Get back your lost USB drive

Own a pen drive (USB stick) and have fear about losing it? Usually if a USB flash drive is lost or missing, there's no hope of getting it back unless you have a note inside the drive or you use a marker to write down your contact on the USB drive.
The note inside may or may not capture finders attention because people generally gloss over and ignore text files. Hence, you need something to catch finder's eye to let him know the contact information of it's owner.


USB Lost And Found is a software program that provides an interesting way to inform a finder of an USB stick about the rightful owner. Something that might come in quite handy for British government officials and citizens working in IT. The free version can be configured to display a message that is linked to the devices autoplay mechanism.
The free version has only one method of protecting, the message method. The PRO version which comes for $3.49 has another method called lock down.
Everything about the software is pretty well but it will be your hard luck if it's found by some Linux or Mac OS X user because it only supports Windows.

Googling the right Way part 2

intitle:
allinurl: allinurl:albino sheep Argument exists in URL
inurl:
Advanced
GET-variable breakdown
http://www.google.com/search?
as_q=test (query string)
&hl=en (language)
&num=10 (number of results [ 10 ,20 ,30 ,50 ,100 ])
&btnG=Google+Search
&as_epq= (complete phrase)
&as_oq= (at least one)
&as_eq= (excluding)
&lr= (language results. [ lang_countrycode ])
&as_ft=i (filetype include or exclude. [i,e])
&as_filetype= (filetype extension)
&as_qdr=all (date [ all,M3 ,m6,y ])
&as_nlo= (number range, low)
&as_nhi= (number range, high)
&as_occt=any (terms occur [ any,title,body,url,links ])
&as_dt=i (restrict by domain [ i,e ])
&as_sitesearch= (restrict by [ site ])
&as_rights= (usage rights [ cc_publicdomain, cc_attribute, cc_sharealike, cc_noncommercial, cc_nonderived ]
&safe=images (safesearch [ safe=on,images=off ])
&as_rq= (similar pages)
&as_lq= (pages that link)
&as_qdr= (get only recently updated pages d[ i ] | w[ i ] | y[ i ])
&gl=us (country)
Googledorks
So, Google gives us all those handy tools for filtering away what we don't want to see, how can we use this to help securing our own systems?
Well, for example, we could use the neat Google Hacking Database, a project where people has submitted a huge collection of queries yielding results that the unskilled webmaster (the Googledork) wishes weren't there. Everything from vulnerable login-forms to passwords surfaces with some cleverly engineered queries.
Goolag
Goolag is a vulnerability scanner (and a politically involved protest..) made by the famous Cult of the Dead Cow. It builds on the above mentioned GHDB, scanning for vulnerabilities in the database. At the moment there is only a Windows-version of the program. The Goolag project is also a campaign against Google's (and a few other big players') choise to comply with the Chinese censorship policy.
Useful Queries
-inurl:htm -inurl:html intitle:"index of" "Last modified" mp3 mp3-file indexes, add desired artist
site:rapidshare.de -filetype:zip OR rar daterange: 2453402- 2453412 Zip Files on rapidshare uploaded on specified date
http://www.google.com/searc h?q=your+ query+ here&as_qdr=d1 Query results updated within one day
Others
http://www.google.com/searc h?q=answer to life, the universe, and everything
http://www.churchofgoogle.org
http://www.google.com/techno logy/pigeonrank.html
References
http://www.google.com/help/c heatsheet.html
http://www.dumblittleman.com /2007 /06 /20-tips-for-more- efficient-google.html
http://www.googleguide.com/a dvanced_operators_reference .html
http://sudarmuthu.com/blog/2 006 /05 /07/google-search- syntax-dissected.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P ageRank