BACKTRACK- “Hack this World with Your --(Intelligence)--”

   “If you want to learn Hacking then Backtrack should be your first choice”

Backtrack is an operating system based on Linux Distribution. This OS is used for Penetration testing purposes in the network. Its a latest technology used for security purposes in Industry. As it is a free and open source OS, you can easily view the source code of the penetration tools which are present in this OS.

Backtrack 5 R1 is the latest version of this operating system in market, with code-name “Revolution and its Revision”. Backtrack is a penetration testing and security auditing platform which provides advance tools to identify, detect and exploit any network or vulnerabilities.

This operating system is created by merging three different live Linux penetration testing distribution -IWHAX, WHOPPIX, and Auditor. Its current version is based on Ubuntu Linux Distribution.

Purpose of Backtrack Operating System:

This operating system contains a number of tools that can be use for penetration testing process.

Some of you are thinking about actually, “what is penetration testing?”. Penetration testing is often a confused term. So don't panic about this term.

Penetration testing is totally depend on human intelligence. In this you have to be think that by which tools you can secure or exploit networks. You can test for vulnerabilities attack by different hackers or attackers in network and protect your system.

Special features on Backtrack OS:

1.   Information Gathering:

In this you can gather information of target DNS, routing, email address, websites and mail servers etc from Internet without touching the target machine.

2.   Network Mapping:

This category contains tools that can check the live hosts, fingerprints of operating system, application used by target and also do port scanning.

3.   Privilege Escalation:

This category contain tools that can give you the access to the target machine and form there you can easily retrieve their passwords and a lot of important details.

4.   Vulnerabilities Identification:

In this you can easily scan the Cisco routers and easily retrieve information from the routers. 

All Backtrack Information regarding installation of OS, E books, and tutorials series are available at:http://www.backtrack-linux.org/

You can easily learn hacking by this operating system. So challenge your friends and start hacking their systems .

Installation Tip:

Try to use virtual machine for this operating system and use virtulization tools (i.e Microsoft Virtual PC, VMware and Oracle Virtual Box etc). By this you will be save in your network. Nobody can attack back on your original system. By these virtual tools you will not be identify in network because of fake MAC and IP address provided by these virtualization tools.

For any query mail me at:

vivekbhatt_vb@ieee.org

Nokia Morph Technology-----("UpCOMIng Mobile")----Impossible is now Possible

Technology strikes at your door with a massive knowledge of nanotechnology for creating a flexible mobile phone.This is a future mobile you'll able to bend, fold and shape your mobile to whatever design you prefer. 

Imagine transforming your phone from a wristwatch/bracelet style to a touchscreen style with a full QWERTY keyboard, and then folding it again to slip it into your pocket.

A good example of what future wearable phones could look like is the Nokia Morph, a concept device that showcases the collaboration between the Nokia Research Center and the Cambridge Nanoscience Centre. The Morph uses nanotechnology to create a flexible, malleable electronic device. The Morph is constructed from fibril proteins that are woven into three-dimensional mesh, allowing the whole phone--screen included--to move and bend.

Nokia is coming up with the Nokia Morph flexible mobile phone which the company claims include nanotechnology and would immensely benefit its end-users. The main benefit of Nanotechnology is that its components are flexible, transparent and extremely strong. The company believes this latest technology would be a distinctive phone by 2015, but a few technical glitches remain to be solved, like the use of new battery materials etc.

View a look of animated video on Nokia Morph:

                 A lot of work is to be done in this technology. So, come up with your ideas.

This technology change the IT industy and comes up with a revolution in it. So update yourself         with this.

IEEE

Trick to Know Who’s Online While You’re Offline on Facebook

Someone stalking you on Facebook?

Don’t want your parents/teacher know you’re online all the time? there might be lot of reasons for you to go offline/invisible on Facebook. But unlike other IM services facebook doesn’t let you chat or see who’s online while you’re being invisible. Using this simple trick you can overcome this Facebbook limitation in seconds.
                   

                                                             

> Go to search bar of Facebook and type ‘online now’ and click on first link. Next click ‘allow’ that’s it you’ll get a list of all your available friends on facebook chat.

Have Fun!!

MCP – Microsoft Certified Professional

Introduction: Microsoft Certified Professional certification helps you to demonstrate you career in the way of Microsoft.
               

List of all certification tracks:

http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/certification/view-by-technology.aspx

                                                   
Before you begin:

1. MCP Exam preparation and tips:
http://www.pearsonitcertification.com/imprint/series_detail.aspx?ser=340082

2. Five Rules of Microsoft Examination:
http://www.petri.co.il/studying_tips.htm

3. Avoid Surprises: Get to know new MCP exam question types

Microsoft-oriented prep sites

• http://www.examcram2.com/
• http://www.cramsession.com/
• http://mcpmag.com/Home.aspx
• http://www.microsoft.com/mcp

Other Resources for MCPs

1. MCP Community:

http://www.microsoft.com/communities/default.mspx

2. Compare Certification:

http://www.microsoft.com/learning/mcp/mcad/compare.asp

3. You can get MCP members site, where they can find certification status and everything related to their certification & profile.

https://mcp.microsoft.com/mcp

Advantage of this certification:

It is not only an achievement in passing Microsoft Certification Exam but an experience whereby you will receive many benefits. You will:

1. Keep your validate skills.

2. Take your certification with you  throughout your career life.

3. Become a part of community of certified professional around the world.

                                                 Vivek Bhatt IEEE 

Update Yourself With Virtualization Technology !

'Virtualization' is a latest technology which is use to decrease our needs like money and hardware resources in a company platform. Virtualization is the creation of a virtual network (rather than actual) version of something, such as an operating system, a server, a storage device or network resources.


Operating system virtualization is the use of software to allow a piece of hardware to run multiple operating system images at the same time. The technology got its start on mainframes decades ago, allowing administrator to avoid wasting expensive processing power.


4 minute video by Senior director of VMWare Company:
VMWare is a leading company in the field of virtualization.

In 2005, virtulization software was adopted faster than anyone imagined, including the experts. There are three major areas of IT where virtulaization is leading in the industry:

1. Network Virtulization:

Network virtualization is a method of combining the available resources in a network by splitting up the available bandwidth into channels, each of which is independent from the others, and each of which can be assigned to a particular server or device. Here the idea of virtualization is that to decrease the complexity of the network by separating it into manageable parts, much like your partitioned hard drives which make your work easy to manage your files.

2. Storage Virtualization:

Storage Virtuazlization is commonly used in Storage Area Networks (SANs) in this virtualization the pooling of physical storage from multiple network storage devices into what appears to be a single storage device that is manage from a central console.

3. Server Virtualization:

Server virtualization is partitioning of a physical server into smaller virtual server by using some softwares.
This virtualization has several benefits. For examples each virtual server run its own operating system and each virtual server is independently rebooted . Server virtualization also reduces costs because less hardware is required.

Must watch this video to understand complete Virtualization through block structures:

This field is not limited, a lot of work is remaining in this field. So start thinking from now itself.

IEEE

Facebook's Server and Data Center

By IEEE-LPU:


Server and Data Center Room of Facebook:

Today Facebook have somewhere in the neighborhood of 30,000 servers.
Facebook photo storage operation, which now stores 80 billion images . The real challenge isn't storage, but delivery. "They serve up 600,000 photos a second".

There are 25 TB of Log Data -Daily:


Facebook manages more than 25 terabytes of data per day in logging data.

Company's Engineering operations:


Facebook currently has about 230 engineers on staff, who manage data for more million users. Having 1 engineer for more than one million active users has been a consistent historic ratio at Facebook.


Here a look at some of past coverage of the growth of Facebook's infrastructure:

1. Facebook makes big investment in Data Center.
2. Facebook spending $20 Million a year on Data Centers.
3. A lot of Rack and Blade Server is present in Facebook Data Center.

This video shows all the servers and data storage hard drives and backing up database technology which is using in Facebook Data Center.

Latest IT Technologies used in Lovely Professional University

LPU is one of the few Indian universities, which can boast of its state-of-the-art computing resources and network across the campus. It is completely a WiFi campus with more than 1000+  access points of RUCKUS company. Ruckus is the 2nd largest WiFi products company after Cisco.

They can provide 500 Mbps of bandwidth for internet with dedicated leased line. There are 6000 + workstations supported by 20 plus Quad Core or Xeon based Rack/Blade  and desktop Servers. University is using the IBM system x3200 M3 Express server with the latest Intel Xenon Processor 3400 series.


There are 40 Servers which are most powerful servers from HP/IBM for 100% redundancy and efficient data management. They are using RAID 1 and RAID 5 Technology for backing up the database.

30 Km fibre backbone is used for providing seamless connectivity in whole campus.

The powerful Blade Server is used in university data center. A blade server is a stripped down server computer with a modular design optimized to minimize the use of physical space and energy. There are a blade enclosure, which can hold multiple blade server, provides services such as power, networking , various interconnects and management.


There are a lot of Cisco catalyst 6509E core switch to provide the needed scalability and traffic control network.
They are using latest ECC memory chip RAM in their server machines. ECC stands for 'Error Correction codes'. ECC memory chips are predominantly used in servers rather than in client computers. Memory errors are proportional to the amount of RAM in a computer as well as the duration of operation. Since servers typically contain several gigabytes of RAM and are in operation 24 hours in a day, the likelihood of errors cropping up in their memory chips is comparatively high, hence they require ECC memory.


Some other technologies which are using by university:
1. SAN: Storage Area network
2. SAS Harddisk
3. VMware Virtualization
4. Layer 3 Switch
5. Dual Band Access Points 
etc