» About
There have been tonnes of cases where community owners have lost their communities to unknown unethical profiles on orkut. Today, we will let you know how they usually operate and how they are able to get access to your accounts and finally take over your communities.
» Why they do it?
» Very Easy
Orkut has some loop holes some of which favor a simple exploit which can extract and transfer your cookies to the desired location. These cookies can further used to get into an account without any username or password required. This is a simple exploit and even a kid if taught can perform it
» Craze
Every guy on this world wide web wants to become an hacker. It has become a trend on orkut and kids like to boast being called hackers which is exacly not what they want to be.
» Personal Grudges
They want to harass you, disturb you so use this simple method and pray that you fall in their trap
» Huge Community
A huge user community is one delicious prey of ‘hackers’ on orkut. They love to hack the big ones and then, just place a cookie stealing script as a topic and wait for the some in that many users to fall a prey to them.
» What Gifts Your Community or Account?
» Suspicious Links
Clicking on links can compromise your security and privacy on orkut. A simple click on a link can install viruses and keyloggers in your computers. Avoid clicking on suspicious links which you don’t trust or you received form an unknown source.
» Cookie Transfer Scripts
Please read this article to know more about – detecting a cookie stealing script on orkut
» Greasemonkey Scripts and addons
Cookie stealing scripts can easily be masked within userscripts. Avoid installing greasemonkey scripts (a.k.a userscripts) from unknown sources
» Fake Login Pages
This is one simple trap to get your login details. A fake login page will have a url which is NOT www.orkut.com. You may recieve a link via scraps or emails claiming to be the ‘quick’ orkut page or an orkut proxy. Make sure you never try it even if it is from closest of your freinds.
» Short Url’s or Tiny Url’s
Clicking on a suspicious link can be destructive as explained earlier. That link can me masked using tiny url services or short url services. Stay away from such links. If a friend scraps you tell him or her to send the actual link.
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Gaurav Dua – Orkut Guru – 539 Points 
22, Webmaster and Businessman. Based in Jammu, J&K – India
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