Click jacking happens when you visit a website that shows you content to mislead you into interacting with it. When you do, suddenly messages/wall posts/ etc (because this usually happens on facebook) get sent with your knowledge. Sometimes it can be an embarrassing post on your own wall, and sometimes annoying post to ALL your friends’ walls (which is a pain to delete).

We’ve seen those intriguing videos being posted around our friends’ walls and usually curiosity gets the better of us, so we *click*. It leads to a page that can either be a fake video page, or a fake captcha page, or who knows what these malicious folks come up with these days. So, if you’re the really curious type, or you have friends who really do post weird videos that you’re often interested in watching yourself, make it a habit to browse these links in private, so at least you’re safe from being possibly click jacked.

HOW

1.Download and install a browser that supports in-private browsing. I use either IE 8 for XP, IE9 for Win7 or Chrome

2. whenever you see a link to a video that you’d like to view and it doesn’t play directly within facebook (that is, it takes you to another page or opens a new window) right click on the link and select “Copy Shortcut” (IE) or “Copy link address” (chrome)

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3. To start a private session, hold Ctrl and shift then press P for IE and for chrome Ctrl+Shift+N. Your new browser windows should look like this:

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Chrome

4. Go to the address bar of your browser and press Ctrl+V and press enter. Already the link looks malicious, but since we’re in private and not logged into any accounts, there’s no risk of your accounts being compromised (unless you already have an in private session going on where you’re logged in)

The example above just redirects to google now so they’ve probably taken it down. But since it’s not loading a proper page, we can safely assume that that was a malicious link. At this point, I can either ignore any future posts of the friend who posted since he clearly easily falls into these things, or I can help him out by letting him know that there’s a link to a malicious site that’s been posted on his wall in case he’s not aware. And if you’re feeling extra helpful, teach them what you’ve learned about in private browsing. You can do your part to make the internet (well, maybe just facebook) a safer place.

Not the most techie thing to do but hey, today isn’t the greatest day to be using much of my brain as most of it is concentrating on agonizing on pain. I was browsing around the blogs I monitor and found a post by Long Zheng talking about a little experiment that showed how much branding had an impact on peoples perceptions about search engines. Check out his post if you want to know more. Down the comments, I found someone saying that he wanted to make it his default browser search and saw that he created a search provider. I tried installing it but I am guessing it only works for Firefox. So I went ahead and created my own which I found was quite easy for IE8, especially with the tools that they have out there.

1. Go to http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/searchguide/en-en/default.mspx where they already have a list of popular search providers. They also have a custom-search-provider-generatorer if you want to create one of your own

2. Go to the search page that you would like to create a provider for and search for TEST (all caps). When the results page come, paste the URL in the text box provided and name your custom search provider

3. Now you can choose to install the provider straight from the page, but if you’d like to share it on your blog/web page, what you do next is click on View XML. It should take you to a page similar to the one below:

4. Next step is to go to File->Save As and save the page to your local drive as anything-you-want.xml and upload it to your webserver, skydrive, or anywhere visible to the internet at large.

5. Now on the page where you want to share your provider, you’ll need a link that will point to the following code "javascript:window.external.AddSearchProvider(‘http://www.aimeegurl.com/blindsearch.xml’);". In my case, i have this page:

with the following code to the Add Blind Search link:

And it’s that simple

I know, I owe a super tech friday next week… especially since I skipped last week! ^_^

Twitter has definitely become more and more popular both for work and for personal stuff. I have my personal twitter account which I use as I please: update the world about my bathroom habits, complain about unfortunate events, have random conversations with people, etc. I also have another work account which I have just started, with the goal of reaching out to the product development companies in Singapore (i have yet to think about how to go about this).

Sometimes I don’t like using the desktop clients because they tend to become a bit too heavy to keep running. So I keep twitter opened in my browser. The challenge is if I find someone interesting from my personal account and I want to follow them on my work account, it’s a bit taxing to logout-login.

Solution:

I make use of IE8’s InPrivate Browsing feature. To activate you can either press <Ctrl+Shift+P> or under Safety Menu, you can click on InPrivate Browsing.

You should be able to login with different credentials this way. I use the same method when I need to login with different Live IDs as well. (I think i have 7 o_O)