Showing posts with label Infosec Updates. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Infosec Updates. Show all posts

Tuesday, 15 December 2015

PS4 Jailbreaking Confirmed by Hackers on Twitter

Hackers has posted on social media that they have found the way to jailbreak the SONY PlayStation 4 (PS4). The hacker named "CTrut" confirmed on twitter.

This kernel exploit works PS4 till version 1.76

Friday, 2 August 2013

Protect your system from Hackers by closing open ports and remote connections on your computer

Is your system being monitored or controlled by somebody else in your absence?
 Here you can find the answer.

If I want to enter in your house mutely, i need to find out open doors or windows in your house which you left open because you were unaware of the existence of that door or forgot to close that door.
In the same way our computers also has doors called PORT which it uses to connect to other computer to access service like websites, torrents download,software update services, remote connection, etc. If we are accessing any kind of service or application that uses network connection, a PORT is used for every service and application.

Here is the list of common ports and associated services:
  • 20/21: File Transfer Protocol(FTP)
  • 22: Secure Shell(SSH)
  • 23:Telnet
  • 25: Simple Mail Transfer Protocol(SMTP)
  • 53: Domain Name System(DNS)
  • 80: Hyper Text Transfer Protocol(HTTP)
  • 110: Post Office Protocol(POP)
  • 143: Internet Message Access Protocol(IMAP)
  • 169: Simple Network Management Protocol(SNMP)
  • 443: Hyper Text Transfer Protocol Secure(HTTPS)

 Lets begin:
  1. Open Command Prompt
  2. Type command -> netstat -ano
  3. It will show all connections on your computer and all open ports.

  4. Proto is protocol used for connection, Established state means connected, Listening means ready to connect to other system.
  5. Now note down the PID of established connection.
  6. Open new command prompt window and type tasklist
  7. Now check that PID in this list, to find which application has created that process like svchost.exe, winlogon.exe, explorer.exe, iexplore.exe, etc
  8. Now if you find unknown service running or service with unusual name, it may be malware, but make sure it is not a system process by searching the name at Google.
  9. Now type command taskkil /PID 816 /f                           //at place of 816 use your PID
  10. Job done, yove have closed the port and connection.
Please Activate Firewall, to close all port and allow only known services to establish network connection.By default activating firewall will solve OPEN PORT issue in you system.

Always use Activated and Updated antivirus installed on your system. Avast Internet Security or Quick Heal Total Security package are my favorites.

Thursday, 1 August 2013

Monitor & Protect your children online from anywhere, block sites, gaming sites, unwanted application, restrict computer and internet use

In this post, I'll  show you how to protect our children from bad things over internet, game addiction, social networking addiction and unwanted applications.

How you can monitor the activities performed on your system anytime and from anywhere?
How to put timing and various restrictions on computer system?

There are large number of applications and spywares on internet, also some Security vendors has implemented parental control like Avast Internet Security, Quick Heal Total Security,etc. I recommend you Microsoft Windows Parental Control or Family safety as it allows to view the activity online, get detailed report any time, manage settings remotely, and many more features that are not provided by other vendors.


Follow steps to use Windows Family Safety/Parental Control in Windows 8 Offline
  1. Create a new user account in your system and select standard user account when asked for type of account. This account is for your children or account to be monitored or protected.
  2. Now go to User Accounts from Control Panel, and select manage another account.
  3. Select the Family safety at the bottom in blue font.
  4. Now select the account created or to be monitored.
  5. Now set Family safety on and Activty reporting on.
  6. Now click on Web filtering, select second option and then click web filtering level
  7. Now select Designed for children option and you can block downloading files by checking the block file downloads option at last.
  8. Now click on Allow and Block websites from lift side pane, here you can add websites of your choice to get blocked for that user.
  9. Now go back by click on User settings from left side pane to add more restrictions.
  10. Similarly you can add time restrictions and game restrictions and Application restrictions.Try it by yourself.
  11. Now you are monitoring that user account and your child indirectly, You can view the detailed report from your account by clicking on View activity report.
  12. From left side Pane you can select Websites visited ,File Downloads, Apps Used, Games played.
For online monitoring you need to have Microsoft account and download Windows Live Family Safety that is included in Windows Live Essential kit, to download click here

See, how to use at Microsoft's website from here