steganography apps for mobile devices( which are freeee..)

Secrets can be embedded within photo and audio files by replacing the least essential code with bits of the hidden data. Developers have come up with a wealth of applications that can do this work from mobile devices and many of them are free..


Concealment: From Lakeside Llama this iOS app lets you take a picture and hide a secret message inside of the image (up to three hidden images). These images can then be stored in the in-app photo library, the device  photo library, iMessage (iOS 5) or be emailed directly to whomever one is sending the message to, the company says.

      

Hide It In: Hide It In is an app that hides an image taken with your iPhone camera into another seemingly innocuous image from your photo library that can be sent by email. Select the cover image and take a picture with your phone.  Developed by Jorge Blasco, Hide It In features among other things, AES encryption to ensure that even if the presence of a secret message is suspected, only password holders will be able to recover the hidden image .











Acoustic Picture Transmitter: According to developer Dominik Siebold, this app lets you transmit and receive images acoustically. To do this each column of the selected message gets transformed by a Fast Fourier Transform and outputted through iPhones speaker. On the receiving iOS-device the received audio is visualized by a spectrogram and the incoming images become visible. You can use this app for example to transmit images very easily over a phone or to put images in every kind of audio recording.




These are few but they are many more...there are the top 3 by user ratings...

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c stuff

we are all fond of c as a programmer .....
we loved it......
i hope all you people watched the movie "matrix"...
here is a c program which displays like a matrix type fall of letters.....
try it...modify it....enjoy it......

falling letters like in the movie matrix

#include
#include
#include
#include

void main()
{
char c,d;
int i,j;
char a[15]={' ','A','D',' ','I','T','Y',' ','A',' ','A','D',' ','I','
'};//here characters are taken as my name
//u can change it to any other characters as yr own name
char far* p;
p=(char far*)0xb0008000;// vga memory address

clrscr();

randomize();
while(!kbhit())
{
delay(0);
for(i=0;i<160;i=i+6)
{
for(int j=0;j<50;j++)
{ *(p+160*j+i+1)=2;
*(p+160*j+i)=a[random(15)];

delay(0);
}
delay(0);
}
delay(200);

for(int k=0;k<10;k++)
{
for(i=0;i<160;i+=6)
{
for(j=0;j<25;j++)
{ c=*(p+160*j+i);
d=*(p+160*(j+1)+i);
*(p+160*(j+1)+i)=c;
c=d;
}
delay(0);
*(p+i)=c;
}
delay(0);
}

}
}

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5 The Best Domain registers

A domain name is the magic that turns a raw IP address like 203.153.32.34 into a human-friendly chunk of text like techiedas.com. Here's a look at five of the most popular domain name registrars that help you register and manage your domains.

Namecheap (1 Year Registration: $9.98)

            Domain registration at Namecheap is economical, as their name implies, but Namecheap hasn't built a name for itself just by offering the absolute cheapest deals in town. Namecheap's reputation rests on fantastic customer service and value-added packages. You get solid customer service, free email and URL forwarding, free and customizable domain parking, free domain transfers, dynamic DNS services if you want to redirect a domain to your home server, and more. You can jump right to their pricing schedule here or read more about their free features here.

1&1 (1 Year Registration: $4.99)

       All 1&1 domain registrations include a simple five-page starter website (consider it a "super" domain parking package), an email account with 2GB of storage, and free private domain registration to shield your personal information. 1&1 also offers free domain transfer. You can view their price schedule here or read more about their domain packages here.

Go Daddy (1 Year Registration: $11.99)

          Go Daddy has built a customer base by offering cheap package deals (combining domain registration and web hosting) as well as frequent specials on domain registration. Go Daddy registrations include what amounts to a free mini-hosting plan. You get a five-page web site based on one of their templates, a photo album, blogging tools, and an email account with 1GB of storage. Although Go Daddy doesn't offer free private registration, if you register five or more domains, it's free for all of them. You can read more about their pricing schedule and extras here.

Name (1 Year Registration: $9.99)

             Name.com goes beyond simple domain name searches and offers alternative suggestions including domain names that are currently held but up for auction. While the majority of us are looking to register domains cheaply and quickly, it's good to know that the domain other services would simply flag as "Unavailable" is actually up for auction. Name.com also has a service called Domain Grabber. If you really want a domain but it's unavailable, you can pay Name.com (typically between $20-50) to pounce on the domain should it become available. If simple domain registration is all you need, however, you can read more about their pricing schedule here.

Gandi (1 Year Registration: €12/$16.85)

             Gandi's mission as a registrar and host is to offer clean, simple, no bullshit service. Every registration includes two free SiteMaker pages, one free DotClear2 blog, private domain registration, a free 1-year SSL certificate, and a personal email. If you manage a large number of domains, Gandi also offers a user-friendly dashboard with tag-based organization and search. You can read more about their price schedule here and free features here.

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How to know whether your LinkedIn password is hacked

So here’s how to check if your LinkedIn password was among the hacked accounts that are already being used to generate phishing attacks. Go to LastPass.com/linkedin:

Enter your password, and the website will tell you whether or not your password is now out in the wild. The obvious question: is it safe to give LastPass your password?

Here’s what the company says about their tool:

"Only the hash of your password will be sent to LastPass.com’s servers, not your actual password. This hash will not be stored or logged at all. Please view source the page if you’re technically inclined."

One caveat: because the search will look through all the passwords in the file, if you have a very common word or password, it will come up as compromised. For example, here’s what LastPass shows when the all-too-common password “password” is entered:

This does not mean your account is compromised, necessarily. It does mean your password is too common and should be changed. Ultimately, of course, we should all be smarter about passwords and use a tool like LastPass or 1Password to make sure we have complex and unique passwords for every single service and site we use.

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LinkedIn breached: 6.5 million passwords compromised

Attention LinkedIn users, your privacy has been breached. Millions of internet users can now see your password posted online. We request you not to be under false pretenses that you are safe from this epidemic. LinkedIn has already confirmed this news and has stated that passwords that are reset will now be stored in a salted format, which technically means that passwords are in an encrypted format AND adjoined with a random bunch of characters to make the password-cracking process a pain-in-the-neck for the hacker.

According to Imperva:

The passwords weren't properly protected.  The hashes, in geek speak, were unsalted sha1 hashes.  Not salting is a bad practice that we detailed in last month’s report on the Military singles breach.   Salting, in layman’s terms, complicates the process of a hacker cracking a password.  Not only do you encrypt the password, but append it with a random string of characters so even if those passwords are revealed, they look like gobbledygook.

LinkedIn was probably breached but the password database doesn’t indicate this specifically.  Many of the passwords contained a high volume of the word, or a variation of the word, “linkedin”.  This indicates that the pool of passwords comes from LinkedIn, though the hacker hasn’t specifically made such a connection.  The password set shows:

• 13 passwords contained “linkedin”
• 509 passwords contained “linked”
• 1134 passwords contained “link”

Imperva suggest that the list of the security breach could be much larger than the already whooping number of 6.5 million. They have provided two reasons for their theory:

1. The list doesn't have any easy passwords such as 123456 (which is the most used password in the history of passwords) included.

2. All passwords are listed only once, leaving us to a guessing game wondering how many times was a certain password used.

After this massacre, SophosLabs geniuses did a little research of their own, testing which passwords were commonly used among the 6.5 million users and should never be used by anyone. Their study suggested that only 2 passwords of the 6.5 million passwords were unique and not used by anyone else. "mypc123" and "ihavenopass" are the lucky winners of the day. Unfortunately, these, too, were cracked and exploited.

click here to know if your password is compromised

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How to use the Nokia Mobile Phone as Modem to connect to Internet from your PC

It is very easy to use your Nokia Mobile (Internet enable phone) as modem to connect to internet, not only easy more beneficial because mobile internet plans are very low when compared to any other broadband connects. Here is the simple guide to use Nokia Mobile phone as Modem

Things required before getting started with this guide :

Nokia mobile is used as a modem to connect your laptop, Computer or netbook to Internet. In this case I’m using Nokia 5235 which got better modem support than many other Nokia mobile models.

1. Nokia mobile with GPRS or 3G transfer support (Based on handset and network provider).

2. Nokia DKE2 Cable (Data transfer cable based on your Nokia mobile is required).

3. An USB Port to connect Nokia mobile.

4. Nokia Ovi  suite, download it for free from Official Nokia Site (Based on your mobile model).

Make sure that you got all these things, if any one of these is missed or PC suite for your phone is not available please don’t proceed to the further steps. Its difficult to manage without any of them.

Simple Procedure in few steps

Follow these steps to connect to Internet using Nokia mobile

Step 1 : Install Nokia Ovi suite software on your PC and please do not connect mobile while installation is in process.

Step 2 : After installation is finished, connect Nokia mobile using USB connectivity cable or connect via Bluetooth in case of laptop or notepad.

Step 3 : On screen connection guide will be displayed and choose Ovi Suite from that options.

Step 4 : Wait for few seconds, as all required drivers will be automatically installed.

Step 5 : Now, open Nokia Ovi Suite and start up screen will be displayed.

Step 6 : Click on Tools then Options, Select Connect to Internet here choose the particular fields like Country and network provider  then Press Ok button.

Step 7 : Connection will automatically established otherwise enter the manual settings by contacting your operator.(these two steps(6&7) are for the first time only from second time onwards whenever you are connecting your device to computer via USB or Bluetooth Ovi suite will automatically open by just clicking on Connect Now you can enjoy).

Step 8 : Now  its all Over. You can enjoy the Internet  from your mobile.

Step 9 :If you want to disconnect simply click disconnect.

Manual setting of the operators are available in my previous post you can get from there

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