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Plea From A Canadian Diplomat Or Canadian Mail Scam?

Need I say more?

KeyCoder has discovered a vulnerability in the MyAds module for Xoops, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct SQL injection attacks.

Input passed to the “lid” parameter in annonces-p-f.php isn’t properly sanitised before being used in a SQL query.

I was writing a xml data reader in Java using JDK’s inbuilt XML processing libraries (JAXP) when I persistently hit across this annoying exception with error message: A pseudo attribute name is expected. The error is displayed on the first

I have been looking for a unmanaged dedicated web hosting provider for the last 7 days or so. I performed sucks tests (search in Google for “xyz sucks”), went to web hosting forums, asked questions to the provider, analyzed

The company said the new chip for server computers, called Woodcrest, would offer an 80 percent performance improvement and require 35 percent less power; the Conroe chip for desktop computers, which will be released later in the year, will offer

Asia leads in world in total number of people using the internet. 34.5 % of the world’s internet users are Asian. However the percentage of population using internet is low at 8.9 %.

North America has 68% of its users on

L.A. News Service, a Los Angeles video news service sued YouTube Inc. on Friday in federal court for allowing its users to upload copyrighted video footage on YouTube, including the beating of trucker Reginald Denny during the 1992 riots.

Los Angeles

Allen Holub (Author of Compiler Design in C and famous OO Guru) said: “XML is perhaps the worst programming language ever conceived. I’m not talking about XML as a data-description language, which was its original design. I’m talking about perverting

DCA has generated quite an interest in patients with Cancer, many even contemplating self-treatment for cure. The key points we know about DCA so far are:

1. Dr. Michelakis and his team at the University of Alberta discovered a remarkable

In a study published last year in the journal Ear and Hearing, Dr. Brian Fligor of Harvard Medical School looked at a variety of headphones and found that, on average, the smaller they were the higher their output levels at

Promise TV is a home-built personal video recorder (PVR) made out of commodity PC components (primarily LOT of high-capacity hard-drives).

Promise grabs the entire broadcast TV multiplex ( all the channels being broadcast in the UK ) slices them up according

The basic idea of RAID (Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks) is to combine multiple small, independent disk drives into an array of disk drives which yields performance and recoverability exceeding that of a Single Large Expensive Drive (SLED). Redundancy is

China will begin requiring prepaid cell phone subscribers to register their devices using their real names in 2006 said the country’s Minister of Information Industry, Wang Xudong.

The goal according to Wang Xudong is to cut down on surging cell

The controversial XCP digital rights management technology that Sony BMG bundled in its audio CDs can easily be defeated by applying a small piece of tape to the discs claimed Gartner.

Applying a piece of opaque tape to the outer edge

Most of us know that exercise is good for us. It boosts circulation and tones the cardiovascular system. It builds strength, burns calories and reduces depression. It improves insulin sensitivity in people with diabetes. It may even help delay the

SaveMyAss is a personal assistant that keeps your girlfriend or wife happy by sending her flowers on your behalf. We make sure you never miss Valentines day, her birthday, or your anniversary (again), and you will surprise her with “just

Christopher Abad, a research scientist with Cloudmark, a San Francisco-based spam filtering service provider spend time lurking (possibly using bots) in phishing communities and gained valuable understanding on their economies and social structure.

To summarize the economy is still based on

I was just reading a post on a cool company someone worked, housed in a building looking for repairs and then he decided to move on to one with better offices.

I remember working for a company in Oakland (DT),

Three transplant patients have died as a result of receiving an organ from a donor who had unknowingly been infected with a common rodent virus. A fourth patient who received a kidney from the organ donor is recovering.

In what

Another feather in their search engine cap!
Microsoft always claimed that it loves competition, looks like finally it got one. I wonder when Microsoft will go for purchasing Google…

To find reviews and showtimes for movies playing near you, type “movies”,

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. He is giving away his girlfriend for hacking! wtf! Who does he

Active immunization is an extremely interesting technique in fighting against internet based viruses, trojans and worms. Laurent Oudot of the Rstack team created a prototype in 2003. He identified hosts compromised with msblast.exe worm using honeyd - a popular honeypot

Introduction
WordPress (a Weblog/CMS software) comes with “nofollow” enabled by default, with no option to disable it! This plugin provides an option to disable “nofollow” in the most efficient way possible without altering any WordPress code.

Background
Any comments URL’s posted by

Finally my (unmanaged dedicated) server has been deployed (under 48 hours). Now my actual work begins. I have never done Linux administration. It is a totally new experience for me. After some failed yum’s and rpm -i’s, I started reading.

We have designed a new caching engine for Translator Plugin Pro 5.0 & Gold 1.0. Previously we used WordPress’ Object Caching Engine (bundled with WordPress) which doesn’t work so well in resource constrained sites. Also it doesn’t serve our need

The Spamhaus Exploits Block List (XBL) is a realtime database of IP addresses of hijacked PCs infected by illegal 3rd party exploits, including open proxies (HTTP, socks, AnalogX, wingate, etc), worms/viruses with built-in spam engines, and other types of trojan-horse

In Simple Thoughts blog and many other blogs worldwide there is a feature to email an article you liked (or hated) to your friends. Recently I noticed that this feature is being abused to send SPAM. How does it work?
When

New York Post confirmed that Microsoft has been involved in top secret discussions to buy eBay. Apparently Microsoft wants to merge eBay into its MSN portal as part of its “war” against Google.

Talks have slowed down of late because executives

Sajax is an useful ajax framework to simplify ajax based development for languages like PHP, Ruby etc. Not many realize Sajax can be used equally well from plain old html pages (as in .html or .htm). Their website doesn’t mention

A critical vulnerability, found in some versions of Apple’s popular iTunes software, could enable attackers to remotely take over a user’s computer, according to a warning issued by eEye.

This flaw existed on the earlier version of iTunes 6 for Windows

An Arizona woman, 23-year-old Tiffany Sutton, is currently under arrest, accused of tying up her 43 year old lover on Valentine’s Day in order to drink his blood!

She allegedly tricked her 43-year-old victim with an offer of interesting experience, euphemistically

Microsoft’s effort to refuse access to updated versions of Windows Operating System has been foiled by hackers within 24 hours.

Microsoft demanded that those who wanted Windows updates, other than security updates, will have to download an Active X program that

Broadband service in India is much less reliable than their counterparts in USA. While in USA, I used Pacific Bell 1.5 Mbps connection for 3 years without a single minute of downtime or any other problems. This was back in

Security vendor Imperva has identified an access-control vulnerability in DWR, Java Open Source AJAX development framework (stable release 1.1.3 and 2.0), which it says an attacker can use to compromise a DWR based application which may in turn enable him

After 8 months I restarted by old faithful PC with a new internet provider (Reliance). I found that I can access websites using their IP address, yet cannot access them using their name like www.yahoo.com. Interestingly nslookup worked giving me

Benjamin Smith III from St. Petersburg faces a pretrial hearing this month following his April arrest on charges of unauthorized access to a computer network a third-degree felony. Police say Smith admitted using the Wi-Fi signal from the home of

I am shocked beyond words. Yesterday night we happened to watch NE TV, a channel covering North-Eastean India. In it was a live coverage of a 20 year old dying from an accident caused by two racing bikers.

He just

This is a brief compilation of essential resources for those venturing in the world of WebDAV, DeltaV and Slide.

Apache Slide
Slide is a noteworthy, yet often forgotten, project which provides WebDAV Server and client implementation along with Delta-V support.

For the

I wish you all a happy year-ending and enjoyable holidays.

May the New Year bring to you untold happiness and wisdom.

I have seen myriad errors when executing java task. For example I have seen: javax.xml.parsers.FactoryConfigurationError?: Provider org.apache.xerces.jaxp.DocumentBuilderFactoryImpl? not found when executing the java task in jdk1.5.0

The problems with debugging the errors is that the commandline used by java task is

I am very excited about the new theme we are building. Please, please, please take a look and shower it with your comments and feedback. Let us know how we can improve.

It is a css based three column theme designed

Cartoon Network is really sick. It will start showing the initial episodes again with “Arrival of Raditz” from 2nd July (link)!

I think CN doesn’t have rights to the SSJ (Goku goes Super Saiyan) and post SSJ episodes of DBZ.

Researchers at St. Paul’s Hospital and Vancouver General Hospital are developing a revolutionary new test to diagnose and facilitate treatment of organ rejection in transplant patients.

Patients with end-stage vital organ failure depend on transplantation, but the process has its remaining

“Economies and nations need intellectual property (IP) to pull themselves up by their own bootstraps. I’ve talked to developing nations, representatives from academia and manufacturing companies that had begun to incorporate GPL software into their products, then…found they had an

Round robin DNS is a simple way to load balance your servers. You can use it balance the load between multiple web / ftp or other servers. Each server has its own IP address. In round robin mode the DNS

A few bits of dark chocolate a day can have the same benefit as aspirin in reducing blood clots and preventing heart attacks, researchers from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine concluded in a study of chocolate lovers.

“What these chocolate

Advertising from Google and its network partners sites displaying its ads accounted for most of the company’s earnings.

Google posted revenues of $1.578 billion for the quarter ending September 30, 2005, up 96% from the third quarter of 2004.

Shouldn’t its

The European study of patients with Type I diabetes found that short-term treatment lowered insulin dependence by 12 percent and increased insulin-making capabilities for at least 18 months.

“The results are very promising. There are not many instances where you can

I was reading about Data Mining from Sys-Con. Suddenly out of nowhere I was part of a strange discussion. It was initially barely audible (trying subliminal techniques?). On increasing the volume I realized someone was utilizing my bandwidth to serve

Monsoon is a feature of Indian sub-continent. The rainy season is upon us and with a vengeance this time. There are water-logged streets and homes everywhere, thanks to effective drainage management of Kolkata Municipal Corporation. Businesses, including IT, are being