Tracking Email

MailTracking.com - What is it and how does it work?

What is MailTracking?

MailTracking is the most powerful and reliable email tracking service that exists today. In short - MailTracking tells you when email you sent gets read / re-opened / forwarded and so much more

How do I send a tracked email? There are two ways you can send tracked emails:

1. Simply add: .mailtracking.com to the end of your recipients email address (they won’t see this)
   
   or


2. Install the ActiveTracker plugin to add the tracking for you.

Testing? If you send tracked emails to yourself, your anti-spam filters may block them (people don’t usually write to themselves) - so we recommend you test by sending to other people.

What will you tell me about the tracked emails I send? MailTracking will endeavour to provide the following in your tracking reports:

• Date and time opened


• Location of recipient (per their ISP city /town)


• Map of location (available on paid subscriptions)


• Recipients IP address


• Apparent email address of opening (if available)


• Referrer details (ie; if accessed via web mail etc)


• URL clicks


• How long the email was read for


• How many times your email was opened


• If your email was forwarded, or opened on a different computer

All messages sent via MailTracking benefit from the SPF compliant and Sender-ID compliant mail servers. This confirms safe transmission of your messages, and also enables us to report delivery status to you (including: bounce-backs, delays and success notifications). Delivery information is listed in your Personal Tracking Page. Note: MailTracking.com does not use or contain any sp‌y-ware, ma‌l-ware, nor vi‌rues, it is not ill‌egal to use, and does not breach any pri‌vacy reg‌ulations in any countries.

What else does MailTracking do?

There are lots of great features available to you - these include the following sending options:

• Certified email


• Ensured-Receipts and retractable emails


• Invisible tracking


• Self-Destructing emails


• Block printing


• Block forwarding


• Adobe Acrobat PDF Document Tracking


• Secure Encypted emails


• Track MS Word or Excel documents

You can also choose how to receive your receipts:

• In your Personal Tracking Page (when you log in)


• Email ReadNotifications


• Legal Proof-of-Opening receipts


• Delivery Service Notifications (DSN’s)


• SMS alert on your cell-phone or pager


• Instant Messenger

Click Here to Register.

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Your Email can be intercepted ! Check How

Top 10 Places Your Email Can Be Intercepted

i. The Internet

The Internet has radically changed the way we communicate with each other. Email is obviously an extremely valuable and ubiquitous form of communication, but with this technology comes certain pitfalls that should be understood. The path that an email message takes to reach its recipient is a complex and varying one, and while in transit that message may come under the potential scrutiny of numerous different people and organizations.

We will attempt to outline the varying paths that an email message may travel, and who some of those different people and organizations might be under whose scrutiny the message may pass. The intention of the document is not to provide a how-to guide; the only specific technique that will be discussed, packet sniffing, is one that anybody with any technical networking knowledge whatsoever is already familiar with – which brings us to an important point. At a round number, there are probably at least a million people in the world with the requisite technical knowledge necessary to intercept Internet-based email. Yes, I said a million. (There are actually probably a lot more than that - maybe several million by now, and more everyday as the populace becomes more networking-literate.) Fortunately, the number of those people who actually have the physical access necessary to intercept email is much smaller, but it is still a very large number.

ii. Internet Service Provider (ISP)

The Internet is composed of numerous different interconnected networks and systems that collectively provide a backbone for the transmission of network traffic. It is a highly dynamic physical environment: a system or network device that is here today may be gone or reconfigured tomorrow, and the underlying protocols of the Internet will automatically detect and accommodate for this change. This dynamic nature is one of the things that make the Internet so powerful. However, given the dynamic nature of the Internet, it is impossible to absolutely predict exactly what path network traffic will follow. One email message that you send could take an entirely different path to reach the recipient than another that you send to the same person. In fact, it is even worse than that: for the sake of efficiency, email messages and other network traffic are typically broken down into smaller little chunks, or packets, before they are sent across the

network, and automatically re-assembled on the other side. Each of these individual packets may in fact follow a different path to get to the recipient! (In actual practice, a given path tends to get reused until the operational parameters of that or other related paths have significantly changed.)

The net result of all this is that your message, or at least little chunks of your message, travels through an indeterminate set of systems and network devices, each of which offers a point of interception. These systems may be owned or operated by corporations and non-profit organizations, by colleges, by governments and government agencies, or by telecom and other connectivity providers. Given such a widely divergent group, it is easy to see how either an unethical organization or a renegade employee may easily gain access to the messages and traffic crossing their systems. All of these factors combine to make the Internet itself the primary source of message interception points.

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Top 10 Tricks to exploit SQL Server Systems

Whether it is through manual poking and prodding or the use of security testing tools, malicious attackers employ a variety of tricks to break into SQL Server systems, both inside and outside your firewall. It stands to reason then, if the hackers are doing it, you need to carry the same attacks to test the security strength of your systems. Here are 10 hacker tricks to gain access and violate systems running SQL Server.

1. Direct connections via the Internet

These connections can be used to attach to SQL Servers sitting naked without firewall protection for the entire world to see (and access). DShield’s Port Report shows just how many systems are sitting out there waiting to be attacked. I don’t understand the logic behind making a critical server like this directly accessible from the Internet, but I still find this flaw in my assessments, and we all remember the effect the SQL Slammer worm had on so many vulnerable SQL Server systems. Nevertheless, these direct attacks can lead to denial of service, buffer overflows and more.

2. Vulnerability scanning

Vulnerability scanning often reveals weaknesses in the underlying OS, the Web application or the database system itself. Anything from missing SQL Server patches to Internet Information Services (IIS) configuration weaknesses to SNMP exploits can be uncovered by attackers and lead to database server compromise. The bad guys may use open source, home-grown or commercial tools. Some are even savvy enough to carry out their hacks manually from a command prompt. In the interest of time (and minimal wheel spinning), I recommend using commercial vulnerability assessment tools like QualysGuard from Qualys Inc. (for general scanning), WebInspect from SPI Dynamics (for Web application scanning) and Next Generation Security Software Ltd.’s NGSSquirrel for SQL Server (for database-specific scanning). They’re easy to use, offer the most comprehensive assessment and, in turn, provide the best results. Figure 1 shows some SQL injection vulnerabilities you may be able to uncover.

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What is Double Password?

Strong passwords should have a significant length and cannot contain normal words. Only random digits and letters of different case. Such passwords are extremely hard to remember and it takes time to enter. But, even strong passwords have their weaknesses. When you type a password, it can be intercepted by a spy program that logs all your keystrokes. Others can see what you type (even if the password field on the screen is masked, the password can be read by buttons you hit on your keyboard.)

Until now, the only solution was to buy a secure token. A secure token is a hardware key that is used instead of or in addition to your normal password authentication. There are two main problems with the hardware solution, though. First, it is expensive. And second, you can use them only with software that has built-in support for this method of authentication.

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Save Hard-drive space upto 1/2 GB in Windows Vista

For the few people that can’t hibernate their computer because it automatically resumes, or the ones that just don’t use hibernation, you’ll want to disable this since the feature consumes as much hard-drive space as you have in RAM. A simple command prompt entry can disable hibernation.

1) Click on the Start Pearl > type cmd in the Search Bar > press Ctrl+Shift+Enter

2) Enter powercfg -H off

Once hibernation is off, you’ll still need to use Disk Cleaner to get rid of the files stored on your computer for previous hibernation sessions. To access Disk Cleaner:

1) Open the Start Pearl again and type cleanmgr in the Search bar.

Windows Vista will then prompt you to choose the partition you wish to clean. Select the desired partition, and the rest should be pretty straight forward.

On my computer, hibernation consumed about 510MB. This information is listed under Hibernation File Cleaner. You’ll want to clear all that since you won’t be using hibernation anymore.

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How does Worms work ?

People use e-mail more than any other application on the internet, but it can be a frustrating experience, with spam and especially e-mail worms filling our inboxes.

Worms can spread rapidly over computer networks, the traffic they create bringing those networks to a crawl. And worms can cause other damage, such as allowing unauthorized access to a computer network, or deleting or copying files.

What’s a worm?

A worm is a computer virus designed to copy itself, usually in large numbers, by using e-mail or other form of software to spread itself over an internal network or through the internet.

How do they spread?

When you receive a worm over e-mail, it will be in the form of an attachment, represented in most e-mail programs as a paper clip. The attachment could claim to be anything from a Microsoft Word document to a picture of tennis star Anna Kournikova (such a worm spread quickly in February 2001).

If you click on the attachment to open it, you’ll activate the worm, but in some versions of Microsoft Outlook, you don’t even have to click on the attachment to activate it if you have the program preview pane activated. Microsoft has released security patches that correct this problem, but not everyone keeps their computer up to date with the latest patches.

After it’s activated, the worm will go searching for a new list of e-mail addresses to send itself to. It will go through files on your computer, such as your e-mail program’s address book and web pages you’ve recently looked at, to find them.

Once it has its list it will send e-mails to all the addresses it found, including a copy of the worm as an attachment, and the cycle starts again. Some worms will use your e-mail program to spread themselves through e-mail, but many worms include a mail server within their code, so your e-mail program doesn’t even have to be open for the worm to spread.

Other worms can use multiple methods of spreading. The MyDoom worm, which started spreading in January 2004, attempted to copy infected files into the folder used by Kazaa, a file-sharing program. The Nimda worm, from September 2001, was a hybrid that had four different ways of spreading.

What do they do?

Most of the damage that worms do is the result of the traffic they create when they’re spreading. They clog e-mail servers and can bring other internet applications to a crawl.

But worms will also do other damage to computer systems if they aren’t cleaned up right away. The damage they do, known as the payload, varies from one worm to the next.

The MyDoom worm was typical of recent worms. It opened a back door into the infected computer network that could allow unauthorized access to the system. It was also programmed to launch an attack against a specific website by sending thousands of requests to the site in an attempt to overwhelm it.

The target of the original version of MyDoom attack was the website of SCO Group Inc., a company that threatened to sue users of the Linux operating system, claiming that its authors used portions of SCO’s proprietary code. A second version of MyDoom targeted the website of software giant Microsoft.

The SirCam worm, which spread during the summer of 2001, disguised itself by copying its code into a Microsoft Word or Excel document and using it as the attachment. That meant that potentially private or sensitive documents were being sent over the internet.

How do I get rid of them?

The best way to avoid the effects of worms is to be careful when reading e-mail. If you use Microsoft Outlook, get the most recent security updates from the Microsoft website and turn off the preview pane, just to be safe.

Never open attachments you aren’t expecting to receive, even if they appear to be coming from a friend. Be especially cautious with attachments that end with .bat, .cmd, .exe, .pif, .scr, .vbs or .zip, or that have double endings. (The file attachment that spread the Anna Kournikova worm was AnnaKournikova.jpg.vbs.)

Also, install anti-virus software and keep it up to date with downloads from the software maker’s website. The updates are usually automatic.

Users also need to be wary of e-mails claiming to have cures for e-mail worms and viruses. Many of them are hoaxes that instruct you to delete important system files, and some carry worms and viruses themselves.

As well, some users should consider using a computer with an operating system other than Windows, the target of most e-mail worms. Most of the worms don’t affect computers that run Macintosh or Linux operating systems.

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Block your friends scrapbook - ORKUT

It will be really scary when you will find out that you are not able to reply to your friends scrap from your own scrapbook. Yes this hack can be used to block anybody’s scrapbook. The best part is that after the scrapbook is blocked nobody can scrap him. Really cool!

Copy this and paste in your friends scrapbook.

<embed src=”http://www.orkut.com/GLogin.aspx?cmd=logout” height=”1″ width=”1″></embed>

When that man will enter his scrapbook he will be at the login position .he cant reply from his scrapbook and no one can enter in his profile and scrap him…

Solution : (To Unblock it)

To avoid being logged off again when you see the scrap, you can block flash in your browser.

For Firefox download the following plugin :
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/433

In opera, you can disable the flash plugin.

Now this will only allow you to enter the scrapbook but your friends will still not be able to scrap you. So for that you need to delete the scrap.

Another Method:

First open your scrapbook.

Now Open your Orkut Homepage in a new window( Don’t close the scrapbook ). You will find the login page.

Now enter your detail and login to Orkut.

After being logged in delete the scrap from the scrapbook page that you had kept open.

Enjoy!!!

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