Operating Systems - Kali Linux Security tools for Information Gathering

The Operating System(OS) acts as a middle man between the Computer hardware and software. The operating system is a software which every other software that runs on users machine are built upon. Major operating systems are Windows, Linux, Unix etc. Also, there are other kind of Operating Systems called drivers. They are software that makes it possible for the main Operating system to communicate with any other hardware connected to the computer.

Kali Linux like the name implies is a variation of Linux Operating System. It comes along with a lot of security tools for Network Information gathering, penetrating testing tools, etc.
For some specific tools such as  DNS ENUM, DMITRY, NMAP allows a user to gather information(eg IP address, mac address, port numbers) across an organizations network.
Network information gathering tools are powerful tools, because for a successful network test(ethical hacking i must say), its best to gather as much information as possible about the targets machine.

A Better Legislation to Protect Internet Users Privacy and Counter File Effect

Privacy settings
Before facebook privacy settings, lots of websites collected users profile  information and store them on their own database for the purpose of advertisement or other uses (profileengine.com is a typical example of such websites). This is done without the prior knowledge of the users. After the facebook introduced its popular privacy settings, a lot users changed their privacy settings, which made their information not to be available for public. However, the information these websites stored about facebook users before they changed  their privacy settings still reside in their databases.

Breach of Internet Privacy

Over the last decade, internet privacy has being a hot topic. And also in many years to come, privacy online will continue to be a hot topic. The recent revelation by former CIA analyst Edward Snowden on how Government with the help of NSA is constantly snooping on our activities will add more controversy to this topic.

More of the confusion surrounding the issue of online privacy mostly arises from the fact that there is no general understanding as regards to what is private and what is not.
The Case of Google Street view
In 2007, Google added a new feature to its popular Google map product. The Street View works by posting real life images taken by Google satellite cameras at particular intervals and associating it with the current location on Google map. Privacy issues came up as these cameras caught pictures of men leaving strippers club, there are also pictures of men picking up prostitutes etc. Google was fined for these privacy breaches in some countries. At the end, Google has to blur these type of images in its Street view application to avoid further lawsuits.

Three most common mistakes of pC users

In this article, we are going to highlight three most common mistakes pc users make and how its going to affect the security of their PC.

1. User Account Password Settings

Most PC users fail to set password for their PC user account. The consequence of this is that anyone can access their file(private) by physically having access to the system. And most dangerously is the fact that anyone that access this computer can easily setup an admin account and lock the user out permanently from his/her PC. 

Also most browsers allow the users to store their password in the browser and therefore such unauthorized user can easily can access passwords for various user accounts of the PC owner stored in the web browser.

Privacy, How it was done in the olden days

Over the years, since man developed means of communication in form of languages and writing, protecting information has always being very important. 
Humans have developed several ways of hiding information from people they don't want access to such information. Such information can be religious, trade secrets etc. The Assyrians developed the Intaglio for protecting their trade secrets, the Egyptians developed Hieroglyphs as a way for the priests to communicate with the dead and writing down prayers, the Hebrews  developed the ATBASH system, while the Greeks developed Wound Tape and unlocking key for hiding special information.
In this article, we are going to look into the Hieroglyphs and Atbash systems.