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AdSense exploited by malware (Trojan.Qhost.WU)

December 22, 2007 – 7:27 pm

1. Life & Code

(The title of this section is taken from Johnny’s blog of the same name, Life and Code. Although my implementation of the phrase isn’t in terms with Johnny’s, yet I could resist using it. )
Life: Three days ago I found that there are some strange entries in my local Apache web [...]

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Orkut Latest XSS Worm; and what it means for Indian Orkuteers

December 20, 2007 – 3:14 pm

Update: Kishor reports a flaw in the implementation of “private” videos feature on Orkut. Although I am at office and I haven’t checked it yet myself, I believe I can trust him, based on his posts at Slackers. Nice one Kishor.

1. YAWN [Yet Another Worm, Nanny]

Orkut (Google’s MySpace and Facebook for Indian, Pakistan [...]

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The Web is Broken

October 12, 2007 – 5:54 pm

Update: I somehow managed to make a blunder. A part of slide no. 12 was taken from David Kierznowski’s (of GNUCitizen and Blogsecurity group) presentation for OWASP Belgium Conf. I missed out on mentioning David’s name is the credits. Apologies David. I’ve updated and re-uploaded it.
Yesterday, I presented my first Webinar (Seminar on [...]

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Apache Headache: “no listening sockets available”

August 8, 2007 – 3:46 pm

Update 1: I was unable to configure MySQL. Reason: It was installed in C:\(blah-blah) and , probably, do not have write rights in the directory. Installing it to D:\(bigBlah) solved the issue. Duh!
Update 2: I see a fairly good traffic coming here searching for the same problem. So, in case you are in a hurry, this [...]

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Bill Gates no more The Richest

July 4, 2007 – 3:09 pm

Slashdot updated today that Billy Boy is no more the Richest man in the world. The position is, however, not official. The standard is Forbes list.
Billy Boy has been surpassed by Carlos Slim, the Mexican Telecom tycoon. Bill’s current estimated wealth is $ 59.2 billion, while slims estimated wealth is $67.8 billion.
Reasons:
Two of the [...]

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Idle Nights: Devil’s Mind

April 12, 2007 – 12:35 am

I stay back in the office during night and return back at around 6-7 am, when everybody is coming :). These nights are supposed to be LONELY as I am the only one in the building (actually in all the four buildings combined), apart from the security guards and office boys, of course. However, I’ve [...]

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A program called "3~" (Om)

March 3, 2007 – 1:09 am

I was returning back to my room at around 6:30 in the morning after spending the whole night, as usual, in office. Suddenly this though struck me.
I always talk about codes and related stuff and ask people to map their algorithms to real life while coding, especially in OOP languages.
I asked myself, what would it [...]

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