Which Social Networking Sites Are Secure? – Top Social Networking Attacks

No wonder Facebook has to top in this List. Despite so much criticism from social media websites on the basis of privacy & Security issues, Facebook Stands First. One quality that makes Facebook “the most Secure social Networking Website” is its ability to diligently strive to become better and Secure.
ZoneAlarm, a Anti virus company has released a nice Infographics that depicts the Top Secure social Networking Websites and has Also compiled the “top Social Networking Attacks”, We have already covered Most of them in our “Facebook Virus” archive.
Also Read: Facebook virus “Koobface” spreading through facebook messages!

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Which Social Networking Sites Are Secure? – Top Social Networking Attacks

No wonder Facebook has to top in this List. Despite so much criticism from social media websites on the basis of privacy & Security issues, Facebook Stands First. One quality that makes Facebook “the most Secure social Networking Website” is its ability to diligently strive to become better and Secure.
ZoneAlarm, a Anti virus company has released a nice Infographics that depicts the Top Secure social Networking Websites and has Also compiled the “top Social Networking Attacks”, We have already covered Most of them in our “Facebook Virus” archive.
Also Read: Facebook virus “Koobface” spreading through facebook messages!

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"Using Google Apps engine"

This method is quite difficult but doesn’t require a “webhosting account” account. all you need to have is ‘Google account’.
Step 1. Download Python 2.6.4 from here and Install it. Google Apps engine requires “Python” to Run, which acts as a platform.
(Windows user’s click on “Windows x86 MSI installer(2.6.4)(sig)”)
Step 2. Once you install Python 2.6.4 on your PC, the next step is to download the “Google apps engine SDK” for python (URL):
Step 3. Now launch the “Google apps engine” that you just installed on your PC.
Step 4. This step is to Download “Python proxy Script” which you can load here. After downloading just extract it to “Desktop”.
Step 5. After doing step4 just Go to http://appengine.google.com and sign in with your Google account.
Step 6. Click on “Create an application”(verify your account) and give a name and title to your app and save it.
Step 7. Now go back to your “Google apps engine” that you launched in step3 and click on file >> Add existing application. Now in the pop-up box select the extracted “Python proxy Script” file that you just created in step4 and click “ADD”.
Step 8. After clicking “ADD”, select ‘your_app_id’ and Click on ‘Edit’ icon. In the Application field replace “your_app_id” with the name of your app that you saved in step6.
Step 9. After editing, close the Edit window and Click on “Diploy” icon. Now enter your Google account and click Ok.
Step 10. Now Go back to your web Browser and Enter your App URL for example mine is hacker9proxy.appspot.com. you should now see your proxy server.
Note: Keep your proxy site secret. Never tell your proxy URL to your Classmates or Colleagues because if admin of your organization comes to know about this, he will certainly block or restrict your proxy site.

I hope you are done with your proxy server. If Any doubts or difficulties, your comments are appreciated.

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Create your own Proxy Server site and Access Blocked Websites!

Proxy site allows you to access Blocked or restricted sites. Normally Schools, colleges and even some offices block or restrict certain websites for example “Social Networking” sites like facebook, twitter, etc. There are thousands of proxy sites available. But the one thing which is common in all the sites is that they also show you loads of advertisements, which is quite Frustrating. and also there is possibility that the admins form schools and offices might have already blocked some common proxy sites.

Our Proxy Site: Surf.hacker9.com

In this Tutorial am going to show you how you can create your own proxy server site and unlock all the restricted sites. we will see two methods. you can try whichever you feel easy to go with.
1. Using Glype proxy script (Free Proxy Project)
2. Using Google Apps engine (inbuilt project)
So lets start with Method #1 since it is easy and quick.

-Using Glype proxy script

This method requires you to have a “Webhosting account” (which is free and quite simple to register) and a “Glype proxy script” file.
note: The Problem with free hosting is that, as soon as they come to know that you are using Proxy Script, they will Ban you. so the Smart choice is to Get a Paid hosting account for 1 month, costs just $4/month ( $25 in Discount, for 1 year)
Step 1. Just download the Glype proxy script Zip file and don’t bother to unzip it.
Step 2. The next step is to Get a Web-hosing account with Subdomain.  In this tutorial i have used Doteasy Free Hosting.
Recommended: Hostgator WebHosting (20% off coupon code- Spring)
note: Do not use ‘proxy’ word in the subdomain while registering for free webhosting account, you will get banned. instead use your name.
Step 3. After your account gets Active, just Login to your “Control Panel” and Click on “File manager”. This will Show you the directories.

Step 4. Click Open “Public_html” Directory and then click “Upload” button.

Step 5. Now in the Archives(zip,tar) Section, browse and locate your downloaded glype-1.1.zip file and Click “Green Check Button” (See the Screen Snap)
Step 6. After Uploading Just visit your website in the new tab and You should now see your own Proxy site.
Step 7. Just type in any web address and
see if it works, that’s it.

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Do you download Free Softwares from UN-OFFICIAL websites?

I know you are pro in searching and downloading pirated software’s and am sure you are aware of the risk behind it. But what about Open source and Free software’s? Do you download them from any 3rd party websites or file sharing networks? ..well its time to be aware of the Risk.
Popular open-source software’s that are being downloaded by thousands of internet users everyday includes VLC media player, Google Chrome browser and others. Most people prefer downloading these from unofficial websites, because they feel its more complicated when downloading from Official Websites, Like in the case of downloading ‘Google chrome browser’ from official webpage, you are first required to download small downloader which will then download and install the chrome browser on your PC. But many other websites provide download link for the full “Google chrome” exe file and people prefer this way.

We all know that the main objective of open-source software developers, is to share the source code with everyone. Because they expect other developers to fix any bugs or add new features to it and make it more beautiful. But some time it gets abused.
Scammers are taking advantage of the availability of the source code to trick users and make money. The Scammers are adding malware and adware to these software’s and releasing them as the original product. Some deceptive sites are even re-branding the original open-source project and selling them as a new product.

Trusted Websites: brother-soft | cnet | sourceforge | filehippo

The Scammers are Binding “open-source sofwares” with various crapware to monetize the software with loads of advertisements and earn money. The result of this is a poor product that doesn’t work as intended, that can’t be uninstalled and that clearly abuses its users and their privacy. Recently there were reports that some websites are selling “Mozilla Firefox browser”, using the Mozilla trademarks to promote other products and services, or using modified versions of the Mozilla trademarks.

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