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Tuesday, February 5, 2008

How to Protect Orkut Community and Orkut Profile from hackers?

like many other community owners i was always concerned about my community..... though many of my friends community was hacked.... i was pondering about how community gets hacked and what are the techniques used by hackers.....

Google uses a 4 Level Orkut login which makes it difficult to hack using brute force method.

  • First Level Security-SSL or 128 bit secured connection
  • Second Level Google account checks for cookie in the system of user
  • Third Level Google provides a redirection to the entered User information and
  • Fourth Level Google doesn't use conventional php/aspx/asp coding so impossible to attack using input validation attack!!


So what makes hackers hack the communities... most of the communities hacked on the community is by the negligence and the naive knowledge about computers of the user... even though google warns them not to do so and so thing by advertisement on orkut users still falls in the net of the hackers.....

Here are some of the techniques used by hackers to hack your community so be ware:

* Script: java script this is also called cookie stealing scripts which uses the vulnerability of your browser to hack.... you may seen many of your friends giving you some scripts and telling to paste in the address bar of your browser.... so it is better not to run the scripts if you are not sure if it is not from the legitimate source
* Phishing: Phishing is the most popular and most widely used hacking technique the attacker creates a fake screen similar to orkut login screen when u enter the your id and password it simply sends your credential to the attacker and simply refresh or takes you to the original log in page

There are any other thing the Orkut user should think about it is better to keep the unknown email id as primary id in case if user clicks on forget password it should be sent to the unknown id... and better not to give any security question for u r password recovery and if given let it be hard to crack...

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