Microsoft Imagine cup 2009

Microsoft Imagine cup enables students to reveal their talents and encourage them in other activities like software design,quiz and other web development programs.

Imagine cup 2009 is to be held in Egypt and Bill gates the Chairman of Microsoft brings in developing students skills and thereby be innovative in other prospectus of IT fields.


The Imagine Cup encourages young people to apply their imagination, their passion and their creativity to technology innovations that can make a difference in the world – today. Now in its sixth year, the Imagine Cup has grown to be a truly global competition focused on finding solutions to real world issues.



Also Visit Imagine cup website for other learning resources like Microsoft technologies and develop your skills.


Imagine Cup finals to be held in Cairo by July 2009.


Visit:http://imaginecup.com

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Trivial File Transport Protocol - TFTP

TFTP is a file transport protocol and its name suggests it's something close to the FTP protocol (File Transfer Protocol)

TFTP isn't very popular because it's not really used on the Internet because of its limitations which we'll explore next.

The Protocol 

TFTP's main difference from FTP is the transport protocol it uses and the lack of any authentication mechanism. Where FTP uses the robust TCP protocol to establish connections and complete the file transfers, TFTP uses the UDP protocol which is unsecure and has no error checking built in to it (unless they have implemented some type of error checking in the program you are using to transfer files), this also explains why you are more likely to find TFTP in a LAN, rather than a WAN (Wide Area Network) or on the Internet.

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Coding errors that helped Hackers and Intruders

There has been some 25 software coding errors that helped the Cyber criminals helped them to have access the site and accounts to nearly 1.5 million security breaches.

The SANS Institute in Maryland said that in 2008, just two of the errors led to more than 1.5m web site security breaches.

The organizations, which helped making the list, include the US National Security Agency, the Department of Homeland Security, Microsoft, and Symantec published the document.

"The top 25 list gives developers a minimum set of coding errors that must be eradicated before software is used by customers," the BBC quoted Chris Wysopal, chief technology officer with Veracode.

SANS director, Mason Brown said: "There appears to be broad agreement on the programming errors. Now it is time to fix them. We need to make sure every programmer knows how to write code that is free of the top 25 errors."

While, most of the earlier advice focused on vulnerabilities that could have originated from programming errors, the 25 list examines the actual programming errors themselves.

The 25 Most Dangerous Programming Errors are:

CWE-116:Improper Encoding or Escaping of Output

CWE-89:Failure to Preserve SQL Query Structure

CWE-20:Improper Input Validation

CWE-79:Failure to Preserve Web Page Structure

CWE-78:Failure to Preserve OS Command Structure

CWE-319:Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information

CWE-352:Cross-Site Request Forgery

CWE-362:Race Condition

CWE-209:Error Message Information Leak

CWE-119:Failure to Constrain Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

CWE-642:External Control of Critical State Data

CWE-73:External Control of File Name or Path

CWE-665:Improper Initialization

CWE-426:Untrusted Search Path

CWE-94:Failure to Control Generation of Code

CWE-494:Download of Code Without Integrity Check

CWE-404:Improper Resource Shutdown or Release

CWE-682:Incorrect Calculation

CWE-285:Improper Access Control

CWE-327:Use of a Broken or Risky Cryptographic Algorithm

CWE-259:Hard-Coded Password

CWE-732:Insecure Permission Assignment for Critical Resource

CWE-330:Use of Insufficiently Random Values

CWE-250:Execution with Unnecessary Privileges

CWE-602:Client-Side Enforcement of Server-Side Security (ANI)

This List is produced by National Security Agency (NSA) and 30 other organisations to put forward the flaws.

Credit:Yahoo

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Macintosh Flurry Screensaver for windows

Here are some steps that you can make your system with Macintosh Screensaver

First download the theme from the link below

DOWNLOAD

Extract this zip file and copy the exe file named Flurry and paste inside directory.

C:\windows\system32

Then go to screen saver options by right click the desktop and there in the list you see Flurry and select and apply.

It's really cool....

Dudes dont forget to comment below!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Bypass Megaupload limitations

Method 1:

For Firefox Users:

•         Install the Greasemonkey extension for your firefox browser and then restart your browser – Link
•         Download the Megaupload Cookie Injection Script .

Opera Users

• Download the Megaupload Cookie Injection Script as same above.
  
• Make a directory somewhere for script so Opera can load it as userjs and move that file into the newly created directory (for example C:\OperaUserJS)
•  Now go to Tools -> Preferences -> Advanced Tab -> Content -> Javascript Options   and then adjust the Opera userjs directory accordingly as shown at below image for an example and done.

Now you can bypass the megaupload slot limitation for your country, you need to use a megaupload proxy if you use this.

 But as a side note, if you’re using UserJS and / or greasemonkey script i’d suggest you to take a look into the script source first because if you’re installing a script from some unknown source you’ll be in trouble later.

Winter Mute is the one who created this Script thereby that enables to download as much as you can and thereby enjoy using this...

Method 2:

There's another tutorial among others to trick MegaUpload..

For Firefox:

•     * First go to http://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/59/
•     * Click Install Now to install addon.
•     * Restart FF. Tool–>User Agent Switcher–>Options–>Options
•     * Click User Agents–>Add

Type this:

+ Description: MEGAUPLOAD
+ User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; Alexa Toolbar)

Click OK twice to finish adding User Agent.

From now, before downloading any file from MegaUpload, just go
Tools–>User Agent Switcher–>Megaupload

For Internet Explorer,Avant and other browsers..
Start>>Run>>Regedit>>OK

In Registry Editor window:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Mcft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Internet Settings\5.0\User Agent\Post Platform]

Right click Post Platform>>New>>String Value>>Type “Alexa Toolbar”

Restart PC. Done!

Note: For IE 7.0 the “Post Platform” will located at:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Mcft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\User Agent\Post Platform]

Method 3:
Changing internet settings (it should work 4 firefox and IE) here is how

• Find a mu link that u wanna download

• Paste this in your address bar (don't hit enter yet and x=random letters/numbers )   http://www.megadownload.net/download/mu

• You should see something like this on youre mu link (?d=xxxxxxxx)
  Copy the random/letters (where the xxxxxxxx are)

 www.megaupload.net/download/xxxxxxxx

remember x=random letters/numbers if done right you should b at mu downloading the file u wanted as free user with no d/l limits (don’t know how long this will work b4 they find out)

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Watch videos directly from Firefox3 cache

It's just simply amazing..

You gotta type about:cache in Firefox location bar

u will see Disk cache device under that Cache directory u will see a url where the firefox cache is located and just copy that url and paste in explorer location bar.

D:\Documents and Settings\students\Local Settings\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\sbfvuw5n.default\Cache

It will redirect to the cache and u can see a list of cache items located and locate your video and

save it to your desktop.

Now you have saved the you tube video right from your Firefox 3 cache rather than downloading it again.

You can watch the saved video while offline.

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Simple and easy to join! That also means it won't be easy to win that iPhone...

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The other contest applies only if you bought any Hitachi hard drives

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