New Features in Nmap

In Fyodor’s talk at Blackhat he talked about the research he’s been doing, and the ways that research has helped him to improve Nmap with lot many enhancements. Let's have a look at the most interesting one.Abstract:One of Fyodor’s main focuses was improving Nmap’s speed through improvedefficiency. One of the best ways to do this is to allow for scans of fewerports, but this requires that you choose those ports carefully so as to miss aslittle as possible

Horrible flight from Delhi to Jaipur

As promised in http://twitter.com/rohit11/statuses/895182069 here is the report of my flight experience from Delhi to Jaipur.The day started nicely where my driver brought me from Connaught place to airport in flat 14 minutes. Though the roads were clear at 6 in the morning, but still 14 minutes is too less for this distance. It was fun.I reached airport, and after all the formalities and waiting we started boarding. The bus at the boarding gate took us to

Olympic opening ceremony fireworks were faked & a BSOD during performance

Its been reported that some of the Olympic opening ceremoney fireworks were faked.China is accused of faking it!!!! Why am I not surprised?????Source:http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/beijing/blog/fourth_place_medal/post/Some-Opening-Ceremony-fireworks-were-faked?urn=oly,99745If you watched the Opening Ceremony on Friday night, chances are you saidsomething like, "no way that's possible" at least once. It turns out you wereright.The faked fireworks were act

How to host a static website on Google AppEngine

Here's a quick HOWTO on setting up your static website on Google AppEngine.I promise to keep it very simple and easy to understand for my non-geeky friendsRegistering an application:Firstly register an application on Google AppEngine. It doesn’t matter what you call it, for this HOWTO lets name it mysamplesite.You’ll need a regular gmail account to do this, hope you already have that (if not shame on you ;)).Creating a local site and configuration file:Cre

Fun with Google spreadsheet

Many of you might have used Google docs and spreadsheet, but have you ever tried this "magic" trick ;)Ok, open up a spreadsheet and enter "Google" in the top left cell, and enter "Yahoo" in the cell below. Now select both the cells you created. Hold down the Ctrl key, and drag the bottom right corner of the selection downwards over the other cells. See the fun when you release the key/mouseA sample screenshotYou can try any combinations and have funTry com

The Company

Imagine a company with almost 20000 employees…… with 1 billion customers… created from scratch in less than 3 years… operating for just a few weeks1000s journalists are in town……to capture the scoop…successes and failuresWith more than 200 people…… to roll out the entire IT infrastructure of the “company”… to issue passport-grade badges to all 20000 “employees”… Then to manage the IT operations for 2 weeks… and then undo it all…Guess which company is this?

Force Gmail to Always Use Secure Connection

On 24th July 2008, Google rolled out an option which you can use to force your communication with Gmail server over secure channel (read HTTPS).If you go to the Settings and select "always use https", Gmail will automatically redirect to the secure version. Until now, you had to manually type https://mail.google.com/ in the address bar or bookmark the address.As per Google"If you sign in to Gmail via a non-secure Internet connection, like a publicwireless

Watch who is accessing your Gmail account

New feature from google allows you to monitor and control login activity. Now you can see from where all you (or someone else) logged in and which IPs are online at this moment You migh have accessed gmail from a cybercafe or a public internet terminal and forgot to log out. Now you can do a remote logout also.“With this information, I can quickly verify that all the Gmail activity was indeed mine,” a Gmail developer at the official Gmail blog writes.UPDAT