Keylogger

Keylogger is a software program or hardware device that is used to monitor and log each of the keys a user types into a computer keyboard. The user who installed the program or hardware device can then view all keys typed in by that user. Because these programs and hardware devices monitor the keys typed in a user can easily find user passwords and other information a user may not wish others to know about. Keyloggers, as a surveillance tool, are often used by employers to ensure employees use work computers for business purposes only. Unfortunately, keyloggers can also be embedded in spyware allowing your information to be transmitted to an unknown third party.  About keyloggers key loggersA keylogger is a program that runs in the background, recording all the keystrokes. Once keystrokes are logged, they are hidden in the machine for later retrieval, or shipped raw to the attacker. The attacker then peruses them carefully in the hopes of either finding passwords, or possibly other useful information that could be used to compromise the system or be used in a social engineering attack. For example, a keylogger will reveal the contents of all e-mail composed by the user. Keylogger is commonly included in rootkits. A keylogger normally consists of two files: a DLL which does all the work and an EXE which loads the DLL and sets the hook. Therefore when you deploy the hooker on a system, two such files must be present in the same directory. There are other approaches to capturing info about what you are doing.     * Some keyloggers capture screens, rather than keystrokes.     * Other keyloggers will secretly turn on video or audio recorders, and transmit what they capture over your internet connection.  A keyloggers might be as simple as an exe and a dll that are placed on a machine and invoked at boot via an entry in the registry. Or a keyloggers could be which boasts these features:     * Stealth: invisible in process list     * Includes kernel keylogger driver that captures keystrokes even when user is logged off (Windows 2000 / XP)     * ProBot program files and registry entries are hidden (Windows 2000 / XP)     * Includes Remote Deployment wizard     * Active window titles and process names logging     * Keystroke / password logging     * Regional keyboard support     * Keylogging in NT console windows     * Launched applications list     * Text snapshots of active applications.     * Visited Internet URL logger     * Capture HTTP POST data (including logins/passwords)     * File and Folder creation/removal logging     * Mouse activities     * Workstation user and timestamp recording     * Log file archiving, separate log files for each user     * Log file secure encryption     * Password authentication     * Invisible operation     * Native GUI session log presentation     * Easy log file reports with Instant Viewer 2 Web interface     * HTML and Text log file export     * Automatic E-mail log file delivery     * Easy setup & uninstall wizards

13-year old girl going to Mars?

In recent news, a 13-year old girl by the name of Alyssa Carlson that is the primary candidate to finish the Passport System of NASA, and is setting her sights on being the first individual to step foot on Mars. Towards becoming an astronaut her work has brought the interest of NASA, that have said the adolescent has what is needed to reach her aim.

NASA have awarded Alyssa the name of “Blueberry,” and she’s already experienced training with all the space bureau and was also the very first man to have seen all three of its own world space camps. Alyssa gave a lecture in front of 400 other budding astronauts to some camp.Alyssa is the topic of a short BBC movie charting her advancement, as she works arm in arm with NASA to do the extensive training that’s demanded of her, which documents the Louisiana native. Alyssa’s conclusion of the“Passport to Research Space Program” wanted her to see all ofNASA’s Visitors Centres across nine states, which Alyssa finished within an issue of five months, the primary man to achieve this.

She’s doing the correct thing, she’s doing the correct training, taking all of the appropriate measures to truly become an astronaut.”

“In 20 years I may never see Alyssa again, you can find alternatives out there where they go to Mars and do not come back, and we have had those discussions, and if that is the only choice she still needs to go.”

It remains to be seen how Alyssa will feel about space exploration twenty years from now. But it is nice to imagine this little young lady is willing to go above and beyond (literally) for her space aspirations. This will be a wonderful story to follow and I will definitely stay on top of it for further readings on the matter.

Snowden Reveals U.S. Government Plans to Spy for Corporations, Despite Telling the Public Otherwise

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The NSA have once again proved hypocritical. Despite a spokesman writing to The Washington Post last August claiming “The department does ***not*** engage in economic espionage in any domain, including cyber”, top secret plans have proposed otherwise.

American lawyer and journalist Glenn Greenwald has released a 2009 memo that clearly defined “technology acquisition by any means” to give American corporations an advantage in global markets. The report was provided by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowdon.

It has already been revealed that Brazilian oil giant Petrobas, the International Monetary Fund and World Bank and international banking systems were all spied on, amongst many others. Even the EU antitrust commissioner investigating Google, Microsoft and Intel was targeted.

In response to the Petrobas revelations, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper admitted collecting “information about economic and financial matters”, but categorically denied more morally questionable purposes. He said: “What we do not do…is use our foreign intelligence capabilities to steal the trade secrets of foreign companies on behalf of –or give intelligence we collect to- U.S. companies to enhance their international competitiveness or increase their bottom line”.

The report, however, shows exactly plans to do just that. It focused on the possibility if “the United States’ technological and innovative edge slips”, particularly “that the technological capacity of foreign multinational corporations could outstrip that of U.S. corporations”. Energy, medicine, information technology and nanotechnology were all listed as crucial areas where this could happen.

In this case, the report recommended “a multi-pronged, systematic effort to gather open source andproprietary information through overt means, clandestine penetration (through physical and cyber means), and counterintelligence”. Notably, the memo discussed “cyber operations” to penetrate “covert centers of innovation”.

While some may even believe the NSA should have the right to protect the U.S’s financial position globally, the hypocrisy of the situation cannot be ignored. In May, five Chinese government employees were indicted for spying on U.S. companies. Attorney General Eric Holder said this was done “for no reason other than to advantage state-owned companies and other interests in China”, and “this is a tactic that the U.S. government categorically denounces”.

The fascinating 2009 memo also contemplated scenarios the U.S. intelligence community felt they may face in 2025. These included a “China/Russia/India/Iran centred bloc (that) challenges U.S. supremacy”, and even a world where “identity-based groups supplant nation-states”.

17-Year-Old Guy Awarded $50,000 for His Gun Inventions

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There is a group from Silicon Valley which gave a 17 year-old guy named Kai Kloepfer $50,000 to carry on his experiments with guns.

The Smart Tech Challenges Foundation which is centred in California’s tech capital, announced that it is sponsoring a young inventor who is from Colorado and is assimilating a biometric sensor into a weapon that demands a certified user’s fingerprint to release, and they also claim that the sensor is 99.99% exact with fingerprint identification even with fractional prints. 

Kai Kloepfer is a high school student from Boulder, Colorado and is Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (Intel ISEF) 2013 Grand Award winner and he is the first Benefactor of the $1 million Smart Tech for Firearms Challenge.

The foundation stated in a release that they will be awarding grants to a total of 15 inventors who areworking to improve weapon safety by evolving customization features in weapons, locking devices and ammunition systems.

Kai stated:-

“It’s going to be my generation – the ones who have grown up with digital technology and electronic integration – that will lead the way in the development and adoption of smart gun technology.”

“This type of technology has previously only existed in science fiction movies. But young people are open to exploring our options as consumers and as innovators. I have real hope that we can apply biometric technology to firearms in order to reduce accidental deaths and injuries, and to prevent tragedies.”

Ron Conway is well-known Silicon Valley investor and the founding contributor to the Smart Tech Challenges Foundation; he said that it’s time for a major upgrade in gun technology.

Conway stated in an interview with the Washington Post:-

“We need the iPhone of guns”

And through the immense attention that Apple earned with their upcoming series of iPhone and Apple Watch smart technology, gun investors who wanted to push the industry in the biotech empire may get some real assistance.

Conway added:-

“The entrepreneur who does this right could be the Mark Zuckerberg of guns,”

Smart Tech announced the following info:-

“Kai is receiving the $50,000 grant to apply toward the integration of a fingerprint scanner, which can be programmed for a virtually unlimited number of users, from a plastic model of a Beretta Px4 Storm onto a live firearm. The sensor that Kai is working with boasts a 99.99% accurate fingerprint recognition rate—even with partial prints. He has already used a part of his Foundation grant to purchase a professional-grade 3D printer to create new parts for his prototype.”

Smart Tech tells that the young inventor Kai began working on his technology parts as a reaction to the shooting at the movie theatre in Aurora, Colorado, the theatre is just about an hour’s drive from his residence. On September 13th Kai will be speaking at TEDx Mile High: CONVERGENCE in Denver, Colorado to discuss his advanced technological approach to weapons safety.

Edward Snowden to Receive Hollywood Makeover With Joseph Gordon-Levitt

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Joseph Gordon-Levitt will be taking on the role of whistleblower Edward Snowden in a forthcoming biopic. Oliver Stone will be writing and directing The Snowden Files.

The movie will be based on ‘The Snowden Files: The Inside Story of the World’s Most Wanted Man’, written by Guardian journalist Luke Harding, and ‘Time of the Octopus’, a novel by Snowden’s lawyer Anatoly Kycherena.

The movie is currently in pre-production stages, with release scheduled for 2016. It is likely filming will begin at the end of 2014 or early 2015.

Former NSA contractor Snowden is currently living in Russia as part of a temporary asylum agreement. He faces a 30-year prison sentence if he returns to the US, for releasing details of large scale surveillance undertaken by intelligence services. The movie will likely cover Snowden’s revelations of the government’s PRISM program, which used clandestine methods to harvest communication records from citizens across the US. 

Actor Gordon-Levitt has previously undertaken key roles in The Dark Knight Rises, Looper, Inception and Lincoln. Stone is experienced in working in the political genre, having directed biopics Nixon and W. about former presidents Nixon and George W. Bush. He also directed documentary series The Untold History of the United States, which looked beyond the official versions of key events since WWII, including the War on Terror.

Fans of Snowden will be hoping the film is more truthful than 2013’s The Fifth Estate, an adaptation of the Wikileaks story with Julian Assange portrayed by Benedict Cumberbatch. The movie was condemned by the website itself, which leaked a script and released a 4,000 word memo exposing its biased inaccuracies

The Man Who Changed Lives – One Meal at a Time

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What made a man with the world at his feet, give up 5 star surroundings for the poverty-stricken streets of Madurai, India?

Narayanan Krishnan had graduated with a degree and was on track to become an award-winning chef in Switzerland, when he took a trip to his Indian hometown.

It was here that a single moment would change his life forever. He saw an elderly man who was forced to eat his own faeces through desperate hunger.  Recognising that so many were starving and filthy, living in dire poverty, the chef decided to devote his life to helping the man and others like him. 

Since 2002 he has done just that, providing food, hygiene and a friendly face to the homeless, elderly, sick and mentally ill in Madurai. He cooks traditional meals to ease their hunger, and provides a wash, haircut and shave to help the destitute begin to feel human again.

Narayanan says “the food will give them physical nutrition. The love and affection which you show will give them mental nutrition”.  The inspirational chef added “food is one part. Love is another part”. In a country where the caste system still prevails, Brahmins like Narayanan are the highest regarded status in society. It is unheard of for members of the social elite to interact with the homeless in this way.

In its initial year, he fed around 30 people using his own personal savings. By 2011, Krishnan had served 1.7 million meals. In 2013 the project developed into The Akshaya Trust, a residential home housing 450. By providing shelter, care and three healthy meals a day, the aim is to restore human dignity and change lives. In 2010 he was awarded a place in the top 10 in CNN’s Heroes 2010 list, and even spoke at one an independently organised TEDx event.

Last month, The Akshaya Trust was cleared of allegations that illegal organ transplantation and sexual harassment were taking place within the home. The claims, made by a 21-year-old mentally disabled woman, were thrown out by a Madras high court. Having tormented the charity since June, Akshaya is finally free to continue its work.

Despite these setbacks, Narayanan’s message is still something we can all learn from. He said: “There are thousands and thousands, and lots and lots of people suffering. What is the ultimate purpose of life? It’s to give. Start giving. See the joy of giving”.

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