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HACKTOBERFEST 2022! All you need to know

Mayank Rajput (HackElite) — Sat, 01 Oct 2022 16:30:49 +0000

Happy Hacktoberfest everyone!

We are so excited for the hacktoberfest. We believe that open source can help unlock the full potential of process automation. We’re passionate about automating processes, creating easy-to-use products, and collaborating with our community members.

Prizes

This year we’re going to do things a little differently and are taking a more eco-friendly approach to prizes. After 4 successful Pull Request completion, we will make a donation to One Tree Planted which plants trees across the globe focusing on areas in need of habitat rehabilitation.

If you complete the challenge you will also have the option of choosing to receive the limited edition Hacktoberfest 2022 t-shirt & other swags too.

How to Participate

Go to Github & SignUp/Login to account.
Go to Hacktoberfest and register with github.
Now go to Repo to create pull requests.

How to make your first Pull Requests

Replace with your GitHub username in this guide.

Add your profile picture to the folder Add a picture picture of your choice in images/ . Accepted files are png and jpg, should be squared and minimum size 544x544 pixels. Ex. images/<YOUR-USERNAME>.png

Add your profile information Create a markdown file in your folder following the convention Ex. content/participant/<YOUR-USERNAME>.md/

Copy the next template into your file, delete the boilerplate data and fill the information with yours.
name: YOURNAME institution/company: INSTITUTION_NAME github:USERNAME

Wait for Pull Request to merge. Here our works start to review and merge your pull requests.

Our Advice

Your PR does not have to be code-heavy. Documentation improvements are always welcome.
Read the our README.MD page before getting started to understand how to write a PR that will pass any automated testing in the project, which will make it more likely to be accepted.
If you do not respond to a request for changes within 7 days, your PR will be closed.
If you make the requested changes after your PR has been closed, feel free to submit another PR.
Have a plan for what you would like to accomplish when submitting a PR to a project.
Strive to adhere to our Community Code of Conduct. Review the Hacktoberfest Resources page for more information regarding Hacktoberfest.

Rules

The rules are simple: submit four quality pull requests to any our repo on GitHub and earn a t-shirt & swags! (fine print below)

To qualify for the official limited edition 2022 t-shirt & swags:

You must make four (4) pull requests (PRs) between October 1-31 (in any time zone).
Qualifying PRs can be made in any repository including the Hackelite01 repo.

1.Not all community maintainers are participating in Hacktoberfest. Check for the hacktoberfest label to find participating repos.
2.PRs must be ready to review (not drafts).
3.PRs may be marked invalid by a maintainer if the PR:

Is determined to be spam
Does not follow the contribution guidelines
Is not in line with the project’s code of conduct

4.Invalid PRs do not count towards your PR total.

Prizes will start shipping in December 2022
Thanks for reading! Have a good day :)

What can be done with an IP address?

Mayank Rajput (HackElite) — Thu, 22 Sep 2022 09:11:01 +0000

What can be done with an IP address? sounds a simple question but the answer is not so simple. Some of you may already be known about IP addresses. An IP address (Internet Protocol) is like your internet address, every device which is connected to an internet or computer network has a unique IP address, such as your mobile phone, computer, printer and many more which is connected to the internet or a computer network has a unique IP address.

IP addresses are written in a human-readable form such as 127.0.0.1, i will not go deep about ip addresses in this article. you can learn more about IP addresses from wiki. In This post you will learn that what can be done with an IP address of a smartphone or device, you will learn that how a simple numerical digit can help unethical hackers and how to protect from this.

How to find your IP Address?

It is very easy to find your IP address, just open google and search for "my IP address", in the result page you can see your IP address easily. If you don't want to use google then you can just see your IP address by opening myip.com in browser or by using ipconfig in you command prompt.

What can be done with an IP address?

IP address are like your address, its just a number but it can give many use full information about the device, location, ISP, and many more. Your IP address can be used by many websites, apps, webapps, to identify you and to give best experience. But IP addresses also can be used by hackers to give you worst experience, you will get information in this post about how hackers can find & use your IP address.

How can someone get your IP address?

IP address contains valuable information about you, your identity, and your device, so hackers can use it for malicious purpose. There are many ways hackers can get your IP address easily. Here are most common ways that used for finding someones IP address.

1. From A Link

This is very easy way to find someones IP address easily. Hackers can send you a link through social media, email, message, that tracks IP addresses, when you will click on that link hacker will get your IP address instantly. There are most of sites and scripts in internet who provides these service of creating a link to capture someones IP address.

2. By Using Your Device

If someone borrow your smartphone, PC for use then they can check your IP address easily by searching on google as i told you above in this post.

3. By Sending an Email

When you send a email or reply a email to someone then the receiver can see your IP address by checking the header of message. Header of the message can contain IP address , some email services like yahoo, Microsoft outlook know to include IP address in header of a email.

These are the common possible ways can be used by someone to find your IP address without knowing you.

What can hackers do with your IP address?

IP addresses can be used in many ways to fin information about you, here are some possible things someone can do with your IP address.

1. People Can Find Your Location & ISP information

By finding your IP address someone can find your location in seconds. There are many free websites in the internet that can track a IP address and reveal sensitive info about you for free, its funny but its true. Hacker can get your current city location easily by your IP address and also hacker can sell this info to other criminals they can rude your Privacy. They also can get information about your internet service provider or sim card easily. But by IP address they can not see your phone number.

2. Hackers can hack your device

Hackers can brute force your IP address with different ports, internet uses ports to connect. Hackers can perform a brute force on your IP address with different ports and can gain access to your device. After hacking your device they can easily steal your valuable, private information even they can control your device too, and it can be very dangerous for you.

3. Cyber criminals can use to do crime

Hackers use hacked IP address to do illegal works, such as downloading illegal files, breaking securities, and many other crimes that can be dangerous for national security. Using your hacked IP address cyber criminals can frame you for illegal activity.

How To Protect Yourself

You should always protect your online identity, Hyperactive online users are more vulnerable. Here are some ways to protect your IP address and device from being hacked

Use a VPN

VPN is best way to protect your real ip address easily. VPN apps and software are available for free in app stores. Most free VPN like proton vpn, express vpn, are good for use. If you want high security then you should use a good paid vpn such as Nord VPN.

Avoid clicking on Anonymous Links

Don't click on links that are send you by any anonymous person. Use VPN to click on such a link that are specious and sent you anonymously.

Don't reply unknown emails

Sometime we get unknown emails from different email addresses, you should not reply these emails and also don't click on any link that are embedded there. Just mark them as SPAM.

Update Your Router settings

Hackers can access Wi-Fi routers easily so you should not use default settings for the routers. Change password of your router every week. Use strong and long password for your router. If it is your home/private router then always make it password protected. Always update router and computer firewall.

Use Strong Privacy Settings

Use strong privacy settings for your social media accounts. Don't accept online calls from unknown persons on any instant messaging platform such as skype, messenger. Hackers can retrieve your IP address using Skype. Better to use VPN.

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Thanks for reading! Be careful & safe :)

Languages to learn Web development

Mayank Rajput (HackElite) — Mon, 19 Sep 2022 16:10:20 +0000

Technology plays an integral part in our day-to-day lives. It surrounds us in the simplest of places to perform ordinary tasks and make room for great inventions. All the web pages and software that we use to make our lives easier are developed by Web Developers. However, the Web Development is still not clear to many of us, so let’s start there and learn more about which languages are required for Web Development.

1. HTML

HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language) is the most basic of all coding languages. If you are planning to develop a website or web app, HTML will provide you with a solid foundation for development.

2. CSS

CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) is a language that describe how to display HTML documents on screen, paper, or in other media. CSS enables designers to separate style from content.

3. JavaScript

There is no doubt that JavaScript is the King of web development and probably the most popular language among web developers. The strength of JavaScript is not just it can run on browser and server using Nodejs. JavaScript contains 1 lakh+ libraries. You can learn from JAVASCRIPT

4. PHP

PHP is one of the best programming languages when it comes to creating web applications. It's dynamic, server-side scripting language that makes it really easy to create fully functional web applications.

5. NODE.JS

Node.js is an open-source, cross-platform, back-end JavaScript runtime environment that run on the V8 engine and executes JavaScript code outside a web browser.

6. RUBY

RUBY is another programming language that is really great for web development. Similar to PHP and Python, Ruby is also easy to learn and go for beginners.

7. DJANGO

Django is a high-level Python web framework that enables rapid development of secure and maintainable websites. Built by experienced developers, Django takes care of much of the hassle of web development.

8. SQL

SQL is a database computer language (Domain specific language) designed for the retrieval and management of data in a relational database. SQL stands for Structured Query Language.

My First Blog

Mayank Rajput (HackElite) — Tue, 13 Sep 2022 15:12:25 +0000

I am so exited as I am writing my first blog post. I am Mayank Rajput from Mahesana, Gujarat, India.

I like to share and express my thoughts and ideas about the most interesting and fascinating competency in programming. I am Full stack developer with somewhat hacking knowledge.

Though I have heard about new innovations and technologies which were introduced to the world through news and social media, my curiosity was built day by day uncommonly after referring into this section. I can remember that our teacher was really excelled in teaching us more friendly and attractively by providing related videos and reading materials in order to enhance our knowledge in new trends in Programming & AI.

I completed my various courses of programming languages like Python, JavaScript, Go, TypeScript etc. in my high school timeline. You can also visit my website. My github profile is hackelite01 as my username.

Alright, we all know that AI is a hotly debated topic all over the world with the technological advancement globally. According to John McCarthy(The father of Artificial Intelligence) he mentioned that “Artificial Intelligence” can be define as “the science and engineering of making intelligent machines”. Nowadays AI is everywhere and in many fields at the moment such as Healthcare, Education, Criminal and justice, Astronomy , Business and economics, Transportation, Cultivation etc. Moreover, Artificial intelligence are used to carry out risky jobs that are too dangerous for humans to undertake, to accomplish the tasks more faster and with minimal errors, also for the development with new innovations and creations .

Artificial intelligence (AI) is arguably the most exciting field in robotics. Can you ever think that a machine or a non living being can get a citizenship in a country!!! Saudi Arabia has gifted the citizenship for the first ever humanoid robot called “Sophia” which is based on AI technology. Isn’t that fascinating?

I wonder that if I can have a robot to wake me up saying “Time to wake up, buddy!!” and helps to make my activities more easier, and to live in a smart city, to work within a smart office too . The latest AI offers an unprecedented opportunity to engage within some of these tasks. So In the future we may live in our dream worlds with advanced technology. Hope you all had a great time while reading this blog.

Thank you.