Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Customize Windows 'Save As' .

Windows doesn't provide an option to customize the 'Save As' Dialogue which comes up when you select 'Save As' from any program.
 Fortunately generous guys at simplisoftware.com provides a utility called 'places' which does the job for you. So if you are interested just go to http://simplisoftware.com/ and download the places utility. After customizing the folders its a snap to save your documents from any application directly to the special folders. It saves time because you don't have to browse to the directory where you want to save your document. Enjoy!

Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Israel, Our Ally!

The whole world accepts Israel as the most ruthless and evil country in the world. The birth of Israel is well known but few people talk about it. During the second world war United Kingdom of Britain established Israel in Palestinian land and helped Israel to become the most technologically advanced military power in the area.It was against the will of Palestinian People. Israel is responsible for the untold and unheard genocides and massacres of Palestinian people.Israel has no diplomatic relations with 36 countries, 20 of them members of the 22-member Arab League.

Today President Nasheed said that Many Muslim countries established diplomatic ties with Israel. I ask him, how many countries? And when a News reporter asked him whether Maldives as a small nation is able to do anything while powerful and enormous countries in the world have failed! He grinned and affirmed that saying what he say has value in the international organizations and community. The following countries have no diplomatic relations with Israel.

* Africa: Algeria, Chad, Comoros, Djibouti, Guinea, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Somalia, Sudan, Tunisia.
* Americas: Bolivia, Cuba, Venezuela
* East Asia: (Republic of China) North Korea
* Middle East: Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Yemen, United Arab Emirates.
* South, Central Asia: Afghanistan ,Bangladesh, Bhutan, Maldives, Pakistan.
* Southeast Asia: Brunei, Malaysia, Indonesia

Recently Bolivia and Venezuela suspended relations with Israel, yet surprisingly 100% Islamic republic of Maldives announced diplomatic relations with Israel at UN general assembly on Friday 25 September 2009!

Nasheed has very close relations with British conservative party. It is suspected that the british conservative party helped nasheed financially. As being the country responsible for the birth of Israel in a sovereign country against the will of its people, its not hard to believe that Britain offered Nasheed to recognize and establish diplomatic relations with Israel.



In the news conference Nasheed slapped Adhaalath party in the face saying its an extremist thinking to cut ties with Israel. See the definition for autocracy and judge whether Nasheed is an autocratic leader. He doesn't respect the opinions of religious scholars while he is claiming to be a Muslim! Its a clue that Nasheed wants a secular government system to be established here. I tell President Nasheed that Maldives is not his own asset, its the asset of all Maldivians. I hope president Nasheed comes to his senses before its too late.

Saturday, September 26, 2009

DNR Website Vulnerable!

One of many government websites that are vulnerable to hacking is http://www.dnr.gov.mv/ which is the official website for Department of National Registration. I found out that this site can be defaced. No! I have no intentions in defacing the website. My sole intention is to make sure our government websites are secure. You don't believe me? Ok, I will reveal a less harmful vulnerability.To see for yourself checkout this link. Its an XSS vulnerability. Someone can use this website to fool users and do malicious activity! I urge the responsible authorities to fix the vulnerabilities as soon as possible.

Let me tell you one more website which is highly vulnerable and easy to deface. Its a social website running on a free CMS called joomla. This site is prone to SQL injection and XSS attacks. Test a harmless XSS attack by replacing the cookie variable with 1>"><script%20%0a%0d>alert('XSS Vulnerable')%3B</script>. The website url is http://dhifuraavaru.com/. Note: some modern browsers detect XSS attacks and remove the suspicious scripts from the rendered page.

Thursday, September 24, 2009

Hacked!

While doing some research I visited http://www.maldiveshighcom.co.in/ which is the official website for Maldives High Commission in India. And guess what happend? First my browser warned me that the website has harmful elements from rapidsystemsend.ru.Then there comes a popup alert from Kaspersky Antivirus.
Well, I ignored the warning and proceeded anyway. The page looks innocent enough. It says:
High Commission of Maldives website moved to http://maldiveshighcom.in
Dhiraagu still has this link on its website: http://www.dhiraagu.com.mv/about/links.php
I wonder how many people will fall victim to this danger.

Recently Dhiraagu also faced DDOS attacks. And even now http://dhiraagu.com.mv has a high vulnerability. Hint: Dhiraagu is running Apache server 1.3.x. But I don't think this particular vulnerability can be used to deface the website.