Bitly Compromised

• Bitly... a URL shortening site that helped many bloggers shorten the URL, hide their paths and post them through microbloggng sites and other social networking sites HAVE been hacked.
• Their CEO Mark Josephson has blogged in his post.
• He blogged that 

"We have reason to believe that Bitly account credentials have been compromised; specifically, users' email addresses, encrypted passwords, API keys and OAuth tokens," 

• The  registered users of Bitly has been advised to
• Log into Bitly account from Twitter or Facebook
• Reset Legacy API keys
• Copy and replace this key in all your profiles.
• Then reset all your passwords.
• Bitly has invalidated all Twitter and Facebook credentials, meaning that a user will not be able to use Bitly from these social networking sites till he resets the options given above.
• So Beware...Be Aware and keep urself safe
• Happy Hunting
• Sourcehttp://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2457837,00.asp?mailingID=F1BEF928D79843FDAF41D5B2084CF083

Reset Administrative password in Mac Book Pro

Yesterday while sipping our evening tea, my roommate  came to me with the problem "I have Forgotten my Administrative Password ". The device in use was MAC pro note book loaded with Mac OS. Frankly speaking I  have never worked on Apple before, only had it as a staple fruit diet. ;). However itook upon myself the challenge of resetting the Administrative password. given below are the steps followed.

Step 1 Reboot your Mac. As soon as you hear the loading  jingle, Press Apple key and 's'(or Command+s key)
Step 2 When you get the text/command prompt, type following using all the spaces correctly one by one

mount -uw /
rm /var/db/.AppleSetupDone
shutdown -h now

Step 3  restart and you will be prompted for setting up your account. follow those steps and you have got a new administrative account.

Only problem faced was that either you should have the Apple id handy or reregister again.

Happy hunting