How Shellcodes Work

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I haven’t updated my blog in quite a while. This is mostly to due work, which seems to takes a lot of my time these days (as usual) and whatever time left. I am trying my best to redirect toward anything and everything else. What can…

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Subtitled “of mousepads and keyboards” or “how to cheat your affiliate program”. I’ve been wanting to blog this for a while because some of the most persistant and pervasive adware bundles being found in the wild for the last few months seems to be comimg from affiliates of these …

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V-webmail Multiple Remote File Include Vulnerabilities

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How To Automate Spamcop Submissions

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How has FEMA ‘prepared’ Gulf Coast residents for storm season 2006? By doing next to nothing, of course.

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How To Save Traffic With Apache2′s mod_deflate

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Tips and Tricks with apache

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How to scan your Linux-Distro for Root Kits

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How To Test Your Linux Firewall

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Finally, I got some free time and nixCraft moved to new wordpress based blog engine. The main reasons for changing blog engines are -

Categories and tags – Visitors can easily find out information

Rating system – Visitors can easily rate the po…

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Quake 3 Engine remapShader Command Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

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After few months or years later, you will notice unnecessary files, libraries or documentation is eating up your disk space under Debian Linux. Here are few tips to free up disk space:

Remove cached .deb files:

When you run apt-get command, it down…

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IIT Mumbai (IIT-B) one of the countries premier science/technology institute and ranked among the top research universities in the world announced the Red Hat Scholarship for students.
The objective of the Red Hat scholarships is to speed up the adop…

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MS-Windows server offers two ways to find out current number of connection to web service.
You can use netstat command, which will list connection for port 80. Click on start > Run > And type command cmd > At command prompt type command:

c:> netstatT…

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smartd is SMART Disk Monitoring Daemon for Linux. SMART is acronym for Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology (SMART) system built into many ATA-3 and later ATA, IDE and SCSI-3 hard drives. The purpose of SMART is to monitor the reliabilit…

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Shell scripting is part of my day today life job. Sometime you just need to cut or grab first few characters of a string. For example, consider following string I am using in a script:
IP=”192.168.1.5”CONF=”something”
I just need to grab netwo…

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Everyone must be familiar with “Oklahoma city threatens to call FBI over ‘renegade’ Linux maker” story.
Despite this, many of our new clients/customer does not understand why would a website show an Apache Test page :/?.
The Apache test page, means y…

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