Having an SSH or Secure SHell to tunnel your traffic through is something we have talked about many times at Null Byte. As we know, it allows us to securely route and encrypt our traffic through a remote server, effectively anonymizing us and protecting our traffic from all fo ...more
Welcome to the second Null Byte in a series educating you on Social Engineering awareness and techniques. Today, I'm going to show you how a saavy Social Engineer would trick a friend into unknowingly surrendering their Facebook password. My intent is to warn and demonstrate h ...more
The purpose of this article is to discuss how you can change your Windows 7 logon screen. This post will explain how to require a user to enter a username and password by default like the classic version of Windows. I recommend advanced computer users carry out this task. It ...more
You're in a new city and you want to explore—what mobile app is best? If you want to know what club is hopping that night, use SceneTap. If you want to know if any friends are at a nearby get-together, use Foursquare. If you want to know what restaurant is best, try Yelp. But ...more
Firesheep caused quite a stir when it was released last October, giving both hackers and non-hackers instant access to people's account information when on a public Wi-Fi connection. When logged into an insecure website on the same network as someone with Firesheep, you're giv ...more
It's happened to the best of us—a drunk dial or text; a humiliating Tweet or incriminating photo uploaded to Facebook. Spirits are high, gestures are fearless… If only we could take it all back once the cold, sober morning light creeps through the blinds. Familiar scenario? N ...more
Google announced a lot of great feature updates this week! Most of them are content-related, and help you more easily find out what's going on in the overall Google+ community. Google+ Finally Available for Google Apps Users One of the most aggravating issues with Google+ si ...more
Big name individual hackers and hacker groups everywhere in the news are getting caught and thrown in jail. Everytime I see something like this happen, I won't lie, I get a little sad. Then I wonder, how are these guys getting caught? If a group like LulzSec, with all the fame ...more
There are over 250,000 apps in the Android Market, ranging from free productivity programs to a ridiculous $200 for a vuvuzela horn effect. But chances are you don't have the vuvuzela app on your Android smartphones right now, but you are likely to have one of the ten most pop ...more
Children under the age of 13 possess insight that can blow the minds of their elders, but not the wherewithal to make important life choices for themselves. This is exactly why there are strict rules against marketing cigarettes to them. In 2000, a law went into effect called ...more
Justin Bee outlines a method to update Facebook from your Google+ account without actually having to go download an extension. Basically you set up your Facebook account to receive your Google+ posts as email to your Facebook Wall. There's a limitation though - text will trunc ...more
If you already have your basic keyboard shortcuts under control—we're talking classics here, Control-C (copy for PC) or Command-C (copy for Mac)—it's time to load up your memory bank. There are endless shortcuts available (truly endless—since you can customize them yourself), ...more
Okay, stop me if you've heard this one. You have a document that you want your co-workers' advice on. You attach said document onto a mass email. The first reply comes back with an edited version of the document. You begin to make changes, but another email comes in, with yet ...more
This tutorial shows you how you can set up a non-premium server for playing Minecraft with your friends, without having to use Hamachi. Your users will all need a Minecraft account and a Google account to be able to login.
This past Sunday, a group called Gnosis launched a massive hacker attack on Gawker media, one of the web's most popular blog networks (Lifehacker, Gizmodo, Jezebel, io9, Jalopnik, Kotaku, Deadspin and Fleshbot). 1.3 million registered users' passwords were compromised, and 188 ...more
Thirty dollars a month may be a little steep for an unlimited data plan for iPad users. To cut down on your data usage, you can download the Offline Pages app to browse articles or blogs offline. InstaPaper is another account you can use as well, and both will cut down on your ...more
This video will guide you through the Evolution Setup Assistant, which can be downloaded at the Evolution website. This walkthrough will help you set up your mail account in Ubuntu's Evolution Mail program to access your Gmail account. Evolution provides integrated mail, addre ...more
Skype is definitely a revolutionary software for keeping in contact with your loved ones. It's a phone on the internet! What couldn't be good about that? If you are in Orlando, your spouse is at a conference in El Paso, your daughter’s at college in Raleigh, and your son is wo ...more
Looking for a guide on how to synchronize Microsoft Office Outlook with your Google Calendar account? It's easy! So easy, in fact, that this free home computing how-to can present a complete (and somewhat talky) overview of the process in just over a minute's time. For specifi ...more
The free version of tools is great and offers tons of useful features. The paid "suite" version is a great value too - it lets users collaborate, share updates, manage edits.......the list goes on. Great customer service via their Twitter account - @Celtx
YouTube is the latest craze to hit the web, allowing users to upload and distribute their own videos. YouTube now boasts more than 100 Million Video Views per day. In this screencast, we show you how to quickly and easily sign up for a YouTube account so you can start to uplo ...more
In this tutorial, we learn how to clear your World of Warcraft cache. First, you will go to your computer, then the local disk (C:), then users. From here, go to the public folder, then click on 'games', and then 'Word of Warcraft'. Once here, you will need to delete the 'cach ...more
Partitioning simply refers to the process of logically dividing the space on your Hard-disk into different drives. The methods shown in this video only apply to users of Windows Vista and Windows 7 operating systems. The first step involves using an inbuilt Windows Program ca ...more
In this video tutorial, viewers learn how to restore the desktop icons in Windows XP. Begin by right-clicking on the desktop and select Properties. Then click on the Desktop tab and click on the Customize Desktop button. In the General tab, under Desktop Icons, users are able ...more
In this video tutorial, viewers learn how to uninstall programs in a Mac computer. Normally, users would get rid of a program by dragging it into the trash bin. But that does not completely delete all the contents of the program. Users will need to download the application, Ap ...more
In this tutorial above, you'll be finding out how to quickly set up IMAP in order for it to run with your Gmail account. Now first thing is first, IMAP has nothing to do with apps or anything else that is Apple. What it stands for is Internet Message Access Protocol. And what ...more
Teach Excel demonstrates how to make an Excel dynamic named range across multiple rows. Highlight the cells that you want to include in your named range and give it a name. You can then use that name in formulas. But it's not a dynamic named range so it won't account for added ...more
The video shows users how to change the boot sequence in a computer with an older AMI (American Megatrends, Inc.) BIOS to boot from the CD/DVD drive. This is required, for instance, if you need to reinstall an operating system, or fix a corrupted windows installation by runnin ...more
By utilizing the click and drag features of Xara Xtreme, users can take shapes and duplicate them for quick work (ctrl K). Further by identifying them by colors and other subsets, users can add or delete with just a button push, or (use the add shapes, subtract shapes options. ...more
If you know anything about search engine optimization and online marketing then you know that having as many links going into your site from good sources is very important. And if you’re not really experienced at building links or SEO in general then you might not know the bes ...more
If you’re unfamiliar with League of Legends, you’re either not into PC gaming or you haven’t spent much time on the internet. Riot Games officially released League almost two years ago, and since then it’s become a huge hit. In fact, the Santa Monica based company recently ann ...more
This weekend, hackers broke into the servers of the popular shoe shopping site Zappos, giving them access to the personal information of 24 million Zappos customers. The user data taken included names, email addresses, billing and shipping addresses, phone numbers, the last fo ...more
Google Reader is ostensibly just an RSS aggregator, a tool that lets you catch up on your favorite blogs. How could Google have anticipated that getting rid of its social features could have angered so many people who were actually using it as their default social network, and ...more
Dropbox continues to make headlines with their recent programming blunder which left the accounts of its 25 million customers wide open during a four-hour time span. During the duration, anyone in the world could access any Dropbox profile by typing in any password. And seeing ...more
As I was listening to Apple's WWDC conference today, what ran through my mind the most is if there were ever a time to switch to the world of Apple computing now is it. Today's WWDC keynote presentation was chock-full of new and updated iOS mobile software—too much to cover in ...more
In many of my articles, I will refer to applications designed to empower Mac users to automate various tasks on their computer. One such application is called Hazel. Like smart folders, smart playlists, and smart albums found in Mac OS X and iPhoto, Hazel can automate the task ...more
Err, I'd say "inspired" is putting it lightly. A recent Google Profiles redesign reveals a new profile page that looks nearly identical to the current Facebook profile page. Launched back in 2007, Google Profiles is a centralized feature connected to Gmail accounts that allows ...more
On June 23, 2003, Linden labs created a free client program known as Second Life. This program allows users, or residents, to interact with each other in a virtual world by using avatars. Thanks to this program, residents are able to explore, socialize, and create and trade vi ...more
The term blog is a shorthand for web-log. It can be considered as a online and publically viewable diary of user generated content usually sorted by date. Creating a blog is simple if you follow the steps as described in this video. The procedure to do so can be outlined as b ...more
In this video we learn how to delete cookies from your hard drive. First, go to your start menu and then your computer. Next, open up your D drive and click on documents and settings. From here, click on what user you are and then click on the cookies box. Once this opens up y ...more
In this tutorial, we learn how to delete Security Tool from your computer. First, you will need to restart your computer. After this, go to your documents on your computer. Then, type in "Type C:/Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data". After this, delete the file w ...more
In order to make a card trick video, you will need the following: a YouTube account, Windows Movie Maker, Webcam Central, a computer, and your props. Open YouTube and sign into it. Open Windows Movie Maker. Open Webcam Central Open. Create an introduction. Capture video of th ...more
Want to sign up for a new WordPress account? This clip presents a complete overview of the process. Every version of WordPress brings with it new features, new functions and new ways of doing things. Fortunately, the very same technology that allows an open-source blog publish ...more
In this tutorial, we learn how to set up your AIM/AOL e-mail accounts in Outlook. First, go to Outlook and open up e-mail accounts through the tools menu. Now, add a IMAP serve, then add in your user information. After this, enter in your server information, and click the sett ...more
In this video tutorial, viewers learn how to open ports in Windows firewall. Begin by clicking on the Start menu, go to Control Panel and select Windows Firewall. In the Windows Firewall window, click on the Exceptions tab. Here, users are able to add, edit or delete exception ...more
In this video tutorial, viewers learn how to make their own backup program. Begin by clicking on the Start menu and open the Notepad program. Then type: @echo off robocopy [source] [destination]/e/eta exit. Now click on File and select Save As. Name the file with .bat and ...more
In this video tutorial, viewers learn how to replace their name on Facebook. Begin by going to the Facebook website and logging into your account. Then click on Settings, located at the top right corner of the page. Under the Name headline, click on Change. Now under First Nam ...more
From the article: Foursquare, one of the net’s hottest startups, got an unwanted message on June 20 from a white-hat hacker: it was leaking user data on a massive scale in plain violation of its privacy policy. The company asked the white hat, Jesper Andersen, to give it nin ...more
In this video tutorial, viewers learn how to setup Microsoft Outlook 2007. Begin by opening the Outlook Express 2007 program. Then click on Tools and select Account Settings. Under the Email tab, click on New. Now type in your name, email address and password. Then click on Ne ...more
In this video tutorial, viewers learn how to delete embarrassing searches in the Mozilla Firefox web browser. This task is very simple, fast and easy to do. Begin by opening Firefox. Then go to a search engine website such as Google, and type a word in the search box. When the ...more
MySpace gives users the ability to hide their friends list. This video walks you step by step through being able to view this list. First, go to the desired profile. You'll see the hidden friends list. Now, click on "Edit with notepad" and code will pop up on your notepad. Bec ...more
In this video tutorial, viewers learn how to create an event in Face-book. Begin by logging into your Face-book account and go to your profile page. Under your profile picture, select "Create Related Events" from the list of links. Now users are able to input all the informati ...more
Many YouTube users don't even notice that they have a profile picture on their account, and if that's the case, it's a boring unknown shadow avatar— a "blank" person. Are you a blank? Then hurry up and change your profile photo so the world can know who you are. Even if you a ...more
In this video, we learn how to enable the Windows default administrator account to appear at the log in screen. First, go to your "start" menu and type in "cmd". Right click "cmd" and click "run as administrator". Now click continue and type in "net user administrator /active: ...more
In this video tutorial, viewers learn how to sync contacts between a Mac and Windows mobile device. Users will need to download and install the program, Sync Mate 2. Begin by opening the program and connecting the device to the computer. Under Synchronization in Plug ins, chec ...more
In this video tutorial, viewers learn how to automatically play You Tube videos on My Space. Begin by going on the You Tube website and search for a video that you want. Then copy the embed code and paste it in a notepad document. There will be two URLs in the embed code in qu ...more
The bookmarklet tool lets you send Gmail messages with the click of a button so you don't have to visit your Gmail account. It's an application called GmailThis! From the developer's website, drag the GmailThis! link to the browser's toolbar. Then, if you are already logged in ...more
In this video tutorial, viewers learn how to reduce the noise of sent messages on Twitter. Begin by logging into your Twitter account. Then go to the website, Tweet Later. On the right side with all the listed options, select DM Opt-Out and follow the instructions provided on ...more
In this video tutorial, viewers learn how to secure a Mac Book Pro. Begin by opening the System Preferences and select Security under Personal. In the General tab, users are able to put on a password when the computer goes to sleep or screen-saver, disable automatic log in and ...more
In this Computers & Programming video tutorial you will learn how to establish a Remote Desktop connection in Windows XP. 1st you got to enable remote desktop. To do this go to start, right click on My Computer and click on properties. Then click on the remote tab and click on ...more