Locate your lost phone with Google Android Device Manager

Have you ever lost your phone in between the couch cushions or left it in a restaurant? Google announces its Official Security Apps "Android Device Manager" for locating and to safeguard your Android phone from getting stolen.  Android Device Manager can quickly ring your phone at maximum volume so you can find it, even if it’s been silenced or locate it on a map, in real time, using this application.    

It will allow you to track, locate and Wipe the data in your device remotely.  The tool will support the Android 2.2 version.  You need to signed into your Google Account to be able to use this tool.  This application will be able available to download from Google Play at the end of the month.

Like Apple’s iCloud Service which allows you to locate the iDevice, Google too will be offering soon this tool for users later this month as per the Official Google Blog. With simple features and easy to use interface, you would love to locate your Android device. Benjamin Poiesz is the Product Manager for this app from Google Inc.

 Google Android Device Manager  Features

Lock your device screen.  

Whether you’re on a phone or a tablet, it’s easy to set up a screen lock. This is important to do in case your device gets left in the back of a car, or you’re worried about someone picking up your phone and scrolling through your stuff. You can lock your device with a pin, password, pattern (or even your face!) by going to Settings > Personal > Security > Screen Lock.

Protect your phone from suspicious apps.  

We automatically scan Google Play to block and remove harmful apps. That makes Google Play the safest place to get Android apps. But Google Play can also help protect you even for apps you get elsewhere, like the web or a third-party app store. The first time you start to install an app from an unknown source, a message will pop up asking if you’d like Google to scan the file to make sure it’s not harmful. Tap “OK” to let Google help protect you from harmful apps.

Locate, ring and wipe a misplaced device.  

If you ended up dropping your phone between those couch cushions, Android Device Manager lets you quickly ring your phone at maximum volume so you can find it, even if it's been silenced. And in the event that your phone or tablet is out of earshot (say, at that restaurant you left it at last night), you can locate it on a map in real time.  If your phone can’t be recovered, or has been stolen, you can quickly and securely erase all of the data on your device to keep your data from ending up in the wrong hands. The Android Device Manager will be available for devices running Android 2.2 and above, as part of Google Play.

Protecting your personal information and data

While losing your phone can be stressful, Android Device Manager can help you keep your data from ending up in the wrong hands. If your phone can’t be recovered, or has been stolen, you can quickly and securely erase all of the data on your device.

Source: Android Blog, Google Blog

Type in your own language with Google Input Tool | Malayalam Tamil Kannada Telugu Hindi Urdu Arabic

Now you can type any where in your own language with the help of Google Input Tools.   Google Input Tools for Windows is an input method editor which allows users to enter text in any of the supported languages using a Latin (English / QWERTY) keyboard. Users can type a word the way it sounds using Latin characters and Google Input Tools for Windows will convert the word to its native script. Available input tools include transliteration, IME, and on-screen keyboards.

You can able to write in Facebook, Twitter, any other web site or even Microsoft Word in your own language. For this you have to enable Google input tools in your PC, select the language from the  language bar and the type it in English as sound in your language. As soon as you type the word and press space bar it will appear in your language.  Also it will show available option, you can select from the option also.

Google Input Tools for Windows is presently available for 22 different languages: Amharic, Arabic, Bengali, Persian, Greek, Gujarati, Hebrew, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Nepali, Oriya, Punjabi, Russian, Sanskrit, Serbian, Sinhala, Tamil, Telugu, Tigrinya and Urdu.

Following easy steps guide you to enable Google Input Tools in your computer

1. Go to http://www.google.com/inputtools/windows/

2. Select your language. I have selected Malayalam, Tamil & Hindi as a example here.

3. Then select I agree Google Terms of Service and Privacy Police and click download.

  4. Then right click on the downloaded file and click Open.

5. Then click Yes

6. Then the installation will be done automatically. This will take a minute.

7. Click Close

Now you are about ready to use Google Input Tools.

8. Click on Language bar on your task bar and select the language you want to use.

 

9. Now open any application or any web page like Facebook or Microsoft word and start typing.

 Google Input Tool Video

Google Introduce Voice and Video Chat Facility from Gmail

See and hear family and friends right inside Gmail . You can talk face to face with Gmail voice and video chat. You can Chat more ways than ever from within Gmail. From Goolgle you can enjoy Look and sound your best with high quality audio and video.

Goolge Talk is free and you need an OS having configuration Windows XP or higher.




How to using Gamil Voice and Video Facilities:

• Download the Gmail voice and video chat plug-in, quit all open browser windows, and install the plug-in.
• Sign in to Gmail.
• In the Chat section of your Gmail, select the contact you want to call. If they have a camera icon next to their name, you can make a voice or video call to them; just click Video & more.

To Download Gmail Voice and Video Chat Plug-in click here.

To download the Plug-in for Mozilla Firefox Browser click here.

See this Video for more information:

Two held on Orkut Abuse against Sindhu Joy, SFI State President.

The Kerala Police have arrested two persons on the charge of defaming Ms.Sindhu Joy, SFI State President through Orkut, one of the most famous social networking website in India, with the help of Kerala Police Hi-Tech Cell.

The students’ leader, who has been successfully using the friendship network portal to interact with SFI activists and spread the message of the Federation among her other friends, has approached the Cyber Cell of Kerala Police with a written complaint against activities on Orkut that are derogatory to her. In the complaint filed at the Cell, Sindhu Joy specifically mentioned two communities in Orkut that she felt were formed with the intention of tarnishing her image. “One of the communities ‘I hate Sindhu Joy’ has several messages to defame me. I don’t know who is behind this community,” Sindhu Joy told. She first took up the issue with Home Minister Kodiyeri Balakrishnan, who advised her to approach the Cyber Cell.

The case was enquired by the Hi-Tech Cell Team and identified the suspects as Prasobh Kumar (Age 32), a lecturer of the Centre for Management Development at Thycaud, Thiruvananthapuram and Asok Kumar (Age 29), a project staff of the same centre, a Hi-Tech Cell official said. He also said that the suspects had used their office computers to create fake and defamatory communities of Sindhu Joy on Orkut. The case was then transferred to Thiruvananthapuram City Police for investigation.

Cyber Cell find out the creator of the defamatory community ‘I Hate Sindhu Joy’ as ‘A new Thought.!!!’ on 21 Oct 2007 and the second community ‘Sindhu joy time to defend’ was created by a user ‘Proper action’ on 19 Oct 2007. They traced the details of the creators of the two communities using Cyber Forensics software tools and information collected from Google Inc. and Internet Service Providers. The two fake communities were created from the computers of Center of Management Development, Thiruvananthapuram, an official said.

Thiruvananthapuram City Police arrested the accused persons and seized the computers that are used to create the communities and fake profiles from the Centre for Management Development at Thycaud, Thiruvananthapuram. The seized computers are being sent to C-DAC (Center for Development of Advanced Computing, Thiruvananthapuram, for forensic analysis, a City Police official said.



Related Articles: NewIndExpress, ThatisMalayalam

The net is an insecure place - US CERT Reminder

If you use Gmail, eBay, MySpace, or any one of dozens of other web-based services, the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team wants you to know you're vulnerable to a simple attack that could give an attacker complete control over your account.

US CERT warned that Google, eBay, MySpace, Yahoo, and Microsoft were vulnerable, but that list is nowhere near exhaustive. It said the world's biggest websites have yet to fix the gaping security bug, which can bite even careful users who only log in using the secure sockets layer protocol, which is denoted by an HTTPS in the beginning of browser address window. Just about any banking website, online social network or other electronic forum that transmits certain types of security cookies is also susceptible.

The vulnerability stems from websites' use of authentication cookies, which work much the way an ink-based hand stamp does at your favorite night club. Like the stamp, the cookie acts as assurance to sensitive web servers that the user has already been vetted by security and is authorized to tread beyond the velvet rope.

The thing is just about every website transmits these digital hand stamps in the clear, which leaves them wide open to snoops monitoring public Wi-Fi traffic or some other type of network. Once attackers have the cookie, they gain complete access to the victim's account, and depending on the way many cookies are crafted, those privileges may continue in perpetuity - even if the victim changes the account password.

Indeed, awareness of this man-in-the-middle vulnerability is by no means new. For more than a decade people have known that authentication cookies could be manipulated, but somehow it took the folks at Errata Security to make a presentation at Black Hat to remind the world that the risks continue.

If you're waiting for a fix, we recommend you pack a very large lunch. And beyond that, where possible you might switch to Google, which has already gone a long way to closing the hole.

As the only web-based email service we know of that offers a start-to-finish SSL session, the service is among the most resilient to cookie hijacking. Unfortunately, Gmail doesn't enable persistent SSL by default, and has done little to educate its users about its benefits.

The company also offers SSL for its calendar, search history, documents and reader services, and a Google spokesman said security engineers "are actively working to expand capacity to enable HTTPS encryption for all users."

In the meantime, a Firefox extension called CustomizeGoogle provides a simple way to ensure that all sessions with the above-mentioned Google services are automatically protected by SSL.

Vulnerability in Google’s XSSploding Gadgets

RSnake revealed a cross site scripting vulnerability affecting Google Gadgets in the gmodules.com domain.
This XSS hole allows anybody to store his/her own web content, including JavaScript code, anywhere and to have it rendered and executed in the context of the gmodules.com domain, with no further validation of sort.

RSnake responsibly reported his finding to Google before resorting to public disclosure, but the G guys answered that this behavior is “by design” and won’t be fixed.

What does it mean?

For the average user, such a vulnerability means that phishers can effectively exploit a site owned by Google as a free hosting facility, making quite impractical blacklisting and/or shutting down the scam: don’t forget Firefox’s built-in anti-phishing blacklist is provided by Google itself.

Kerala Chief Minister's fake profiles in Orkut.com

Cyber Police have received a number of complaints against social networking sites like Orkut that’s teeming with fake profiles of women and Ministers of Sate.

In a recent development, the State Police have requested ‘Google’ to provide the IP address and other details of fake profile creators. This will stop cyber crimes to a great extent. Fake profiles inviting the company of women have been the major attraction in Orkut recently.

The first complaint registered by the Police was from Adarsh, a web developer in Kochi. He found that another profile has been created with his name, photograph and phone number. The issue became grave when he found that the other person has been posting obscene pictures and messages in this profile. The Police was successful in tracing the culprit.

There’s another group targeted by fake profile-makers - ministers. Profiles of Co-operation Minister G Sudhakaran - describing him as a friend and a man of eccentricities - are already in Orkut. This is in addition to a number of communities (groups of members on specific topics) on him.

While some of them merely give his personal profile, a few have gone to the extent of terming him a ‘lunatic’. Profiles of the Chief Minister are also available online.

Even though there has been a flood of Cyber Crimes, Police find it difficult to deal with them as only a few complaints come under the Information Technology (IT) Act. ‘‘Section 65 of the IT Act identifies hacking as a crime. In Section 66, unauthorised access is a crime and Section 67 identifies exhibition of pornographic materials as a crime.

Source: Newindpress

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