How To Get Ethical Hacking Degree

August 25th, 2005 I enjoyed this short informative movie about preventing hacking and protecting your computer from Sunrise, a broadband provider from Switzerland. It talks about firewalls, IP address blocking, spamming, trojans etc.

September 26th, 2006 Ever since I had written a post on how Samy hacked MySpace, I have been inundated with comments asking me how to hack MySpace. It is obvious that the people asking didn't realize that the actual purpose of the article was not to help hacking MySpace, but to discuss about an intelligent exploit after it was patched.

November 4th, 2007 All SSH servers on the internet are heavily targeted for brute-force cracking of passwords. Easy passwords can and are often cracked to gain full control over the machine.

June 4th, 2007 I received this strange request on a page where I berate the need for hacking MySpace in general. The first imagery which came to my mind was grisly.

August 28th, 2006 I faced serious hacking attempts from a server owned by my dedicated web hosting provider, LayeredTech. More than 23, 000 brute force attempts were made on ssh server alone.

July 14th, 2006 Butera & Andrews, a Washington, D.C.-based law firm filed suit against IBM in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.

July 12th, 2006 Take a look at your log file (/var/log/secure for Fedora Core 4) and you will discover numerous automated ssh hacking attempts using dictionary attack. So now you have identified the offending addresses.

August 30th, 2007 For 75$ a blogspot blogger hopes to increase his blog readership. Guess where he is looking for help.

November 4th, 2005 I realized that all my feeds in artima have been, without my knowledge, replaced with a sedo site, a domain squatter, with my domain name as a query in their script. Either they have hacked into my Artima account or they found some loophole in Artima site which they exploited to increase their page rank and effectively disabling all my feeds.

August 20th, 2008 1. How can you hack GMail account? 2. How can you protect your GMail account from hackers? Hackers at Defcon demonstrated a tool to hack into GMail accounts by snooping unencrypted data (man-in-the-middle attack) with cookie which Google GMail uses for everything other than login by default.

September 4th, 2006 Last week was an interesting one as hot debate raged over Joel Spolsky's article on enterprise language, Hani rightly bashed copious logging of open source software and my article on hacking attempts from Caltech topped the list of most read articles. We released Anaconda, a beautiful 3 column WordPress theme and version 3 of Translator Plugin Pro for WordPress.

July 12th, 2008 Nginx is a high performance web server and mail proxy server written by Igor Sysoev and a good replacement for Apache HTTPD, the market leader. Nginx is rapidly increasing its market share with major websites joining it like wordpress.com.

November 18th, 2007 Monitoring MySQL queries is a favorite pastime of MySQL administrators especially for performance reasons. Here is a simple bash script to monitor long running MySQL queries in realtime using the ubiquitous 'show processlist'.

September 15th, 2007 UK Ministry of Defence is using secure Blackberry's to allow their staff to communicate on the move. It uses The Blackberry Enterprise Server system which allows lost or stolen smartphones to be remote controlled, shut down, or even wiped clean by IT administrators.

August 18th, 2005 "Well I am at the tip of the door of a saucer that’s taking me round giving me a chance to take a plunge in to the turbulent sky around. I am sure that plunge will land me at the doorsteps of your company, where I would like to make a mark in that stellar of software professionals who took a jump thinking the way I did." - A Job Applicant This ought to be included in Ripley's Believe it or not show.