as a .png by click couple of buttons.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://virscent.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Taking-Screenshots-in-Windows-8-is-much-easier.jpg" style="color: #15527e; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-835" height="168" src="http://virscent.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Taking-Screenshots-in-Windows-8-is-much-easier-300x168.jpg" style="border: 0px; display: block; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="300" /></a></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;">1. Set up the screen as whatever you want to take a screenshot of<br /> 2. Press WINDOWS KEY AND PRINT SCREEN at a time<br /> 3. You’ll find a new screenshot in Pictures folder in you Library</div></div>

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Play a Gmail Inspired Game

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /> <div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;">Did you know there is a free online game you can play that’s <a href="http://linkc.at/xZFlOK" style="color: #15527e; text-decoration: none;">inspired by Gmail</a>?</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;"><strong>“Galactic Inbox”</strong> was created by Paul Truong, a creative technologist “in part, as a ‘thank you’ to the Gmail team for their ongoing work to improve the webmail galaxy.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;">If you want to show the gTeam some love too, then hop on over and have a play!</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><strong><a href="http://linkc.at/mZu2Bn" style="color: #15527e; text-decoration: none;" target="blank">Click here to play!!</a></strong></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://virscent.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/gmail-themed-game.jpg" style="color: #3275a8;"><img alt="" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-840" height="317" src="http://virscent.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/gmail-themed-game.jpg" style="border: 0px; display: block; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="gmail-themed-game" width="508" /></a></div></div>

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