Tuesday, 6 September 2016

Scary Stuffs !! Want to know whether your personal data is leaked online or not????

It is very scary when i found these sites to know whether 'my email-id is hacked and all my data is leaked online or not?'.

The first one is

1.Have I been pwned? 


This site is free to use.
Just go this site and enter your email-id or user name.
And if your data is breached or your account has been hacked then you can see like this.



or if you are lucky you will see something like this.



The other site is more scary as someone can pay as less $0.76 /day to know your leaked data.



 Similar to the previous one here also you can search using Email-id, username or even name and find that your online personal data is breached or not.??

The more scary part if your data is leaked some script kiddies or noob hackers can just pay $0.75/day to view your data.

 

So above you can see particular email-id's data is leaked online.You can also see in preview is that someone can subscribe and view the data as low as $0.76/day.

How these Sites work??? Why it is helping hackers???

First of all,these sites are not helping hackers or the site owners are not hackers.
They called themselves scavengers.They just let us know whether our personal data is leaked or not or present in search engines.

When any sites are attacked by hackers and millions of users data that is collected from there databases is uploaded on Internet these sites collect information and grab them at one place to let us know whether our data is breached or not.

Recently sites, like MySpace,Dropbox,LinkedIn,00webhost etc are hacked by hackers and millions of data is leaked online.

If your email-id is linked with these websites then it possible to hack your email-id if you use the same or related passwords.

How to be safe ???

1.Always enable 2-step Verification on your email-id if you use gmail,yahoo-mail.If your email provider does not have it then follow the remaining steps.

2.Don't use same passwords on every site you register. If you are doing this then please stop doing this. I know it is easy to remember as we use same passwords for each site.But it will help hackers. If he can hack one vulnerable site then he can use your password(which is same everywhere by the way) to hack other account of yours.

3.Always change your password at a duration of 6 months or atleast make a habit of changing in a year.

4.Keep a complex or long password.
My suggestion use proverbs like "I@mJok3r" which stands for "I am joker".



BEST site to learn coding !!!

Here I am listing some best sites which i used to learn some good coding skills.

1. Codecademy: Learn to code

It is the site where I learn't the basics of python and javascript. You can also learn other coding languages such as PHP,ruby,HTML,CSS,JAVA etc.

What I like: The Code editor interface which is very easy to use and comfortable.

2.W3Schools Online Web Tutorials

It is best site to learn web development or those who are targeting to learn website designing.
What i like : Each topic is divided in chapters which are quite easy to follow.

3.HackerRank | Technical Recruiting | Hiring the Best Engineers

The site is good for practicing various coding languages,Algorithms,machine learning etc.
Also organize competition for recruitment in various companies and for various prizes

4.HackerEarth - Programming challenges and Developer jobs

Best site for your dream job hunt if you are hardcore devloper and programmer.
They organize various recruitment drives,hackathon etc.

5.Code.org: Anybody can learn

A great site to learn basics of programming.Just try an 'Hour of code'.I am sure you will love it.

6.CodeChef

A great site for online competition.

7.Kaggle: Your Home for Data Science

If you want to becom an data scientist.

8.CodeKata

Learn some martial arts in programming by practicing and repetition!!!

My Passport issuing Experience !!!!

Nowadays passport making in our country is quite comfortable due to increase in digitization and rise of e-governance.Our government had taken a quite good steps regarding passport making. The government had implemented  a project with Tata Consultancy Services in a Public Private Partnership (PPP) mode.Under this project passport making process and the various verification had become quite easy now for normal person which was cumbersome earlier and also decreased the problem of middlemen(or commonly known as dalals).


So let me explain my experience.

1.At first go to this site www.passportindia.gov.in.





2.Then Click on New User?/Register Now. Fill the details & register their first with your email-id.

3.Now login with your email-id and your password you have created and click on 'Apply for Fresh Passport/Re-issue of Passport'. Fill the details which will be quite easy. After filling your details you have to give your neighbors name and contacts for background checking .Collect them before filling the online form.

4.After you filled your application pay the fees Rs. 1500(For Normal Quota) or Rs.3000(if you are applying for Tatkal quota) and schedule the appointment at your nearest passport seva kendra(PSK).

(Note: You can also apply under TATKAL quota under which you can get your passport in 7-15 days.I applied for normal quota. I got my passport in 24 days after visiting passport seva kendra(PSK))

5.At PSK the process is quite comfortable.They will verify your documents
1.Birth proof,
2.Address Proof,
3. Non-ECR proof(if you are eligible)) where ECR stands for Emigration Clearance Certificate.
 You can see all the eligible documents by clicking on 'Document Advisor'

These are mandatory documents.
I had given my birth-certificate as my birth proof ,aadhar card as my address proof and 10th pass certificate as my Non-ECR document.They also asked for my PAN card and voter card for additional verification.They can also ask for your graduation certificates and college -id cards as it happens to my friends case.

At PSK there will 3 counters to verify your document.
Only the first counter will seriously check your documents. They also take your photos and biometrics.
Remainig counters will be for minor checking only.
You can watch this video for reference.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOyZGESVcLM

6.After all the verification happens you will get an acknowledgement copy.

7.Next ,you have to wait for police verification.You will get message notification of 'police verification initiated' on your registered phone number.

(In my case i got call from police within 7 days after visiting the passport seva kendra)

8.The police verification will be little frustrating as it depends on what kind of nature the police official has.

In my case the police had asked for each document i had in my entire life.
My college and school certificates ,parent's voter-id and aadhar card ,residential certificate which i issued from panchayat office,ration card everything.
They may  also can ask for some bribe as it happend to my friend's case if the officier is corrupt .Remember it is illegal.
In my case the official is very less corrupt .He only asked for sweets or muh meetha.I bought some 'Rasogulla' from the nearby sweets shop and gave to him.

9.After the police verification ,just sit and wait for your passport to be arrived at your doorsteps.In mean time you can check the status i.e. passport printing,and dispatching through logging in the site and clicking 'Track my application'.

In my case I visited PSK on 10th August.
The police verification happened on 17th August.
And I got my passport on 3rd September.


Thanks.....
 

Wednesday, 3 August 2016

Let's Celebrate your friendship day on this Sunday with your Crazy and insulting friends!!!!


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