Archive for Security

How To Get Back Your Hacked Gmail/Orkut/Google Account!

This is my official reply to all mails/comments/scraps asking me how to get back hacked Gmail/Orkut/Google Account. Everyone should read this no matter how safe you think you are! As Google Account is a single account used across all Googles services like Gmail, Orkut, Blogger, Adsense, Continue reading

Multiple Yahoo Messenger Hack - Using Many Yahoo Accounts at once!

Long time back I published a simple hack using which you can run multiple Google Talk at once. Now thanks to Ankit, we have a way to run multiple Yahoo messenger at once. Check following screenshot where me and my friend Sameer signed into our (different) yahoo accounts at the same time! # Continue reading

Hide Complete Orkut Profile! [New Orkut Bug]

Important Update: This is fixed NOW. So I am closing comments for this post Long time back I wrote about hiding your profile name on orkut. Yes it was something to write about as by default you can not left your orkut profiles’ first and last name field empty. Now comes a simple bug which Continue reading

How To Deal With Your Duplicate Profile / Impersonation on Orkut!

This article is my best possible help for all orkut users, victim of some sort of impersonation. It will show you how to deal with your duplicate profile on Orkut. To start with, here is what Orkut’s Impersonation Notification says, “To file an impersonation claim, you must Continue reading

View Passwords Stored by Internet Explorer, Yahoo, Google Talk Messengers & Email Clients!

We are covering few small utilities by NirSoft which will expose lack of security in worlds top browser (as per stats) Internet Explorer, famous email client Outlook Express and my favorite GoogleTalk, Pidgin. In total four programs tested which are presented below. All these utilities are Continue reading

Check Who is Invisible/Online on Yahoo Messenger Status Hacks!

One of my Orkut friend Niharika Arora asked me on Orkut how to check if a person is online on yahoo messenger? I googled for sometime and here are my tested results… First let me tell you coolest thing about hacks in this tutorial. They do not require targeted yahoo user to be on your Continue reading

Another Blow To Orkut! A new bug for spammers…

Remember above image? Few weeks ago we published a bug in Orkut’s click tracking mechanism which let spammer send third party links bypassing image verification! Now for those who missed that… A new bug is found in Google Video search history feature! Now Whats a big deal you might Continue reading

Orkut Showing Last Login Info to Secure Users!

Orkut started showing information about last login on users orkuts home page! This is particularly good to save yourself from attackers who steals your login information but instead of deleting or making any changes to your account just monitors your private information. This is more serious Continue reading

New Orkut Bug Let Spammer Send Any Link Without Image Verification! (Orkut Loves SPAM)

Not so long back bugs in orkuts privacy features made their users scrapbook & album content accessible to everyone no matter what privacy settings they choose. Orkut team fixed those bug but unfortunately they have to cancel their holiday plan if any as a new bug in Orkut discovered which Continue reading

View Locked Orkut Album in Orkut Style!

Important Update: This hack is rectified by orkut. SO IT WILL NOT WORK ANYMORE. If I find a new hack I will definitely post it here! You may subscribe to my RSS feed or email alert to receive automatic updates regarding this and other hacks in future! (Jan 17, 2008) This is highly recommended Continue reading