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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Living in denial is not how India should deal with China’s incursion

Living in denial is not how India should deal with China’s incursion

Any prospect of an early resolution of the stand-off in the high Himalayas between India and China may have been dashed by symptoms that suggest that the Chinese troops appear to be digging deeper into their trenches in the areas in Ladakh’s Depsang Valley, deep inside what India considers its territory.

The latest such provocation, in the form of a new tent that the Chinese troops have put up in Depsang Valley, puts paid to publicly articulated statements from Prime MinisterManmohan Singh that the tension was a “local issue” and would be resolved soon.  External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid too claimed that the  tension will likely have been resolved even before he leaves for Beijing to prepare for Chinese Premier Li Keqiang’s upcoming visit to India. Hope, as has been famously said, isn’t a strategy, and the Indian leaders’ pronouncements only accentuate the sense that they are in public denial.

According to media reports, however, the Chinese troops have put up five tents so far, which suggests that they – and the military leadership under whose orders the troops on the ground are acting  - are not making any effort to dial back the tension, and on the contrary are actively escalating it.

The Himalayas are no longer a high hurdle. Reuters

More provocatively, according to these reports, the Chinese troops are also waving banners establishing Chinese territorial rights to the area. “You are in (the) Chinese side,” proclaim these banners, which are evidently directed at the Indian troops that have set up camp nearby to keep watch on the Chinese soldiers.

The Indian government’s response to the crisis so far has been one of restraint in the face of public dares from the opposition to stand up for India’s territorial integrity. On Monday, Samajwadi Party leaderMulayam Singh Yadav, who served as Defence Minister, called the UPA government an assortment of colourful names to draw attention to its placidity in the face of the grave Chinese provocation. His characterisation of China – not Pakistan – as India’s real enemy may have been overly simplistic, and made with political calculations in mind.

Opposition leaders, of course, have the luxury of shooting off their mouths with blustery talk, without bearing any of the responsibility that comes with actual decision-making. And yet the perception that the UPA government has been less than robust in protecting national interests, and not just vis-a-vis China, is of course more widely shared.

Evidently, the Indian Army has provided the political leadership with a range of options that are  open to it if the Chinese don’t fold up their tents and leave anytime soon. Presumably these options would involve cutting off the supply lines to these troops, which would put a cap on the  number of days they can hold out here. More extreme options – of forcibly evicting the 30-or-so Chinese troops –  would also have been considered, perhaps as part of a scenario-building exercise to draw up contingency plans. But that would truly be the option of the last resort, given the very real risk of a heightened conflict that it comes with.

There’s very little percentage for the Indian side in being drawn by the nose into a border conflict with a much stronger China. After all, it was an adventurist ‘forward policy’  that Jawharlal Nehru embraced  that led to the 1962 war. At that time too, Nehru was at the receiving end of much pillorying in Parliament by the opposition for his government’s naive “bhai-bhai” approach to China despite ample evidence that that brotherly sentiment was not reciprocated. And although both countries have come a long way away from 1962, the irony of today’s situation is that it is the Chinese troops that are testing Indian resolve with their own unstated “forward policy’.

But having considered all of the options that the Army put on the table, the political leadership appears to have opted to go out of its way to signal to the Chinese that they are keen to avoid an escalation in the level of tension. Key interlocutors, including national security advisor Shivshankar Menon, who knows a thing or two about dealing with the Chinese and has invested much effort in building up goodwill in Beijing, are also counselling restraint.

There isn’t much to be said in favour of public posturing and drawing a line in the Himalayan heights from which one might soon have to scurry back. But there’s more than ample space for conveying to the Chinese side in private that the case for an early resolution of the border dispute – which Chinese President Xi Jinping said China is keen to see – isn’t exactly advanced by China inflaming public sentiment in India by changing the de facto arrangement that has been faithfully adhered to for decades now.

Perhaps this incursion was intended by the new Chinese leadership to signal Chinese frustration at the lack of progress in the talks on the border dispute despite years of negotiations.  If that is so, it reflects raw power, not sagacity, and is insensitive to the consideration that this brinkmanship game actually makes it harder for the Indian side to make any concession, even if it is on a reciprocal basis.

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Canvas 3D A115 at Rs 9,999

Micromax launches Canvas 3D A115 at Rs 9,999

 Micromax has launched its first smartphone with 3D screen, named Canvas 3D at Rs 9,999.

NEW DELHI: Indian smartphone maker Micromax has launched its first smartphone with 3D screen, named Canvas 3D. This device has been priced Rs 9,999 and does not require 3D glasses to view the content. According to the company, the technology required to convert standard images into 3D format has been embedded into this smartphone. 

The all-new Micromax Canvas 3D A115 boasts of a 5-inch display and runs on Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean). This dual-sim smartphone runs on a 1GHz dual-core processor and supports 32GB memory card for storage expansion. The company has not revealed the RAM and internal storage offered with this device. 

For imaging, the phone has a 5MP camera on the back, whereas a VGA unit is placed in the front. For connectivity, the new Canvas 3D has a features like Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.0 and microUSB. The 2,000mAh battery of this smartphone offers talk time of up to 4.5 hours. 

Currently, the only other smartphone with a 3D screen in India is LG Optimus 3D, priced at Rs 26,400. 

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Rupee trading at 54.23 against the dollar

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MUMBAI, APRIL 30:  

The rupee strengthened by 12 paise to 54.12 against the dollar in the first session of trading on fresh selling of the American currency by exporters, amid sustained foreign capital inflows.

However, the rupee declined to 54.25 amid mild capital outflows. At 12.50 p.m., the Indian currency was trading at 54.23 per dollar.

Despite the fall, the rupee is likely to trade positive on expectations of a repo rate cut by the Reserve Bank of India in its annual monetary policy review on May 3.

Today, the unit opened stronger at 54.17 per dollar at the Interbank Foreign Exchange market. Further, the dollar’s weakness against Asian currencies and a robust opening in the domestic equity market supported the local currency.

The BSE benchmark index Sensex rose over 200 points (up 1.08 per cent) to 19,597 in early trades.

The Indian unit had closed higher at 54.24 on Monday.

Call rates, G-Sec

The interbank call money rates were trading slightly higher at 7.60 per cent from their previous close of 7.55 per cent on Monday. Intra-day, it has moved in the 7.50 to 7.70 per cent range so far.

The benchmark 8.15 per cent government security, which matures in 2022, was trading slightly lower at Rs 102.44 from Rs 102.49. Yields remained flat at 7.76 per cent.

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Learn new Today --- Doxing

What is Doxing and How it is Done?

In the modern world, Internet has become a wonderful place to gain knowledge, exchange ideas, share information, make new friends and whatnot. Even though, you can do all of this by remaining anonymous behind your monitor, your real life identity and personal details can still be at the risk of falling into the hands of strangers. This is where the term “doxing” comes into play!

What is Doxing?

Doxing simply refers to the process of gathering or deducing other people’s information such as name, age, email, address, telephone number, photographs etc. using publicly available sources such as the Internet. In other words, doxing is the act of using the Internet to search for personal details about a person.

Doxing is done by initially taking a piece of information (such as “name” or “email address”) and keeping it as a base to find out other possible details about the person. The term “doxing” is derived from the word “document tracing” which means to retrieve documents about a particular person or company in order to learn more about them.

Doxing Techniques:

Today, Internet has grown to such a size that it contains almost any information that you’ve ever imagined! All you’ve to do is use the right techniques to search for what you want. Here is a list of doxing techniques that are most commonly used by Internet geeks and ethical hackers:

Using Google:

Google is undoubtedly a powerful tool that plays a key role in doxing. Since Google indexes almost anything on the Internet (sometimes even the private information), it is possible to dox for details such as email ID, address, phone numbers and photographs of a person or company. Once you obtain the search results for your query, carefully examine the description part which in most cases contain the piece of information that you are looking for.

Social Networking Websites:

As most Internet users are found to be active on social media, social networking sites such as Facebook and LinkedIn provide a virtual goldmine of information necessary to perform doxing. As most users are unaware of online security issues, they have weak privacy settings on their profile. This makes it easy for the attackers to gain access to personal information such as photographs, real names, location, job, partner’s name etc.

Reverse Cell Phone LookUp:

A “Reverse Cell Phone Lookup” is simply a process of finding someone’s personal details such as name, age, address and related information by using their cell phone number and vice versa. There are many online services out there such as cell phone registry that provide access to the personal details about a given person based on his/her phone, name and email ID.

Whois Searches:

If a person or company has a website (or domain name) associated with them, you can easily perform a “whois search” for their website to obtain personal details such as full name, address, email and phone number. Just visit whois.domaintools.com and enter the domain name for which you want to perform a whois search. It will show up all the details associated with the domain name.

Why Would Anyone Want to Perform Doxing?

Most people perform doxing out of general curiosity about a person or company. However, there are some wicked minds out there who do this for the purpose of blackmailing or taking revenge by exposing the information that they have gathered about the person.

What are the Consequences of Doxing?

It can be slightly irritating and embarrassing when private data fall in the hands of people who are not intended to have access to such information. However, things can go even worse if the doxed information such as a person’s social activities, medical history, sexual preference and other vital bits of information is made public. This can have a serious threat to health, livelihood or relationship of the victim.

Steps to Protect Yourself from Doxing:

The following are some of the most commonly targeted pieces of information that can be easily obtained through doxing:

• Full name
• Age, gender and date of birth
• Location and place of birth
• Email addresses and username
• Phone number
• Social networking profiles, websites and blogs

So, it is always a good practice to keep the above bits of information hidden. Even though it is not possible to do this in all cases, you can still take care to protect as much information as you can from going public. You can consider the following additional tips for further protection:

1. Do not upload personal photographs on web albums such as “Picasa”. Even if you do, make sure that your album is hidden from public and search engines.
2. If you do not intend to show up your profile on search engines, it is a wise choice to make all the Internet profiles private.
3. Maximize the privacy settings of your social network profiles. Make sure that your individual albums and photographs have their privacy settings configured.
4. Do not use the same email address for all you accounts. Instead, create separate email IDs for individual activities such as gaming, forum participation, banking accounts etc.

Is Doxing a Crime?

Doxing is definitely not a crime when used within the ethical standards and no harm is being caused to anyone. However, if doxing is done to cause intentional damage such as harassment, blackmailing or taking revenge it might well be considered an offence
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