Now-a-days orkut has been became very popular and its getting more popular day by day.
Now many people have started hacking orkut also and making fun.
Being an Ethical Hacker I give u some tips to prevent your accounts from being hack.
1) Join friends who are known to u
2) Join friends and people but never go to link which takes time after also the page has loaded. The reason is that site might be using activex controls and may spoil ur computer or inject a trojan on ur computer and ur all activity done on ur computer can be seen by anyone.
3) Never paste any Javascripts on ur address bar and use Internet Explorer 7 so that ur account is safe because Internet Explorer encodes cookie and does not prints all.
Mozilla Firefox and Opera are dangerous.
3) Never download any unrecognized sofwares and specially from that site which no big site is connected like Google or Yahoo.
4) Alaways change ur password in a week atleast to prevent ur account from been hacked and so that no one can guess about it.
5)Use Antivirus which kill Viruses like Bit Defender , AVG, Mc Afee or some good antivirus. Antivirus which only warn and r useless dont use them.



Now how hacking can be done , which methods hacker use are there :
1) Cookie Exploitation
Hacker mainly use the method of cookie exploitation.
Now what is cookie and why so called
In general sense cookie is a part which maintains the session id and that session id spoils when u log out.
This cookie is really nice and can be eaten , hahahaha

Hey some hackers ask u to paste a code in ur address bar and say please its a card or something
U become excited and now everything is hacked and u dont know how.
But in this method changing password is rarely possible.

2) Trojan Method
Trojans are the programs which are thiefs and spy or spyware u can say and steal all ur data and give it to the other party for free and u even can't notice it.
How Trojan work : Trojans basically penetrate into ur system when u download something from a source or site or from anywhere like CDs , softwares etc.
Now it records all data and send it via email to the person who had made it for u.
and u r being hacked
Now how to get prevented from trojans I have listed above using nice antiviruses.
Trojans are mainly made using Visual Basic Language

3) Keylogger Method :
This method might need manual attention or may not be if advanced.
In this method u just need to install the keylogger on the victim's system and then configure it and all information will be directed to ur email ID.
Many people think that it requires a SMTP(Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) Server but this might not be the case and u can also configure it using ur e-mail.
It also works like trojan but is different and spyware
Its very sure method of hacking and might not be detected by antivirus.
examples of keyloggers like 007 Install.

4) Phishing:
This method is very simple but also sure. In this method people make a fake page and tell u that if u want to avail special offers then please login using this page.
Now u enter ur username and password and now the information is redirected to the email account of the hacker or stored in database and now u get hacked
so to better not to enter into site which askes passwords of other site.

5)Password Retrieval:

This method is also very cheap and easy and will make u laugh that some people also believe this. But we should not laugh as general people dont know this.
In this method what happens , a person who wants to hack asks everybody
"do anyone wants to learn hacking "
People say yes
and now
the other person says this
"Send a mail to password_retrival@domain.com and type ur email id , address and password and also the ID of the person u wanna hack. "

Now u think he is saying truth but as soon u do dis ur password is gone to his ID
and u r hacked.
Foolish method but effective , hmmm
Be aware or rather Beware.