Google was a GUY

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Watch: Amitabh Bachchan, Anil Kapoor, Vidya Balan in animated 'Mahabharat

Watch: Amitabh Bachchan, Anil Kapoor, Vidya Balan in animated 'Mahabharat

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Still a Black day for UBUNTU

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Black day out for Apple'

 Apple Inc.'s iOS 7 developer website attacked, can't rule out stolen data

The intrusion last Thursday marked a rare cyber attack on the U.S. company's network and comes at a time when third-party developers are testing their apps on Apple Inc.'s iOS 7 - a smartphone and tablet platform to be launched in the fall.
Apple's developer site also houses sensitive financial information, which is encrypted.
Apple said on Sunday that no customer information had been compromised, but was unable to rule out the possibility that some developers' names, mailing addresses, and email addresses may have been accessed.
An Apple spokesman said the website that was breached was not associated with any customer information.
It remained unclear how much, if any, data was compromised or who the attackers were. Apple would not comment on their identity.
"Sensitive personal information was encrypted and cannot be accessed. However, we have not been able to rule out the possibility that some developers' names, mailing addresses, and/or email addresses may have been accessed," Apple told developers on its website.
"To prevent a security threat like this from happening again, we're completely overhauling our developer systems, updating our server software, and rebuilding our entire database," Apple said in a statement, adding that the developer website will be up and running soon.
The company also told developers that their membership, if set to expire, has been extended and all third-party apps will remain on Apple's app store for the duration.

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Court bans Pervez Musharraf from polls for life

Court bans Pervez Musharraf from polls for life


ISLAMABAD: Pakistan's former military ruler Pervez Musharraf's plans to stage a political comeback were virtually sealed on Tuesday after the Peshawar high court banned him from contesting polls for life while another court remanded him in judicial custody till three days after the May 11 parliamentary polls.

The high court's ruling came on an appeal by the former president who had challenged the rejection of his nomination papers for the national assembly seat in the north-western hill-station of Chitral. "Since Musharraf had abrogated the Constitution twice, he could not be allowed to contest elections for either the National Assembly or Senate," the four-member bench, headed by chief justice of the high court justice Dost Muhammad Khan, said while dismissing his plea.

The 69-year old former military dictator returned to Pakistan from self-imposed exile on March 24 to head his All Pakistan Muslim League in the May 11 general elections. He had filed nomination papers from four constituencies, but his candidature was rejected in each of them. His appeals against dismissal of papers from other seats - Islamabad, Karachi and Kasur in Punjab - were rejected earlier.

Meanwhile, an anti-terrorism court (ATC) in the garrison city of Rawalpindi sent him to a two-week judicial remand in the Benazir Bhutto assassination case. The court fixed the next date of hearing on May 14, three days after the polls. Bhutto was killed in a deadly bomb and gun attack in December 2007 after addressing an election rally in Rawalpindi's Liaquat Bagh. The court had framed charges against Musharraf in the case in February 2011, and in August that year he was declared a proclaimed offender. The ex-army chief, already in judicial custody in the judges' detention case after imposing emergency in November 2007, was not produced in the court for security reasons.

The court gave permission to the Balochistan police to question Musharraf in the case relating to the killing of Baloch nationalist leader Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti. Bugti was killed in a military offensive in the mountainous Dera Bugti region in southwest in August 2006 when Musharraf was president and army chief.

Chaudhry Zulfiqar Ali, special prosecutor of Federal Investigation Agency ( FIA), told media after the hearing that Musharraf was not cooperating with the investigation team in the Benazir assassination case.

The Rise & Fall of the General 

# Promoted as army chief superceding three generals shortly before the Kargil conflict that he masterminded in 1999 

# Seized power in a bloodless coup in October '99 to become one of Pakistan's longest-serving rulers 

# Ordered storming of Islamabad's Red Mosque along with its adjacent seminary in 2007; Over 100 killed 

# Resigned in August 2008 & left Pakistan under the shadow of impeachment and lawyers' movement 

# Returned to Pakistan in March 2013 to contest general elections 

# Faces three criminal cases including treason for imposing emergency, arresting judges in 2007 

# Arrested after fleeing a local court as it cancelled his bail in April

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Gmail Notifier Password Secrets

Gmail Notifier Password Secrets

Gmail Notifier is the standalone systray plugin which notifies user about incoming mails in currently configured gmail account. Based on Internet Explorer version, Gmail Notifier uses different method to store the google account password. For IE version 7 or later, it uses 'Windows Credential Provider' for securely storing the password. Here are simple steps to recover the password...

Enumerate through all the stored password in 'Windows Credentail Provider' using CredEnumerate function. Select the entries which are associated with Google account by checking if TargetName begins with text 'Microsoft_WinInet_www.google.com:443' For each of these discovered Google accounts, decrypt the password using CryptUnprotectData function.

Here is the sample code illustrating this method.

Credits : Thanks to SapporoWorks for original work void DecryptGmailNotifierPassword() { DATA_BLOB DataIn; DATA_BLOB DataOut; DATA_BLOB OptionalEntropy; tmpSalt[37]; char *strSalt={"abe2869f-9b47-4cd9-a358-c22904dba7f7"}; char strURL[1024]; char strCredentials[1024]; char strUsername[1024]; char strPassword[1024];   //Create the entropy/salt required for decryption...   for(int i=0; i< 37; i++)     tmpSalt[i] = (short int)(strSalt[i] * 4);   OptionalEntropy.pbData = (BYTE *)&tmpSalt;   OptionalEntropy.cbData = 74;   DWORD Count;   PCREDENTIAL *Credential;   //Now enumerate all http stored credentials....   if(CredEnumerate(NULL,0,&Count,&Credential))   {      for(int i=0;i<Count;i++)      {         if( (Credential[i]->Type == 1) &&            _strnicmp(Credential[i]->TargetName, "Microsoft_WinInet_www.google.com", strlen("Microsoft_WinInet_www.google.com")) == 0 )         {            DataIn.pbData = (BYTE *)Credential[i]->CredentialBlob;            DataIn.cbData = Credential[i]->CredentialBlobSize;            if(CryptUnprotectData(&DataIn, NULL, &OptionalEntropy, NULL,NULL,0,&DataOut))            {               //Extract username & password from credentails (username:password)               sprintf_s(strCredentials, 1024, "%S", DataOut.pbData);               char *ptr = strchr(strCredentials, ':');               *ptr = '\0';               strcpy_s(strUsername, 1024, strCredentials);               ptr++;               strcpy_s(strPassword, 1024, ptr);               printf("Gmail Notifier Stored account details are, Username=%s, Password=%s", strUsername, strPassword);            }         }      } // End of FOR loop      CredFree(Credential);   } } //End of function

Gmail Notifier uses the 'Protected Storage' to store the Google account password for IE version below 7. Here are simple steps to recover such a password.

Use the 'Protected Storage' API functions to enumerate through the stored website entries. Select the entries which are associated with Google by checking if name contains text'www.google.com' Then read the credentials fot this account using PStore functions and parse them out.

This decryption method is clearly illustrated with code example at below location, 'Exposing the Secrets of Internet Explorer' Gmail notifier is no longer available as standalone application and its now integrated with GTalk.

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Coal scam: Left parties want Prime Minister to face Parliament

New Delhi: Left parties on Tuesday termed as "meaningless" the demand for Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's resignation over the coal allocation issue but asked him to face Parliament as he "owes an answer" to the country. CPI(M) also dubbed the disruption of Parliament as "match fixing" between BJP and Congress.

"Demanding resignation of the government is meaningless and it does not happen," CPI(M) leader Sitaram Yechury told reporters outside Parliament. "On the garb of PM's resignation demand, you are allowing the government a free hand to do what ever they want. This is one kind of match fixing between BJP and the Congress," he said.

"Parliament is not functioning, no debate is taking place and there no accountability. A match fixing is going on which is helping the government to avoid debate. We want the government to be accountable to Parliament," he said. CPI National Secretary D Raja said the Supreme Court has passed "really strong strictures" against the government on the working of the CBI while Forward Bloc Secretary G Deverajan said no other Prime Minister has faced such criticism from the apex court.

Deverajan said the Prime Minister owes an explanation as he was in-charge of the Coal ministry at the time of the scam.

However, both the leaders said the Left parties were not seeking Singh's resignation as they wanted to listen to the Prime Minister who should own moral responsibility for the developments. "The observations of the Supreme Court are strong. Now the Supreme Court observations show that what we were saying were right. Singh should own moral responsibility. Its not the Law Minister alone who is responsible. The Prime Minister should own up responsibility and face Parliament. Now the continuation of the Law Minister has become untenable," Raja said.

Deverajan said the Prime Minister owes an explanation as he was in-charge of the Coal ministry at the time of the scam. Yechury said, "Observations made by the SC have only vindicated what we are saying all along that the CBI is becoming a political arm of the government of the day and that is not in the interest of the country. We are for independent panel of advocates for CBI."

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