Hacking is an art and can be used for both offense and defense, for pro-active defense you need to know hacker tactics for securing yourself/organization against hacking, there exists a very thin line of hacker ethics distinguishing between a WhiteHat and a BlackHat hacker, I have always been very curious in learning this dark art for ethical purpose and finally got hold of "The Secret Of Hacking" - Ethical hacking course, unlike other outdated ebooks and basic courses this one is authored by an established Government recognized Indian security company and really packs a punch with all aspects of hacking and securing as promised on the sales page.
The course comes with one printed book and two DVD's having more then 14500 security related tools and 200+ Hacking E-books/Videos, the best part is that you get a lifetime membership with access to an ever growing collection of videos and technical support.
Free online photo retouching service PicTreat would probably the most easiest way to get your photos cleaned and touched automatically, all you need to do is to upload your image and PicTreat will take care of rest - removing unwanted skin flaws, red-eye, auto-correcting colors and applying its algorithm for making skin look smooth and shiny. 
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This years BlackHat security conference revealed some serious security loophole in way SSL certificates can be made to spoof domain identity, the trick allows phishers to spoof and display certificate of their choice on user browsers, this means that the attacker could make you land onto a phishing domain (say 
There are quite a few decent automated downloaders supporting simultaneous downloads from various file-sharing services like 
Mozilla has posted very first mockups of Firefox 4.0 on Windows, the new mockups proposes two designs one including top-tabs similar to Google Chrome and the other one similar to existing design minus some buttons and new location bar, in both the designs the main aim seems pretty clear and that is to save some space, I hope the Google Chrome style made it to final release.
Anonymous torrent downloading is one such feature that many paid and 
Taking strong security measure against illegal online use of credit-cards Indian bank governing authority 
After a long wait I finally received my Google Voice invite but it refused to activate from outside USA throwing the error below, this error can be easily bypassed using an USA proxy but it further needed an USA local phone number to confirm the activation.
If your profession demands a USA phone-number or if you have relatives in USA having a local forwarding number comes pretty handy, usually you need to shell out money for having such facility as most 