Category Archives: Tech News

Jan 13

10 Tech Companies To Keep an Eye On In 2013

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Bangalore: 2012 played the role of a potter’s wheel where tech companies took different shapes; some were successful, some broke, some were unchanged and some merged into others. 2013 too is providing a platform for the companies for transitions, and like a sequence to popular movie, you get curious to watch closely the way these tech companies carry their saga which was started in last year into this year.

Tech world is waiting to see whether Marissa Mayer can keep the momentum going at Yahoo and whether Web fossils Myspace and Digg can successfully reinvent themselves. Who will fall flat on their faces, and who will dazzle us with their innovation? Read on to know the 10 tech companies to watch closely in 2013 as compiled by LA Times. The list contains no biggies like Facebook or Google which can get your attention anyway, but the companies which would have slipped your notice otherwise. Read More…

Jan 01

How Well Our Favorite Tech Companies Fared This Year

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Bangalore: This year has been a high octane ride for the tech companies. There were many high profile releases, be it the products or services. Statista, an online statistics portal, had come up with list of the ten favorite tech giants according to their performance this year; considering their income, revenue and stock performance. While Apple and Samsung ruled the roost in terms of net income, LinkedIn has emerged as a golden child in terms of year-over-year growth, with whopping 89 percent revenue increase. Read More…

Dec 20

Apple eyes Passbook coupons with touch of NFC

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A new patent from Apple provides loads of information on Passbook and hints at the possibility of using near-field communications with the app.

Published today by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, the patent, dubbed “Integrated Coupon Storage, Discovery, And Redemption System,” goes into great detail about a system that lets you manage and redeem electronic coupons on a mobile device.

As described in the patent, such a system could trigger an alert on your phone when you’re near a store where a saved coupon can be used. It could also alert you when you’re using your device to buy something.

Passbook currently allows you to store digital coupons on your iOS device so that you can redeem them at different stores and merchants. Read More…

Dec 17

Apple in 2013: Five predictions

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What will Apple do next? It’s the very secret sauce that keeps the company interesting, along with some very successful products.

Here are five predictions for the next 12 months as Apple heads into one of its most closely watched years yet.

Editor’s note: This is the first in a series of stories looking ahead at what’s to come from a handful of major technology companies, and technology categories. In the coming days CNET will do the same for Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon, and others. Read More…

Dec 17

Hackers hit Westboro Baptist Church after Newtown threat

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A group attached to the online hacktivist group Anonymous claims to have hacked the Web site of the Westboro Baptist Church in response to plans by the controversial church to picket the funerals of those massacred Friday at a school in Newtown, Conn.

As part of a campaign dubbed #OpWestBoro, KY Anonymous said yesterday it posted the personal information belonging to members of the extremist organization, which is best known for conducting protests designed to disrupt the funerals of members of the military killed in action. The data dump included the names, phone numbers, e-mail addresses, and physical addresses of dozens of alleged members of the religious organization. The group did not indicate where or how it acquired the data.  Read More…

 

Dec 16

10 Tech CEOs Who Could Be Fired Now

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Bangalore: CEOs are at helm of the company and so are credited with all things, good or bad, the company goes through. More than often they have to captain a ship out of mighty storm. Some pull trough and some fizzle out. The CEOs who failed to pull through, had to put up with “hot seat” before they were actually relieved of their positions. Read to know such 10 CEOs who were in hot seats, as compiled by Business Insider. Read More…

Oct 02

How to modify Active Directory passwords through PHP

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The secret is keep in Active Directory on a user object within the unicodePwd attribute. This attribute is written under some restricted conditions, however it can’t be accessible, but the value of this attribute can be modify or alter.
In order to alter this attribute, you must have a 128-bit Secure Socket Layer (SSL) connection to the server. For this connection to be possible, the server must possess a server certificate for a 128-bit RSA connection, the client must trust the certificate authority (CA) that generated the server certificate, and both client and server must be capable of 128-bit encryption.

Passwords must meet complexity requirements determines whether password complexity is enforced. If this setting is enabled, user passwords meet the following requirements:

  • The password is at least six characters long.
  • The password contains characters from at least three of the following five categories:
    • English uppercase characters (A – Z)
    • English lowercase characters (a – z)
    • Base 10 digits (0 – 9)
    • Non-alphanumeric (For example: !, $, #, or %)
    • Unicode characters
  • The password does not contain three or more characters from the user’s account name.

PHP code as follows:
function create_ldap_connection() {
$ip = "Ad server IP";
$ldaps_url = "ldaps://$ip";
$port = 636;

$ldap_conn = ldap_connect( $ldaps_url, $port ) or die("Sorry! Could not connect to LDAP server ($ip)");

ldap_set_option($ldap_conn, LDAP_OPT_PROTOCOL_VERSION, 3);

$username = "AdminUserName";
$password = "AdminPassword";
$binddn = "CN=Administrator,CN=Users,DC=TestDomain,DC=local";

$result = ldap_bind( $ldap_conn, $binddn, $password ) or die("
Error: Couldn't bind to server using provided credentials!");

if($result) {
return $ldap_conn;
} else {
die("
Error: Couldn't bind to server with supplied credentials!");
}
}

function get_user_dn( $ldap_conn, $user_name ) {
/* Write the below details as per your AD setting */
$basedn = "DC=AD Test,DC=Local";
/* Search the user details in AD server */
$searchResults = ldap_search( $ldap_conn, $basedn, $user_name );
if ( !is_resource( $searchResults ) )
die('Error in search results.');

/* Get the first entry from the searched result */
$entry = ldap_first_entry( $ldap_conn, $searchResults );
return ldap_get_dn( $ldap_conn, $entry );
}

function pwd_encryption( $newPassword ) {
$newPassword = "\"" . $newPassword . "\"";
$len = strlen( $newPassword );
$newPassw = "";
for ( $i = 0; $i < $len; $i++ ){
$newPassw .= "{$newPassword{$i}}\000";
}
$userdata["unicodePwd"] = $newPassw;
return $userdata;
}

$user_name = "(sAMAccountName=UserName of user whose password want to change)";//Dont remove parentheses brackets
$user_password = "New Password";

$ldap_conn = create_ldap_connection();
$userDn = get_user_dn($ldap_conn, $user_name);
$userdata = pwd_encryption($user_password);

$result = ldap_mod_replace($ldap_conn, $userDn , $userdata);
/* Check whether the password updated successfully or not. */
if ( $result )
die("Password changed successfully!");
else
die("Error: Please try again later!");