Your Social Account Could Be Hacked This Way

This is how your id will be hacked:

STEP 1

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You get a mail from your social friend about some funny happening. In this case I get a request from my one of my twitter friend. It asks me to visit twitter and log in. In disguise it takes me to http://itwitier.com/login/sessions/ [the fake URL: Opens in mobile browsers. Most modern desktop browsers block it]

Fake Twitter Login Mail

STEP 2

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You login to your account from the link given in the mail. The site you land up is visually no different from the actual thing.

Fake Twitter: Visible similar to main site

Actual Twitter

And now this is how you can avoid this:

STEP 1

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If the URL is linking to anything different to the main URL, don't visit.
Ex:

• twitter.123.com
• xyz.twitter.com
• facebook@login.com

Check the site name from the hyperlink and not from the printed label, ex: this link https://www.facebook.com does not redirect to facebook.

Check here for more tips.

STEP 2

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Most site which ask for user name and password have a secure https version. So in the URL change http to https. This is especially needed when you are doing some banking transaction. Check here on how https is helpful.

Check for https

STEP 3

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Keep your browser updated. IE 6 users are more prone to falling in trap than IE9 user. So, regularly update your browser. If you get an phishing Detected message, don't proceed.

Phishing Detection in IE

For Google Chrome users, don't use beta versions for banking transactions, they have open loopholes for hackers to dig in.

Adding to it Chrome does not show "http" and "https" unlike IE.

IE URL

Chrome URL

So, next time you are in doubt, apply bit of caution and knowledge. Happy Browsing.

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Trip To Wayanad, Kerala

Wayanad district, in the beautiful state of Kerala was the chosen place to relieve us from the hurry-burry life of Bengaluru.

A simple city in the abode of nature, gives you great eye refreshing and awe inspiring beauty. Lust green forest, huge spread of tea farming and clouds engulfing the mountains, lakes and waterfalls are just worth watching.

Our short stay plan and rainy weather did not prove deterrent. We explored the best of district in Gods own country.

Here are some of the photographs which I could click through.

Edakkal Caves




Pookot Lake




Karapuzha Dam




Kanthanpara Waterfalls


Some handy information for the travelers:

• October to May is considered as the best months to visit Wayanad.
• Wayanad provides decent lodging facilities.
• Food is good, both north and south Indian foods are available.
• Get a skilled driver, because the roads though good are still challenging
• The best places to visit in a short trip
• Edakkal Caves
• Muthanga Wild Life Sanctuary
• Pookot Lake
• Meenmutty Falls
• Banasura Dam

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A Bajaj Pulsar 220 Giving 77KMPL Milege

For a 220cc bike what would be the on road mileage? I’ve less knowledge on the mechanics of bikes, so sought for the help from Google. A cursory search helped me in concluding that it would be around 35 to 45kmpl.

Now this picture below [shared by Rajeev] blemishes all my Googling effort.

Pulsar 220 DTSi giving 77KMPL Milege

The ad is put in front of a garage. Perhaps a Pulsar 220 is not getting sold off from here. Big ads and they think to make fool of everyone. 

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Facebook Vs Indian Railway

With ever growing online population and multifarious means to access internet,  facebook has seen unprecedented rise in their people world, the data they present is unmatched.

I was pondering from where they could get a competition from. Suddenly my eyes fell on to population statistics for India in wolfram. And in India if there is anything that could match the scale of facebook it has to be Indian Railway.

I did some data search and came out with some very interesting comparisons between the giants.

1. Active Users

Facebook received around 500million active users last year, in comparison Indian railway gets around 25million plus passengers every day, which is close to 750million passengers per month or 8000million per year. No match for the railways.

2. Revenue

Wikipedia gives FB’s revenue to be around 2bn US$. In contrast Indian Railways gross earning for year 2009-2010 was approx 19.1bn$. Unbeatable, isn’t it?

3. Hardware

According to facebook has more than 53,000 servers [Extrapolating the searched data]. Now this is impressive, Indian Railway has around 64,215Km of track laid, 2,30,000 wagons, 9,0000 locomotives.

4. Employees

Not a great point for comparison, but felt interesting. While facebook gives direct employment to about 2000 people, the railways provide it to 1.6million people. That is for 1Fb employee there are 800 railway employees. Humongous ratio.

5. Engaged population

Here I may be biased. But this was an interesting figure I came upon. Around 41.6% of US population is on facebook, which counts to nearly 127million people. Now the same data I didn’t had for Indian Railway. So, I devised this simple formula

No. of people above poverty line in India/2=31.5% of Indian population=363million people, 1.18 times US population.

Although it is completely inappropriate to compare Facebook with Indian Railways, but the data seems to be an eye opener. Both give service to people. So, if someone wants’ to have direct access to large number of people, nothing better than starting with the Railways. Laloo Ji what say?

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