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PowerGramo-The Recorder for Skype

Thursday, August 24, 2006

PowerGramo is a powerful realtime recording solution for Skype. You can record and replay any Skype call easily and simply. Record incoming calls, outgoing calls or both Save your recorded calls securely Share your calls with friends Get started in less than 3 minutes! Totally free for download Best of all, all recordings are securely encrypted. Optional password protection means you are the only one to access them after you login Skype. it's also very simple to share your recordings with your friends. PowerGramo provides the options to save in the popular small audio format instead of the standard large wav file.

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How to record a Skype conversation

Wednesday, August 23, 2006

How to record a Skype conversation1) SET UP AUDACITY Get Audacity from audacity.sourceforge.net; Run Audacity; Go to File -> Preferences -> Digital I/O -> Recording and choose a ?Digital Audio?-class device rather than an ?Input?-class device (which will replace microphone input with combined microphone **and** speaker recording); choose to record two channels of stereo; finally, close Preferences, and choose ?Wave Out Mix? as the source of signal on the main window of Audacity; (2) SET UP THE SOUND DRIVER Go to Control Panel -> Sounds and Audio Devices -> Volume -> Advanced and make sure the microphone is not muted; you may also want to click on ?Advanced? settings for the microphone and check ?MIC Boost? to amplify your voice. (3) USE AUDACITY AND SKYPE During a conversation, you can start recording in Audacity at any point (big red button ); Audacity allows to export recordings in WAV, MP3, and OGG formats; for MP3s, you will need to find lame_enc.dll on Google (LAME is an excellent MP3 encoder). Enjoy!! Comment by Gleb A Chuvpilo ? December 21, 2004 @ 6:21 pm The simplest way to go about recording a Skype call is by using HotRecorder (www.hotrecorder.com). This great tool enables you to record your Skype conversation (or any other VoIP conversation for that matter). You can also file and retrieve your recorded files and if you purchased the premium version (advertisement free), you get an Audio Converter which will enable you to convert the audio files into .ogg or .wav, thus making podcasting a piece of cake. Highly recommended software. No hardware required. Ernesto Comment by ernesto armendariz ? May 31, 2005 @ 4:55 am It simply doesnt matter what audio recording / editor software you use any will do audacity is by the way a very good hint because its a powerful editor to later do some ?post produktion? on your record (noise reduction, cutting, effects, even mixing with music in a multitrack project. Hey i am not advertizing audacity here lol i did say any recorder does even the windows onboard audio recorder can do the job?. now you ask what is he talking about ? well the secret is soo simple all you need on a single pc is a headphone? nooo no microphone bending cablecutting soldering tips here rofl )) when you switch your windows mixer on (doubleclick on the little speaker in the tray) then you get a volume mixer now enter the options menu and choose properties, there you can switch to recording. now you have the record mixer open.. click the little speaker again and again the VOLUME mixer pops up? now you see them BOTH 1. in the RECORD mixer you go to ?stereo mix? (on some mixers its called ?what you hear?) ok that makes ALL LISTENABLE audio sources recordable with any prog. 2. Now look in the VOLUME mixer, under every slider is a mute checkmark. You should see a slider for WAVE and a slider for MIC as well (if not you can make them visible in the list in the properties window?. Menu Options) now just make sure all channels are muted that you dont want to record and ofcourse UNMUTE BOTH WAVE AND MIC ?. Yeah THATS IT now you hear yourself talkin too and BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP Ouch that hurts LOL now you know why i sayd you NEED a headphone to do that. Its the only way to avoid the backcoupling your mic listens to your speakers but it cant when your head is between them )) VOILA the web is full of free audiosoftware and the windows recorder is already on your computer HAVE FUN )) Comment by Cytraveler ? November 2, 2005 @ 8:26 am

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Social Engineering, the USB Way

JUNE 7, 2006

We figured we would try something different by baiting the same employees that were on high alert. We gathered all the worthless vendor giveaway thumb drives collected over the years and imprinted them with our own special piece of software. I had one of my guys write a Trojan that, when run, would collect passwords, logins and machine-specific information from the user?s computer, and then email the findings back to us. The next hurdle we had was getting the USB drives in the hands of the credit union?s internal users. I made my way to the credit union at about 6 a.m. to make sure no employees saw us. I then proceeded to scatter the drives in the parking lot, smoking areas, and other areas employees frequented. Once I seeded the USB drives, I decided to grab some coffee and watch the employees show up for work. Surveillance of the facility was worth the time involved. It was really amusing to watch the reaction of the employees who found a USB drive. You know they plugged them into their computers the minute they got to their desks. I immediately called my guy that wrote the Trojan and asked if anything was received at his end. Slowly but surely info was being mailed back to him. I would have loved to be on the inside of the building watching as people started plugging the USB drives in, scouring through the planted image files, then unknowingly running our piece of software. After about three days, we figured we had collected enough data. When I started to review our findings, I was amazed at the results. Of the 20 USB drives we planted, 15 were found by employees, and all had been plugged into company computers. The data we obtained helped us to compromise additional systems, and the best part of the whole scheme was its convenience. We never broke a sweat. Everything that needed to happen did, and in a way it was completely transparent to the users, the network, and credit union management. Written by Steve Stasiukonis, VP and founder of Secure Network Technologies Inc.

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