The Zana Zen

Well… this is not 100% fool-proof but if you care about your passwords and there is a chance that a keylogger is installed on the PC you are using (of course you must use it! and not a safer one), try the following method to type your passwords, it is simple but yet will overcome a decent amount of keyloggers out there:

If, for example, your password is ghostbuster:

1. Type random parts of your password correctly: ghostbuster (type just htbu).
2. In another window, type a lot of gibberish , like that: “;jklehf;3jmxmpojgedrjqhnm,bBNVuytewpirk,vmb” (-:
3. Copy & Paste parts of your password and start assemble it in the password textbox ghostbuster
4. Use random order when copy & pasting
5. Delete parts of it by selecting parts of the password text and by pressing any key, do not use the backspace
6. If you place spaces in the password text then select the text by pressing Ctrl+Arrow
7. Assemble the password using all the above tips with random order

Thanks,
Guy.

Need to think about a brand name for your product or company?

A name generator might do the job, NameGen is a python script developed by Erez Shinan and is hosted at Algorithm.co.il. NameGen is being fed with a list of names (in our case, brand names) and generates names that sounds the same or built in the same way.

My highly mathematical solution is to use the sophisticated Google CAPTCHA word generator. Just go to Gmail, enter a worng user name and password and click “Sign in” some several of times until the CAPTCH word generator appears. Continue to press that button until you get your desired brand name!

Google knows how much people hate CAPTCHA so they made their word generator not totally random, the words generated by it will sound like regular words that people are used to type.

I haven’t seen a lot of info on this topic, so I thought I should post something about this:

Python IE automation is extremely easy using the InternetExplorer.Application COM object. Using this COM object you can automate IE to do all kind of stuff like automating any login process, downloading files or creating some underground bots

Here is how to acquire an interface to InternetExplorer.Application:

>>> from win32com.client import Dispatch
>>> ie = Dispatch(“InternetExplorer.Application”)
>>> ie.visible = 1
>>>
>>> # navigate to your favourite website
>>> ie.navigate(website_address)
>>>

Now your browser should navigate to the website address that you have specified, when the browser is finish loading the page, you can start doing the processing of the results…

This is how you wait for the page to finish loading:

>>> while (ie.ReadyState != 4):
>>> sleep(1)
>>>

When the page is done loading, you can get an interface to the document object, this is the same document that javascript & vbscript contains.

This gives you complete DOM control (domination!) over your current page that you last navigated to.

so let’s see how we can do some nice things with it:

>>> ie.navigate(“http://search.msn.com/“)
>>> ie.document.getElementById(“q”).value = “SinglePageMarketing”
>>> ie.document.getElementById(“srch_btn”).click()
>>>

ok, now what about parsing the results?
we can do this with a DOM like approach, or we can parse the text by ourselves… i chose the later method because it’s easier.

>>> result = ie.document.body.innerHtml
>>> len(result)
5619
>>>

Put aside that the result text is in unicode, to convert it to latin use the encode function:

>>> result = result.encode(‘latin-1′, ‘ignore’)

ok, now let’s get a list of all the links that were found by the search engine:

>>> import re
>>> re.findall(“your favourite regexp”, result)

well that’s it! now you know how to do the basics… it’s up to you to build your tools upon it!