10 MOST COMMON WAY UR ONLINE BANKING ACC CAN BE HACKED

  1. Phishing scam.
Phishing scam is the classic form of identity theft. It occurs when a person receives an official-looking email aimed to fish your personal information by false pretences. For example, the message can ask recipients to change their passwords or resubmit contact information due to the bank's technical problems.

Links in those emails will redirect you to websites that look and feel like the authentic banking sites. Scammers recreate pages using information and logos from legitimate websites in hopes to fool consumers. If you enter your account details into them, the information will go directly to the criminals.

Avoiding phishing scam is simple: don't click on links in e-mails that ask you to provide your personal or financial information online. Call the banking company it appears to be from or open up a separate window in your browser, type in the official address of your bank and navigate the site on your own.

2. Teaming up with an insider.
A US Treasury Department analysis indicated that over half of all reported computer break-ins involved an insider. One type of insider is a person who finds weaknesses unknown to system administrators and uses this information to access online accounts.

Another type of insider finds a job at the bank specifically to commit a fraud. People who work in the customer assistance department may try to steal consumer information databases. Law enforcement officials investigating computer crimes often tell that they find passwords even on Post-it notes stuck on the employees’ monitors. Other criminals join technology staff to find a glitch, bug, or vulnerability in the network and software.

3. Using a worm or virus.
Viruses like trojans can be caught by downloading programs you think you need or clicking on a link to a greeting card or video that arrives in e-mail spam. Or, you can pick viruses up by visiting a web page that's been corrupted by hackers.

If you get infected with a virus, the data on your PC will be recorded and sent to the hacker automatically. Viruses can hide silently inside your computer only to activate once you enter information into specific websites, like banking sites. Then they steal usernames and passwords by copying the log-on page or capturing keystrokes.

So-called man-in-the-middle trojans are more advanced. They can make fraudulent fund transfers while the victim is on the banking website. Another type of new viruses can make a copy of the web page showing account balances, but the amount will be changed so the user will see what he or she expects to see.

If you want to avoid catching worms and viruses, a suspicious eye and up-to-date antivirus software can help. You need to be careful about where you surf on the Internet when you are not banking.

4. Using malicious software on public computers.
The scam typically begins when a hacker installs keystroke-monitoring software on any public computer to obtain customer login names and passwords. Fraudsters can even get a temporary job in a library, hotel business center, Internet café, airport, etc. to simplify this task.

Then hackers wait until anyone types in the web address of online banking account, user name and password. All keystrokes entered on the computer will be recorded by the malicious software and e-mailed to the hackers’ PC.

This emerging Internet fraud is a new version of the widely used phishing e-mail scams, in which spammers send out mass e-mails containing hyperlinks to fake websites.

5. Stealing passwords.
Password theft, password cracking, and even password guessing are still serious problems. Computers can process large amounts of data in a relatively small period of time. It is estimated that financially-motivated hackers can guess passwords at the rate of 1 billion guesses a second.
Dictionary attacks, hybrid attacks and brute force attacks are various methods used to guess or crack passwords. The only real protection against such threats is to use multilevel authentication or very long passwords. A 5-character password will take 10 seconds to guess, 6 characters - 1,000 seconds, 7 characters - 1 day, 8 characters - 115 days, 9 characters - 31 years, 10 characters - 3,000 years.

6. Exploiting default settings.
If a target network uses the defaults set by the manufacturer or vendor, it is much easier to attack it. To see the scope of this problem, just google "default passwords". You will find a lot of websites that list thousands of the default log names, passwords, settings, access codes and naming conventions for various types of software and hardware.

That’s why one of the most effective and simplest security precautions is to change the default settings to other alternatives. You also need to pay attention to the installation defaults like path names, folder names, components and configurations. If it is possible, consider all options for customization.

7. Attacking wireless networks
Wireless networks provide a lot of benefits, for example freedom from wires and the ability to be mobile within your office or home. However, hackers find it easier to make DOS, interference, hijacking, eavesdropping, man-in-the-middle, spoofing, and other attacks in wireless networks.

You will need more time and efforts to secure wireless networks than to deploy a traditional wired network. In addition, many organizations have discovered that workers have brought in their own WAP and opened up security holes in wireless networks.

8. Gaining access to the servers.
Some hackers prefer attacking the hardware itself. They exploit attacks-prone Web systems to take control of the servers running the bank's online operations, for example Microsoft IIS (Internet Information Server) or Unix Web servers.

By gaining access to the servers through security holes, a hacker can modify any trusted applications to perform fraudulent operations. Such internal applications probably won’t be noticed by the network's security system.

9. Using backdoors programs.
A backdoor program allows the hacker access to your computer, bypass normal authentication, get full access to every facility and file on your computer (including your bank account’s log name and password) and send this information to the hacker’s PC.

The backdoor could be an installed program (e.g. Back Orifice), or a modification to an existing program or hardware device. A specific form of backdoors is rootkits, which discloses the presence of other users, programs, services and open ports.

10. Monitoring vulnerability researches.
Hackers often read websites, blogs, discussion boards, and other sources of public information to learn more about bugs, issues, and vulnerabilities with hardware and software. Their aim is to find about possible attack points before users and companies become aware of this bug.

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Hackers have a number of methods to get through these passwords and encryptions.

Guessing seems like an inefficient way of finding a password until you consider this; most passwords chosen by users fall into a very narrow group of word, making guessing a lot easier for would be hackers. The most commonly used passwords are a person's name or the name of their wife, children or pets. Their birthday, license plate number, street address or the name of a favorite celebrity are also used. More disturbing are the number of people that leave their password blank or use the factory default.

A dictionary attack relies on the above information and the knowledge that most passwords are a single simple word found in any dictionary. It uses a program that runs through all the words in a dictionary until it finds a hit. Other types of dictionary attacks search through all accounts looking for hits on blank or default passwords.

A more aggressive attack, called a brute force attack, requires unlimited time but will always work. If the parameters of the password are known, say, it's known that a certain site requires a password between 6-18 characters and must include both letters and numbers, a brute force attack will try every possible combination until it comes up with the right password. Given enough time it will always find the password, but the more possible combinations that are available, the longer it will take.

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2011 Koenigsegg Agera R

The Agera R has all the features and functionalities of the Agera, but also features a few more unique solutions to further enhance performance even further.

Koenigsegg was the first Sports car manufacturer that took a step towards green technology when the bio fuel CCXR was introduced in 2007. The Agera R, based on the highly competitive Agera, follows in the footsteps of the CCXR as it also runs on E85 bio fuel.

The Agera R has an upgraded fuel and engine management system that has enough flow capacity to generate 1115 hp and 1200 nm of torque on E85 and E100 bio fuel. As there is less energy content per given volume in these bio fuels compared to normal petrol, the fuel-system has to manage a flow that is similar to 2000 petrol hp, which means that the return less fuel system of the Agera R has the highest capacity of any car presently in production.

As the Agera R is a flex fuel car. It is also possible to run the R on normal petrol. As 95 octane fuel has less octane than E85, the power goes down to 940 hp and 1100 nm of torque, as the boost pressure and ignition timing is altered to match the fuel characteristics.

Koenigsegg now also offer an R version of the Agera for countries that does not have E85 or E100 readily available. This non bio-fuel version has to be run on a minimum of 98 octane fuel and has been optimized to give an output of 1050 hp and 1140 nm of torque.

In order to give the Agera maximum flexibility when it comes to power delivery, Koenigsegg has joined forces with Borg Warner and adapted to the latest technology when it comes to turbine materials. The Agera R turbines are therefore made from a material called Gamma-Ti, which is an inter metallic compound comprised of Aluminium and Titanium. This new material drastically reduces the inertia of the turbine wheel and axle and therefore gives improved response.

Triplex rear suspension

Christian von Koenigsegg has invented and pioneered a new type of rear suspension system for a road car – the Triplex rear suspension. The Agera R comes with the Triplex rear suspension as standard and therefore has a shock absorber and spring connecting the right and left rear wheel. This system gives unique benefits as the two rear wheels can influence one another when desired.

There are multiple benefits of this system. For example, the extra spring and damper works in series with the normal spring and dampers allowing their spring and damping rates to be lowered. This results in increased comfort and better handling on rough and wet surfaces without compromising dry track handling.

Furthermore the RTD system has an anti-squat effect. Traditional anti-squat systems are designed into the geometry of the suspension. These systems do not add any components or weight. However they compromise the geometry of the suspension for other aspects of handling than anti-squat.

By adding the RTD system, Koenigsegg can maintain true suspension geometries for handling, but still have the anti-squat feature and harvest other new found benefits. As the RTD system compliments the normal dampers and springs, these can be made lighter. Hence, the added benefit does not significantly affect the overall system weight.

Dynamic rear wing

Hypercars of today generate massive amounts of down force in low to medium speed and less down force in very high speed, in order not to overload the tires and not to create too much drag. Most hypercars therefore have heavy hydraulically operated wings and flaps to cater for this need.

Koenigsegg however, following the "less is more" philosophy, has designed a dynamic system to that take care of the above described needs. This system is standard on the Agera R and optional on the normal Agera.

The most visual and obvious part of this system is the new dynamic rear wing. The wing changes its angle of attack, not with the help of hydraulics, but with the pressure of the wind. It is therefore dynamically controlled by the speed or wind resistance at any given moment in time and thus actually compensates for headwind or tailwind at the same given speed. This is an intelligent way of dealing with adaptive aerodynamics, as the system becomes lighter, less complex and more intuitive compared to heavy and complex hydraulics systems. Koenigsegg had to work heavily with CFD in order to create the dynamically controlled adaptive aerodynamics of the Agera.

Furthermore, an interesting multifunction feature of the adaptive wing is that the pylons for the wing also act as air extrusion channels. The air channels goes from the engine bay to the back of the pylons, thereby creating an air passage. This causes a venturi effect, from the air rushing past the pylon, evacuating hot engine bay gases, reducing pressure in the engine bay and increasing the flow of cooling air through the side radiators. This also means that the pressure under the car is reduced and giving more low drag down force.

All these added features to the Agera R truly make it unique. The normal Agera already has a performance out of this world, still the Agera R manages to push it just that little bit further.

Technical Specifications AGERA R

Performance

Power output: 1115 hp at 6900 rpm - redline @ 7250 rpm
Torque: over 1000 Nm from 2700 to 6170 rpm
Max torque: 1200 Nm at 4100 rpm
Acceleration: 0-100 km/h (0-62 mph) 2.9 seconds
0-200 km/h 7,5 sec, 0-200-0 km/h 12.7 sec
Braking distance: 30.5m (100-0 km/h)
Lateral g-force: 1.6 g
Fuel consumption: Highway travel: 12,5 l/100km, Combined: 14,7/100km
Weight-to-power ratio: 1.19 kg/hp (dry weight)
Weight distribution: 45% front, 55% rear
Emission levels: Euro V and lev 2

Aerodynamics

Cd. 0,33 to 0,37 with adaptable rear wings.
Frontal Area: 1.873 m2
Total Downforce at 250 km/h: 300 kg
Flat underside of chassis. Venturi tunnels at rear of chassis/body.

Dimensions

Total length: 4293 mm (169")
Total width: 1996 mm (78.6")
Total height: 1120 mm (44.1")
Ground clearance: Rear: 100 mm (3.94") Front: 100 mm (3.94")
Wheelbase: 2662 mm.
Front track: 1700 mm. Rear track: 1650 mm.
Front overhang: 885mm Rear overhang: 752mm
Fuel capacity: 80 litres
Luggage compartment: 120 litres (31.7 US gallons)
Dry weight: 1330 kg
Curb weight 1435 kg (all fluids plus 50% fuel)
Maximum laden weight: 1650 kg (full tank, two passengers, full luggage)

Chassis

Carbon fibre with aluminium honeycomb and integrated fuel tanks for optimal weight distribution and safety.
Monocoque torsional rigidity: 65,000 Nm/degree.
Weight including tanks: 70 kg.
Front and rear suspension: Double wishbones, two-way adjustable VPS gas-hydraulic shock absorbers, pushrod operated.
Triplex damper in the rear.
Electronically adjustable ride height. Front: Cro-Mo subframe, with integrated crash members.
Rear: Semi-stressed engine and gearbox with support struts, for needle bearings and o-ringed wishbone bushings optimal rigidity and no engine inertia movements.
Fully machined aircraft aluminium uprights, with SKF LeMans specification 150mm angle contact ball bearings.
GKN hollow/gun-drilled driveshafts.
Koenigsegg Z-style progressive and lightweight anti-roll bars front and rear.

Engine

Koenigsegg aluminum 5,0L V8, 4 valves per cylinder, double overheadcamshafts
Compression: 9.0:1
Bore: 91.7 mm Stroke: 95.25 mm
Sequential, multipoint fuel injection.
Twin turbo superchargers
1.4 bar boost pressure.
Dry sump lubrication.
Carbon fibre intake manifold with optimised intake tracts.
Tig-welded ceramic coated inconel exhaust system manifold with merge collector.
Weight: 197 kg

Transmission

Specially developed 7-speed dual clutch, 1 input shaft transmission with paddle-shift.
Electronic differential

Steering

Rack and pinion power assisted steering. 2.7 turns lock-to-lock.
Turning circle: 11 metres. TRW electro-hydraulic power-assisted.

Brakes

Front brakes: Ventilated ceramic discs Ø 397 mm, 40 mm wide.
6-piston calipers. Power-assisted.
Rear brakes: Ventilated ceramic discs Ø 380 mm, 34 mm wide.
4-piston callipers. Power-assisted.

Traction Control

F1-style for optimal performance with 5 different handling modes.

Wheels

Koenigsegg forged Vortex generating aluminium wheels with centre locking
Front: 19" x 9.5"
Rear: 20" x 12.5"

Tyres

Dedicated Michelin Supersport
Unidirectional with asymmetric thread pattern
Front: 265/35 – 19" (Y)
Rear: 345/30 – 20" (Y)
Speed rating: 420+ km/h

Body

Two-door, two seater with removable hardtop stowable under the front hood lid. Body made from pre-impregnated carbon fibre/kevlar and lightweight sandwich reinforcements. Carbon vents over wheels.

Electrical System

Solid state digital semiconductors - no fuses or relays. Can bus operated and fully programmable functionality.

Equipment

Dual airbags, detachable storable hardtop with glass roof, power windows, adaptive rear wing, adjustable pedals and steering column, Agera stitching, adjustable seats in rake and length, carbon ceramic brakes with Sport ABS, hydraulic lifting system, power steering, power brakes, extra 4 point seatbelts for track use. satnav, Intelligent LifePo4 battery, MP3 player, USB connection, climate control, digital warning and info system, G sensor, alarm, tyre monitoring system, silver key, leather carpets, roof storage bag, car cover.

Extra Equipment

Fitted luggage, special leather and colour requests, full visible carbon body, Inconel exhaust system, Front winglets, rear view camera, heated seats, ski box roof, skis, winter wheel package, 4 point racing harnesses.

3 Year Warranty

Koenigsegg Launches In INDIA

While the road infrastructure in India leaves much to be desired, the choice for people with the dough has been mind blowing and after the Bugatti Veyron launch now we have the Swedish supercar Koenigsegg being launched at a staggering price of 12.5 crore. It has been reported that it is the second most expensive car in the local market after the 16.2-crore Bugatti that made its debut in November last year.

According to reports, Agera, with 5-litre bi-turbo V8 engine, which boasts of a pulsating 1115 horsepower, gains 100 km/hr speed in just 2.9 second. According to The Economic Times report, the company had produced the CCR model that broke the nine-year-old Guinness World Record of the McLaren - Bugatti in 2005. Keeping the same lineage alive, Koenigsegg churns our limited set of around 16-18 cars every year out of its single manufacturing facility in Sweden. It tunes every car specifically for any particular country, after carefully studying the quality of fuel on offer in local conditions. For example, to meet the needs of its customers in Brazil, the company has developed a bio-fuel run Agera R model specific to that market.

The report mentioned that the Swedish company has tied up with Rahul Bhatia-promoted InterGlobe Enterprises (that also runs low-cost airline Indigo) for launching Agera models in India. The cars would be sold directly to high networth individuals without any dealership network. "We will not set up dealerships but will sell these cars directly to owners that would be determined through our own database. We are dealing in a host of luxury products and would be retailing them directly to customers with complete service backup," Nigel A Harwood, President & CEO of Interglobe Established Products, was quoted as saying but he refused to confirm any sales projections for the car in India.

According to the report, in addition to Koenigsegg, Interglobe plans to launch other super cars like the Gumpert Apollo along with Nostalgia's that are basically Jaguar replicas and the Deronda race cars would also be available though direct sales channels. The report mentioned that Interglobe has also introduced the world fastest-production bike, Vyrus, and highly customised bike, Hollister, in the Indian market. The company also introduced half-a-dozen yatch brands in India.

2011 Triumph Daytona 675R

The 675R is born to be on a race track, whether at the hands of a racer or a keen trackday rider. A standard 675 won't disappoint on a circuit, but the 675R ups the game to race-bike levels of suspension composure once you start pushing harder. Where the standard 675 would start moving around and getting a little flighty, the R is as solid as a rock. The quickshifter works well too, even at low speeds cruising down pit lane, and makes short shifting up the gears before a bend or crest a doddle.

It's a big ask to improve on the Nissins that grace the standard 675 and, whilst the Brembo monoblocks don't perform any worse than the standard calipers, neither do they bring any improvements. But hey, they do look better and as they perform just as well, who am I to complain?

The 675R will cost you an extra £1400 over the standard issue 675 and that's ruddy good value; to convert a standard 675 to a similar spec, would cost over £4000.

If you're a superstock or supersport racer, buying a 675R is a no brainer – race ready suspension is a big saving at the beginning of a season and the quickshifter will be a handy advantage in the superstock class. For a handy trackday rider, the chassis on the 675R will give noticeably better performance than the standard bike, in addition to looking cooler in the paddock. For anyone else, the pearlescent white paint, red subframe and gold suspension make the 675R stunning to behold which, to a lot of people, is worth the extra cost alone.

2011 Triumph Daytona 675R
Price £9,799 OTR
Engine 675cc, 4-stroke, 3-cylinder, liquid-cooled, DOHC
Bore x stroke 74 mm × 52.3 mm
Front suspension Öhlins 43mm upside down NIX30 forks
Rear suspension Öhlins TTX36 twin tube monoshock
Front brakes 308mm floating discs, Brembo 4-piston radial mono-block calipers
Rear brake Single 220mm disc, Nissin single piston caliper
Seat height 830 mm
Fuel capacity 17.4 litres

The New Honda CBR600F

The Honda CBR600F is back and as accessible as ever, with enough performance (around the bends at least) to keep even the most seasoned roundabout surfer interested. Before the heavens opened and left us all tiptoeing around b

olt upright, the CBR was given a thorough thrashing to see if it could live up to s

uch a well established name. On a winding Spanish road, the new CBR promotes confidence levels normally attained through several alcoholic drinks and room full of mates egging you on.

The engine is very refined, offering smooth, usable power throughout the rev range. Which sounds great until I admit that's just a pretentious way of saying it's boring. In fairness to the CBR, on an interesting road the ignorable engine makes sense, allowing you to concentrate on the ride and reading the road. But when you're not chasing vanishing points, trying to make the bikes in your mirror disappear, it would be nice to have an engine that had a bit of soul to it.

The chassis, on the other hand, is just right, offering a good blend of comfort and control. Even when pushing on a bit, braking deep into a bend and then pitching the bike in hard, it still remains composed. Obviously, if you were to start really pushing things on a race circuit, you'd soon have the suspension protesting. If you buy a CBR600F and find yourself disappointed by the performance on track, you've picked the wrong letters; you wanted the CBR600RR. This CBR is aimed at new riders, young riders and riders who want a sporty 600, but not enough to endure the impracticalities of a race bike for the road. With that in mind, Honda has struck the nail in the appropriate manner. For an inexperienced rider, the engine will be a soothing ally, nursing your confidence and allowing you to develop your riding skills.

Also launched in Spain were the Honda CBR250R and the CBR125R, both bearing strikingly similar looks and riding positions to the 600F. Anyone would think that Honda plan to get young riders hooked using the CBR125R and then, as their cravings grow, build them up to the hard stuff. Sounds quite sinister when it's put like that doesn't it?

In easy-to-digest bullet point form;
- Yes, the CBR125R will wheelie, just.
- The new CBR125R looks and feels like a full size bike (unlike the previous model)
- Both the CBR250R and the CBR125R go faster if you lay flat on the tank with your feet stretched out like superman on the pillion seat.
- Racing around the footpaths at the hotel, the CBR250R was fastest but the 125 was the most fun.

22 Reasons Why should Buy the Bugatti Veyron Million Dollar Car

1. It’s $1.7 million dollars

2. Because it looks like the Batmobile.

3. To change the 4 tires, which are special made and to-order by Michelin, costs $47,000. Oh, another important note on tires: the only company that is certified by VW to remove and put tires on the rims charges a cool $71,000 dollars for the service.

4. The car needs 10 radiators to keep engine temperatures in control, even though the engine is exposed to the elements.

• 4 radiators for the engine cooling system.

• 1 radiator for the air to liquid intercoolers.

• 2 for the air conditioning system.

• 1 transmission oil radiator.

• 1 differential oil radiator.

• 1 engine oil radiator.

5. It costs VW nearly $5 million dollars to make one Veyron, but they sell it for substianlly less than that. When the project manager was asked why in the world a car company would do that he answered, “we realize it’s a loss, but we get to say we created the fastest, most expensive and powerful production car in the world.”

6. The car’s top speed is 256 miles per hour. To give you some context, that would have you cover the Minnesota Viking’s football field in .7 tenths of a second.

7. They are only making 220 of them, which means you-be-a-cool-cat.

8. If you have a mechanical failure, you can push a button in the car and a GPS beacon is activated, and a special VW/Bugatti mechanic is flown to your location to assist you/the towing company in removing your car from the side of the road.

9. To give you some context of how much power 1001 horsepower is: The most powerful car in the world for nearly 15 years was the McLaren F1 GTR. If you lined up the GTR against the Veyron, and let the GTR take off until it hit 125mph before theVeyron started, the Veyron would still beat it to 200mph.

10. To get the car to it’s top speed you have to pull over, put the car in park, and insert a key into a slot that lowers the rear wing and lowers the entire car closer to the ground, creating more aerodynamic downforce.

11. The car has a 8.1 liter W16 engine. That’s 2 V8′s put together.

12. It’s all-wheel drive, an excellent selling point for Midwest owners of the supercar.

13. It will do 0-60 mph in 2.4 seconds.

14. It will do 0-100 mph in 5.7 seconds. Some added context: That’s faster than any Ferrari or Lamborghini can get to 60mph by your standard joe-the-plumber high performance sports car owner.

15. You can create 3.1 G of deceleration when slamming on the brakes from 200mph. That’s just 3G shy of what an F16 fighter pilot would hit when doing tactical takeoff’s.

16. Clothing designer Hermes upholstered 3 of them in a special edition release of the automobile. These 3 are for my people.

17. It’s top speed is 1/3 of the speed of sound.

18. At top speed, the engine will suck in as much air as you breathe in 4 days.

19. At top speed, when you slam on the brakes, the rear spoiler will also angle itself down, acting as an airbrake. The braking power the rear wing creates is equal to a small VW hatchback.

20. Oh, it has 4 turbochargers.

21. It will do 0-186 mph in 16 seconds.

22. Most car designers think it’s the most obnoxious thing in the world.