How to hide drives for your security & privacy ?

Hide Drives for security & Privacy This is a great trick you can play on your friends.
To disable the display of local or networked drives when you click My Computer.
1.Go to start->run.Type regedit.Now go to: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer
Now in the right pane create a new DWORD item and name it NoDrives (it is case sensitive).
Now modify it’s value and set it to 3FFFFFF (Hexadecimal) .
Now restart your computer. So, now when you click on My Computer, no drives will be shown(all gone…).
To enable display of drives in My Computer, simply delete this DWORD item that you created.
Again restart your computer.You can now see all the drives again.

How to Access Blocked Websites

This article suggests workarounds to help you unblock access to restricted websites at universities, school and offices.
Blocking access to undesirable Web sites has been a common government tactic but China, Iran, Saudi Arabia are believed to extend greater censorship over the net than any other country in the world.
Most of the blocked or blacklisted sites in Saudi Arabia are about sex, religion, women, health, politics and pop culture. They even block access to websites that sell swimming or bathing suits. In China, websites that talk about sex, Tibet or Democracy are blocked.
Social sites that are often blocked include Google News, Typepad, ebay, Blogger blogs, YouTube, Facebook, Bebo, Myspace, Orkut, MySpace, Pandora, Bebo, Photobucket, Yahoo! Messenger, AOL AIM, Flickr, last.fm, etc.
There are always legitimate reasons to bypass the internet filters and unblock websites. The following tricks will show how to access all websites at school, college, offices or at home.
1: To access blocked website, type the IP number instead of the URL in the browser address bar. However, if your blocking software maps the IP address to the web server (reverse DNS lookup), the website will still remain blocked.
2: Use a URL redirection service like tinyurl.com or snipurl.com. These domain forwarding services sometimes work as the address in the the url box remain the redirect url and do not change to the banned site.
3: Enter the URL in Google or Yahoo search and then visit the cached copy of the page. To retrieve the page more quickly from Google’s cache, click “Cached Text Only” while the browser is loading the page from cache.
4: There are anonymizer websites who will fetch the blocked web page from their servers and display them to you. As far as the service provider is concerned, you are viewing the page on the Anonymizer website and not the blocked site.
Example: www.hidemyass.com, www. myblack.com, www.120yearoldman.com etc
5: You can access blocked or restricted websites by using Yahoo Babelfish or Google Translate language tools as a proxy server. But you just have to invoke the Google translate service with the language pair like English to Hindi or English to some other languages.
6: Browse the internet via proxy server software. Example: Your freedom, ultrasurf

How you can protect against Cookies Hi-jacking & Stealing ?

Some days ago, a security researcher found a Microsoft’s latest security risk named cookies Hi-Jacking & Session Hi -Jacking which allows cookie stealing.

Microsoft is doing all it’s research to patch this vulnerability of internet explore. This bug is in all versions of internet explorer.

Cookies Hi – jacking and social engineering techniques are then used to trick users into dragging the contents of the rogue iframes to containers on the same page controlled by the attackers.
Microsoft’s Brandon LeBlanc say that the company is working on a patch. He also suggested to use  browser’s InPrivate Browsing feature.

The private browsing mode prevents access to cookie files already saved on the disk, but more importantly, it stores cookies for the active session in memory.

This means that a page crafted for cookies HI- jacking cannot access neither older cookies nor active ones, because there is no path to them.

How to Hide text behind images ? (Stegonography)

How to Hide text behind images  -  (Stegonography)

Step 1 Copy an image file to c: of your computer.
Step 2 Copy the text(which you want to hide) to clipboard, by writing it in notepad and selecting it, right clicking it, then copy.
Step 3 Open cmd, by going to Start — All Programs — Accessories — Command Prompt.
Step 4 In cmd type :
cd \
echo “your text to hide” >> “image.jpg”.
Step 5 Now right click on image.jpg — Open with — Notepad. You can see your hidden text at the end of your image file contents.